Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Friday 11 December 1908, page 8


FATAL SNAKE-BITE.

SYDNEY, Thursday. –A death from snake-bite is reported. A cooper named Walter Harden, while spending a holiday at Maroubra Bay yesterday, was bitten by a snake. He was brought to Randwick and attended by a doctor, being afterwards removed to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he died to-day.