BEHEADED HIS WIFE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 408, 15 April 1937, Page 2

BEHEADED HIS WIFE.

REALISTIC TRICK. Magicians Themselves i Mystified. I Special.—By Air Mail. London, March 20. In the dim, red and gold Basement of a London hotel this week, a man ‘beheaded” his wife so realistically that several women watchers screamed. This took place at the annual Tinner of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. At the same banquet £1 notes were torn to pieces and restored whole; people’s thoughts were read; and a man produced dozens of thimbles on the tips of his fingers. So ingenious were the tricks that most of the 70 professional magicians present, who came from all parts of the world, confessed themselves mystified. The “execution” was the first of its kind ever to be performed. Levante, the originator, explained that his? “guillotine” had been delivered only that afternoon. Mrs Levante said: “My husband has ‘cut me up’ and ‘knifed’ me so often that I have got quite used to it.” Mr Harry Kaye, the organiser of lie* dinner, paid a special tribute to Mr Victor’ Peacock’s handling of 'the £1 note trick. First an independent guest took the number. Mr Peacock '.hen tore the note to pieces and turned it. Next he threw a walnut to a girl in the audience and 'When she crushed it beneath her heel, she found the original note whole inside