Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919., Plate, Adrian, inscriber., Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. ; London : George Routledge & Sons, 1904. · leaf 59
Later Magic 29 suspicion, but the conjurer’s cigar-box is not always quite so innocent at it looks. Herr Willmann, of Hamburg, a gentleman to whom the magical world is in- debted for many useful inventions, has devised a cigar- box which, though of perfectly ordinary appearance, is in truth… … sion, being in fact a small trap, hinged at one end. Behind the box, if desired, is attached by means of a . couple of needle-points, a net or other servante, and the interior of the box is padded so that any article passed through the trap shall make no noise in falling. Another form of cigar-box…
