Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-13
EVENTFUL SNEEZING
HOW A LITTLE THING MAY BE LADEN
WITH GREAT RESULTS.
A snceze Under London Bridge That
Cost Two and Saved Many Lives.
A snecze That Averted Assassina-
tion-One That Caused n Panic.

Exactly at G p. m. on the evening of
Dec. Is, 1884, sneeze was sneezod I'M
der London bridge which consigned
! two men to an instant and horrible
| death
Their names were Lomasncy 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 husinoss-than 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 Il boat, with forty pounds
| of dynamite in their possession, to-
gether with the necessary fuses and de-
tona tors 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
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pied him some little time. The night
was bitterly cold, and his comrade got
chilled and was seized with sudden
| fit of sneezing. In his agitation he
| dropped one or 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 it
ended the career of n pair of despera-
does, saved London bridge from de-
structiOn.
That the Right Hon. w. L. Forster
died peacefully in his bed instead of
| being assassinated in 1850 was due to
q 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 viceregal
lodge to the castle. Two of the assas-
sins were to fire at him from the first
floor window of house in Il certain
street, and the other two were station
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