hands fastened behind him’
and his feet chained together.
But the Channel attempt
seems to have been
abandoned because of the
coldness of the water. In 1893
he was performing
‘sensational high dives’ at
Captain Boyton’s World’s
Water Show at Earls Court,
billed as ‘champion Scientific
High Diver and Trick
Swimmer of the World’. The
same year he tried to swim
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