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VGW(HU.772.146
15 Oct 1772:13 (1107)
London, August 8. Extract of a letter from Portsmouth,
August 9. Last Thursday evening, four miles from this
garrison, at a place called Wimering, several gentlemen's
servants, of both sexes, had a dance in a barn. After the
dance they got several hand bells, and other noisy
instruments, and out of a little sport went to a lone house
in a field near them, where a single man, a labourer, was in
bed, in order to fright him. The man rose out of his bed,
and having a gun in his room, loaded it with swan shot,
swore he would shoot them. A lady's servant near them, a
maid and the coachman (not concerned in the dance, or with
the company) ran down to the field to see what was the
matter, and just as they came on the spot the man fired,
killed the innocent maid, and dangerously wounded the man. .
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