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mg pony in ims areas3Posses Formed For Snake HuntiPENINSULA, O.—The Bring-8 em-back-alive” boys will try to K capture the Peninsula Python”d tomorrow.Mayor John Ritch announced that several volunteer posses, each y in charge of a policeman, will P scour the nearby swamps and hills ® for the huge reptile which reportedly measures 19 feet.~ Posse members will carry clubs, knives, pitchforks or similar weapons, Bitch said, .but only the policeman in charge may carry a gun. He added that every effort will be made to catch the snake alive.Ritch said the best techniqueapparently is to try to slip a sack over the reptile’s head and keep him stretched out to his full length so he will be unable to £ constrict. The decision to try to f capture the snake was reached after experts said Pythons are non-poisonous.The snake’s t ail first was discovered last Wednesday. Then yesterday, Mrs. Hoy Vaughn reported he swallowed one of her chickens whole and jumped a I, four-foot fence when he could not get thru the woven wire.eeIur*
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Coshocton Tribune
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 24, 1944
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