PURSUIT OF THRILLS
BUSINESS MEN'S SONS BOUND OVER FOR BURGLARY. When the sons of Birmingham business men, Norman Herbert Hirst, 19, and Cecil Harrison Webb, 17, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Quarter Sessions to housebreaking and stealing £75 worth of silver, it was suggested that they cojnmitted the offences because they h'ad been leading a high life. Ordinary pastimes that they should have followed were too dull .for them. Ilirst's family doctor stated that when four years of age the boy lived at Hull andrwas subjected to the Zeppelin bombai'dments. He thought that was a possible cause in developing-a slate of mental instability. "Mentally he is in the bloodTand-thunder s'tage, and," added the doctor, "he has been reading the Deadwood Dick stories, which I threw away when I was 10." Webb was stated to have been rather unstable since suffering inflam.nation of the brain. o The Recorder hound both youths over for 12 months.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 10, 3 September 1931, Page 6
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