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NEWJ.736.031
7 Dec 1736:21 (505)
London. . . Oct. 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 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 a 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
by shrieks & cries of the utmost surprize, agony and horror.
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