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On Thursday a waterman of the name of Wm. New, while fighting with another man on the Point Beach, received so violent a blow from a fall, that he was unable to rise afterwards, and expired the same night. An inquest was held this day, before Mr. Arthur Callaway, deputy coroner — Verdict, died by the visitation of God, occasioned by a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, during a state of intoxication. There are no external marks of violence about him.

Hampshire Chronicle, Monday 11 March 1816 source

Visitation of God? You don’t think the fight might have had something to do with it?