Fulton County GaArchives News.....Snake Charmer Granted Permission To Share Cell With Pet Reptile June 3, 1925
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Hawkinsville Dispatch And News June 3, 1925
Snake Charmer Granted Permission To Share Cell With Pet Reptile
 
	“A snake is a snake for a’that,” Bobby Burns might have said, but the 
Atlanta police make a distinction between the charmed and the uncharmed of the 
species, as was evidenced Friday when a “young’un” of the species was taken 
from the pocket of T. J. Shackleford, 193 Richardson Street, as he was being 
registered at the jail on the charge of idling and loitering.  

	Shackleford who was detailed early Friday morning by officers 
patrolling their beat, protected bitterly when the turnkey attempted to 
separate him from his little playmate.  So insistent was his protest that 
Lieutenant T. D. Shaw agreed to let him take the serpent with him to the cell 
after the idling and loitering charge had been changed to “sleeper.”

	Shackleford explained to the police that he was a snake charmer and 
had the reptile under perfect control.  He said he was on his way to Spiller 
field to sell it to a klan circus when accosted by the police.

	When he entered the station house Shackleford had the snake in his 
trousers pocket where it was concealed in a handful of grass.  The turnkey, 
investigating the man’s personal effects received a violent shock when he 
found the pet, and was for doing it to death when Lieutenant Shaw interfered.


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