SNAKE CHARMER'S DEATH.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12019, 24 March 1920, Page 5

SNAKE CHARMER'S DEATH.

FATAL BITES. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, March 18 Tresa Caton, 26, who was employed as a snake charmer in a side show at the Manly carnival, died in the Manly Cottage Hospital yesterday morning as a result of snake bites. She was stated to be fond of the reptiles, and .the previous morning wasp laying with a black and a tiger snake. She twined them round her neck, but when placing them in a box a few minutes later was bitten twice on the right hand. She became ill, and was taken to the hospital.