The Secret Life of Houdini (94 page)

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,