Brindamour

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Brindamour ( 1870 - July 31, 1941) was born George Brown in Cannon Falls, Minnesota was doing handcuff escapes several years before Houdini started.

At one time a photographer in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, he who performed as a magician and escape artist during Vaudeville. In the early years of 1900 he billed himself as the Handcuff King, performing throughout America and abroad. He was a headliner for twenty-eight years. One of his favorite publicity stunts was to cause any church bell, picked by someone in the audience, to ring at a given time.

He married his assistant Helen Hilliard.

He was known to double for Herrmann the Great whenever illness prevented a personal appearance.