A CENTIPEDE'S DEADLY CLAWS.
Several Mexicans were in camp at the mouth of Memphis Creek, Utah territory, and were lying about the fire, when one of them, Telstore Crucas, saw a large centipede, fully nine inches long, .travelling slowly over his leg. KnopjJl that the least motion would make it sink ite deadly claws into his skin, without moving his leg he got out his revolver, and waited until the beast had almost reached his knee, when slowly putting the mouth of the pistol to its head, be pulled and the centipede was gone. But a centipede's claws are quicker than gunpowder, and Crucas began to cramp in a few minutes, the track of the reptile along his leg turned a brownish yellow, and the place where it was killed was swelled up frightfully. Crucas rapidly grew worse, and iv a little over four hours afterwards died in great agony. But the taost singular part of the story is that the bullet from Crucas' pistol cut a small nick in the foreleg of a mule that was standing near, and at daylight next morning the mule was also dead, with his leg so swollen that the skin had burst in several places.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3455, 21 January 1880, Page 2
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202A CENTIPEDE'S DEADLY CLAWS. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3455, 21 January 1880, Page 2
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