STARTLING SNAKE STORY.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7

STARTLING SNAKE STORY.

j . • BOY BITTEN FIVE TIMES. SERPENTS SORT HIM OUT. TO SYDNEY FOR SAFETY. (By Cable—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A snake story, remarkable even among stories of that class, is being featured in the Press. A youth named Clifford fcholes, residing in the Albury district, lias boon in hospital five times during tlie past few weeks for treatment for snake bites. The remarkable features of the case are that since the fourth bite he. was carefully guarded by another boy to prevent snakes attacking him, and that the snakes were not seen by other people. J Scholes himself declares that the snakes emell him, and in their presence his functions become paralysed. Doctors are non-committal, as the wounds hare always received finst aid treatment before they have seen them. After refusing an offer by a theatrical firm for show purposes, Scholea decided to go to Sydney to place himself outside the danger zone, being convinced that his life is endangered in the vicinity of any snakes. As proof of this lie points out that nobody else on hie home farm has been attacked, and that very few people have seen any snakes this season, and that three bites were received during the night.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)