Leaves from conjurers' scrap books, or, Modern magicians and their works (1891)
Burlingame, Hardin J, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : Donohue, Henneberry & Co. · leaf 167
d up with theblood streaming from it, and placed upon a salverto be handed around for the company to examine. The examination was not superficial nor hasty,people being invited to put their fingers in the openmouth and move the closed eyelids. The ghastlvdeaths head was then taken back and joined… … VANEK S DECAPITATION. vaneks decapitation. 165 really a long, hollow box, covered on the top andsides with black cloth and with the interior paintedblack. In the top of the table, and under where thehead and shoulders of the youth would lie, was atrap-door, which gave way under pressure and…
Magicians · Magic tricks
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