Thursday, April the 8th, 2010
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“I not only investigated the so-called supernatural powers of the child known as the Infant Magnet, but, on a public stage, during the performance of certain mysterious phenomena by a young lady who shall be nameless, I consented to be locked up in a dark cabinet with that interesting maiden, whose toilette was superb.”
William Manning, Recollections Of Robert-Houdin, Clockmaker, Electrician, Conjuror (1890)