Houdini - handcuff challenge at the Hippodrome
The special pair of handcuffs from which Houdini had to extract himself, taking over an hour at a highly publicised event sponsored by the Daily Mirror at the Hippodrome. The handcuffs allegedly took five years to make and had twenty-one separate locks
Picture No
13462425
Media ID
47722782
Size
5773px x 8101px
(3.9MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler', 23 March 1904, page 470
Date
1904
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