10 Facts About Samri Baldwin

Samuel Spencer Baldwin, or Samri Baldwin, most well known as "The White Mahatma" was an American magician.

Samri Baldwin became interested in magic whilst watching the Davenport brothers perform seances.

Samri Baldwin began to duplicate the tricks of fraudulent mediums such as Anna Eva Fay.

Samri Baldwin was the first to take the "question and answer" mentalism act to the stage.

Samri Baldwin was married to the stage mentalist Kitty would assist him in his performances, they had one daughter Shadow.

Samri Baldwin made it by combining the names of Samri Baldwin and another magician, Wiljalba Frikell.

Samri Baldwin was one of the first magicians to have practiced a stage escape from handcuffs.

Samri Baldwin had performed this feat as early as 1871.

The manager C Dundas Slater noted that Baldwin had performed the trick many years before Houdini.

Samri Baldwin died at his home in San Francisco on March 13,1924.