New-York tribune., 1882-04-23
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
EXCITED OVER A DEAD SNAKE

Officer Griffin, Of the Central Park Police. ubu.
| walking leisurely along the base Of the brnsh'
| covered, rocky Hill which faces the Seventh ave-
entrance To- the Park on recent morning wa.
amazed NJ hndIng an enormous snake coiled aho"t
| tne trunk OF tree just in front of him
stepping hastily backwards the officer so,,rh; n;
an alarm and Policeman Walters apr,.aSo1 sounded
hurried consultation ensued aud plan of actoaa
was decided upon. Officer Griffin drew larca
Jackknlie and cut down two Of the Park saplnss'
about twelve feet in length. Then, armed wItbs
pole apiece the men crept steaihily TO witb,a
sIIking distance Of the unsuspecting reptile wirS
| lay Win hls Tlnged body circlIng the tree a..
him have it," cried the two policemen in conc,S. ss
and combined onslaught was made upon the re,
ne FIctty nursemaIds, attracted by the sound pf
the conflict, came no and then eff SCREAMING
We beat him for half an hour" said Police,1an
Grlihn TO a TRIBUNE reporter. "and don't you for
get II. We massacrced ms head before we went M
Satisfied at length that life was extinct the Off.
GERS took the snake to the Arsenal, where he was
measured and found TO be ten feet III length. A
number OF policemen who claimed to have been
brought up IN the country gathered around the dead
reptile and pronounced it "hOOpsnake.r The
naturalist Of Central Park, Mr.. Conklin. was sent
for, and, after careful survey, he said: why
that Is South American anaconda, and he has been
dead at least fortnight" Investigation proved
the correctness of the natnralists assertion and hs
snake ANONYMOUSLY cast into the manure
heap.
Tie police are reticent on the subject. There
amt no snak kes in this Park 'ceptn' few garter
snakes" said officer. III you want to ind
snakes go over to the MOrningside Park where
there's ringtails spread heads, rass-snakes Yellow
bellies, centiPedes, race-h0rseS and hoop;snakes"
That snake Officer Griffin killed." said Mr.
COnkln, must have been one OF Barnum's South
American snakes, that somebody placed there, fora
joke. am told that Mr BaTnum has lost large
number OF his snakes lately"
We have lost fourteen of our South American
snakes since we have been here in Madison square,
said Oliver Cole, the snake performer at Barnums
tOndllng an African python lovingly. You see
we had no fire in their cage the first day and they
became chilled, and when snake becomes chilled
OLce he never gets over IT,"
NO REDRESS FOR DEFRAUDED MERCHANTS.
julius Frenkel, of Frenkel q Co., wholesale hat
ters. OF Mobile, Ala, has been in the Ludlow
street Jail for the last four days under
an order of arrest obtained from the Supreme
Court by II. B. ClalIn IL Co., bail being liked
at $1,000. Frenkel bought goods from mer-
chants in New-YOrk to the extent of $4,000 on
credit the notes, 1t Is said beng all made payable
about January :. After the goods had been re-
celved the firm sold out 10 Meyer Goldsmith. rela-
tive about January L. and failed with heavy iiabh-
tiles. Claim ~ Co., whose claim Is Tor about
81 900 Immediately sent TO Mobile TO collcct this
claim, but received no satisfaction or expana lon.
On April II, FTenkel appeared IN TINS clty. CLtlin
~ Co. on the next day got out warrant for ms
arrest the allegation of dIsposIng OF property
with .the intent TO deiraud creditors, ana ne was
lodged IN the Ludlow Street Jan.
Yesterday the matter came before Judge barrett,
in the supreme Court, hen the defendant cialned
that he alleged fraud was committed Odtslde %
this State, he could not be held. ms ground was
sustained by Judge Barrett, On condition thai fren-
kel would not sue Tor damages lOr iIe lipiison-
ment. The Judge intimated that II II were an open
question he would hold the order OF arrest, but he
found a precedent III decision by Judge lngrahaI.
some wear, ago a Cuban DIS osed OF some property
in CuDa III "A fraudulent manner and was arrested
Ia NeW-lOrk by a Cuban creditor, ana Judge lngra-
ham held that the statues as to arrests did not
operate except within the State. Inere Is another
order OF arrest against trenkel. Yesterday l20
cases OF goods salu to be vaiued at $lOOOO arrived
here from Mobile iOT ErenkeI Ihey were at once
attached by several creditors.