Harry Houdini was challenged to escape a newly built prison but someone forgot to lock the jail door; know the story?
“In Cologne, he sued a police officer, Werner Graff, who claimed he made his escapes via bribery.[7] Houdini won the case when he opened the judge’s safe (he would later say the judge had forgotten to lock it).” Even with that it’s still a little unclear. Did the judge forget to lock the safe or are they talking about the cell still? There is evidently more information in the following book listed here on google books. http://books.google.com/books?id=SntpAAAACAAJ&dq=Kenneth+Silverman+Houdini&ei=ZFfkR7X4A6SMygSYr5n0DA Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
