His company had no problem: Ibid.
Crippen “did not raise”: Trial, 76–77.
First the form asked: Sale of Poisons Register Book. Exhibit 38. Exhibits, NA-DPP 1/13.
THE SECRET OF THE KITES
To mask the true purpose: Marconi, My Father, 104.
“He reasoned”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 29.
“BEGIN WEDNESDAY”: Fleming Notebook, December 9, 1901. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/20.
the newspaper reported: Marconi, My Father, 105.
In his diary: Kemp Diary, December 11, 1901.
“I should have gone”: Ibid.
“disappeared to parts unknown”: Hancock, Wireless, 33.
“Today’s accident”: Marconi, My Father, 106.
“I came to the conclusion”: Hancock, Wireless, 33– 34.
Despite his crucial role: Hong, Wireless, 80.
WRETCHED LOVE
She was, Jackson said, “rather strange”: Emily Jackson Statement, 45–46. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
Her fingers twitched: Emily Jackson Statement, 27. Brief for the Prosecution, NA- DPP 1/13.
Ethel had a “horrible staring look”: Ibid.
“Go to bed”: Emily Jackson Statement, 46. Coroner’s Depositions, NA CRIM 1/117; Further Statement of Emily Jackson, 42. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
Ethel lay back: Emily Jackson Statement, 28. Brief for the Prosecution, NA DPP 1/13.
“I can’t let you go”: Ibid.
“For the love of God”: Further Statement of Emily Jackson, 43. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I told her”: Emily Jackson Statement, 46. Coroner’s Depositions, NA CRIM 1/117.
Mrs. Jackson assumed: Further Statement of Emily Jackson, 43. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“Why worry about that now”: Emily Jackson Statement, 46–47. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
“Don’t you think”: Emily Jackson Statement, 28. Brief for the Prosecution, NA-DPP 1/13.
That night Ethel told: Ibid.
taximeter: Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989.
“I would describe”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 22. Coroner’s Depositions, NA- CRIM 1/117.
“always appeared to be very happy”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 22. Supplemental Information, NA-DPP 1/13.
“Oh make him”: Further Statement of Mrs. Clara Martinetti, 63. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I feel rather queer”: Ibid., 64.
“You call that seven o’clock”: Ibid., 64; Trial, 12.
Clara took off her own coat: Clara Martinetti Statement, 18. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
Paul had two whiskeys: Further Statement of Mrs. Clara Martinetti, 65. Winess, NA-DPP 1/13.
“a funny little bull terrier”: Ibid., 65.
Crippen carved: Ibid., 65.
“the little deadlies”: Forster, Howards End, 117.
Belle offered cigarettes: Further Statement of Mrs. Clara Martinetti, 66. Winess, NA-DPP 1/13.
Belle told Clara: Ibid., 66.
“I had got a chill”: Paul Martinetti Statement, 25. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
“Mr. Martinetti wanted to go upstairs”: Trial, 90.
“He returned looking white”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 18. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
his hands were cold and he began to tremble: Further Statement of Mrs. Clara Martinetti, 67. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I don’t think”: Ibid., 67.
“Don’t come down, Belle”: Trial, 13. Some accounts, likely exaggerated, have Mrs. Martinetti telling Belle, “Don’t come down, you’ll catch your death!”
“On the night of the party”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 18, 22. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
“Immediately after”: Trial, 90.
“This is the finish of it”: Ibid., 37.
“She had said this so often”: Ibid., 37.
“that I was to arrange”: Ibid., 37.
“I did not even see her”: Ibid., 91.
“his own calm self”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 13.
Clara asked, “How’s Belle”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 19. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117; Further Statement of Mrs. Clara Martinetti, 68. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
Belle had gone: Trial, 91.
The main question: Crippen Statement, 123. Statements of Crippen and Le Neve, NA-DPP 1/13.
THE FATAL OBSTACLE
“Unmistakably”: Hancock, Wireless, 34.
This configuration: Kemp Diary, December 12, 1901.
Marconi wrote: Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 51.
During the brief periods: Baker, History, 69.
They began stringing: Kemp Diary, December 19, 1901; Baker, History, 69.
“Signals are being received”: Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 51.
That night, he released: London Times, December 16, 1901; Hancock, Wireless, 34.
That Sunday: Kemp Diary, December 15, 1901; Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 101.
the New York Times: Marconi, My Father, 104.
Over the next few days: Ibid., 104.
Shares of Eastern Telegraph: Indianapolis News,
