BOY JEKYLL AND HYDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 9

BOY JEKYLL AND HYDE

YOUTH’S DUAL PERSONALITY

AMAZING STORY OF VICARS SON

“For a time this boy might become a different personality, and during that time his actions -would be in accordance with the character he had adopted.” This statement was made by Dr. Harrison Hall in Oxford Police Court, when Bryan Stanley Moseley, aged 17. son of the vicar of Fairfield, Buxton, was charged with stealing a gold cigarette case from an Oxford shop. Mr. Galpin, for the defence, said the boy was not normal. His peculiarities started with a liking for Chinese images. -He made a habit of collecting these images, and frequented Chinese laundries so that he could meet Chinese. He even went so far as to ask his parents if he could bring Chinese to his home, Mr. Galpin added. Another weakness was liking for firearms. Dr. Harrison Hall said Moseley suffered from dual personality. He might be perfectly normal, and then something would happen which him to become enthralled by the idea of being someone else. The boy’s father said that, as a child, when his son found anything sensational i:i a book, he would read it over and over “until his eyes beg) 1 to twitch.” “The Chinese became an obsession with him,” Mr. Moseley continued. “He did nothing but haunt Chinese laundries, and when he went into an eye hospital he held a reception for Chinese there.” On a table in court was a miscellaneous collection of life preservers and knuckle-dusters. The magistrates dismissed the charge under the Probation of Offenders Act, on condition that the boy was sent to a specialist for treatment.