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VGW(HU.767.018
15 Jan 1767:22 (817)
A few days ago as a young gentleman, by profession a
surgeon, from Wakefield in Yorkshire, was on a visit to a
relation at Hashersedge in Derbyshire, he joined an assembly
of young persons of both sexes at a dancing room at that
place (it being their wake, or fair) when he singled out a
beautiful young lady, with whom he danced; but this exciting
the indignation of a farmer, who paid his addresses to the
said lady, a battle ensued, when several of that farmer's
friends fell upon the young gentleman (seeing he had the
better of the engagement) and beat him in a very terrible
manner, which so enraged him that he took down a loaded
fowling piece from the chimney, and fired among them, one of
whom had his arm shattered to pieces, and another was so
much wounded in the belly that his life is despaired of.
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