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VGW(PA.737.003
7-14 Jan 1737:32 (24)
London, Oct 2. . . On Sunday 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 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
other two persons who fell in the same machine are like to
recover.
The Audience on so melancoly a scene were thrown into the
greatest convulsion; a lady in the pit big with child
fainted away, and was carried off very ill: Nothing was
heard but shrieks and cries of the utmost surprize, agony,
and horror.
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