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Show FIVE YEAR THIEF A SNAKE. Monster Dlack Reptile with Fowl Is 8hot by Farmer's Wife. York, I'n. For tho past 11 vo years John K. Arnold, n farmor of York. New Salem, had been aware that ho was being preyed upon by n sh!o inutlc chicken thief, but everything from n man trap to u rat trap was tried without avail. Tho honor of making tho enpture has fallen to Mrs. Arnold, who discovered discov-ered tho marauder, a blacksnako nine feet und two Inches In length, and shot It. Tho reptile hi tho largest of Its kind over known to have been actually actu-ally measured in tho county. Mrs. Arnold cumo upon tho snake In mi unguarded moment, ns It lay Im-sld" Im-sld" a fonco busily engaged In swallowing swal-lowing a young fowl, (letting her huxtiund's shotgun, she held It clnso and discharged both barrels, with the ilCHlicd effect. |