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BG.736.012
29 Nov-6 Dec 1736:31 (882)
London. Oct 4. . . Yesterday morning Mr. James Todd, who
represented the Miller's Man of 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 fractur'd, 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 as scene were thrown into
the greatest convulsion; a lady in the pit big with child
fainted away, & was carried off very ill; Nothing was heard
but shrieks & cries of the utmost surprize, agony and
horror.
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