Ladies and Gentlemen! Yes, ‘tis true, dear friends, “Kar–Mi” (aka Joe Van Victorina, aka Joseph Bryant Hallworth – a Chelsea, Mass. child prodigy who performed as a teen with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show before cobbling together a classic American medicine show featuring snake–charming, fire–eating, fortune–telling) would indeed swallow a loaded gun barrel and, while it was down his throat, shoot a cracker off a man’s head.

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