The Mysterious Mr. Raffles Helps Win The War
A huge crowd was gathered at the corner of Queen & Bay, thousands of people braving the autumn chill on an October night in 1918. Their attention was trained on a slender figure standing on the steps of Old City Hall. He was lit up by three spotlights, a small man in a white undershirt, his hair slicked back, his body wrapped in leather restraints. He was an escape artist known as the Mysterious Mr. Raffles — and he was about to be hoisted two hundred feet into the air above downtown Toront...| torontohistory.substack.com
