Show CONJURER WAS confidences ala ill accomplice in a trick did not ure live up to hla his agreement nent an illusionist was talling talking the other day of some of the accidents that sometimes spoil the art of the conjurer it was in nashville tenn he said that I 1 experienced a real knockdown knock down blow I 1 was performing the well known trick of passing a marked coin into the center of an uncut orange oran gge at least what a good many people thought I 1 was doing I 1 used a silver dollar and emphasized the trick by passing the coin into the pocket of s some me boy whom I 1 had enticed on to the tage stage s I 1 will openly confess that the boy had to be a cou confederate federate and that the marked coin had its fellow in one previously prepared by me one night as I 1 was entering the theater I 1 1001 looked ed around for a likely youth to aid me in my double dealing I 1 picked a boy and promised to pass him in if he would follow my instructions 1 I am a conjurer I 1 said 1 I want yon on to put this dollar in your trousers pocket ril get you a seat ih the front row when I 1 ask for somebody to come com e on the stage you must come then I 1 will ask aak you to produce the dollar the boy promised everything find and after making arrangements for him at the door I 1 left him when I 1 was w as ready for the dollar trick I 1 saw ray my young confederate sitting openmouthed open mouthed in the front row I 1 had bad prevailed upon another member of the audience to lend me a dollar marked exactly aiwas as was that I 1 had given to the boy 1 I passed that borrowed dollar into the orange cut the fruit open and out dropped the coin then I 1 went on and now ladies and gentlemen gentl emeri 1 I will perform a still more difficult feat I 1 have passed now I 1 will ask some member of the audience aud and d ce to step on the stage and without going anywhere near him I 1 win will pass the same dollar marked as you yon have seen into the right hand trousers pocket true irue to his barga inthe boy stepped to the stage I 1 stepped opposite dimand him and asked 1 now sir have you ever seen me before I 1 V no sir was the answer 1 I have here a dollar I 1 contin continued next 1 I am going to pass it into your b trousers pocket one two three go 1 I made the proper magicians pass and smiled upon my audience now I 1 said to my assistant put your hand band into your right hand trousers pocket and ghene give me the dollar the boy looked a bit sheepish but he dived his fist down then to my unutterable horror he produced a handful of silver and said ive only got 90 cents of it left sar 1 I went out in a hurry and took a drink N Y timm times |