Death By Magic
From The Washington Times March 14, 1909
BOY IS STRANGLED BY COLLAR BUTTON
New York, March 14 – George A. Anderson, a ten-year-old Brooklyn lad, swallowed a collar button and died a few minutes later. He was performing sleight-of-hand tricks with the button. He passed it from one hand to the other, then swept one hand across his mouth and asked where the button was.
It lodged in his windpipe and killed him.
