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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 334 | NARROWNESS OF ROBERT-HOUDIN'S "MEMOIRS" Eugene was said to be the superior of his famous father in sleight-of-hand, but he was wild and given to excesses. Women and wine checked what might have been a brill- iant professional career. Disabled, poverty-stricken, and Only photograph of Madame Bosco, given to the author by Mrs. Mueller, Madame Bosco's niece, at the funeral of Wiljalba Frikell. respected by none, he soon disappeared from the con- juring world, and according to Carl Willman in the "Zauberwelt" he died miserably in Hungary in 1891. In the mean time, Bosco and his wife lived in poverty in Dresden, where the once brilliant conjurer died March 20 [305] |