DEATH FROM SNAKEBITE.
FINGER IN REPTILE’S MOUTH, A miner, *E. A. Grievsen, recently employed at the North Bull! colliery, was found, .dead!! and from inquiries made by the, police it was ascertained, .that,llate. thfe day before deceased was drinking in.-a bar, when another ,nfinpr was exhibiting a large' Jdiake. Gnexson j "it Us stated', in >orlcr 'to' show bis contempt for the reptile, put a Anger in its aipi was bitten." Nothing' appears to have been 'done' toft a rtfs' treating the wound'dV administering an antidote. Grievsen treated the matter lightly, ad did not consult a (jloctor. Some time later, it is stated, he was noticed asleep at the rear of tlie ilofe!/* anc/ the nekt was the finding of his body next morn, ing, ahouf;, XOy ■i.yijj’d'i/from Abe Jiotei. ( Dr. found op, ( the fipjp*. hut no marks of violence. In his opinion death, wgs'rqausqd through snakebite.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, 2 January 1914, Page 7
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147DEATH FROM SNAKEBITE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, 2 January 1914, Page 7
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