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John Cox Elite user Studio City, CA 494 Posts |
Hmmm…that's pretty interesting.
(But know that isn't the New York Times own reporting. That's an AP story picked up by the Times.) |
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
At that point in time, AP had walked away from yellow journalism, and was a few years into an official policy of maintaining accuracy in reporting. Is there some reason to doubt them, John?
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davidsaltman New user 2 Posts |
There's something wrong with those links. The first one goes to an AP story from Elmira NY (on Tom Interval's blog) but it's not the Gertrude Hills story quoted above. It comes from the president of the NY State Spiritualists Association.
The second is from Kalush & Sloman, and it is one of the fictionalized conversations that mars their otherwise good piece of work. In it, Harry is described with grayish-yellow eyes. Though undated and without context, it appears to take place in the summer of 1926, months before his death. Is anyone alleging that he had a stomach-ache for three months running? Or perhaps that the bellyache changed the color of his eyes? |
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magicusb Inner circle 1135 Posts |
The point being several of Houdini's staff swore he was never sick a day in his life, and here he has ptomaine poisioning...
and/or could the pain in his side have been a signal of an oncoming apendix problem? Houdini would have been a great one to try deny any pain. I believe somehow the Interval website mixed up the articles. But the SAM story talks about him having had ptomaine poisioning.
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John Cox Elite user Studio City, CA 494 Posts |
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On 2014-02-20 22:35, davidsaltman wrote: Thanks, David. I don't think we should listen to anything from a Spiritualists Association. And those dang fictionalizations make the Kalush book a very frustrating resource for research. Dick, you guys are great and might be onto something, but I'm just not clear where some of this stuff is coming from and what is opinion and what is based on new discovery. The sourcing is unclear and feels a bit cherry-picked. Maybe you can pull all these posts and webpages together and present them as a single paper or pamphlet on the subject with sources. That's something I'd like to read and it's something you might be able to sell at the museum. It's just too hard for me to follow as is. Houdini history is tricky enough! |
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magicusb Inner circle 1135 Posts |
Frankly there is more we have to disclose. We will let it out as soon as we can gather enough in areas of doubt. We have to make a living, do shows, run the museum, research, etc.
As Walter B. Gibson said to us "The only thing you can be sure of with Houdini is you can't be sure of anything." And Walter was one of the biggest fiction writers of all. As was Sid Radner. And yet they were two of the people who over the years have helped to keep Houdini's name in the limelight. They both told us, "say anything as long as you spell his name right. Houdini would have loved it!" Walter also told us, as Norman Bigelow has brought out, that Houdini was very upset, that in stories written about him, they would never put out Houdini's ideas on religion, that Houdini was fervent about. As historians, we do not feel that way, and want the truth to come out, where ever it leads. This is all a puzzle. It is our hope as we bring these things up, others will add to the information. There is a lot of Houdini information buried in peoples collections. Look how these posts have brought out various depositions that have never been seen since Houdini's day. It is a giant project and we cannot do it all alone. As a for instance. We do not care about it for our research on this, but we believe there may never have been secret Houdini notes from Ernst and Bess, that Gibson used to write his Houdini books that were lost or stolen. It was just an excuse and way for Gibson to write his best sellers. Why, generations later, have they not popped up? Walter was never clear with us on this issue. Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
So, by March, 1927, Ernst, Fox, and Cane had gathered affidavits from James Collins, Sam Smilovitz, Jagues Price. Not surprisingly, New York Life had turned down the request from the law firm that the company pay double indemnity, based on an accidental death. NYL had obtained an affidavit from Gordon Whitehead in March.
Let's look at that affidavit. In the matter of – the estate Harry Houdini against the New York Life Insurance Company. I, J. Gordon Whitehead, of the city of Montréal, being duly sworn to depose and say: 1. I reside at No. 75 Union Avenue (Union Avenue is crossed out and Drummond Street is written in and initialed JGW), in the city of Montréal, and am at present employed in the library of McGill University in Montréal; (Gordon initially gave a partially wrong address and self corrected it. This does not seem to be self-serving, just a mistake). 2. I attended the lecture given by the late Harry Houdini at 5 PM on Tuesday, 19 October 1926 in the McGill Union; (John Cox wondered if Gordon had attended the lecture--this is the answer: Whitehead and several hundred other students crowded into McGill's ball room. everyone stood for the entire lecture. We know from Bell that a student named Gerald Pickleman tested Houdini's stomach muscles with a punch before the lecture). 3. On Wednesday afternoon 20 October 1926, I called at the Mt. Royal Hotel for the purpose of obtaining an interview with Houdini. The answer I received was that I should call again the next day before 10 AM. (Gordon testifies that he called at Houdini's hotel the afternoon after the lecture and is told to come back the next day before 10 A.M. He tells us the hotel was the Mt. royal. There is a story in a family named Larin that owned and ran the Prince of Wales: that Houdini stayed there and received a vicious punch while he was sitting in the lobby shortly before he boarded the train for Detroit. The story is in Bell and needs to be read. and evaluated, but, Whitehead says Houdini was staying at the Mount Royal Hotel). 4. On Thursday morning 21 October 1926, I arrived at the Mt. Royal Hotel shortly before 10 AM and send my card up to Houdini. The message came back that Houdini had left for the Princess theater and would be glad to receive me there; (Nothing wrong so far. We have no corroboration for this, but, we will have interesting clues that will show that Whitehead did indeed visit Houdini on Thursday the 21st, but, that was not the day he was there at the same time as Smilovitz and Price. Not the day he punched Houdini). 5. I reached the theater about 10:45 AM and was admitted to Houdini's room. I was there introduced to Samuel J. Smilovitch, who is a student at McGill University, and who was then sketching Houdini. I was also introduced to Jacques Price, who was also present. Mr. Price is also a student at McGill University. (If Whitehead was invited to call at Houdini's dressing room 11 A.M. on the 21st, he, like I, would be there at 10:45, but, remember this is Thursday, the 21st Whitehead is talking about. James Collins, Sam Smilovitch, Jacques Price and Sophie Rosenblatt testified that the punches occurred on Friday, the 22nd.) 6. Houdini was reclining on a couch and Smilovitch was seated near the foot of the couch about 2 feet away from Houdini's right foot; (This agrees with the other eyewitnesses, Smilovitch and Price. Some of Houdini's staff must have seen the boys in the dressing room, but, didn't testify as to their positions in the room). 7. I set myself on Houdini's right and about opposite his chest. Price sat immediately on my right; (All three agree). 8. After some conversation with Houdini, Smilovitch, Price and I left the room and about 10 or 15 minutes afterwards Smilovitch, Price and I returned to Houdini's room and resumed our former seats; (No one else testified to this, but, apparently, Houdini had to deal with some private correspondence with his stenographer, Julia Sauer. This would have occurred before she and some other members of the staff went to lunch, leaving Houdini alone in his dressing room with Whitehead, Smilovitch, and Price--although Collins and some other staff members were still in the theatre). 9. Houdini got up from the couch and moved about the room, apparently in some pain, and with some inconvenience because of some injury which he said he had sustained shortly before coming to Montréal. He did not go into any details as to the nature of the injury; (We have some potent clues that would indicate that Houdini did say something significant about the "injury" which we know was a broken ankle, but, Whitehead seems to have forgotten it--if it took place. Collins testified about Houdini sustaining a broken ankle on Oct. 11th. and completing that show and every show thereafter). 10. The conversation was then continued and turned to the question of keeping fit. Houdini remarked that he could duplicate a famous strongman feat of supporting the pivot of a bridge over which was driven an automobile containing at least five people; (Both Smilovitz and Price downplay this, agreeing that Houdini showed off and let all three boys feel his arm and shoulder muscles, but, the two agree, Houdini called no particular attention to his stomach muscles. But objective testimony will arise that indicate that Houdini did call attention to his stomach muscles; so Whitehead's story about Houdini referring to a strongman feat and saying he could perform it is very likely true and correct). 11. I had previously mentioned a book I had read which set forth the requirements of good health, such as the care of the skin, the maintenance of an abdominal muscular corset, and a good digestion; (This is critical. Did Whitehead mean he had mentioned a book previously in that conversation or did he mention it the previous day. If that were the case, Whitehead may have met Houdini and borrowed some books the previous day, Thursday the 21st. And his New York Life lawyer/interrogator might have asked him, "Are you sure it wasn't Friday the 22nd when you and Mr. Smilovitz and Mr. Price visited with Mr. Houdini in his dressing room?" Whitehead has got the days confused and nobody's going to help him). 12. Houdini suggested that I feel his abdomen. –His muscles were like a washboard and his abdomen as unyielding as a sandbag. Houdini invited me to hit him; (a great deal of testimony as well as potent clues that came out much later would indicate that Houdini gave Whitehead permission to punch him in the stomach). 13. At the time he was reclining in a half sitting position on the couch – he had taken up this position for the purpose of the sketch which was being done by Smilovitch, and Smilovitch was still sketching him at the time; (The boys and Smilovitz'a drawing show this). 14. I stood on the right side of the couch and facing Houdini said. My right knee was against the edge of the couch and halfway between his knees and his waist; 15. Price was seated directly behind me and Smilovitch was seated diagonally behind me and to my right; 16. I struck Houdini quite moderately and he smiled and laughingly said – "Why! Hit me." I hesitated and he repeated – "Hit me"; (Only the testimony of Whitehead mentions this. I have reason to believe this and there are tantalizing clues). 17. I struck him a second blow slightly harder than the first, – he gave not the slightest indication of any discomfort at either of the blows. Both blows were struck on the left side of his body and above the navel. (Houdini would tell Sophie Rosenblatt, James Collins, Julia Sauer, and Julia Karchere the boy struck him twice. Smilovitz has tetified he remembered two distinct blows but he acknowledges that Price says there were more. Price remembered that it was after the second blow that that he said, "For God's sake, stop it." 18. I was then standing above Houdini and he was facing me and I struck him with my right hand. This occurred about 12 PM. (This may indicate a third blow. It may have been that Price was telling them both to stop the nonsense). 19. Neither Smilovitch nor Price made any comment whatsoever, and in the position they were in at the time they could not see the part of Houdini's body on which either of my blows landed; (This statement is false, or at the least in disagreement with the two eyewinesses. Jacques Price said, "Stop it. Are you mad?--or words to that effect" and both boys had testified to it--and the boys could see the punches land. 20. The conversation then went on in a general way for about an hour when Mrs. Houdini and one or two attendants came into the dressing room with Houdini's luncheon; (There may be some disparity as to time, but, all three boys agreed the conversation went on smoothly for some time). 21. At the time Smilovitch had completed his sketch, signed it and gave it to Houdini and the latter thanked him for it; (Everyone agrees, but, members of the staff, first Collins within a month of Houdini's death and Julia Sauer and Julia Karchere, remembering months later, said the boys left much later in the afternoon--more like 5 P.M. The boys remembered the visit was between 11 and 1 and the experience was so unique in their lives that their timeframe would be correct). 22. I then left the dressing room and Houdini made some remark to the effect that he had enjoyed our conversation and asked me to call again whenever I liked; 23. Houdini gave me the impression of being a very sick man but his determination to keep going was equally apparent. He insisted on personally dealing with his correspondence in spite of remonstrances from one of his staff, this remonstrance was made in my presence and I accepted it as a hint that I should not continue my conversation; 24. I suggested this to Houdini with an apology, but he insisted that I should continue; (This is the most enigmatic statement of anything in the entire case. If Houdini was a very sick man, why test his stomach muscles? The only explanation might be that Whitehead was aware that Houdini had let Pickleman punch him. There is testimony to the effect that Houdini admitted he had previously allowed such punches to Collins and Rosenblatt). 25. I called again on Houdini at the theater on Friday morning the 22 October 1926 at 10 AM during our conversation we spoke of longevity and he gave me a copy of the "Scientific American" for November; (Whitehead has the date wrong. This was the day of the punch). 26. Our conversation was general and there was no particular incident to be noted; (We will never know what Whitehead might be talking about. It might be self-serving. Suppose that general conversation took place the day before the punch, but, Whitehead, wittingly or not, is placing it the day after the punch--demonstrating that Houdini was unaffected by the punches). 27. I visited Houdini on a third occasion, either later on in the day of Friday the 22nd, or on the following day; (A word or two as Houdini was entering or leaving? What? I guarantee it was brief). 28. Our conversation was again of a general character and there is no incident worthy of note. Houdini did not on any of these three occasions refer to the incident of my blows as having incommoded him in any respect, or caused him any pain. (I don't think three occasions, unless everyone else is wrong about the date, but, maybe two--and there is evidence that Houdini would have covered up his injury). And I have signed J. Gordon Whitehead. Sworn to before me at the city and district of Montréal this 16th day of March 1927, (unreadable signature) Notary Public |
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
"left side of his body and above the navel"
If he hit where he says, it wouldn't have ruptured the appendix, it being on the right side and well below the navel. Houdini was a showman of a particular sort. He never held back, when it came to self-promotion. Being hit in the stomach was self-promotion.
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Kevin Connolly Inner circle New Jersey 1329 Posts |
From what I remember, Houdini's appendix was on his left side. The doctors discovered this when they operated on him the first time.
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magicusb Inner circle 1135 Posts |
Nice to see Kevin Connolly on this thread.
Question..I may be incorrect but did you have somthing a while back that implied Houdini may have had an operation sometime before the punches on this tour. Something about monkey glands? Also, just as Pat Cullition had a line by line examination of Whiteheads deposition, I think it might be enlightening to do the same with Smiley's deposition. I will do one if I get the time, if no one else does. It seems from my reading of it, Whitehead intended to punch Houdini no matter how much Houdini tried to distract him. Any thoughts? Dick Brookz & Dorothy Dietrich
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John Cox Elite user Studio City, CA 494 Posts |
I've just posted on my blog an interview with Karen Mann, the daughter of Jack Price, one of the dressing room students. She's doesn't have our smoking gun, but it's still really amazing to hear from someone with a personal connection of all this. Check it out if you like:
http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014/02/......-of.html |
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magicusb Inner circle 1135 Posts |
For more on Whitehead and Smilovitz, check out Smiley's 1953 story on what happened backstage in Houdini's dressing room.
Go to Joe Notaro's site… http://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?p=1984 Was Houdini Killed? by Sam J. Smiley … More conversation and then Whitehead asked Houdini another question. “What is your opinion of the miracles mentioned in the Bible?” Houdini tactfully replied, “I prefer not to discuss or to comment on matters of this nature. I would make one observation, however, – what would succeeding generations said of Houdini’s feats had he performed them in Biblical times? Would they have been referred to as ‘miracles’?” Whitehead appeared to be somewhat taken aback at this statement. It was at this point that Whitehead began to manifest what seem to me an astonishing interest in Houdini’s physical strength. Then, out of a clear sky, Whitehead asked, “is it true, Mr. Houdini, that you can resist the hardest blows struck to the abdomen?” The rest of this 1953 story and more written by Smilovitz continues on Pat Culliton’s site at http://www.houdinisghost.com/smiley1953.html ... Houdini did not appear to be very proud of his abdominal muscles. In an apparent attempt to divert attention from his abdomen, he ignored the question and exclaimed, “my forearm and back muscles are like iron! Feel them.” We did and found how near human muscles can approach iron in rigidity and strength. Again Whitehead manifested interest in Houdini’s abdominal muscles. “Is it true that your stomach muscles can stand very hard blows?” Houdini repeated, “my forearm and back muscles are extremely strong. They’re like iron.” Once more Whitehead returned to the abdominal muscles, as if it were all-important to establish their power of resistance to external force. “Would you mind if I delivered a few blows to your abdomen, Mr. Houdini?” he asked. Whether it was a matter of professional pride or whether Houdini felt that it would hurt his prestige to refuse – I do not pretend to know. Before I knew it Houdini had accepted the challenge and then and there he lay supine, but apparently not quite ready to receive Whitehead’s blows. Hovering over his outstretched form, Whitehead, with elbow bent, suddenly struck four or five terribly forcible, deliberate, well-directed blows to Houdini’s abdomen. My friend, who, at the time showed more presence of mind than I, interposed and held back Whitehead. “Are you mad?” he fairly shouted in indignation. Even the great Houdini appeared to have had enough. With a wry smile (that I can still clearly picture), Houdini made an arresting gesture with his hand and mumbled almost inaudibly, “that will do.” The atmosphere in the little room was charged and tense at that moment. My friend and I felt particularly uncomfortable. Houdini resumed his pose, and I rapidly added the finishing touches to the drawing. It seems to us, as in Smilovitz's affidavit that Pat Culliton has posted, Smilovitz is telling us, no matter what Houdini said, or how much Houdini tried to divert the subject from his stomach, Whitehead was intent on bringing the conversation to where he could punch Houdini with impunity, and that is what he did! Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
No, I'm not. Whitehead, Smilovitz and Price had been visiting Houdini an hour or so when the subject of This particular book that Whitehead had mentioned previously came up again. It was a book on health and exercise--subjects which every *** one of you knows interested Houdini deeply throughout his life.
Whitehead Houdini said He could duplicate a strong man stunt involving the abdominal muscles. The affidavits of Smilovitz and Price almost say that Houdini tried to direct attention away from his stomach muscles, but, that's not what Houdini told Collins, Rosenblatt, Sauer and Karchere. Houdini didn't realize that he wasn't actually prepared to take a punch in the stomach--which we know he had done before without suffering any harmful effects--"he said it was the first time a blow like that had caused him pain." He didn't realize until that first punch--let's call it the death blow. Houdini told the boys, "he would have been in a better position to prepare for the blows if he had arisen from his couch for this purpose but the injury to his foot prevented him from getting about rapidly." The punch didn't rupture Houdini's appendix, it compressed the peritoneal cavity thereby forcing fecal matter from the intestine into the appendix. Had the matter oozed out of the appendix, Houdini might have been spared the full-blown appendicitis and the burst appendix. If the fecal matter was hard, if Houdini was suffering some constipation for example, the foreign material could act like a cork, plugging the appendix. At that point, lesions and soon after gangrene develop. Perhaps we should see what the doctors who were directly involved in the case had to say. http://www.houdinisghost.com/doctors.html |
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
In November, 1927, the law firm of Ernst, Fox and Cane solicited and received opinions from the doctors who treated Houdini during his last illness.
They also took the sworn statement of James Collins, who was not a witness, but, was in the theatre at the time of the incident in Houdini's dressing room. http://www.houdinisghost.com/collinsaffidavit.html http://www.houdinisghost.com/doctors.html That month, New York Life approved the payment of Houdini's life insurance policy for 80,000 plus, but, refused to pay double indemnity until they had more evidence that Houdini's was actually an accidental death. An investigation was called for. Ernst, Fox and Cane were able to locate Sam Smilovitz who found a Montreal Attorney to investigate, provided a sworn statement http://www.houdinisghost.com/smilovitz1.html and put Cohen in touch with Price http://www.houdinisghost.com/priceaffidavit1.html and obtained a sworn statement from Sophie Rosenblatt http://www.houdinisghost.com/sophie.html New York Life, having been told that Ernst, Fox and Cane was unable to obtain Gordon Whitehead's statement, got his sworn statement themselves http://www.houdinisghost.com/whiteheadaffidavit.html Now, we come to the second statements by Smilovitz and Price and the affidavits of Julia Sawyer and Julia Karcher. http://www.houdinisghost.com/smilovitz2.html More to come, and then we'll wrap things up. |
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
The second statement of Jack Price.
http://www.houdinisghost.com/price2.html |
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
The second affidavits of Smilovitz and Price contain a lot of identical language. This happens when there are multiple eyewitnesses to an event and a lawyer takes a deposition from one of them. He can present that deposition to another witness asking if that witness agrees or disagrees to what has been stated. So, the attorney uses the first deposition again, adding any disagreements or alternative perceptions. In the cases of Smilovitz and Price, and also Julia Sauer and Julia Karchere, their observations were made simultaneously and they agreed about they observed.
http://www.houdinisghost.com/julias.html http://www.houdinisghost.com/juliak.html Bernard Ernst had his ducks in a row with the exception of Gordon Whitehead, but, there were errors in Whitehead's statement that could be jumped on in court. Meanwhile, New York Life was not faring as well. They had tried to find evidence that Houdini was ill on the train on the way to Montréal and also when he arrived in Montréal. They came up empty. They tried to prove the blows to the stomach never took place, but, all they came up with was plenty of evidence that the blows to Houdini's stomach did take place. New York Life pointed out there was no such thing as "traumatic appendicitis." Five doctors who attended Houdini during his final illness said that traumatic appendicitis is what caused his death. In other words, the punch in the stomach did it. |
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
But if he was punched above and to the left of his navel, that would not have been the cause of his appendix rupturing. It sounds like the lawyer was able to make a compelling connection, where there shouldn't have been one. I think we all recognize that "fact" and "legality" are not necessarily related.
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
Harley,
His appendix didn't rupture until 36 hours or so after the punch. His appendix burst on the train around the time they were near Windsor, Canada. But, the appendicitis attack began with the first punch when foreign matter was forced into Houdini's appendix. Terrible pain, nausea--and in cases of traumatic appendicitis, these symptoms begin immediately. The punch did not have to be in the vicinity of the appendix because it is the compression of the peritoneal cavity that causes material to be forced from the intestine into the appendix. Houdini realized instantly that he had made a mistake inviting the punch while he was lying down. With his back against the sofa, there was nowhere for the force of the blow to go. |
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
He may have realized that he made a mistake, but a punch in the upper left abdomen would in no way affect his appendix. The muscles of the abdomen are the broadest in the body. The force of an abdominal blow spreads out and becomes negligible. Ask anybody who's ever had blocks smashed on their belly (and I have, thousands of times) (I have also had appendicitis requiring immediate surgery).
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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houdinisghost Loyal user 287 Posts |
Harley,
You have got to read some of the literature--I mean real stuff from medical journals--and you will learn that the punch was comparable to getting a kick in the stomach by a mule when one's back is against a wall. You will find a case study like that and another when a child fell off a swing onto a sprinkler head and many more. It's rare, but, if you read about how it works I think you will understand what happened to Houdini was a classic case of traumatic appendicitis. |
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