Top 10 Horrifying Deaths By Umbrella in the World
The past is filled with curious stories about umbrellas. For example, in 1911, a man picked up a dropped umbrella inside a church in Paris. He noticed the knob on it was rather large and found that it unscrewed. Not resisting curiosity, the man unscrewed the knob and saw something inside it.
While the story gives the reader some relief that umbrellas were not being used as bombs, they were still a popular weapon in many murder cases in the past.
10 Criminal Eye Gouger
New York seemed to have a lot of problems with people gouging eyes out with umbrellas in the late 1800s. Perhaps it was because, for many, it was the most readily available weapon.
In 1891, three men went to a bar and had a few drinks. When they were done, they stepped outside, and Doyle was set to go one way. Hobbs and someone known only as the stranger went another way. Doyle watched the men walk off and heard them having a heated argument over horse jockeys.
For seemingly no real reason at all, Doyle witnessed the stranger stab Hobbs in the eye with the pointy end of his umbrella and run off.
9 Alleged Unlawful Assault
In 1890, Melbourne witnesses stated that Crombie was hanging around outside a hotel. Robinson stepped out after having a drink of lime juice and club soda, and Crombie started giving the man some words. None of the witnesses heard what was said, but plenty saw Crombie suddenly lift up his umbrella and stab Robinson in the left eye.
Robinson cried out and stumbled out into the road. His friend came to his side, took a handkerchief out of the man’s pocket, and wrapped it around his head. Blood was pouring out of the wound, and another man went to get his lorry to drive him to the hospital.
8 Dangerous in the Hands of Children
Umbrellas are one of the many everyday items that should never get into the hands of an unsupervised child.
In 1909, a heartbreaking story hit the Chicago newspapers about two little boys. The boys were playing inside their home. The oldest one, aged 11, ran into a room and quickly shut the door.
7 A Fight over an Umbrella
Two Italians got into a fight over an umbrella, and what happened next was no laughing matter.
It took place in Connecticut, 1906, when two men in their mid- to late thirties left a christening. Both men claimed that the umbrella was theirs. They argued until Michael stabbed Bernardino in the eye with the disputed umbrella.
6 Penetrated the Brain
While a lot of eyes were getting poked out by the pointy ends of umbrellas, this case from 1904 is a little different.
A coal miner from Indiana fell dead in front of the opera house one night. Witnesses said they saw him arguing with someone, but no one knew who the other man was. No other details could be given about the incident, and the police were left with a dead body and questions.
5 Probably Self-defense
It was a case that had numerous witnesses, but none of them seemed to agree on what happened.
On April 18, 1908, several men were inside a bar in Tamworth, New South Wales. According to one witness, Constable Jennings, the men went outside, and Henry Brown shouted that he was going to get into a fight with William Welbourne before the night was through.
4 Feuding Brothers
Some brothers are born mortal enemies. William and James Fogarty, for instance, had been on bad terms for many years, and James was overheard saying that he would have his brother’s blood one day.
3 The Umbrella Murder
Of all the deaths caused by umbrellas, one was specifically known as “The Umbrella Murder.” It happened in November 1908 in Shepherd’s Bush, London, England.
Ernest Smith was a well-known manager of a dairy business. One day, he was returning from some business and stopped at Shepherd’s Bush to confront a man, someone he did not know, for abusing a woman. Ticked at the interference, the stranger followed Ernest as he went about his business and followed him into a tramway car.
2 Another Senseless Murder
In 1899, a newspaper declared a second umbrella murder in the city of Chicago in less than a year. Perhaps umbrellas should have been banned or, at the very least, made without the long point at the end of it.
1 The Poisoned Umbrella
It’s a case that many people have heard of. In 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident and a BBC journalist, was poked in the back of his leg by an umbrella held by an unknown man. The unknown man ran off, and sometime later, Mr. Markov complained that his leg had gone stiff.
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