If you happen to like our videos and have a few→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Did Harry Houdini Actually Die? https://youtu.be/onG-ktpHiDM?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Miss Unsinkable https://youtu.be/8-798XH2RPE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: In 1901, the Cologne, Germany newspaper, Rheinishe Zeitung (RZ), published a story titled (translated) “The Unmasking of Houdini,” in which a chief of police, Schutzmann Werner Graff, accused Houdini of attempting to bribe him into rigging an escape from the city’s jail, and of paying another man, Herr Lott, to help him with a phony performance. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/06/harry-houdini-german-slander-trial/ Sources: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45370/45370-h/45370-h.htm http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/p/houdini-biography.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/houdini/peopleevents/pande07.html http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2012/07/guest-blog-houdinis-encounter-with.html Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.