The jacket will be adjusted by entirely disinterested parties so that there is no chance for any suspicion of collusion, and the jacket used is of a regulations type. This is a feat similar to one he accomplished upon a previous occasion, and unless Minneapolitans succeed in fastening the straight-jacket more securely that Houdini supposes he promises to extract himself with a few moments. That’s right, the escape actually took place on September 30, 1915, not Septemas previously documented by others.Īs evidence, I share the photo and text from the following two newspaper ads:Īt 12:05 today, Harry Houdini, to whom padlocks and cells present no more difficulty than that offered to the ordinary person by an open door, will essay to make his escape from a straight-jacket while suspended by his heels from the sign in from of the Tribune. The very first scrapbook, I looked at had a lot of newspaper clippings that included straightjacket escapes, like the one that took place 104 years ago on September 30, 1915.

The Minneapolis escape was the second public suspended straitjacket escape, after the Septemescape from the Kansas City Post building in Kansas City, MO.Īt the time of the September 29 post, I didn’t have a photograph for this Minneapolis escape, nor much information, but that changed when I visited the McCord Museum last year.

Six years ago, I did a post, titled: First Suspended Straitjacket Escape Not 98 Years Ago Today (September 29).

Houdini straitjacket escape