Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-06-23
EVENTUAL SNEEZING
HOW ALITTLE THING MAY BE LADEN
WITH GREAT RESULTS.

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4 Sneeze Under London Bridge That
Cost Two and Saved Many lives.
A Sneeze That Averted Assassina-
tion-One That Caused a Panic.
Exactly at 6 p. m. on the evening Of
Dec. IL, 1884, a sneeze was sneezed I'M
der London bridge which consigned
Two men to an instant and horrible
death.
Their names were Lomasney and
Fleming, and they were conspirators.
Their mission was to blow. up the
bridge with dynamite, because it was
considered that at that time there
would be more people crossing it
workmen. workgirls and others on
their way home from businessman at
any other and that the loss in human
life would be therefore correspondingly
more appalling.
All went we'll at first. The pair Of
desperadoes dropped noiselessly down
the river in a boat, with forty pounds
Of dynamite in their possession, to-
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tonators. Arrived at their destination,
however, they found that the gully hole
underneath the southern arch Of the
structure, wherein it had been their in
tention to insert the explosive, had
been stopped up. Lomasney undertook
to remove the obstruction, but it occu-
| pied him some little time. The night
was bitterly cold, and his comrade got
chilled and was seized with a sudden
ft Of sneezing. In his agitation he
dropped one OF more Of the decorators
he was holding, and these. falling on
the dynamite which was laying in the
bottom of the boat, exploded it, with
disastrous results. Doubtless. however,
that inopportune sneeze, although ii
ended the career of a pair of despera'
does, saved London bridge from de.
struction. esr
That the Right Hon. w. E. Forster
died peacefully in his bed instead of
a sneeze. Three times the conspirators
laid in wait for him. but the last at
tempt was the most determined of
them all. Four men armed with heavy
caliber navy revolvers were to waylay
him as he drove from the v1ceregal
Sins were to fire at him from the first
floor window of a house in a certain
street, and the other two were station
ed at the window of another house s
few yards down on the opposite side Of
the way.
These latter were the reserves" DIES
tined to try their skill should their col
leagues miss. Neither of the two firing
parties were to show themselves unit
the near approach of their proposed
victim was signaled from the stree
below. The signal in question was t.
be the waving of a pocket handker
chief by James Carey, the same mai
who was a%fterward killed by O'Don
nell.
The plot was excellently planned
from the point Of view of the partici
pants therein. In fact, SO far as human
foresight could provide against eYentu
alities the chief secretary seemed a
/ good as dead. Yet it all came to naugh
and for SO simple a reason that tn
plotters themselves. meeting togethe
, afterward at their secret rendezvou
in North King street, were fain t
! laugh at their own discontinue.
) The morning was cold and gusty
2 Mr.. Forster was somewhat late, an
) Carey, chilled with waiting about, bt
gan to sneeze. Instinctively he Dire,
! out his handkerchief, the handkerchief
5 that was to give the fatal signal. an
In an instant the clustering north win
4 had hicked it from his benumbed fiji
. gers and sent it sailing down the stree
as a twenty mile an hour gait
9 AT that very instant the chief seer,
e tary's carriage turned the corner an
e came swiftly toward him. Carey ra
to the spot which had been previousl
agreed upon and tried to make his fe
4 low conspirators understand that the
victim was in sight by signaling wit
1 his arm and pointing.
The result, however, though exact
what might have. been ~foreseen, hard
came up to his expectations. The 70,
men at the windowsswere waiting for
e man with a handkerchief. Instead, the
g saw one without any such signaliI
apparatus, evidently excited and poin
! ing wildly up the street instantly thu
conjured up visions Of traitors in the
ranks and OF detectives on their tracl
and, dropping their weapons. fnconi
nently and hastily fed.
On the evening OF Oct. II, 1878, p
liceman on duty near the Coliseu
Music hall, Liverpool, noticed an nm
small commotion at the entrance. I