Year: 1860




AT half-past IL o'clock Yesterday forenoon the
little daughter of b. d. Davis, of this CITY, whose
familiarity with snake has been frequently no.
tced died at the residence of her parents on Centre
street. The facts connected with her case we
shall state and leave the public to draw their own
inference All that we have heretofore published
has been strictly correct, so far could obtain
information.


A few weeks since, when Mr.. Davis resided on
Monroe street, in the outskirts of the city, near
nursery where he was employed, this little daugh-
ter-less than two years old-was accustomed to
go into the yard or field and play with a snake.
How long these meetings had been held before the
discovery by the mother is not known. At all
eVentS,the mother one day found the child with the
snake in its arms, and the little girl was fondng
1t and calling it her baby Subsequently the snake
was seen in the yard and would run to the child
whenever she was permitted to go out. The child
talked and thought of this reptiie. Her mother
TOOK her darling to the city to divert her mind from
the hideous object, but in vain. Under the advice
OF physician who was called the snake was not
destroyed, and continued its visits to the premises
at will, retreating to the field when any one but
the child appeared.


AT length Mr.. Davis moved into the city and took
a mouse on Centre street, hoping that the change
would be advantageous to his child, and for time
she improved in health and took her food Two
weeks ago last Friday the child was taken i'll and
continued to sink until yesterday, when she died
one was subject to oOnvulsions or spasms which
were very violent, and at no time could she take
lood and retain it in her stomach. Her mother in
I0rms our reporter that she was attended by Dr.
Fleming, who treated the child on the electrical
prlnclpie, and she says that he found it difficult
case to treat, and expressed the belief that the
snake had taken the electricity from the system of
the child.


OE the day following the Friday on which the
child was taken so seriously i'll, Mrs. Devins who
occupied the house Monroe street, vacated nv
MIR. Davis, called at the house he now occupies and
stated that German named Conrad Keuchenhach
had killed the snake which had troubled the child.
on the day prevous-the Friday on which she was
taken Ill. The mother says that when the little
girl heard the statement, she sad "Mamma, is
oaoy dead Z" and soon became worse


lhere IS not much doubt about the statement
maze, so far as the facts are concerned. The con-
ciusions and inferences are quite another thing
me snake Killed By keuchenbach was about three
ieet long, and was doubtless the same seen by Mrs
Davis and her family repeatedly with her dauph
ter. Its being killed at the time the child became
Ill may have been a conincdence-probably was


Inc chlld was two years and one month old when
IL died. and was very bright and interesting little
girl 10 what extent it was under the fascin atinr
influence OF the reptile, we cannot say. We only
give such facts we have been able to rathar and
leave every reader to make his own conclusions
We first brought this before the public in the
Ohion and Advertiser, and we have been ridiculed
by other presses for so doing-some at distance
even going so lar as to dispute the whole story and
declaring that it was old tale retod 1t is yerv
easy to deny statement, but that does not refure
1t. All that we have written on this matter has
been the result of careful inquiry, and what we
have written we believe to be true We did NOT
even commence this article to-day till we had sent
reporter to the house of Mr.. Davis to see the
family, and look upon the corpse of the child all of
which he did.