So, Harry Houdini is Willard Angeline's arch-rival. I'm surfing Wikipedia and click from
Harry Houdini to his mentor,
Harry Kellar and stumble on this crazy bit:
"In 1878, Kellar returned to England and invested $12,000 in new equipment, one of them being a version Maskelyne's whist-playing automaton "Psycho"."
Whist-playing automaton?
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