VICTIM OF SNAKES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7

VICTIM OF SNAKES

BOY FIVE TIMES BITTEN

QUITS /DANGER ZONE FOR CITY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION CO? TKIGBT.) (Received 26th January, 10 a.m.) . SYDNEY, This Day. ' A snake atory, remarkable even among stones of that class, is being featured in tne .Press. _ A youth, named Clifford Schqles, vesting in the Albury district, five times in the past few weeks has been sent to the hospital with snakebite The remarkable features of the case are that since the fourth bite he was carefully guarded by another boy to prevent snakes attacking torn, and that the snake? were not seen by other people. The boy hunself. declares that Wte smell him, and in their presence his functions become paralysed. • The doctors are non-committal, as the wounds always received' first aid treatment before they saw them. After refusing an offer of £5 by a theatrical film for show purposes, Scholes has decided to come to Sydney to place hint self outside the danger zone, feeing' convinced that his life i s endangered in the vicinity of any s nake ß . In proof S this he points out that nobody P e ls c on his home farm has been attacked, and very few people have seen any k ™ this season, and three bites weredeceived during the night time' receives