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MG-A(G.760.077
21 Aug 1760:23 (798)
Last Saturday a melancholly accident happen'd, at a petty
horse-race near Magothy River, where William Rodwell, and
Jonas Dawson, who before had had some bickerings about their
skill in dancing a jigg, meeting together, Rodwell
challeng'd Dawson to try then who was the best man, as he
term'd it, by boxing; an odd criterion to determine
goodness! and at it they went; but after a few blows,
Dawson own'd he had enough, or that his antagonist was the
best man. When their Broughtonian exercise was over, they
wash'd, shook hands, and drank as friends; but a few minutes
after Dawson dropp'd down dead, and is suppos'd to have got
his death from a blow he received on his left side. The
other immediately surrendered himself to justice. By this
unhappy affair, a poor widow and five small children are
left without any support, and by far the best man of the two
lost to the community.
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