The true Democrat. [volume], July 25, 1896, Image 4

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ie True Democrat.
blished Every .Saturday.
i. LEAKE, JR.,....... .Proprietor.
2ATU1tDAY, JULY 25, 1896.
the Famous Gun Trick.
c Secret of "Cattlching Rnllcts"
No Longer a Mystery.
h[0st people haIve been 11101- or
s puzzhved to know how the man
to pioses belore six riflemen, withi
tted l gulls, tnallages to "CatchI
e bullets." The trick lhas often
ent performed by I[errnsT1lon and
sers of his kind, and1 always with
)elief that while it twas a trick, it
Is yet utiathounable. Friederick
tiucroft, himself a ' professional,
'es the whole situp away. Mr.
alnctrolt 5nys:
"To begin witllh, as recently (done,
Was per)ortuedt by the alid oft six
)liers under the commanud of a
=rgeant. At the rise of the cut,
tiii the squad mnarched upon the
t;ge 1and took a position in obliqtue
no on the right, wheni after they
ad beeni brought to attention antd
rder arms, the sergeant crossed
ho stage to the left third entrance
or the lassumed Ipurpose of deposit
tg his gunt and taking fromt the
Itei .placc ai salver on which the
jallets were to be placed. This
salver waIs in the form of all ordi
nary waiter labout 6 by 12 tches'
itnd atbout 1 jnch deep. In the cen
tre there walt a semall hole or well
l;-rge enougttt to hcltl six caIrti-idge s.
Coteal('Led in the interior af t.isii sa:l
tic's'er " w noither ctit' n nualt'tiirtllt `1 "(
ictiy the same size as ithe expo tied 1
tweil, containing six bliank cartridg
es, wLich were hidden from view. tc
01
i"Underneath this salver and con- r1
cealed by the band in which tlh el
sergeant carried the salver was a
small peg containing the two coin- 9
partmentt. The salver was taken
by the sergeant to the conmmittee,
whlio (leposite(d therein the six buiil
lets which had bceien loaded and
sealed. The sergeant thenI passed
among the audience and various
persons took the cartridges fromn
fheo salver aud placed nuutrks upon
,the bullets. They were then depos
ited back in the well. The sergeant
then marched onii the stage with the (
slver' at aiIm's Clength, lbut as ihe
was crossing the platlfilm he moved
the computinents dlowni anil (ho
blaniik cartridges up into tihe pIlace
occupied by the loaded cartridges.
The loaded cartridges naturailly
were then covered up and niothing
was exposed but the blanks. This
salver he :thell handed to the sol
diers, and each one took a cartridge.
This is where the mystery comes in,
because everybody in the audience
tvad ready to swear that the salver
with the cartridges had never left
their silght; tha:t the sergeant had
held it at arm's length and that
each soldicer :hadt taken a cartridge
theretrolw and heldl it aloft. What
they failed to notice was that the
soldiers held the cartridges with
the rim up, anid not the bullet end
up.
"After thesoldiere had taken their
cartridges, the sergeant crossed to
the third left entrance for the pur
pose of returning the salver and se
curing his gun. This is where the
fine work of the trick comes in.
The minute lie deposits the salver,
two confedtuerates, who are in the
third entrance, take the cartridges,
extract the bullets and put them on
.a plate iwlich has been heated so as
.to mtamke the lullets feel warm.
The performer, who has been stand
ing in the centre of the stage all
this time, then walks over to his
entrance for the purpose of securing
the plate upon which he proposes
to catch the bullets. In the meau
time t ' e soldiers had loaded their
thile g ns with the blank cartridg
;i and marlead to the platform in
the auditorium and faced about;
ready to fi.e. The performer se
Iured thei plate ail d Iullets at tLh I
saine time, anId conIcealing thle bu C
lets in the pamnu of hiM hanid he held 6
the plate before him iand nodded to It
thlit iwergeutit to giv re tIhe no miannt
to fire, whlich wats done and the pelr
former tIhen turlied the pilate ovel E
with the bullets on it amid great I
applause. I
The greatest care is taken to sce
that the soldiers have no amniuni
tioni of any kind, anid as there are
but six -loaded cartridges in usc,
and as the m agicial does not give
the signal to the sergeanit to fire
until he had received the six bullets
it is easy to be seen that there can
)beuo danger conlected with tihe
feat, as he has the bullets in his
hand before the soldiers fire.
"When I saw the amount of
space devoted by the papers to thlis
tent and noted with what excite
mlent (le audience witnessed the
act, I conid not help thinking with
Puck: 'What fools these mortals
tbe.'"
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) We are strongly of the opinion
that the editor of the Bulletin is
e, one of tho.se reformers who neither
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Sfor.
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a I man.
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