SLEPT IN TREE.
BOY'S FATAL EXPERIMENT. SYDNEY, Auguet 25. A boyish instinct for adventure caused Stewart Fitzhardinge, aged 16, to build himself a sort of nest-like bed in the fork qf a Moreton Bay fig tree, 30 feet high, at Double Bay, to which he climbed for the first .time on Sunday night, and slept there.
The boy repeated the act last night, but apparently he rolled out in the night and crashed on to a concrete path below, and was killed. Four of his comrades had contemplated building similar nestbeds, but the opinions of. all have changed now.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 201, 26 August 1931, Page 7
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