Formal filing of the codicil to Harry Houdini’s will, which switches the bequest of his spiritualistic library from the American Society of Psychical Research to the Congressional Library, was done yesterday by Mrs. Wilhelmina R. Houdini, widow of the magician. Mrs. Houdini received permission to reopen the matter on March 9, when she notified the Surrogate’s Court that she had discovered a codicil, made May 6, 1925, a year after the will.

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