Bess's niece, Marie Hinson Blood, said Bess suffered from a medical condition that prevented her from having children. The Houdinis remained childless throughout their marriage.
Bess also looked after their menagerie of pets, collected dolls, and made the costumes for Houdini's full evening roadshow. But he and Bess continued to occasionally perform their signature trick, Metamorphosis, throughout his career. The pair worked as The Houdinis for several years before Houdini hit it big as The Handcuff King. But it was the older Houdini brother, Harry, that she fell in love with and married on June 22, 1894. Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner was born in Brooklyn, New York (before New York City was consolidated) in 1876 to German immigrants Gebhard Rahner (a cabinet maker) and Balbina Rahner (née Bugel).īess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.k.a.
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