FREDERICK BANCROFT DEATH, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK Copyright(c) 2002 by Marilyne Logan-McKay (glenmckayis@shaw.ca) http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ******************************************************** SOURCE: BUFFALO EVENING NEWS -VOL.XXXIV-NO.145-Dated 27 September 1897 THE DEATH ROLL Frederick Bancroft, the magician, at Charleston, S.C., aged 31. Was considered a rising man in his profession and very popular. He leaves a wife and son, and had $50,000 insurance on his life.