Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-04
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Gradually the cobra turned its head
and very slowly turned tn the milk:
Neither man moved. when the eobra's
head was dipped iii the milk, the Parsee
knew he might inove.,rs :; a,s;,; ;9l e,
n. sudden dart of his arm-zitself much
like serpent--an the, cobra, was grip.
ped, and being strangled.
|, Then, suddenly there was cry, and the
Parsee began to laugh. 81" =
III He had become a'raging mailman. The
strain upon the brain had been too awful.
When relief came. that arrived which,
from an English point of view, is worse
than death, insanity. -. ,..
Nothing was ever clearly ascertained
about the matter beyond these facts. The
Indian found by the hotel servant in the
room was sscertaincd to be living in the
adjoining house, separated from the Par
see by mere wall. This Indian had &C.
cess to the roof, out upon which cropped
the stove-pipe from the parsee's room.
The inference was that he had visited
the room in order to remove the door of
the stove, that he might he able to pass
the, cobra down the steve=pipe; when it
would wtlggle it's way into the room.
That this was 50 appears to have been
proved by the fact that a strange bit of
mating was found oil the root, and
which was similar to that of a basket
kept in the Indians room, and in box
always locked, and which had holes
bored in the lid.
The explanation was now found for the
fact that the Indian bought many small
biros and fancy mice, of which: nothing
was ever seen. They were to feed the
cobra. " - -" :. ;"
But why this precautiona Why was
not the serpent left In the bedroom, aid
being introduced there, how would the
Indian know that it would be attracted
to the intended victim?
The certainty of this attraction of the
cobra to the man appears to be made out
by the statement of a waiter, who, walk
ing the previous afternoon in the public
gardens, saw the Indian squirt something
from what appeared to be a flower Cd 10
the short hair at the nape of the Parsec'
neck.
The waiter saw the Parsee turn, end
heard the Indian utter some WORDS of
apology.
The Inference is that this liquid was
the strange perfume which serpent charm
ers use for overpowering serpents.
" But there rests the question of the
mode Of Introducing the serpents.
The only explanation, if it is one, to
this inquiry, is to be sought in the
strange words uttered by the Indian
during the fever from which he suffered
Immediately after the Parsee had become
mad.
"1f he had died asleep; bis soul would
have been lost ;now the prophet has taken
his soul, and he is safe-safe."
These words, however, are to be doubt.
ed, for the Indian could speak no French,
and depended in the hotel upon an Irish
waiter who had served in India, and who
translated the mutterings of the Indian
whom he nursed, into very bad French,
for the benefit Of his fellow servants.
All put together, the inference may "
that fanatic Indian Mussulman endeav
oted to destroy all Indian Parsee; who wa
opposed to Modernism. in India; that thi
attempt at murder was made in the hep
of killing the Parsee in bis sleep whel
death arriving without moment in which
to appeal for mercy, his soul would be lost
and finally according to Eastern belief, tn
intended victims life being saved, and hi
mind lost, he was under the protection O
Heaven.
The Indian would therefore look upo
his attempt at assassination as resulting
in immortal benefit to the man whose sou
he had desired to send to perf2ition.
There has been no chance of iudicia
inquiry, for the Parsee has never recovere
his senses, and the Indian died after endu1
ing three weeks agony of exhausting feve