The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

citations for facts that are widely known and accepted. For the two murder scenes I document my reasoning and my approach and cite the facts upon which I relied. The citations that follow constitute a map. Anyone retracing my steps ought to reach the same conclusions as I.

PROLOGUE

Aboard the Olympic

The date was: Burnham identified the suite numbers in a diary entry dated April 3, 1912; Burnham Archives, Diary, Roll 2. For information about the Olympic and Titanic see Brinnin; Lynch; Eaton and Haas; and White Star. The last, which reprints articles published in 1911 from Shipping World and Shipbuilder, includes detailed specifications of both ships as well as maps and schematics of the Olympic’s decks and accommodations.

“This prolonging: Moore, Burnham, Architect, 2:172.

“the greatest event: Miller, 488.

PART I: FROZEN MUSIC

The Black City

“Never before: Miller, 511.

“The parlors and bedrooms: Ibid., 516.

“a human being: Ibid., 193.

“The Trouble Is Just Begun”

It was this big talk: Dedmon, 221.

“the hawks, buzzards: Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1889.

“The men who have helped: Chicago Tribune, August 2, 1889.

“The gloom: Chicago Tribune, February 24, 1890.

“Gentlemen. I am prepared: Ibid.

“the records of the Old Central: Hines, 402.

“I went to Harvard: Ibid., 11.

“greatest architect: Ibid., 12.

“There is a family tendency: Miller, 315.

“My idea: Sullivan, Louis, 285.

“There is a black sheep: Letter, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Jr., to Charles Moore, February 21, 1918, Burnham Archives, Charles Moore Correspondence, Box 27, File 3.

“A long wait frightened us: Monroe, Poet’s Life, 59.

“so completely happy: Ibid., 60.

“probably not equaled: Miller, 321.

“our originality: Moore, Burnham, Architect, 1:24.

“if,” he said, “the earth: Ibid., 1:321.

“The building throughout: Ibid.

“What Chartres was: Hines, 53.

“who will not have an office: Miller, 326.

“Daniel Burnham Hudson was: Starrett, 29.

“Make no little plans: Ibid., 311.

“I’ve never seen: Miller, 319.

“His conversational powers: Ibid., 316.

“I used always to think: Ibid., 317

“The office was full: Starrett, 32.

“The work of each man: Miller, 318.

“that Gordian city: Lewis, 19.

“a gigantic peepshow: Ibid., 136.

“I did it: Burnham to mother, undated, Burnham Archives, Burnham Family Correspondence, Box 25, File 2.

“You must not worry: Burnham to Margaret, February 29, 1888, Burnham Archives, Burnham Family Correspondence, Box 25, File 3.

“The coroner: Burnham to Margaret, March 3, 1888, ibid.

“Burnham was not pleased: Sullivan, Louis, 294.

“smear another facade: Morrison, 64.

“an innocent: Sullivan, Louis, 291.

“He was elephantine: Ibid., 288.

“When may we see you: Chicago Tribune, February 25, 1890.

“The most marvelous exhibit: Ibid.

“Chicago is like: Chicago Tribune, February 27, 1890.

The Necessary Supply

His height was: Franke, 24. Franke reproduces an image of a “Rogue’s Gallery” file card with details of Holmes’s weight, height, and so forth as entered by Boston police upon his arrest.

“The eyes are very big: Schechter, 282.

A telegraph pole: Englewood Directory, 37.

“While at times: Sullivan, Gerald, 49.

Holmes entered the store: Mudgett, 22–23; Schechter, 13–17; Boswell and Thompson, 81. See also Town of Lake Directory, 217.

“an elemental odor: Sinclair, 25.

“river of death: Ibid., 34.

“I had daily: Mudgett, 6.

“Nor did they desist: Ibid., 6

“mother’s boy: Ibid., 199

“twelve-year-old sweetheart: Ibid., 200.

Mudgett’s only close friend: Schechter, 12.

“itinerant photographer: Mudgett, 7.

“Had he next proceeded: Ibid., 8.

“I kept it for many years: Ibid., 8.

He enrolled: Ibid., 14.

“the first really dishonest: Ibid.,15.

“I could hardly count: Ibid., 16.

Eventually he came to Mooers Forks: Ibid., 16; Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1895; New York Times, July 31, 1895.

“Some of the professors: Franke, 118.

“In the fall of 1885: Mudgett, 17.

“This scheme called for: Ibid., 19.