Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-26

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met very like the one the Davenports usO.
| saw and inspected their old cabinet. |
happened to witness its destruction In Liy-
erpool, and know that to all appearance
there was no trick in it whatever. found
the Addison to correspond in this respect.
so far as | could tell, with its model. Had
/ seen it smashed should have come to a
different conclusion, as | was soon to know.
tied him up with silk he got out, and
the silk was intact. In wire, he got out, and
the wire was as ithad been when put it on
his wrists. How did he do it? lie would
| tell me presently. First, must tie him up
In sack. confined him In one, tying the
| mouth of the sack. ''Now put another one
over me-" | did SO, and tied the neck of
that sack under his feet, while he sat on a
seat in the cabinet. "Shut the door" l
tried to, but found could not very readily
| do It. Thereby hangs tale. The bolt of
the Davenport cabinet is so made that un-
less it Is placed perfectly true, it will not
act, and the object, of course, is that when
| an accomplice, or much more stranger
goes to shut the cabinet, the performer i'm
closed within may be afforded additional
time by the temporary difficulty of putting
the bolt straight. In this case, almost as
soon as the door was shut, Mr.. Addison
asked that glass Of water might be hand
ed to him through the hole at which my
readers remember the spiritual hand was
wont to appear. handed it in. 1t was
returned to me empty. In few minutes |
was permitted to open the door. Mr.. Adj
Olson was still in the sack, tied up above his
head and below his feet. There was no
sign of the water.
Again clio ed the door, and in one min
ute and a half Mr.. Addison stood before
me out OF the sacks, which lay intact on the
foOr of the cabinet with the ropes united,
not cut. "And now," said Mr.. Addison,
"l'll tell you how it is done. In the first
place getting out of a sack is very easy"
To prove this tied him in one again. In
an instant he stopped down inside the sack,
put his hands up above his head in the sack,
seized the rope with which it was tied, and
undld 1t through the canvas, just as you
might lay hold of dogs ears and pull
them about with your pocket handkerchief
over your hands. In half minute he
emerged from the sack.
"Well," said |, roaring with laughter at
the suddenness and transparency of the
move, 81 shouldn't have thought of that
in hundred years" "Just so," said Mr..
Addison, sits another proof that the sim
plest tricks are the best. When | drank the
glass of water, simply united myself, and
tied myself up again, manipulating the |
knots through the sacking. But there's an
other way. The second time, when was out |
so quick, just took penknfe out of my |
pocket and ripped up the sides of the sacks" |
"Well, but" | objected, "here are the sacks |
untouched"
A FALSE FLOOR.
$50 you think9 Now look here. Can |
you see anything on the floor of the cabinet |
to suggest false bottom or anything of |
that sort ~ Not the taintest indication |
OF it, said |. He took little blunt brad |
awl, drove it into one of the several little |
pin-holes in the floor of the cabinet, one of |
the planks sprang up, and there was snug |
false bottom, which seemed almost impos- |
sible from front exterior view of the cab |
met, and of which, as l say, there was no |
sign whatever in the appearance of the |
floor. There was beautiful little lock NOR
tlced into the wood, which opened by the
simplest pressure of a point.
Look here" said Mr.. Addison, and he
pulled from the receptacle the sacks in
which he had been confined, slit up the
side seams. Those had seen were dupli-
Gates. In the little receptacle were all sorts
of duplicates of every possible thing that
could enter into these OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
twines, wires-all cut with mathematical |
precision to the same lengths, while there
also lay there pliers &C.; in fact every
thing that could facilitate The performances,
while on the under side plank, which lifted,
there was alittle fixed knife, against which,
in the unlikely event of his not being able
to get out of or break the wire in which he
was tied, he could rub it until it was cut
through, need not go into particulars af-
ter this disclosure. 1t was evident that
with such cabinet a practiced man could
10 anything and never be found out so
long as he kept the secret of his prick-lock.
asked Mr.. Addison whether he thought
The Davenports had false bottom to their
cabinet. You saw it smashed" said he.
What do you think?" | felt sure the
Oavenports had nothing of the kind. 80
10 l." said Mr.. Addison. IF they had a
alse bottom, and knew of the prick-lock,
hey would be tied with wire, or do any,
hing that do. The fact is they rely upon
The general inability of people to tie any
me up thoroughly, especially in cabinet
where it Is not possible to get properly at
your man." ..... .... ...
But the things had seen were so much
more wonderful than any thing the Daven-
DortS do, that their mere manual dexterity
seemed like child's play. ..., -
THE "MEDIUMs" TYING TRICK.
| asked Mr.. Addison whether there was
,Xtrcation was impossible He said there
vas. He wound a rope carefully round my
wrist, the coils neat and close to each other.
Three times round and a simple knot did
he business. felt no pain; but when he
old me to move my hands, l found they
we're numbed as soon as worked the ten
Ions. When the rope was off that simple
notion had left the marks of the strands
eeply imprinted on my skin. II did that
o the Davenports,n said Mr.. Addison, "but !
hey said it hurt them, which it did not
Q long as they were quiet and passive, and
)r. Ferguson cut it," " u.
Mr.. Addison showed me another way of
wing, which consisted in the same process
$ had been applied to my wrist, but ap-
lied just above the elbow. 1t also render
Il the arm perfectly useless, with this adj
itlon, that directly an attempt was made
D move it, the ''funny bone" was affected
4 way not to be forgotten in hurry.
As another example of rope-tying ex-
ertness, Mr.. Addison backed himself to tie
imseif up In three minutes in such way
nat no one could unite him. He accom- l.
lished 1t, at least so far as l was concerned.
Though the thing was done positively
efore my eyes, / could not ind the end of
ne rope When tell you there was a loop
each end OF 1t you will be little less sur
rlsed, but of course it would have been
erfectly easy for Mr.. Addison tohave sub
'ituted this looped rope for one that was
OF looped, had he performed the trick in
IS ca0lnet! The LAGOON convolutions in
'hlch In three minutes he involved himself
ERE so close and hard, moreover, that had
ne ropes END been discoverable it is doubt