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NYWJ.736.029
20 Dec 1736:32 (163)
London. Oct 4. . . Yesterday 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
accident 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 two other persons who fell in the same machine
are like to recover. The audience on so melancholy 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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