Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-15 | Page 9 | Purchaser Finds Snake Coiled in Wooden Keg

PURCHASER FINDS SNAKE COILED IN WOODEN, KEG The wildest tales associating liquor with snakes, dragons and other spades of reptile lletened to by poliev officers as re Is tad by sufferers suf-ferers from delirium tremens took the form of reality Tuesday -afternoon when L. A. Ohnstead of South Weet Temple etraet brought a ten-gallon wine keg containing tha pickled carcass of a hugs snake to pollco headquarters. The reptile's body had hardened In a natural coil on top of a pile of bark and charcoal which had evidently evi-dently boon placed In the liquor to purify It. Whether tho snake had also been In the liquor or whether It had crawled In the keg through tha bung hole could not bo learned by examination. Poiica officers, however, were Inclined to believe t ha gtssalraa wA lisanAs KslsE Rat ss lea I th keg at th asms time, because of the well preserved condition of tbe carcass. ' Olmstead saufrhe purchased the keg st a furniture store on South West Temple street for tbe purpose ' of taking It to his horns snd making pickles In. He said ths keg was Intact snd a stopper In ths bung hoie at the time he bought It. When hs started ts wash ths keg before putting pickles In It tbe bark wss I discovered tmids snd sines It could I not be taken out through tha bung hole, the head of the keg waa knocked out. Olmetaad wae atar-tied atar-tied to find th snsks's body In th keg with th bark and charcoal. char-coal. Hs brought it to polio headquarters headquar-ters as an exempts of the theory that all liquor contains snakea It was displayed for a time Tueeday afternoon where severs! of the extract ex-tract and denatured alcohol addicts might see It In cess they war brought in Intoxicated. .None came, however, and tbe dteplay was takes away by Olmstead.