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Crippen’s roots come mainly from Conover, Coldwater, 26–27, 43; Eckert, Buildings, 201–3; Gillespie, A History, 12–18, 47–49, 89–93, 127, 131; Holmes, Illustrated, throughout; History, 118, 159, 172; Massie, Potawatomi Tears, 270; Portrait, 276; Shipway, 8–13; Michigan Business Directory, 1863; Trial, 34–39, 87–130; and miscellaneous photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, and other items held in the Holbrook Heritage Room of the Branch County District Library, Coldwater, Mich.

The young woman: Trial, 34–35; Cullen, Crippen, 33–34.

“I believe”: Trial, 88.

“I told her”: Ibid., 35.

“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 séances, 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, Café 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.

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