ATTACKED BY AN ADDER.
SNAKE CHARMER’S TERRIBLE
EXPERIENCE.
Henry Richards, of Maesteg, near ‘Cardiff, who is known locally 4® “Henry the Snake Charmer,” had a terible experience with aia adder on a recent Saturday, from the effects of which he is now recovering. Ho was showing an adder which he had just caught to some friends when it bit his finger. He merely laughed, and in bravado placed, the reptile’s bead in his mouth. Tlie adder bit the roof of his mouth, and with a shriek of terror Richards ran to the nearest surgery, where he collapsed. He was treated and carried home unconscious, and, although he is getting better now, his arm and face are terribly swolHis father was killed by the bite of a snake.
Richards was in the habit of carrying at least one snake with him, and sometimes he has as • many as nine in his pockots. His method of capturing snakes is interesting. He takes a white handkerchief, to whic|i the attention of the reptile is ' atl tracted. Then he grasps its'tail and places it across his arm, when it ; s said to become quite still tinder the man’s influence.
, Richards declares, that he had been for three years in quest of the reptile which bit him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2108, 17 June 1907, Page 2
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