The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-12
ANOTHER SNAKE STORY
SECOND REPTILE IS KILLED
 NEAR THE DEPOT.
He Had orawled Through the Grat- ing in Front of the Windsor Hotel and There
 He Died.

Another of the snakes that furnished Lood for "Oscoe" and food for reflection TOT thousands of gaping rubbernecks dur ,ns tne Fall Festival. met violent death
 When the snake spoken of in The Ad- vertiser a few days ago made his escape rom the basket in the baggage room basket thought the idea pretty good one and immediately proceeded to "fol- low the Man from Cooks" Over the basket he went.
 After thoroughly, and to his entire satisfaction. investigating everything in the baggage room a tremendous idea suddenly entered the flat head of Ills rean banquet of rodents. After T mature nature deliberation he therefore decided that he would shake the dust of the grimy baggage room off his dainty feet-or the big road on which he had been daily swallowed. So, slowly and cautiously, he began gliding across the room-he was a con- siderate soul and did not wish to disturb
 anybody. Those women were so foolish, screeching when they caught glimpses
 of him and making more fuss than the crazy people watching him last week. 30 careful was he not to lacerate the
 feelings of anyone in the room that 1t | took day or so to make the journey
 across the room. Finally the open air
 was reached and across the asphalt | Swinging into the turn of the field he had it all to himself-he started up
 the stretch-Commerce Street, but 1t
 was getting light by this time and he | deemed 1t a matter of prudence to let
 real thing.
 An. there was friendly grating just
 above the hotel entrance and. his brain acting quickly, he glided towards 1t. On reaching the grating he started down one of the openings head first. his long body working through, and soon he was in undisputed possession of the cellar beneath. Here at last was all the com forts of home-no more would he have to be daily swallowed by "Oscoe." With a long sigh of blissful content he coiled himself up and prepared to begin his winter sleep.
 Yesterday morning. however, there was
 sroGf change; nis He was rndely awakened f.a,
 who caught glimpse of the sparkling, glistening coil beneath the grating. This gentleman immediately gave vent to a
 loud cry of alarm, and in a remarkably short space of time there was good imitation of riot in front Of the grat- ing.
 From all parts of that section of Com
 merce Street men gathered On the run | they came by twos and in punches until something oyer a hundred people were
 grouped in front of the grating In the
 meantime our hero of the grating, being
 now fully awakened by the unaccustomed
 hubbub, lazilv opened his eyes, bhnked
 at the struggling shafts of sunlight, and proceeded to indicate his thorough dis | pleasure and disapproval of the affair | by a series of well modulated, venom ous misses. His head was matesticaliy | raised and he was glaring in defiance at the scores of curious faces on the other side of the grating.
 Presently figure hove In sight, com | ing from the Union Station-it was
 Assistant Baggage Master Bill Mckin-
 ney.
 crowd. Here comes Bill, the Snake Charmer."
 They reverently made way for the doughty champion who had slain the other snake. But 1t was no go Colonel Mckinney was unable to get at the
 snake. and the watching process was
 all that could be indulged in. | Patrolman Bob Goodwin, swinging his billy, sauntered down the pavement at this juncture. Giving a howl of delight, | the crowd pushed the officer into the | thick of the supposed riot When he saw what he was up against the rignt hand of the officer started towards that pocket in which other people sometimes | deposit black bottles. It was big re-
 volver however. that emerged from the
 officers hip pocket. There were four quick, loud reports and banks or smoke were rising from the mouth of the grat- | ing ,y,. | Snakeshlp were over at last. He had | eternally left an unfeeling world wmch had never appreciated his worth, ana oy | the ruthless hand of a remorseless blue | coat he had been lifted to snaKesmp heaven.