her contortions” (157). In any event a young woman using the name Little Egypt apparently did pop out of a whipped-cream pie in New York several years after the fair, at a stag party that became so notorious it was called the Awful Seeley Dinner. Its host was Herbert Barnum Seeley, a nephew of the late P. T. Barnum, who threw the party on behalf of his brother, Clinton Barnum Seeley, who was about to be married (Carlton, 65).
Holmes
“There was a red fluid: Trial, 117.
“I would ask: Ibid., 124.
“It was an expression: Philadelphia Public Ledger, October 31, 1895.
“I saw them at Toronto: Trial, 297.
“the most dangerous man: Schechter, 315.
“That he fully intended: Geyer, 317.
“I am convinced: Philadelphia Inquirer, April 12, 1896.
“Here I left them: Ibid.
“It will be understood: Ibid.
His lawyers turned down: Franke, 189.
The Wistar Institute: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 1896.
“The man was something: Ibid.
“Take your time, old man: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1896. The Philadelphia Public Ledger of the same date offers a slightly different version: “Don’t be in a hurry, Aleck. Take your time.”
“Holmes’ idea: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1896.
Strange things: I derived this account mainly from news clippings gathered as an appendix in Holmes’s memoir. See Mudgett, after page 256. Schechter offers a nice distillation of these strange events on 333–37.
No stone: My observations.
In 1997: Stewart, 70.
Aboard the Olympic
“But—I know: Burnham to Millet, April 12, 1912, Moore Papers, Speech, Article and Book File, Burnham Correspondence, 1848–1927. Box 13, File 1.
Hon. F. D. Millet: Envelope, April 11, 1912, ibid.
The builder of both ships: Lynch, 159.
“I think it is nothing serious: Whyte, 314.
“Frank Millet, whom I loved: Hines, 359.
As he and his family traveled: Hines, 360, 433.
Both are buried: My observations. See also Hucke and Bielski, 13–30.
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