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Bobby Leach went over Niagara Falls on 11th July 1911 in a barrel and survived. How did he die?

Question #148978. Asked by gtho4.
Last updated Aug 26 2022.
Originally posted Aug 21 2022 8:00 AM.

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Leach died when he slipped on an orange peel while on vacation in New Zealand. Leach suffered a fractured leg which was later amputated in hospital due to complications, when gangrene struck Leach succumbed to his injury at the age of 67.

link http://www.tourniagara.com/history/daredevils/bobby-leach/

Aug 21 2022, 9:17 AM
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Here is an article about the incident from the "New Zealand Herald", dated 29 April 1926.
Having defied death a hundred times he at last owed his end to a piece of orange peel. Mr. Leach had just concluded a lecturing tour in New Zealand and was strolling along the pavement close to his flat in Princes Street when he slipped on the orange peel and broke his leg. That was on February 26, since when he had been an invalid. (...) Complications set in and on Monday the leg was amputated, but the patient rapidly weakend and died.

link https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19260429.2.99


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