SNAKE V. POLICEMAN.

Shannon News, 11 February 1927, Page 3

SNAKE V. POLICEMAN.

HUNT TWICE BOUND YARD. •A five foot long snake which had escaped from a menagerie was found in Birmingham. It was discovered near the boiler house of a picture theatre by a policeman, who took charge of it. •When he had carried it nearly to the police station the snake wriggled free, and, sighting a police sergeant chased him across the road into the police station yard. •The sergeant dashed twice round the yard but failed to shake off his pursuer. He then darted into a police office which has two doors, the snake following! The sergeant locked the second door, ran down a passage, returned and slammed the first door im-j prisoning the snake. 1 It remained for many hours coiled j in the superintendent's chair. j Eventually the proprietor of the men- ( agerie who had been told by his snake keeper that the reptile was dead —he was afraid to confess the truth—learned what- had happened. He arrived and took the snake away in the dickey of his motor-car. The reptile, a South American blue j bull, was described as hannless.