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NYM(G.756.056
28 Jun 1756:13 (203)
London, April 17. That cruelty and cowardice are generally
inseparable, has been verified in the circumstances of the
murder committed by two officers of the army on the driver
of the post-chaise, mentioned in our last . . . These
officers were recruiting at Gravesend, and, after spending
some days there, long'd to see a play: Accordingly they
took a post-chaise for this important business; but fearing
they should not be at the play-house time enough, at the
rate the post-boy drove, in their rage and fury for so
material a disappointment, they committed this shockingly
barbarous and cowardly act. . .
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