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Haltwhistle
Date: 1881-03-17
A plot to blow up the mansion house at Haltwhistle was foiled by a heroic policeman. The local bobby, on discovering that a gunpowder-filled box was alight, smothered it. The mayor believed the plot was the work of ?some Fenian or other miscreant.?
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