Crippen identified himself: Police Reports as to Enquiries at Antwerp. NA DPP 1/13.
The innkeepers noticed: Ibid.
Later that Sunday: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 24.
A LOSS IN MAYFAIR
He envisioned: MacLeod, Marconi, 80–83; Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 45.
“I was almost too young”: Marconi, My Father, 180.
“Our darling little baby”: Weightman, Signor Marconi, 195.
Now he endured: Marconi, My Father, 180–81.
Eventually he found one: Weightman, Signor Marconi, 196.
Beatrice’s sister: Marconi, My Father, 181.
On April 3, 1906: H. Kershaw to Fleming, April 3, 1906. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/48.
During this time: Marconi, My Father, 181.
Standing on his head: Ibid., 181–82.
He recruited Marconi’s opponents: Hong, Wireless, 166.
“We find that the administration”: Hozier to Lodge, May 11, 1906. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/77.
Muirhead arranged: Muirhead to Lodge, June 10, 1906. Ibid.
Impressed anew: Lodge, Past Years, 283–84.
In 1906, in response: Massie, Dreadnought, 481–82; Read, Urban Democracy, 475.
That year: Clarke, Voices, 144–52.
One witness: Ibid., 145.
The publisher of the German-language edition: Ibid., 148.
On September 11, 1908: Marconi, My Father, 186.
AN INSPECTOR RETURNS
“Will you do me”: Trial, 30.
Long chose not to mention: Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew, 7. NA DPP 1/13.
a five-chambered revolver: Ibid., 4.
He composed detailed descriptions: Ibid., 4.
The hotel’s owner noticed: Police Reports as to Enquiries at Antwerp. NA DPP 1/13.
Ethel loved touring: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 49.
On Tuesday Dew ordered: “Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew,” 4. NA-DPP 1/13.
“Even in bed”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 27.
At last Long disclosed: Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew, 7. NA-DPP 1/13.
He and Mitchell worked: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 27.
One of the bricks: Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew, 5. NA-DPP 1/13.
Mitchell went to the garden: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 28.
THE MERMAID
In future years: Interview, Princess Elettra Marconi; also, Marconi, Marconi My Beloved, 159.
Suddenly Beatrice appeared: Marconi, My Father, 188– 89.
THE MYSTERY DEEPENS
“The stench was unbearable”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 28.
He and Froest set out: Macnaghten, Days of My Years, 195.
His task would be: Thomas Marshall Statement, 50. Brief for the Prosecution, NA- DPP 1/13.
The men concentrated: Arthur Mitchell Statement, 4. Further Information, NA-DPP 1/13.
As Dew would note: Particulars of Human Remains, 23–24. Witness, NA DPP 1/13.
There was nothing: Thomas Marshall Statement, 43. Supplemental Information, NA-DPP 1/13. Marshall said, “We found not one single bone, no head, no arms or leg.”
“Someone had simply carved”: Walter Dew Statement, July 18, 1910, 38. NA-DPP 1/13.
The scope of the challenge: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 30.
“From the doctor’s chair”: Macnaghten, Days of My Years, 195.
He titled the circular: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 29; for a photograph of the circular, see Goodman, Crippen File, 10.
The detectives returned: Alfred Henry Sargent Statement, 156, and Francis Barclay Statement, 158–59. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I asked him several times”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 50.
THE DYNAMITE PRIZE
“The Telefunken Wall”: Baker, History, 131.
A company memorandum: “Traffic Between Clifden and Glace Bay from October 10, 1907 to June 27, 1908.” August 4, 1908. William Smith Papers, Vol. 1. Archives Canada, MG 30 D18.
Another company report: “Analysis of Clifden Traffic from 4th January 1908 to 15th August 1908.” William Smith Papers, Vol. 2. Archives Canada, MG 30 D18.
“I might mention”: Marconi, Nobel, 1, 2.
He acknowledged: Ibid., 40.
Nor had he found: Ibid., 27–28.
“It would almost appear”: Ibid., 41.
“Whatever may be its present shortcomings”: Ibid., 44.
FIVE JARS
Dew also retrieved: Walter Dew Statement, July 18, 1910, 39. NA-DPP 1/13.
“There was one large mass”: Augustus Joseph Pepper Statement, 40. Brief for the Prosecution, NA-DPP 1/13.
Amid the discarded skin: Ibid., 46.
“False hair”: Ibid., 41.
As Pepper probed: Trial, 48; W. H. Willcox, Report, 4. NA-DPP 1/13.
Ethel grew weary: This and subsequent dialogue and detail: Le Neve,
