I, the undersigned, certify that on the afternoon of Thursday, the 24th
day of October, 1901, I personally, opened the barrel that had come
over the Falls and found a woman inside in a fainting condition but
after the admission of air she shortly revived. With the assistance of
Harry Williams, proprietor of the Lafayette Hotel, and John Dunn, I
took her out of the barrel and put her in a row boat and took her to
the Canadian dock, where she was placed in a carriage and taken away. I
have seen the woman known as Mrs. Taylor on two occasions since and can
positively say she is the same person who was taken from the barrel at
Bass rock eddy, on the shore of the Niagara River, below the Horseshoe
Falls of Niagara.
JOHN ROSS,
Chief Engineer,
S. S. “Maid of the Mist.”