When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in ... Just a few years after Houdini died, a man named Walter Gibson published the book "Houdini's Escapes and ...

The box is lowered into the East River ... Straightjacket or chains, Harry Houdini could wiggle out of any situation. Wife of man robbed, sexually violated after dying on NYC subway tells of ...

The directors of the shipyard had carpenters build a large box from the timber ... to withstand a punch from any man”. On Halloween night 1926, Harry Houdini died from acute peritonitis that ...