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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XX, 31 July 1920, Page 4

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A beautiful Hungarian girl snakecharmer was crushed to death by an enormous python while going through her performance in a Swiss music-hall. The girl shouted for help as -she felt the folds of tags snake tightening around her. Her cries were greeted with 'applause from the audience, who believed them to, tie part of th®, show. In the end the girl fell unconscious an the stage and remained motionless, still encircled by the snake. The manager, Who- realised that, a tragedy had happened, -hurrieJ on fo the stage, I ut.. was forced (to shoot the python to release the -girl’s tody from its deadly grip.i. AU this was taken by the audience as part of the show, and they applauded again as the bodies of the airl and snake were carried into the wings. ‘