OVER NIAGARA FALLS
IN AN OAK BARREL
BUT FAILS TO REAPPEAR
i 1 ■ - (United Press Association—By Electric j Telegraph—Copyright). '• 'Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, July 6. George S'tatbakss, a ' professional chef' and self-styled Greek philosopher, crawled into an oak barrel which he got .friends to seal and set him adrift over iSjiagara Falls. They watched the' barrel bounce, into a misty curtain Eu,t' it did not reappear, and presumably met the snnie fate as Geo. Stevens the Bristol bather who ten years ago undertook to conquer the Falls but all that ever was found was i one of his arms and u few bits of I the barrel. f Mrs Annie Taylor who went over twenty-nine years ago subsequently died of old age. Bobbie Loach duplif cated the feat in 1911 in a steel barrel. He returned to his home in New i Zealand where he died from the effects, of skidding on a banana poel.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1930, Page 5
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158OVER NIAGARA FALLS Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1930, Page 5
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