by Sheridan | Jan 21, 2018 | Deaths
HOW HOUDINI DIED. Manager Declares Illness Was Caused by Blow Though, according to the doctors who operated upon him, the death of Harry Houdini, the famous magician, was due to peritonitis supervening upon appendicitis, his manager, Mr. Stuckel, blames a student for...
by Sheridan | Apr 1, 2014 | Deaths
Death Came From Overlook Man of Mystery’s Greatest Mystery Chung Ling Soo’s Fate Told by Vox, the Magicians Trick Master. So the Governor is dead! No more will Chung Ling Soo mystify with his magic. As he lived so he died – a man of mystery, and the greatest mystery...
by Sheridan | Jan 28, 2013 | Deaths
THE “HANDCUFF KING” INTERESTING STORIES HOUDINI’S BIG LIFT IN BRADFORD. News of the death in America of Harry Houdini, the famous “Handcuff King” and one of the greatest of modern magicians, will be received with regret by many Bradfordians, for it was at Bradford...
by Sheridan | Sep 16, 2011 | Deaths
TEN PERSONS PERISH IN THE FLAMES OF A BURNING MUSIC-HALL IN EDINBURGH TRAGIC FATE OF A GREAT ILLUSIONIST By a terrible fire that broke out in the Edinburgh Empire Palace Theatre the other night the stage in the course of a few minutes was converted into a veritable...
by Sheridan | Aug 15, 2011 | Deaths
“HANDCUFF KING” DEAD MANACLE MAGICIAN WHO APPEARED IN BRADFORD HARRY HOUDINI. Harry Houdini, the world famous magician, who made his first professional appearance in this country at the Palace Theatre, Bradford, died at Detroit, yesterday, says a Reuter message,...
by Sheridan | Aug 15, 2011 | Deaths
Houdini’s Will. “Handcuff King’s” Secrets to be Destroyed. NEW YORK FRIDAY – By the will of Houdini, the late handcuff king, his library, valued at 500,000 dollars goes to the congressional Library. His illusions become the property of this brother, T.F....
