Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-09
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Denth Soon Followed.
Perhaps the best authenticated case of
ella monster poisoning was that of Ar
while on a vacation. An unexpected and
drenching rainstorm came up one day
while he was away from any house along
with a friend named Farthingay. In order
wetting the two men took shelter in a
rocky cavern.
pected, and before it ceased James lay
down and fell asleep. While he slept a
ella monster crawled over his chest. wax
near the middle Of the body, when. quick
as a flash. the monster bit him on the
wrist. James yelled for help, and his
but found that the creature had SO strong
a grip that he could not unloosen its
jaws. He finally shot it away with a gun
holding the muzZle close to the reptiles
body. of course, and in such a way that
his friend should not suffer injury.
lame became delirious, at once. and
returned his friend was dead, and from
the distortion of his face and the disor-
dered pose of his body 1t appeared that
he had died in commissions.
Interesting Experiments.
From Arizona comes a later ella mon
etef story, tne human SUBJECT OIL WHICH
was named orrin Barney. He suffered
some commissions from the reptiles bite,
but recovered all right: indeed. he was
not even obliged to take to his bed. The
as James, and, properly analysed, The
contrast between the two cases seems to
prove the practical correctness of both
sides of the controversy concerning the
monsters venom.
Light was also copiously shed upon this
much mooted question by a series of eX-
nnr1m9nfG made a wear or Two ago nv
the officials of the San Francisco Academy
OF Science.
officials subjected a number of pigeons to
the bite of a Monster. The first bird VIC
tim. which was bitten in the leg. but
through the feathers. went lame for a
few days. but suffered no further dam
age. The feathers were next stripped from
the legs of three other birds. and the rep
but showed no such horrible symptoms
as the ~eXperimenters had been led to look
for. The wound of the one that recovered
healed exactly as any wound from the
bite of a rat would heal. and there were
no signs of poisoning.
Then the substance that exudes from:
the monsters supposed poison glands at
the base of two incisor teeth was injected
into the veins of twenty pigeons, of which
seventeen died. death in each case follow
ing soon after the injection. Those that
did not die showed no signs of distress.
Vandenburg's Explanation.
PROFESSOR N~anuenpuTs eSpianauon OF
the varying results obtained seemed rea-
sonable. He found on carefully examining
the monster that its poisonous fangs We're
in some respects similar TO those of the
ratlesnake. but differed in that they re-
sponded only to considerable pressure. and
that the venom, instead of being elected
with a squirt simply runs down the inner
grooves of the teeth. Accordingly, n slight
wound is extremely unlikely TO result dis
astrously. and even when the bite is Sc
we're the poison may not enter the wound
at ali. Professor Vandenburg is of the
opinion that a small particle of food lodged
In the poison duct would be a sufficient
The victim James. who died in the Ari-
IONA cavern. was bitten severely, and the
monster maintained its hold most tena-
ciously on his wrist, but the bite from