Thunderstruck - Erik Larson [175]
“Best Christmas greetings”: Isted, II, 112.
NEWS FROM AMERICA
Dear Clara and Paul: Letter, Crippen to Martinettis, March 20, 1910. Exhibits, 21, NA-DPP 1/13.
Belle died yesterday: Telegram, Crippen to Martinettis. Ibid., 21.
PART IV: AN INSPECTOR CALLS
“DAMN THE SUN!”
At first: Marconi, My Father, 113.
Black signs at three points: Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 66.
“Potage Electrolytique”: Simons, “Guglielmo Marconi,” 51.
Bowls of sorbet: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 110.
“I am sorry”: Isted, II, 112.
In his own account of events: Fleming, “History,” no page number.
“ENGAGEMENT IS BROKEN”: Indianapolis News, January 21, 1902. Indiana State Library.
Later, a News reporter: The following exchange appears in the Indianapolis News, January 22, 1902. Indiana State Library.
He added a tincture: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 113.
“There have been disasters”: Ibid., 113. Early the following May, less than four months after breaking her engagement to Marconi, Josephine Holman stepped forward and announced that she had become engaged to a new man. The remarks that followed may have been made with the best intentions, but it is tempting to view them through the prism of love scorned, for Holman would have known well what other women in Marconi’s life also would learn, that one salient trait of his romantic character was jealousy. “I am perfectly happy, but for one little thought,” Holman wrote, “and that would vanish forever if Signor Marconi would find another love and be as happy in his choice as I feel I am in mine.” Halifax Herald, May 8, 1902. Beaon Institute, MG 12/214.E.: Envelop/Index Cards.
By the end of the day: Indianapolis News, January 22, 1902. Indiana State Library.
As the liner approached: Indianapolis News, February 10, 1902. Indiana State Library; Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 69.
details of the new Canadian arrangement: “How Marconi Came to Canada,” 9–10. William Smith Papers. Notes and Transcripts. Marconi Papers. Memoranda, Printed Matter. Archives Canada, MG 30 D18 III.
“Sir William Preece is”: Financial Times, February 21, 1902.
The Westminster Gazette suggested: Westminster Gazette, February 26, 1902.
The Electrical Times condemned: Electrical Times, February 27, 1902.
Two days later: Details of the Philadelphia episode come from Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 72; Marconi, My Father, 124–25; Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 124–26. Weightman quotes extensively from McClure’s account, published in McClure’s Magazine.
“daylight effect”: Marconi, My Father, 126; Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 32.
“Damn the sun!”: Marconi, My Father, 130.
That summer the Daily Mail: Read, Urban Democracy, 475.
So things stood when: Baker, History, 95–96; Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 136–37.
“malignant Marconiphobia”: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 137.
“Marconi’s whining”: Thompson to Lodge, April 2, 1902. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/104 ii.
At Glace Bay Richard Vyvyan: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 50; Marconi, My Father, 146.
En route, during a stop: Hong, Wireless, 83; Marconi, My Father, 131–32.
Marconi blamed Fleming: Hong, Wireless, 83.
“It should be explained to [Fleming]”: Quoted at length in Hong, Wireless, 83–84.
None of this, however: Bartram, I, 53; Hong, Wireless, 117.
“Knowing that experiments were in progress”: Maskelyne Incident, 2–3.
THE LADIES INVESTIGATE
“a model husband”: John Burroughs Statement, 4. Brief for the Prosecution, NA-DPP 1/13.
“kind and attentive”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 22. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
“kind-hearted humane man”: Adeline Harrison Statement, 27. Ibid.
Even before word arrived: Michael Bernstein Statement, 90. Witness, NA DPP 1/13.
On March 30: Louise Smythson Statement, 32–33. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
It took him a month: Otto Crippen to Melinda May, May 9, 1910. Copy in Melinda May Statement, 37. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“The smell,” Jackson said: Further Statement of Emily Jackson, 45. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13; Emily Jackson