Meet Candy Chung Ling Soo!

  He was actually an American magician named William Robinson who started out young, took up imitating a genuine Chinese magician, Ching Ling Foo and his act, and later improved on it and kept doing it the rest of his life, imitated himself by many others!  Unfortunately, one illusion in his act was the Bullet Catch, in which he used a china plate to catch bullets fired at him.  You can guess what happened, something went wrong and Chung Ling Soo was killed while performing in London.  A big investigation took place because it shouldn't have happened, but it was ruled accidental.  I wonder, though.  Where was the butler?