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Handcuff Secrets (1909)

Harry Houdini · leaf 32

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pen them, but he failed to do so; I, however, succeeded. These cuffs, made rigid by having a bar of iron fixed so that a cuff was on each end of the bar, were used during the Civil War on those who had received bounty money and had run away; hence they were designated "The Bounty Jumper." They are… … by Captain Lilly, U.S. Army. He was the first man that ever put them on, and, through a strange irony of fate, he died with a pair on him. It is a Regulation cuff—now obsolete in the Army—but is in use at present in the U.S. Navy. Illustration No. 6 (P) Is a South German Cuff resembling the English…

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

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