The Secret Life of Houdini (96 page)

assists in escape from carette

exposes Houdini imitators

honored by Houdini

provided for in Houdini’s will

receives cable reporting death of

Houdini’s mother

rescues Houdini during chain

escape

rings Kremlin bells

at Queen’s Bridge in Melbourne

timekeeper for Milk Can escape

wields ax during Water Torture cell

escape

Langdon, Professor Hudson
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Laufer, Nathan
Leaf, Horace
Lebedoeff, Chief
Leckie, Jean,
see
Doyle, Lady
Lee, Lila
Leeds, Herbert
Leigh, Janet
Lefebvre, Eugene
LeFevre, Dr. George
Leffler, Mrs.

Leon, Louis S.

Leonard, Benny
LeRoy, Servais
LeRoy, W. D.

LeVeyne, Armstrong
Lily Dale, New York
Lincoln, Abraham
Lippmann, Walter
Literary Society for the Young Men’s

Hebrew Association

Litt Museum
Locklear, Ormer
Loder-Symonds
Lily,Lodge, Sir Oliver
Lodge, Raymond
Logue, Charles
Lombroso, Cesare
London Alhambra Theatre
London Daily Illustrated Mirror,

London
Evening Sun,

London Hippodrome
London Morning Herald,

London Sunday Express,

London Telegraph,

London Weekly Dispatch,

London, Charmian

inspires film character

Houdini’s affair with

meets Houdini

London, Jack
Los Angeles Call,

Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre
Los Angeles Times,

Lost World, The,

Lott
Louis-Philippe, King of France
Lovecraft, H. P.

Lovell, John, Arms Company
Lutes, A.

Lynn, Dr. (Hugh Simmons)

MacDonald, Ramsey
Macfadden, Bernarr
Machpelah Cemetery
Mackenberg, Rose
Magic Circle
Magic Made Easy
(Houdini)
Magic

Ashes on the Arm

Bullet Catch

cards

cardsharping techniques

Crystal Cash Box

Hindoo Needle Trick

with the needles pushed into the

face

Indian Rope Trick

leverage techniques

Levitated Fakir

Mene Tekel

Metamorphosis

Palingenesia

Second Sight

Vanishing Elephant

Walking Through a Brick Wall

Magician Among the Spirits, A

(Houdini)

Mahatma,

Malini, Max
Man From Beyond, The,

Manuka,
S.S.

Marcia, Madame Grace
Marco,
see
Dooley, Edward J.

Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess
Margery (Mina Crandon),

alcoholism of

bell box of

Bird’s confession about

called “Psyche,”

death of

dentist’s fingerprints

ectoplasm and,

great-granddaughter of

Houdini séances with

and Houdini’s box

linking rings

megaphone use by

possible surgery on

residence at 10 Lime Street

Scientific American
verdict on

solus sittings of

suicide attempt

Margery, Harvard, Veritas

(Richardson)

Marler, Sir Herbert

Marler, Lady
Martin, Alexander
Martinka, Francis
Martinka’s Magic Shop
Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The

Justly Celebrated Elusive

American,
(Houdini)

Maskelyne & Cooke’s Egyptian Hall
Mason, Ruth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts State Association of

Spiritualists

Master Mystery, The,

Matthews, William
Maurer, Otto
McAdoo, William
McCormick Reaper Works
McDougall, Dr. William,
McGill University
McKeon, H. J. J.

McKinley, President William,
McLeod, Rep. Clarence
McVickers, Mary Fairfield
Melton, F. R.

Melville, William

diary of

early career of

fights with Meunier

meets Houdini

and MI-5

recognizability

and Russia

and Wilkie

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin,

“Men Who Made Magic” (Goldston)
Mendelsohn, Dr. Charles
Menkis
Metcalfe, Mrs.

MI-5

MI-9

Michigan Department of Health
Milner, Richard
Minerva (Margaretha Gertz Van Dorn)
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods

(Houdini)

M
—
MI5’s First Spymaster
(Cook)
Moisant, John
Mokana (James Meyer Goldston)
Monahan, Patrick J.

Montreal Gazette,

Mooser, George
Mooser, Hattie
Mooser, Leon
Mooser, Minnie
Morat, Professor,
see
Houdini, Harry
Morris, Helen
Morritt, Charles
Mount Royal Hotel
Mourdini, Harry
Moy, Superintendent
Munn, O. D.

Murray, Gilbert
Myers, Charles David,
see
Saint

Edward

Mystery of the Jewel, The,

Mysto, Carl (Samuel Sterns)

Naldi, Nita
National Bureau of Identification
National Detective Agency
National Detective Police Review
National Independent Spiritualist

Association

National Spiritualist Alliance
Neal, Harry
New York, N.Y.

Coney Island

Hammerstein’s

Hippodrome

New York Police Academy
New York American,

New York Daily News,

New York Dramatic Mirror,

New York Evening Graphic,

New York Evening Journal,

New York Evening Mail,

New York General Assembly of

Spiritualists

New York Herald,

New York Herald Tribune,

New York Hippodrome
New York Life Assurance Co.

New York Police Academy
New York Sun,

New York Telegram,

New York Telegraph,

New York Times,

New York World,

New York, Coney Island
New York, Hammerstein’s,
Newman, Henry
Newton, Horace
Newton, Iris
Nicholas, Czar
Northcliffe, Lord

See also

Harmsworth, Alfred William

Charles

Numerology

O’Malley, Hubert
Oakland Tribune,

Okhrana, Russian secret service
Olschansky
Olsen and Johnson
Omaha Daily News,

Osgood, Whitman
Our Rival the Rascal
(Watts)
Oursler, Fulton
Oxford English Dictionary,

Palace Kleinmichel
Palladino, Eusapia
Palmer, Spencer
Paul, J. R.

Pearce, George
Pecoraro, Nino
Peers, A. J.

Perils of Pauline, The,

Pheneas

first appearance of

and Houdini’s doom

and Lady Doyle’s complicity

predicts the end of the world

problems with Conan Doyle

See also
Doyle, Lady Jean

Philipp, M.

Pickelman, Gerald
Pickering, Edward A.

Pierce, Theron
Pierce, William H.

Piltdown hoax
Pittsburgh Leader,

Player, The,

Plummer, William
Podmore, Frank
Pollak, Carl
Powell, Dr. Ellis
Powell, Evan
Powell, Frederick Eugene
Pratt, Dr.

Preussen, Prince Friedrich Leopold von
Price, Harry
Price, Jacques
Price, Mattie Lee
Prince, Dr. Walter Franklin
Projea the Wild Man of Mexico
Providence Sunday Journal,

Psychic Mafia, The
(Keene)
Psychic News, The,

Pulitzer, Ralph
Punch,

Rachkovskii, Piotr
Rahner, Gebhardt
Rahner, Wilhemina Beatrice,
see

Houdini, Wilhemina Beatrice

(wife)

Rand, Earl
Rasputin, Grigori
Raud, Rev. Francis,
see
Mackenberg

Rose

Rauscher, William
Reeve, Arthur
Rembrandt Theater
Renner, George
Republican National Committee
Restaurant Yar
Revelations of a Spirit Medium,

Rheinische Zeitung,

Rhine, Dr. J.B.

Rhine, Dr. Louisa
Richardson, Mark
Richet, Charles
Richter’s Necktie Company
Richthofen, Manfred von
Right Way to Do Wrong, The
(Houdini)
Rinn, Joseph

carries a gun