Charles
Herman
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 18 July 1907, page 5
Charles Herman, of 434 Hodge st. Newport, is confined to his home suffering with blood poisoning the result of being bitten by a copperhead snake. His left arm is swollen to almost three times its normal size. Herman returned home yesterday from Wheeling W Va. where he had been visiting relatives. While out on a fishing expedition he fondled a small copperhead snake that had been caught by a member of the party and was bitten in the finger.
Despite the aid of physicians in Wheeling, his hand and arm continued to swell and cause him great pain. He was advised to return to his home in Newport. Yesterday he called Dr. Gerding, who found his condition critical but has hopes of checking the poison from spreading through the young man's system.