FIGHT WITH SNAKE
'; man’s Furfrous struggle. . -«U. , A man fought a furious, battle with a 3ft... -bin. man-killing snake.in Tondm. recently after mistaking, it for an, eel. The snake, a South American variety which 113+ives call “the silent death,” was killed after half, an hour’s fierhtri - Afr William Sweeney, of Peckham, to rk hik capture to the ‘•‘Sunday Ex* pv'ss” office, where he learned that a, hite from the snake would! have been fetal’tin five minutes. ‘I heard a noise in the Grand Surrey Canal, which run's at the bottom of my garden.” M.r Sweeney said, “and saw what I thought was the head of an eel-above the water. I determined, to catch it. and got a stick under its ho ly and flung it on to the • bank. Immediately- I realised, to mv horror, th’t I had caught- a snake.” ft is believed that the snake was hr night to England in a shin’s cargo nr 1 was transferred to a barge, from which it escaped into the canal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 3
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