Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thursday 31 December 1925, page 8


DEATH FROM SNAKEBITE.

Camper and Tiger Snake.

About 12 hours after he had been bitten by a tiger snake at a camp near Moles-worth, Mr Charles McPherson, of Albert road, Albert Park, died in a private hospi-tal at Yea. This is the first fatal snake bite of the holiday season.

With his two sons. Clive and Hector, the late Mr McPherson was camped for the holidays near a creek. About midday on Sunday Mr. McPherson was reading in his shirt sleeves on a tarpaulin stretched before his tent. He glanced down and saw a large tiger snake crawling across his leggings. The snake crossed his bare arm

and wriggled away.

But it was not until Hector directed his attention to it that Mr. McPherson knew that he had been bitten on the arm. Two campers from a neighbouring camp incised and cleansed the punctures and affixed a ligature. Mr. McPherson was then taken by motor car to Molesworth and from there, as no doctor was available, to Yea, where he was treated by a doctor. He became rapidly worse, and after admit-tance to a private hospital died early on

Monday morning.

Mr. McPherson was in business at Albeit Park and Montugue and leaves a

widow and four children.