HANDCUFF SECRETS - HOUDINI CHAPTER V AMERICAN MANACLES I SHALL now illustrate and describe some of the best-known makes of manacles now in use in the United States of America. Illustration No. 1 This is a photograph of a pair of handcuffs invented by Herman Ahrend, April 27, 1880, and are made by a… … Illustration No. 2 There are dozens of different patterns of ratchets or cuffs that are adjustable to any size wrists; the most in service are (A) the Tower and Lyon Double Lock, (C) the Cobb 1900 Cuff, (B) the cuff called Pinkerton Detective Cuff (I suppose it is called by that name because…
