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AWM.736.064
16-23 Dec 1736:22 (886)
London. . . October 4. . . Yesterday morning Mr. James Todd,
who represented the Miller's man on Friday night last in the
entertainment of Dr. Faustus at the theatre in Covent-
Garden, and fell in one of the flying machines from the very
top of the stage by the breaking of the wires, by which
accident his skull was fractured, died in a miserable
manner.
Susan Warwick, who represented the Miller's wife lies at
the point of death at the infirmary at Hyde Park Corner:
The two other persons who fell in the same machine are like
to recover.
The audience on so melancholy a scene was thrown into the
greatest convulsion; a lady in the [ ] big with child
fainted away, and was carried off ill; . . .
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