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“The interference was purposely arranged”: Maskelyne Incident, 41.
“Everything went off well”: Quoted in Hong, Wireless, 111.
In a second letter: Ibid., 111.
On June 11, 1903: Maskelyne Incident, 32.
“Sir,” Maskelyne wrote: Ibid., 33.
As the Morning Leader of June 15: Ibid., 43.
In an interview in: Ibid., 35.
AH
“curiously enough”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 10.
“a great favorite”: Chief Inspector Dew. Report to Criminal Investigation Division, July 6, 1910, NA-MEPO 3/198.
Maud Burroughs described: Ibid., 7.
“The story told by”: Ibid., 1.
“most extraordinary”: Ibid., 15.
“without adopting the suggestion”: Ibid., 15.
“Is Dr. Crippen at home”: Ibid., 11.
“She was not pretty”: Ibid., 11.
“Who are you”: “Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew,” 1, NA-DPP 1/13. Dew himself offers several different accounts, in different reports and statements, of how this initial contact unfolded.
“Unfortunate the doctor is out”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 12.
Ethel’s recollection: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 28–33. The dialogue between Dew and Ethel appears here as Ethel retold it in her memoir.
At Albion House: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 33–34.
“insignificant little man”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 12. A slightly different account appears in Further Report of Chief Inspector Dew, 1, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I am Chief-Inspector Dew”: Ibid., 13.
THE GIRL ON THE DOCK
On Nova Scotia he faced a choice: MacLeod, Marconi, 90.
They agreed also: Baker, History, 96.
The previous December: Ibid., 98.
“Notwithstanding the great mass”: Sewall, Wireless, 89.
“At thirty”: Marconi, My Father, 151.
The fact that he was Italian: Ibid., 168.
In the summer of 1904: For more detail on Beatrice and her background, see Marconi, My Father, 155–62, and Weightman, Signor Marconi, 182–85.
To her, it seemed lovely: Marconi, My Father, 161–62.
“the dress she had on was awful”: Ibid., 155.
He fled for the Balkans: Ibid., 164.
Stricken with the grief: Ibid., 164.
Without telling Beatrice: Ibid., 164.
“It’s so serious”: Ibid., 165.
Troubling news drifted back: Ibid., 166–67.
“What can you be thinking”: Ibid., 167.
“She was a born flirt”: Ibid., 168.
“I have not mentioned this”: Baker, History, 107.
In 1904, while seeking: Jolly, Lodge, 153.
HOOK
The fastest ocean liners: Fox, Transatlantic, 308.
The government began talks: Clarke, Voices, 133.
“Is it not becoming patent”: Childers, Riddle, 308.
Ever since the turn of the century: Hynes, Edwardian, 22.
A royal commission found: Browne, Rise, 279–83.
The government investigated: Hynes, Edwardian, 22–23.
A month later the government launched: Ibid., 32–33.
In London on the night: Dunbar, J. M. Barrie, 170.
The Daily Telegraph would call: Ibid., 170.
“Do you believe in fairies”: Barrie, Peter Pan, 115.
“How still the night is”: Ibid., 117.
PART V: THE FINEST TIME
THE TRUTH ABOUT BELLE
“From his manner”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 13–14.
“Meanwhile,” she wrote: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 35.
Crippen ordered a steak: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 15.
“I realized that she had gone”: Crippen Statement, 123. Statements of Crippen and Le Neve, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I was impressed”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 14.
“The girl showed”: Ibid., 19–20.
“He told you a lie”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 35.
“I was stunned”: Ibid., 36.
“There was not enough”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 19.
“I seemed to be living”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 36.
“I certainly had no suspicion”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 21.
“In the bedroom”: Ibid., 21.
“What were these men doing”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 36.
“The place was completely dark”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 21.
“Of course I shall have to find”: Ibid., 22.
“I did not absolutely think”: Chief Inspector Dew Statement, 81. Brief for the Prosecution, NA-DPP 1/13. In his memoir, on p. 21, Dew says essentially the same thing: “I certainly had no suspicion of murder. You don’t jump to the conclusion that murder has been committed merely because a wife has disappeared and a husband has told lies about it.”
He told at least one observer: