INSECTS AND SNAKES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 141, 17 June 1931, Page 8

INSECTS AND SNAKES

YOUTH AND HIS PETS. A woman told tho Hove magistrates lately, that she went in fear of her life from her son, Erie Harold Kirby, an eighteon-year-old student. He was remanded for a medical report. Tho youth was accused of threatening his mother, who said that he was educated at Brighton College, and Canon Dawson, tho headmaster hail described him as (< a genius.” Her son collected insects, “and to my mind,” she added, “ho was very cruel in his natural history researches.” Mrs Kirby declared that her son kept adders in his bedroom, and she and a younger son wero afraid of them corning into their-room. He had been violent recently, and had threatened her persistently. He had even said to hw, “You won’t bo hero much longer.”