13-15 February 1744 On Wednesday last as one Harold, a Taylor was playing at Cards with a Weaver, in a Publick House near Bartholomew’s Hospital, some Dispute arose about their Game, and the latter called the former a Molly, on which he gave the Weaver a Slap on the Face, which provoked him so that he took a large Candlestick and struck him so violently with the Edge of it on the Nose, that he cut it off; he was immediately carried to the hospital, where all imaginable Care was taken of him, but he died Sunday Morning;and the other is gone off. (The Penny London Morning Advertiser)
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