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37 “old men”: Girdner, “The Death of President Garfield,” Munsey Magazine, 547.
38 Both men had attended Lister’s talk: Paulson, “Death of a President and His Assassin,” 81.
39 “these gentlemen used no buttons”: Godlee, Lord Lister, 391.
40 “would in many cases sacrifice”: Pasteur and Lister, Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine, 136.
41 “bear the severest scrutiny”: “Dr. Hamilton Much Pleased,” New York Times, July 6, 1881.
42 “I think that we have”: “A Medical View of the Case,” New York Times, July 8, 1881.
43 As Bliss spoke, smoke from his cigar: “Still Brighter Prospects,” New York Times, July 8, 1881.
44 “the most admirable patient”: “A Medical View of the Case,” New York Times, July 8, 1881.
45 “If I can’t save him”: Quoted in Ackerman, Dark Horse, 403.
46 “I cannot possibly persuade him to sit”: Mabel Bell to her mother, July 8, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
47 “like a Chinese lantern”: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 47.
48 Deciding to run a few quick tests: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 344; Tainter, “The Talking Machine,” 18.
49 In a simplistic way, the technique anticipated: In November 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen took an X-ray of his wife’s hand, which showed her bones and wedding ring.
50 The problem was that: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 47–48.
51 “returned vividly to my mind”: Ibid., 4.
52 “The currents induced”: Ibid., 2–3.
53 “When a position of silence”: Ibid., 3.
54 “brooding over the problem”: Ibid., 4.
55 “great personal convenience”: Ibid.
56 “received an urgent request”: Tainter, “The Talking Machine,” 18.
Chapter 15: Blood-Guilty
1 “Information had reached them”: “Guiteau in Jail,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
2 “There were many who felt”: “A Cloud upon the Holiday,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
3 “While it seems incredible”: Ibid.
4 “roar of indignation”: “Brooklyn Much Disturbed,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
5 Rumors spread that a group: “Bulletins Still Eagerly Watched,” New York Tribune, July 6, 1881, cited in Menke, “Media in America,” 652.
6 On the top floor: Kalush, The Secret Life of Houdini, 177.
7 “a particular friend”: “A Talk with the Assassin,” New York Times, July 5, 1881.
8 Soon after settling into his cell: “A Great Nation in Grief,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
9 “lobbying like any henchman”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 363.
10 As he scanned the message: “Garfield Shot,” Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, July 2, 1881.
11 Across the street, the sidewalk: “Seeking for the Latest News,” New York Times, July 4, 1881.
12 As Conkling and Arthur entered the hotel: “At the Fifth Avenue Hotel,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
13 “More than one excited man”: Ibid.
14 So suffocatingly crowded: Ibid.
15 By the time Conkling had his hands: Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1881.
16 “great grief and sympathy”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 384–85.
17 “Chet Arthur?”: Whitcomb and Whitcomb, Real Life at the White House, 181.
18 “simple vanity”: Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 5.
19 Arthur was also widely known: Karabell, Chester Alan Arthur, 30.
20 “I do not think he knows anything”: Harriet S. Blaine and Beale, Letters of Mrs. James G. Blaine, 309.
21 “There is no place in which the powers of mischief”: Quoted in Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 241.
22 “a statesman and a thorough-bred gentleman”: “Seeking for the Latest News,” New York Times, July 4, 1881.
23 “Republicans and Democrats alike”: “A Cloud Upon the Holiday,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
24 “Arthur for President!”: Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes, 23.
25 “There is a theory”: “Guiteau in Jail,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
26 “I am a Stalwart”: