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Wicklow.—At 5.5. on the evening of the 7th of September, 1952, the Wick- low Head lightkeeper telephoned that a boy had fallen over a cliff a quarter of a mile north of Wicklow Head. At 5.20 the life-boat Lady Kylsant, with the ex-second coxswain in charge, left her moorings, taking a small boat with her. The sea was choppy with a light north-easterly breeze blowing, and four life-boatmen took the small boat close inshore. People on the cliff-top showed them where the boy had fallen, and they found him lying in four feet of water. The men took him on board and transferred him to the life-boat, where artificial respira- tion was applied, but he was found to be dead when she reached Wicklow again at six.—Rewards, £5 2?..