YOUTH SWIMS NIAGARA
ARREST FOR ” VAGRANCY ” NIAGARA FALLS (Ontario), August 18. An eighteen-year-old youth has been placed under arrest for “ vagrancy and unlawfully swimming the Niagara River.” It is alleged that he plunged unclothed into the roaring torrent below and swam the rapids. He was swept twice around the whirlpool, and finally, emerged into the calmer waters on tho Canadian side after two and ahalf hours in the water. It is asserted that he is the first person to swim the rapids of the Niagara Gorge and reach the shore alive.
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Evening Star, Issue 21504, 31 August 1933, Page 9
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91YOUTH SWIMS NIAGARA Evening Star, Issue 21504, 31 August 1933, Page 9
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