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Show MISS WILKIN'S AWFUL FATE. Bitten by a Snak In Hrr Father' Omre, c Aha Die. In Spit of Antldotra. j Freedom, Pa., Jan. 19. A terrible calamity befell Dr. J. B. Wilkins and. l. ir . i i : nis uaugnier rvaie last evening ai mis place. Late in the fall a tramp captured cap-tured two largo snakes. The doctor purchased the reptiles, intending to send them to tho zoological gardens at "i Philadelphia. The snakes were placed in a large glass jar, tho top-beingso-cured by a covering of were gauze. The jar was then placed on an clovated bracket in a corner of the doctor's office. of-fice. (Last cveniug the doctor and his daughter returned from a visit to the country and entered tho office.' 'A large owl Hew over tho transom of the ' ' door, dislodged the jar from the bracket und the snakes escaped. One of them Mmediately caught the girl by the leg, between the ankle and the knee, and she fainted. The calls of he" father brough assistance, and a farmer caught the serpent by the neck and choked its i life out. Miss Wilkins was carried im- i, . mediately to her room whero every antidote for ioison was administered ';. by her frantic father, but without avail, ns at 7 o'clock this morning she died. The corpse of the young lady was swollen to an enormous size and spotted spot-ted much liko the reptiles, which aro said to have been copper-heads and wero about five feet long. |