PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 7.—Harry Houdini, magician and exposer of bogus “spirit mediums,” announced today that he had resigned form the American Society for Psychical Research after he had heard of the appointment of J. Malcolm Bird as successor to Walter Franklin Prince as research officer of the society. He accused Mr. Bird of “helping ‘Margery’ ” of Boston, who claimed powers of a medium, in her “test manifestations for The Scientific American prize of $5,000.”

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