Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — Their Big Snake Chokes. [ARTICLE]

Their Big Snake Chokes.

Bangor, Pa.—Three boys, Walter Deshler, 19; Qus Ribble, Id, aad Franklin Speer, 12, the latter * sen of Lewis F. Speer, in charge of the Corporation Bureau, United States Treasury Department, Vaahtagton, D. C., captured the largest hlarkenahA of the season in these parte Mar Pahaquarry. As they were taking the monster alive to camp with * string tied around back of ite head, the snake wriggled itself into see—l knots and choked itself to death. The reptile's skin measured six fest wm inches, minus the head.