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BNL.733.017
13-20 Sep 1733:11 (1547)
Dublin, July 4. Last week, one Pendergast, a fellow that
used to hawk meat about the streets, and another man went
into an alehouse in Anger-street, and after having drank a
quart or two of ale, were forgoing away without paying their
reckoning. The hostess was for arguing the case with them,
and a poor old woman, whose employment was to blow the
bellows of the organs at St. Peter's Church, unfortunately
sitting at the door endeavoured likewise to perswade them to
pay for their liquor by saying, It is a sin and a shame to
go away without paying the reckoning. Upon which Pendergast
took the poor creature by the shoulder, and gave her a cant
into the street, by which means her scull was broke, of
which wound she instantly died.
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