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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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