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- Sussex Advertiser, July 19, 1859
Wadhurst
Fatal Bird Nesting ? About seven o?clock on Monday morning last, a boy named Bassett, about 14 years old, the son of Thomas Bassett, a labourer, both working on Wickhurst farm, in the parish of Wadhurst, was sent for some purpose into the hop garden. A few minutes afterwards he was picked up dead, nearly under a large tree standing in the way in which the boy would go to the hop garden. As he has been known to climb this tree for the purpose of ?bird?s nesting,? it is supposed he did so on this occasion, and fell from the tree, which is a very high one. It appeared that he fell on his head, and that his death was instantaneous. Mr. Turtle, surgeon, of Lamberhust, was sent for, but could render no assistance.
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