The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-09-06
Death of a Little Girl said TO be Fasci.
mated by Snake.
From tie Rochester Union.

At baIf past eleven o'clock yesterday
forenoon, the little daug hter Of B. ID Da
ais, OF this city, whose familiarity with
snake has been frequently noticed, died
at the residence of her parents, on Centre
street. The facts connected with her
case We shall state, and leave tae public
to draw their own inference.
A few weeks since when Mr.. Da7is re
sided on Monroe street, in the outskirts
of the city, near a nursery where he vas
employed, this little doughter-less thaD
two years old was accustomed to 60 in
to the gard or Geld and play nth snake
How long these meetings had been held
before the di.coyery By the mother is not
known. At all events the mother one
dag found the child with tbe snake in it.
arms, aud the li:tle girl vas fondiiDE It
and calling it her baby.
Subsequently the snake vas seen in the
yard and would run TO the child wheuev-
cr she vas permitted to go out. The
child lost its appetite and pineG and oou-
,tantly talked aud thought of this reptile.
Her mother took her darling TO the city
10 divert her ,niud from tbs bideous OBJ
icct, but 10 vain. Under the advice OF a
physician who was called, the snake wa
not destroyed, and continued its visits to
the premises at will, retreatiDg to the field
when any one but the child appeared.
At length Dir. Davis moved into the
city and took bouse on Centre street
hoping thet tho change would be sdYnn
tageous to his child, aud for time she
improved in health and took her food
Two weeks ago last Friday the child va.
taken i'll and continued to sink until yes
terday, when she died She was subject
to conclusions or spasms, which were We
ry violent, and at 10 time could she take
food and retain it in her stomach.
Her mother informs our reporter that
she was attended to By DR.. Fleming. who
treated the child on the electrical prinoi
pie, and she says that he found it a dif
fcult case to treat, and expressed the be
lief that the snake bad taken the eiectri
city from the system of the child.
On the day following the Friday or
which the ohid was taken so seriously i'll
Mrs. DesiDs, who occupies the house or
Monroe street, vacated by Mr. Davis, call
ed at the house he now occupies and sta
ted that German named Conrad Keucb
eubach had Killed the snake which had
troubled the child on the day previous
the Friday on which she was taken i'll.
The mother says that when the little
girl heard the statement, she said, an am
ma, is baby dead Y and soon beca n'
worse.
There ia not much doubt about tbs
statement made, as far as the facts are
concerned. The conclusions and infer
ences are quite another thing. The snake
killed by Keuchenbach was about three
feet long, and was doubtless the SANE
seen by Mrs. Davis and her family re
pea.edly with her daughter It's being
killed at the time the child became il
may haze been coincidence probably
was.
The child was two years aud one mouth
old when it died, and it was very brighi
and interesting little girl. To what extent
1t was under the fascinating influence Of
the reptile We cannot say. We only give
such facts as we have been able to gather