ABSTRACT
The whole of this unfortunate rencontre having passed in less time than it has taken to relate it, there was no opportunity, nor perhaps any possibility, for any person present preventing it. e company were all sensible of the great impropriety of Nettle eld’s/ behaviour in the commencement; but when they saw his base conduct in stabbing the unsuspecting Evans, whilst he was anxiously and kindly fearing he had been materially hurt, they were shocked to the soul, and with one voice cried out, ‘Oh, for shame, Nettle eld!’ e sword passed under the short ribs of Evans’s right side, and, glancing upwards, came out below his shoulder blade.
