“the coming of a colony”: History of Branch County, Michigan, 118.
“The pleasant drives”: Holmes, Illustrated.
A photograph: This photograph appeared in the Coldwater, Michigan, City Directory of January 1920. Branch County District Library.
“The devil”: Cullen, Crippen, 30. Cullen, on p. 31, goes so far as to contend that the Book of Isaiah was “Hawley’s favorite.” 32 “the vilest show”: Gillespie, History, 89.
As a homeopath: Trial, 89.
At Bethlehem: Ibid., 69, 89.
“I have never performed”: Ibid., 87–88.
In January 1892: Cullen, Crippen, 32.
“it was healed”: Trial, 18–19.
“There was only one”: Cullen, Crippen, 35.
“craved motherhood”: Ibid., 35.
“I love babies”: Ibid., 87.
Filson Young: Trial, xxv–xxvi.
“she was always”: Ibid., 88.
“to the outside world”: Ibid., 126.
STRANGE DOINGS
“to do the duty of two”: Lodge, Past Years, 299.
“Have you ever”: Haynes, Psychical Research, 40. There were so many mediums roaming about the world that an American company sensed opportunity and began marketing a catalog entitled Gambols with the Ghosts, in which it sold various devices for use during seances, such as luminous hands and faces and a “Full, luminous female form” that would materialize slowly and then float around the room (Haynes, Psychical Research, 18).
“Between deaths”: Lodge, Why I Believe, 26.
“I am not presuming”: Lodge, Past Years, 297.
“constantly ejaculating”: Ibid., 295.
“It was as if”: Ibid., 297.
“Every time she did this”: Ibid., 301.
“There must be some”: Ibid., 301.
“there appeared to emanate”: Ibid., 301.
“I saw this protuberance”: Ibid., 301.
“On me touche”: Ibid., 301.
“As far as the physics”: Ibid., 302.
ectoplasm: Ibid., 301.
“The ectoplasmic formation”: Ibid., 302.
“Let it be noted”: Ibid., 305.
“Any person”: Ibid., 306.
“Whether there is any”: Ibid., 60.
GUNFIRE
“Every time”: Marconi, My Father, 27.
“That was when”: Marconi, My Father, 28.
It was a “practician’s” discovery: Aitken, Syntony, 195, 286.
“But,” Marconi said: Ibid., 29.
EASING THE SORE PARTS
“Does your head”: The Weekly Courier, Coldwater, Mich., April 6, 1895.
“I will guarantee”: The News and Courier, Charleston, S.C., July 6, 1898.
“For Piles”: Goodman, Crippen, 13.
“Heed the Sign”: Cullen, Crippen, 37.
Later, during the Spanish-American: See photographs at homeoint.org/ photo/m2/munyonjm.htm.
He called Crippen: Cullen, Crippen, 38.
“as docile as a kitten”: See “Crippen Family Research Records” at familytrail.com/crippen/DrCrippen2.htm
“a giddy woman”: Cullen, Crippen, 39.
“She liked men”: Ibid., 39.
TWO FOR LONDON
“No matter how much”: Paresce, “Personal Reflections,” Part II, 1.
London was still: Details in this paragraph come mainly from Baedeker, London, 3, 93, 96, 97; and Massie, Dreadnought, xx.
The new Locomotives: Browne, Rise, 236.
Queen Victoria herself: Cullen, When London Walked, 137.
“the contact of a dog’s tongue”: Ellis, Psychology of Sex, 21.
The Duke and Duchess: Maurois, Edwardian Era, 278.
“probably including”: Priestley, Edwardians, 66.
Barbara Tuchman: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 68–69.
With this new awareness: Details in this paragraph come from Tuchman, Proud Tower, 92–106; Browne, Rise, 232–35, 279; and Deghy and Waterhouse, Cafe Royal, 50–57. Malato’s guidebook is excerpted on p. 57, and also in David, Fitzrovians, 96–97.
The new location: Cullen, When London Walked, 101– 2.
When the police moved: Jeffers, Bloody Business, 93.
No one called him: Massie, Dreadnought, 15.
Before breakfast: Magnus, King Edward, 333.
The prince hated: Massie, Dreadnought, 15.
By the late 1890s: Rose, Edwardian Temperament, 165.
The number of variety theaters: Read, Urban Democracy, 42; Priestley, Edwardians, 172. Baedeker, London, on p. 64, puts the number of music halls in London alone at 500.
She kept a cast: Massie, Dreadnought, 13.
PART II: BETRAYAL
THE SECRET BOX
“Maxwellians”: For a detailed examination of Hertz’s work and the respect, if not adulation, afforded him by Oliver Lodge and his camp, see O’Hara and Pricha, Hertz. See also Hong, Wireless, 44.
Soon afterward: The postal details in this paragraph come from Baedeker, London, 80, 122, 181.
