![]() Furthermore, it appears that Mysterio did this escape a number of times. ![]() Here we have a magician named "Mysterio" performing a suspended straitjacket escape in 1913, a full year before the Douglas demonstration and two years before Houdini first did the escape himself. It would become his signature outdoor escape.īut now reader Bill Mullins sends in a clipping that throws us a curve in regards to where Houdini might have gotten the idea for the escape and how original it was to the escape king. Houdini would first perform the suspend straitjacket in Kansas City on September 8, 1915. The most recent biography, The Secret Life of Houdini (2006), even goes as far to state that Randini "changed the course of magic history" that day. Randini), during a visit to the Douglas home in England in June 1914. It's been said that Houdini got the idea for his famous suspended straitjacket escape from a super fan, Randolph Douglas (a.k.a. ![]()
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