"The experiment was a very valuable one in that the department has been instructed as to the adoption of further security which will protect any lock from being opened or interfered with. The act was interesting and profitable, and worthy of study.
"Mr. Houdini impressed his audience as a gentleman and an artist who does not profess to do the impossible.
"Richard Sylvester,
"Major and Superintendent."
SOME OF THE GREAT FEATS ACCOMPLISHED BY HOUDINI.
Broke out of the Siberian Prison Van in Moscow, Russia, in May, 1903.
Leaped, heavily handcuffed, in zero weather, from Belle Island Bridge, in Detroit, Mich., in December 2nd, 1906, and released himself under the icy water.
Leaped into San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, Calif., on August 26th, 1907, handcuffed with hands behind his back, with more than 75 pounds of ball and chain locked to his body.
Escaped from a plate glass box made by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., and did not even scratch the glass. Boston Mass., Jan. 20th 1907.