There were five Houdinis!!! This is not a Houdini letter unless you consider that there were at least five Houdinis. There was Harry, of course, but then there was Bessie and there were the other Bros. Houdini: Theo (Dash), J. H. (Jacob Hyman) and Joseph (later known as Joe Hayman). Here is a letter from Dash Hardeen to Jacob Hyman, who was by that time a Beverly Hills eye, ear, nose and throat physician. Much of the letter is about Bessie and the "messages" she was beginning to receive from Houdini via medium Arthur Ford |
Houdini's brother Theo Hardeen (1876-1945) |