Last year, Spade made two successful death defying escapes - after he was submerged in a chained box under the River Shannon and later chained to a burning stake in King John’s Castle. He sent Houdini a telegram inviting him to join his Orpheum Circuit as an escape artist.
The magician, from Coonagh, Limerick, is in talks with MTV about a show and is rehearsing to emulate more Houdini escape acts. As the Handcuff King, Houdini would escape from any pair of handcuffs. Maybe he will want the cuffs,” Steve said. By 1898, Houdini had come up with the Challenge Act, the act that would make him a legend. “There were 101 items sold at other auctions and the majority of it is owned by the great magician David Copperfield. It dawned on them that they’d lost the cuffs,” he said.Īccording to Spade, the crew purchased the handcuffs at an auction in America complete with all the necessary valid paperwork, which he said were now “in hiding”. Keeping the alliteration of his first name, Harry, he began performing as Harry Handcuff Houdini. 'I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living. After being told by a friend that adding an i at the end of a French word meant like, he became The Great Houdini. The crew’s faces dropped and I beat my own record for the escape too. The story was everything Harry wanted to be. Then suddenly I flicked a ninja-type kick and I got out. “Forty seconds into the escape and I wasn’t getting out of it. “The handcuffs were issued in Paris in 1906 and they are signed by Houdini’s brother, Theo Hardeen,” Steve said. Just when it looked like he would fail, Spade managed to free himself, much to the surprise of the crew, who handed over the handcuffs. Spade, 27, was told he could have the set of handcuffs, which the TV crew had, if he managed to escape on time.
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