AN ECCENTRIC MAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 274, 26 November 1878, Page 4

AN ECCENTRIC MAN.

; i " IA. greßt number" of persbnß have : 6e^D visitsJigD^lfq^^iQUße, Cp|lu(np--tori, the realdeDce ipnhVlateMrlietb'er • Whlrond. 'wboee Btran?e and eccentric \ifp has caused much talk in .the Deigbborbood. 'The premises were- thrown open, to, t^e public 'in conaeqdence.df the bjblq, iveeesgoryntpimeet the order o^ thd Probate Court For'. the:, payment: of legacies to Lady Janet Walrond and hejr daughter. Tjie liottße.hnd'grb'.iin"^ are encirclied by a brick wall a mileip cir'.cumfsrence and. twelve feefcin height. The lawn wag converted iolo a rabbit warren, the deceased ■ keepi'Dg U|ouesnjdsjof; rabbits. Hi^ chief companions w^re hie rabbits and his dogSK.He beJd th^ belief -that on the death of human bejugs their sou'ls parsed- inio- the bbdies of i c[6gs. ;|As Itbeee 'laiJimals d|ed^.',Me gavQ) them n fuoierai.'f.nu' oDth&,|awn there are ten 1 graves,. each. .havibg /a beadslcJDe' bearing aa^oscriptjon setting ou-t ;fhe n^me'of iha* fiHimal/thebla'ce ian p d i) dete (of bir »b, • ', abd the date i ajb which he died. , JTptil ijaß day of bis Mr Walf'Oritf •k r et3t i in jj h ; is house . th ) embaimed body of adaughter w'bosb' ; 8O il,, hg bieiieved-' had' found 'a reatlng place in the bodyoof 0.0.e of bis idogs. N|) "bnia^ Was a;dmHt6dby the deceased to! the 'premises wiihaut special'''permissionJor each trisit, aud the entrance as well as the front of 'tbe.Bous^iwas guarded by a dumber of. cannon. i; The boyy of thß decca^d- daughter"' wnis kdpt in his drassing-ro^'m, abcf bis fyh . bejdroom was fiUed up with ,the view ipf bits death,; -r. He slept: in ,a [triaasive 1 canopied" Devonshire^ oak bejdsteail. on the footboard of which wure three skulls of jfemales ; ; fi,xed. 0 'er each corner of thabedithflrerwus a )lack ; fiiathe'r piutnei In the beld so decorated he died.4[ ( Tfcre bed, . the drapery of which was crimson and gcjld) is. now tp be sold with the other thinga. The oak furniture >ia -very jtoas'sive, but n>Oat ! of the fittings show laignjf o^ t,^e neglect |conßeque r nt'6n tlte • deceased's retirement^. .He { spenl the greater? purtioa.of the last fif.teeai.years : of| hiß life^'in the study of tKeiWwauits , !n;W|highhe was^ioWved, aud'in'the 1 ..pursuit, of which, bp seemed to i\aA edjaymend. It is remarked ja the ' neighborhood that be did Dot mind who , he wettt It'o law witb,tjr on wba't^subyect he fought, and [h§- was regardless ofj the amount of money he, spent. it he could onlj beat his At one time> and" another ha. employed; ibver , fortjr Bolibitorg, and'be requee'tM'that . in.' every document [iifa' fall^ltU "'')s > ' grjandee-of Spftinj-aud/aa a member; of' various onlersfehauld ba set out:! , ! Xh& extent of decetiaeti'a' estate in Devou- ■ sMitq Wm%OQ(f i aqre^, •■ ■ . ' ;' l ;;, , (