[Library of Congress: SS IMPERATOR life-preserver ]

Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence (HHCE) is running away to Galveston, Texas to catch a cruise. Unlike Harry Houdini, I will be back in a little over a week.

[Library of Congress: Houdini’s scrapbook]

The above post card was written to Harry Houdini’s mother in 1886 when he was twelve years old. He ran away to Galveston, Texas but didn’t make it until 1923, thirty seven years later. Houdini’s one-night stand in Galveston, Texas was November 6, 1923.  [Houdini’s Texas Tours 1916 & 1923 by Ron Cartlidge]