Reply: In 1911 Bobby Leach tried to go over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a metal barrel — and succeeded, changing into the primary man to take action. Leach owned a restaurant on Bridge Avenue and would boast to clients that something Annie Taylor (the primary particular person and lady to go over the Falls in a barrel and survived) may do, he may do higher. Sadly, whereas he did succeed, he spent the subsequent six months recuperating in hospital from varied fractures and contusions he suffered throughout his ordeal.
Whereas in New Zealand 15 years afterwards, he slipped on an orange peel and broke his leg. He succumbed to his accidents.
