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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Cambridgeshire, a farmer's infant daughter was fatally bitten by a viper while left under a tree in a hay field; the father, devastated, hanged himself from the same tree that evening.
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A farmer near Linton, in Cambridgeshire, who had a young daughter, an infant in arms, of whom he was exceedingly fond would not go into the hay field without her. Taking a fork to do something with his men, he laid the child down on his coat under a tree. Presently hearing her shriek, he ran and found a large viper had twined round her neck, and bit her in the bosom: she died the same evening in great agonies, upon which the farmer went into the field and hanged himself upon the tree under which the accident had happened.
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Linton, In Cambridgeshire
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infant daughter died from viper bite; farmer hanged himself.
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A farmer near Linton, in Cambridgeshire, left his infant daughter on his coat under a tree while working in the hay field. A large viper twined around her neck and bit her in the bosom. She shrieked, and upon finding her, the father saw the attack. She died the same evening in great agonies, leading the farmer to hang himself from the tree.