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The Evening Times
Washington, District Of Columbia
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In Winchester Center, Conn., Clara J. Baldwin climbed a tree to strike a snake threatening nestlings, but it fell on her shoulder, causing her to fall 15 feet and fracture her leg. The snake escaped.
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FIGHTING WITH A SNAKE
A Plucky Young Woman Saves Young Birds, But Suffers Herself.
WINSTED, Conn., Aug. 7.—Seeing a snake three feet in length crawling up a tree and attempt to kill young birds in a nest, Clara J. Baldwin, daughter of F. M. Baldwin, of Winchester Center, climbed the tree also and struck at the reptile with a stick. The girl's aim was true, and the snake dropped on her shoulder.
It frightened her so she fell out of the tree to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet, and fractured a bone in one leg. The snake escaped.
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Winchester Center, Conn.
Event Date
Aug. 7.
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clara j. baldwin fractured a bone in one leg; the snake escaped.
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Seeing a snake three feet in length crawling up a tree and attempt to kill young birds in a nest, Clara J. Baldwin, daughter of F. M. Baldwin, of Winchester Center, climbed the tree also and struck at the reptile with a stick. The girl's aim was true, and the snake dropped on her shoulder. It frightened her so she fell out of the tree to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet.