Snakes

MORRISON

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/30/2013 at 08:08:19

Dubuque Herald, July 6, 1859

SNAKES-John Morrison, Esq., the boilermaker who resides at the foot of 15th street, met with quite a snake adventure, the night before last. Upon going to his bed room window to close it, he was horrified at the sight of an immense snake lying coiled on the floor, under the window. Hastily retreating, he proceeded in search of a weapon to "clean out" the intruder, and soon returned with an axe, but the snake had disappeared. A long search finally revealed that it had crawled up the bedpost and with its tail wound around the latter, had comfortably ensconced itself beneath the pillows. He soon dispatched it, when he found it to be a copperhead, measuring 4 feet and 8 inches in length. We wish somebody would tell us where this monster came from.