Carleete
Carleete was the stage name of Harry Howes, born 8 May 1873, who claimed to be the inventor of the Water Escape trick, also known as the Water Torture Cell, Under Water Escape and Mysterious Cask.[1] This trick was sold to Harry Houdini in 1911.[2] The sale happened during a visit of Houdini to 194 Salt Street, Bradford, England, then the home of Harry Howes.
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Carleete senior was an "inventor and maker of all things magical" who took on commissions for magical apparatus and lived in Bradford, England. He was also a performer and his son, Osmond Beecroft Howes, born 25 September 1897, later took over the Carleete stage name. Carleete senior was visited by Houdini on a number of occasions, including whilst Houdini was on a tour in 1914.