Excerpt from The Black Art Fully Exposed and Laid Bare
You provide yourself with two knives, a true one and a false one, and when you go to show this feat, put the true knife in your pocket, and then take out the false and clap it on your wrist undiscovered, and with a sponge make the knife bloody, and it will appear you have nearly severed your arm.
A knife for the nose may be made on the same principal.
A basket is used, cone-shaped, with six inches opening at top, large enough to cover a person in a sitting position. With two hasps securely fastened to the basket, it is placed on a wooden platform about two feet four inches square, which has two staple plates secured fast at the proper distance to receive the hasps which are fastened to the basket. One of the staples is arranged with the spring bolt, which can be shot back at the will of the performer, by inserting a thin steel plate or key between the cracks of the platform from the inside or the basket, which relieves or unlocks one of the staples, when the performer has only to lift up that side of the basket and step out, replacing the staple on the plate and locking it again, which anyone will see can be done without breaking the seals on the lock or cords, whichever may be used.
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