Guiteau Cuffs

I was doing some reading about these cuffs for the 2014 Annual (right Joe?) and came across this claim of a police officer finding these in 2008.
I am not sure if this was presented to the Forum before and I hope to inquire and learn where these cuffs are now. This claim seems to be flawed because, as I understand it, Houdini acquired the real Guiteau cuffs after his famous jail escape. The cuffs ended up in the Hardeen, Nugent and Wresh Collections before it changed hands a couple more times. It is now in a happy home in the midwest.
If these are actual Guiteau style cuffs, I believe this would raise the count to 7 known pairs. I hope to get a picture of these from the police dept or museum.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... ler-found/







This hand engraved pictures (and detail) of the Guards removing the cuffs off Guiteau in his trial. Note that the guard is opening the cuffs as if they were Bean Giants or similar. He is not using the screw key on either side as he would need to do. The artist did not grasp the double bitted key concept as we all would.
The drawing was published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, at New York, on Dec. 3, 1881


mark
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Hi Mark:

This question got answered a while back. Those cuffs found in the defunct police museum were just Union Tower cuffs, manufactured years after Guiteau had been hanged.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/261154/m ... l+Guiteau-

Scroll down toward the bottom and see Ian's post with a photograph.

Franklin

I was doing some reading about these cuffs for the 2014 Annual (right Joe?) and came across this claim of a police officer finding these in 2008.
I am not sure if this was presented to the Forum before and I hope to inquire and learn where these cuffs are now. This claim seems to be flawed because, as I understand it, Houdini acquired the real Guiteau cuffs after his famous jail escape. The cuffs ended up in the Hardeen, Nugent and Wresh Collections before it changed hands a couple more times. It is now in a happy home in the midwest.
If these are actual Guiteau style cuffs, I believe this would raise the count to 7 known pairs. I hope to get a picture of these from the police dept or museum.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... ler-found/







This hand engraved pictures (and detail) of the Guards removing the cuffs off Guiteau in his trial. Note that the guard is opening the cuffs as if they were Bean Giants or similar. He is not using the screw key on either side as he would need to do. The artist did not grasp the double bitted key concept as we all would.
The drawing was published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, at New York, on Dec. 3, 1881


mark
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Click to expand...

Thank you, Franklin.

Good memory!
I thought I was on to something
At least I found the drawings which were referred to in the older blogs.

I must have had at least 20 pairs of handcuffs that held Guiteau as per this story.

mark
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