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helps design Water Torture cell
provided for in Houdini’s will

Columbian Exposition of 1893

Comstock, Dr. Daniel
Conant, Russell
Conjurer’s Monthly Magazine,

Hardeen as correspondent

Cook, Andrew
Cook, Florence
Cook, Mrs. Cecil
Cooke, Horatio G.

Coolidge, President Calvin
Corbett, Jim
Corbus, Frank
Corty-Althoff Circus
counterfeiting

in film

Crandon, Dr. Le Roi G.

death of
and DeWyckoff
and Dingwall
and Doyle
visits morgue with
and Ford
and Houdini
on death of
spies on
investigated in disappearance of
boys
lectures on Spiritualism
and loan to Carrington
malpractice suits against
and Margery
creates persona
failure to win
Scientific American
prize
and Harvard investigation of
and nude photos of
overworked
and possible surgery on
relationship with
séances with
personal characteristics of
and Price
threatens psychic investigator
and Tripp

Crandon, John
Crandon, Laura
Crandon, Mina,
see
Margery
Crewe circle
Crockatt, Major
Crookes, Sir William
Cross, Alex
cryptography,
see
codes and secret

writing

Cunning (Robert Cunningham)
Curley, Mayor
Curry, Jack
Curtis, Tony
Curtiss, Glenn
Curzon, Lord

Dalton swimming pool
Davenport Brothers
Davies, Harrison
Davis, W. S.

Day, Harry (Edward Lewis Levy),

and
Conjurer’s Monthly,
home vandalized
as Houdini’s agent
investigates Crandon

Deane, Ada
Debar, Madame Diss
DeBiere, Arnold
De Kolta, Bautier
De Koven, John
Dempsey, Jack
Dennett, Carl
Denver Express,

Depew, Chauncey M.

Depew, Ganson
Detroit Free Press,

Detroit Journal,

Deutschland,

DeVega (Alexander Stewart)
DeWyckoff, Joseph

celebrates Houdini’s death
and Crandon
correspondence with
escorts boy for
and Margery’s séances
political connections of
and violence

DeWyckoff, Minerva
Dexter, George
Dictaphones
Dietz, Gustav
Digger’s Rest, Australia
Dill, Senator Clarence
Dillenback, H. J.

Dillingham, Charles
Dingwall, Eric J.

and correspondence with Houdini,
and Crandon’s revenge
Doyle’s attempt to influence
sittings with Margery

Dog-Faced Boy
Dooley, Edward J.

Doric,
S.S
.,

Douglas, Randolph
Downs, T. Nelson (Tommy)
Doyle, Charles
Doyle, Lady Jean

Atlantic City séance of
and Crandon, Dr. Le Roi Goddard
and Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
control of
meets
and spirit of
and spirit of mother of
and Margery
and Houdiniattacked by
visits home of
mediumship of
Ford praises
questioned
as Pheneas,
see
Pheneas
as ventriloquist

Doyle, Kingsley
Doyle, Mary
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Atlantic City séance of
correspondence with Houdini, Bess
Crandon visits morgue with
death of
and dinosaur hoax
and fairy photographs
on Houdini’s death
and Margery, defends
and Piltdown hoax
Price, dispute with
resigns from SPR

Drachman, Rabbi Bernard
Dresdner anzeiger,

Ducrot, Frank (T. Francis Fritz)
Dunninger, Joseph

East African Standard,

Eddy, Clifford, Jr.

Edison, Thomas
Edwin Forrest Amateur Dramatic

Association

Elks Club
Elliot, Dr. James W.

Ellison, Dr. Saram
Empress (female Houdini imitator)
Engel, Archie
Ernst, Bernard

and Doyle, correspondence with
and Bess Houdini
and Houdini
dealings with insurance
companies for
discloses secret archives of
legal representation of
present at Mene Tekel
safe opened by Houdini

escapes

Buried Alive
cask
challenges
Mirror
cuffs
prize challenge
refused
theory
unique
coffin
crazy crib
glass box
handcuffs
challenges
police challenge water jump
Hodgson challenge
and Cirnoc
and Davenport Brothers
in Germany
Houdini’s first escape from
Houdini’s first picking of
Houdini gives up challenges of
and Houdini at Scotland Yard
Houdini sells or exposes his secrets to
and imitators
and B. B. Keyes method
and the
Mirror
challenge
in Russia
jail cell
first nude escape from
first
last
methods
methods
jail cells
packing case
Milk Can
Milk Can
milk churn
Mirror
Cuffs challenge
Mystery of the Sphinx,
see
escapes
Buried Alive
packing case
built on stage
methods
underwater
paper bag
publicity, first time
safe
sea monster
Siberian Transport
straitjacket
first time seeing one
full-view, first time
suspended
tied to moving motorcycle
tire chains
underwater, first
water jumps
first announced
police challenge
Water Torture cell

espionage by Germany
espionage methods
Establishment Yard
Eurycles of Greece
Evanion, Henry

Farmer’s Chop Suey
Fast, Francis
Fay, Anna Eva
Fay, J. S.

Fiji Islanders
Film Development Corporation

(FDC)

Finley, Arthur
First Spiritualist Church
Fitch, Clyde, 298

Fitzsimmons, Bob, Theatrical

Company

Fleischmann, Anne
Fleming, Ian
Fletcher, David,
see
Ford, Rev. Arthur
Fletcher, Senator Duncan
Fletcher, Mrs. Duncan
Flitcroft, Al
Flitcroft, Hannah
Floral Sisters
Flynn, William James
Foo, Ching Ling
Ford, Rev. Arthur
Fox, Kate and Margaret
Foy, Eddie
Frank, Theodore, 175.
See also

Hardeen

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Frazee, William (William

Meyenberg)

French letter cuffs
Frickell, Samri,
see
Oursler, Fulton
Frikell, Wiljalba
Frisia,

 

Gage, Lyman
Galilei, Galileo
Garland, Maurice
Gavin, Henry,
see
Finley, Arthur
Genesta, Royden Joseph Gilbert

Raison de la

Glasgow Coliseum
Goelet, Robert
Goldstein, Lewis
Goldston, Will

and correspondence with Houdini
and stolen blueprints

Gordon, A. J.

Gordon, Rex Palmer
Gorlitzer, L.

Grace Hospital
Graff, Werner
Great Houdinis, The, 32.
See also

Houdini, Harry; Houdini
Wilhelmina Beatrice

Great Raymond (Maurice F.)
Gregorowitsch, Dr. Josef
Gresham, William Lindsay
Grim Game, The,

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