Show How Many Snips n ps Caused JL f t v Egbert Eghert to Die i BALTIMORE Aug 31 JP- JP How many snips of the she shears s did it take to behead Egbert the the ga gas gar and end his death duel with a tiny spider Were the shears large a and ad d sharp or rather ther dul dullish ish These questions have divided opinion since an agent of So Society Society o for the Prevention of ot Cruelty Cru Cru Cru- elty city to Animals executed Egbert in the basement of ot a Baltimore home The snake after aUer four days of oC desperate struggling had ha become become be be- come hopelessly entangled in the spiders spider's web Egbert faced slow death the victim of the insect he hid had tried to capture and con con- sume Sunie As As' Asto to the manner of Egberts Egbert's decease decease well well that's where Horace Horace Horace Hor Hor- ace ace P P. Lane Jr at whose home the event took place and M. M W. W Skipper general secretary of the Maryland S. S P. P C. C A. A differ Says Lane The shears were rather dullIsh dull dull- ish No less than eight I 1 believe believe be be- lieve at least ten snips were required required required re re- re- re to behead Egbert S Says Skipper We wish to inform you that the snake was destroyed by one sni snip of a pair of oC sharp shears |