He looked down at the footlights and said goodbye to the audience, and then walked backward, bowing at each step, as if it were quite an effort.'Ĭ. 'His departure from the stage was very impressive. You may be sure that he was quite shrewd in concealing pain,' Maple said, 'but it seemed to me that throughout the program, and especially the latter part, he was a sick man.'

Maple, a Detroit businessman, remembered Houdini as 'calm and careful, but he did nothing that required unusual physical exertion. Recollections of Houdini's final show at Detroit's Garrick TheatreĮ. Taken at the November 21, 2002, broken wand Thanks to Tony Parisi, NY, for the next photos Thanks to Ginny Michaels for the next photo Houdini's Brother Theo (Hardeen) Inherits Secretsīess Attempts to Contact Houdini Each Year on Halloween Thanks to William 'Wild Bill' Cutter for obtaining the next photo. Houdini's grave site - Recent David Medd Photoīess and Theo (Hardeen) at Houdini's Grave Thanks to Mick Hanzlik for obtaining the next photo Thanks to Fred Sneathern for obtaining the next photo

Houdini's Body Arrives at Grand Central Station, New York Kennedy, Houdini's surgeon, and Houdini's brother (Hardeen) Room 401 - actual room where Houdini diedĭr. Knickerbocker Hotel - site of Bess's 1936 Seance to Contact Houdini Houdini's last venue - The Garrick Theatre, Detroit, MIĪdvertisement for Houdini's last shows at Garrick Thanks to Scott Michaels from for obtaining the next six photos Houdini's last venue - Close-up - The Garrick Theatre, Detroit, MI Houdini's Grave - Close up of Weeping Woman Statue Thanks to Elliott from Stamford, CT, for the next six GREAT photos Stevens and Bradhurst Avenues, Hawthorne, New York. Machpelah is a Jewish cemetery, and Bess was Catholic.īess Houdini died on a train in California enroute to NYC,Īnd is buried at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, His entire family is buried there, mother, father, sister and brothers -Ī plot next to Harry was planned for her,īut she couldn't be laid to rest there, because on October 31, 1926, Halloween.Ĩ2-30 Cypress Hills Street, Queens, New York. Houdini died of peritonitis resulting from appendicitisĪt 1:26 P.M. Houdini | Harry Houdini | Houdini's Death

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