When he returned in the first week of December, he brought back the handcuffs to replace what was normally an opening straitjacket escape. The injury was serious enough that he cancelled a week's engagement in Toledo and rested on doctor's orders. In November 1911, Houdini broke a blood vessel while doing a straitjacket escape in Detroit. You might be wondering how it's possible that this shows Houdini doing handcuff escapes in 1912 when he had famously abandoned the Handcuff Act years earlier.
And then Houdini would bound free at the end. I can imagine the applause with the appearance of each cuff, and how it would build as a rain of cuffs appeared. What I especially like here is that it tells us Houdini would throw handcuffs from his cabinet as he freed himself from each pair. Here's a wonderful cartoon from The Philadelphia Inquirer illustrating Houdini's act at B.F.
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