5 Magic Tricks Gone Horribly Wrong

The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: Karr the Mysterious, otherwise known as Charles Rowan, was a South African escape artist who achieved local fame in the 1920s and 1930s by mounting his own high-risk stunts, narrowly escaping death each time... Not satisfied with the local fame he had achieved during the 1920s doing acts such as 8-foot jumps into piles of broken glass and escaping from straight jackets, Karr planned an especially dangerous stunt for his next performance. Even a local doctor was known to have: (QUOTE) “begged Karr not to proceed with the performance, but he insisted.”