How not to get a great story straight ...

[dogtag]

I remember this story when it happened, thinking it sounded
so far fetched that it had to be true.
In this report, first Markov is waiting at a bus stop on Waterloo
Bridge when he gets stabbed.
Next, the Killer is the one at the bus stop and jumps out in order
to stab Markov as he walks past.
Then they show the bus stop complete with bus where the event
took place - except that is not Waterloo Bridge.
Then the Killer is said to live in Austria which then changes to
Denmark.
Perhaps this writer should not type and drink at the same time.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12504871/How-Cold-War-dissident-Georgi-Markov-murdered-UMBRELLA-Writer-died-45-years-ago-today-assailant-fired-pinhead-ricin-pellet-leg-Waterloo-Bridge-mystery-surrounds-carried-assassination.html

It seems fantastic that a pellet that small could penetrate
a man's trouser material, maybe his sock and still have
enough oomph to penetrate his skin.

[Phloating Phlasher]

Maybe that's why the target was the ankle? skin exposed between trouser bottom & shoe top?

[dogtag]

Maybe that's why the target was the ankle? skin exposed between trouser bottom & shoe top?

I don't recall ever seeing Mens' bare ankles as they walk along.
Lifting the umbrella higher to strike would have attracted unwanted attention.

[PWC]

Napolean was very afraid of airguns as assination weapons. Even at that time, they had .50 cal air rifles.

[dogtag]

So did Sherlock Holmes.

[Phloating Phlasher]

Yep, Col Moran!
Lewis & Clark terrified the Native Americans they met with their air rifle. They were used to the "smoke-pole", black powder flintlock, but this was something devil-inspired.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/lewis-and-clark-air-rifle.html