Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1917 — Snake Fell From Belfry. [ARTICLE]

Snake Fell From Belfry.

fell from the belfry of the Riverton (Md.) Methodist church onto the shoulders of Sexton Benjamin F. Kennedy, while the latter was ringing, the bell. After a lively chase the snake, was cornered in the church auditorium and killed. It evidently had made its home in the belfry and fed on birds which roost there.