Believers are everywhere ;)
From “The Secrets of Houdini” by John Clucas Cannell:
“…The apparatus he required was so simple that clothing was not necessary to hide it. Two small balls of solid rubber, one under each armpit, made the “miracle” possible…
…to influence the left pulse, he merely applied pressure to the hard rubber ball under the left arm…
…The greater the pressure, the slower the pulse would become…” until it would vanish.
Why was Sherlock playing with the ball in the morgue? It’s the same ball he put under his arm to fool John into thinking he had no pulse.
