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Show THE CHARM OF THE THIRD PLUNGE WAS DEATH Onco every ten years, for thirty yoars now, a human being lias "shot" Niagara Falls Jn a barrol and the "charm" of tho Uilrd tlmo was death. Charlea G. Stephens, harbor, of Bristol, Eng., lost his life Sunday. July 11. 1920, when the specially-constructed oak , barrel shattered on tho rocks below after making tho great plungo. Mrs. Anne E. Taylor, who still survives, shot tho Falls successfully In 1001. Robert Leach ton years later was succecclul In it Btecl barrel. Doth llvo at Niagara FallB. Leach told Stophunu h a barrel Vaa not strong enough. Tho Britisher loaves a wlfo und 11 children most of the children aro grown. |