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was ‘a first class swimmer’,
got on to the steamer. The
police went after him, but
he’d already made his escape.
A few years later, on 27
September 1889, it was
seventeen-year-old Marie
Finney’s turn to dive when
The Graphic reported, ‘A
LADY’S LEAP FROM
LONDON BRIDGE’. ‘Of
course the act was an illegal
one, and on that account the
arrangements for the