Magician’s Condition is Less Favorable Than Before—Slender Chance for Recovery

DETROIT, Oct. 29 (AP)–A second operation on Harry Houdini, the magician, was performed tonight in an attempt to check the paralysis of the bowels which developed after the relapse that occurred during the day. A bulletin issued by the physicians stated that the patient’s condition was “less favorable than before the operation.”

Earlier in the evening the physicians had reported Houdini’s condition as low, with poisoning from streptococcus peritonitis spreading generally through his system. The crisis is expected within the next twelve to thirty-six hours. Only a slender chance for recovery is conceded.

Houdini’s appendix burst three days before the operation was performed.

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