Two centuries ago

Two centuries ago

12 Sep 1730

Last Tuesday night, two Sharpers after they had gotten a Prey, adjourned in the New Row on the Poddle, in order to share the Booty, where disagreeing, they drew their Knives and fought. One of them was killed on the spot, and the other so desperately pounded that his Life is despaired of. But it seems the good old proverbial – Saying was not verified in them, for the honest Man that lost his Purse, had not the Fortune to get it again.

—Faulkner’s Dublin Journal,

September 12th, 1730.

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