LEACH, Bobby

London--A dispatch to the Evening News from Christchurch, New Zealand, says that "Bobby" Leach, who went over Niagara falls in a steel barrel in 1911, is dead from injuries received when he slipped on a piece of orange peel in the street. Leach broke a leg, which it was found necessary to amputate. "Bobby" Leach, a Canadian, achieved worldwide notoriety through his feat at Niagara falls. He was the second person to go over the falls and live, the first being Mrs. Anne Edson Taylor of Niagara Falls, NY, who made the trip in a barrel October 24, 1901. Leach's trip was made July 25, 1911. He was severely battered and bruised in the drop of 158 feet over the horseshoe falls, but his injuries were only superficial. He was forty-nine years old when he performed the feat.