"Big Ben" Struck Thirteen.
v A Most curious incidenoe with regard to the death of the late Duke of Clarence came under my notice on Tuesday," writes one of the London correspondents. '* It is as follows : — There is, it seems, a superstition that when • Big Ben,' the clock at Westminster, strikes irregularly at midnight evil will befall the royal house within three months At 12 o'clock on the night of November 14th the members of a political olub within a •tone's throw of the Houses of Parliament were astonished to hear the quarter chimes sounding simultaneously with the hour strokes, and to note that ( Big Ben " struck thirteen times. The event wag oomm«nted on, and, the day being a critical one in the illness of Prince
George, his name was, happily incorrect, associated with the evil omen. Two months 'aster, to the very day, his elder brother died."
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Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1892, Page 3
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148"Big Ben" Struck Thirteen. Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1892, Page 3
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