Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Wins Battle With Python. [ARTICLE]

Wins Battle With Python.

Dallas. Tex.—E. ,W Copley saved himself from death in the folds of n python by breaking the, snake's “neck.” x The snake was sixteen feet long, weighing 250 pounds and was angry. Copley had. bad the sm.ke on exhibltion in a museum and took It to hie home to give It fresh sir. The owner and an assistant started to carry the reptile away on a blanket t The assistant stumbled. The snake wap aroused, wrapped Itself around Copley's legs and was preparing to throw Its colla around . the man's body when Copley seized the snake's head above the Jaws, snapped It suddenly backward and broke Its “neek ” ■. . ;