1903. Maskelyne Incident, 17.
“It was clear”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 41.
In the Morning Advertiser: Cited in Westminster Gazette, March 13, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 17.
One reader wrote: Morning Advertiser, March 16, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 21.
“Well, we have got beyond that”: Westminster Gazette, March 13, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 17.
Even as it flared: Fleming, J.A. “A Report on Experiments,” 1–7. UCL, Fleming Collection.
Though somewhat wicked: Hong, Wireless, 108.
a silver thaw can occur: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 41; see also, Baker, History, 82, and MacLeod, Marconi, 86;
BLUE SERGE
For two of Belle’s friends: John Nash Statement, 2–3, in letter, Seyd to Director of Public Prosecutions, April 29, 1911. NA-DPP 1/13; John Nash Statement, 26–27. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
Crippen told him: The dialogue between Crippen and Nash is taken verbatim from John Nash Statement, 2–3, in letter, Seyd to Director of Public Prosecutions, April 29, 1911, NA-DPP 1/13.
Two days later: For details about Froest and Scotland Yard see Browne, Rise, 243–44; Jeffers, Bloody Business, 93; and Williams, Hidden World, 37.
“Mr. and Mrs. Nash are not satisfied”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 8.
His name was Walter Dew: Dew, I Caught Crippen, throughout; Jeffers, Bloody Business, 116–17.
“I saw a sight”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 145.
“When we got back”: The dialogue between Dew, Nash, and Froest is verbatim, from Dew, I Caught Crippen, 8–9.
Under ordinary circumstances: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 11.
“What was really in the minds”: Ibid., 9.
“I think it would be just as well”: Ibid., 9.
RATS
Fleming arranged: Details of the lecture and the intervention of Nevil Maskelyne come mainly from the Maskelyne Incident Papers, a collection of clippings and correspondence held in the archives of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, London. See in particular pp. 32–52. For overviews and additional details, see also Bartram, I, 55, and Hong, Wireless, 108–14.
Blok was experienced: Blok’s account is quoted extensively in Hong, Wireless, 110.
“The interference was purposely arranged”: Maskelyne Incident, 41.
“Everything went off well”: Quoted in Hong, Wireless, 111.
In a second letter: Ibid., 111.
On June 11, 1903: Maskelyne Incident, 32.
“Sir,” Maskelyne wrote: Ibid., 33.
As the Morning Leader of June 15: Ibid., 43.
In an interview in: Ibid., 35.
AH
“curiously enough”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 10.
“a great favorite”: Chief Inspector Dew. Report to Criminal Investigation Division, July 6, 1910, NA-MEPO 3/198.
Maud Burroughs described: Ibid., 7.
“The story told by”: Ibid., 1.
“most extraordinary”: Ibid., 15.
“without adopting the suggestion”: Ibid., 15.
“Is Dr. Crippen at home”: Ibid., 11.
“She was not pretty”: Ibid., 11.
“Who are you”: “Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew,” 1, NA-DPP 1/13. Dew himself offers several different accounts, in different reports and statements, of how this initial contact unfolded.
“Unfortunate the doctor is out”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 12.
Ethel’s recollection: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 28–33. The dialogue between Dew and Ethel appears here as Ethel retold it in her memoir.
At Albion House: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 33–34.
“insignificant little man”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 12. A slightly different account appears in Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew, 1, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I am Chief-Inspector Dew”: Ibid., 13.
THE GIRL ON THE DOCK
On Nova Scotia he faced a choice: MacLeod, Marconi, 90.
They agreed also: Baker, History, 96.
The previous December: Ibid., 98.
“Notwithstanding the great mass”: Sewall, Wireless, 89.
“At thirty”: Marconi, My Father, 151.
The fact that he was Italian: Ibid., 168.
In the summer of 1904: For more detail on Beatrice and her background, see Marconi, My Father, 155–62, and Weightman, Signor Marconi, 182–85.
To her, it seemed lovely: Marconi, My Father, 161– 62.
“the dress she had on was awful”: Ibid., 155.
He fled for the Balkans: Ibid., 164.
Stricken with the grief: Ibid., 164.
Without telling Beatrice: Ibid., 164.
“It’s so serious”: Ibid., 165.
Troubling news drifted back: Ibid., 166–67.
“What can you be thinking”: Ibid., 167.
“She was a born flirt”: Ibid., 168.
“I have not mentioned this”: Baker, History, 107.
In 1904, while seeking: Jolly, Lodge, 153.
HOOK
The fastest ocean liners: Fox, Transatlantic, 308.
The government began talks: Clarke, Voices, 133.
“Is it not becoming patent”: Childers, Riddle, 308.
Ever since the turn of the century: Hynes, Edwardian, 22.
