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Handcuff Secrets (1909)

Harry Houdini · leaf 16

An illustration from Handcuff Secrets, 1909, leaf 16
r was I familiar with your work. ...—H.P.C. SUHR. The above extract from Herr Suhr's letter is self-explanatory. In Hilmar, another German "handcuffer," came on the stage in the Wintergarten, Berlin, and tried to "do things to me," but he reckoned without his host. He claimed he could do things… … speak or write as good German as I do now, and he made this friendly (7?) statement to me in a letter which is in my possession: "You can't write or speak German; well, if the German's money is good enough for you to earn, you ought to learn the German language." He challenged me through Ins…

Houdini · Handcuff · Handcuffs · Magic · Magician · Locks · Lock · Restraints

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