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Poisonous Snake by Mail.

Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 5, 1899

     An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address writen in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a women’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s hands, but by his quickness the merchant escaped injury. Mr. Sterry has put the case in the hands of detectives.

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