25 Frederick W. Ward, The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman’s): A Record of Its Services in the Great War, 1914–1919, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920, p. 17
26 Sportsman’s Gazette, 11 Jun 1915, p. 360
27 National Archives MH 47/115/77, Case Number RM1/819
28 Charles Booth survey notebooks B353, p. 131, booth.lse.ac.uk
29 Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, 13 Aug 1893, p. 11
30 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1919, p. 575
Chapter Eight: The Secret Adversary
1 Derby Daily Telegraph, 19 Nov 1929, p. 6
2 Camperdown Chronicle (Australia), 17 Jul 1915, p. 6
3 Sunday Dispatch, 6 Dec 1931, p. 4
4 Answers, 2 Aug 1919, p. 183; Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1919, p. 575
5 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1919, p. 575
6 Robert Graves, The Long Weekend (second edition), Faber and Faber, 1950, pp. 14–15
7 The Times, 25 May 1916, p. 3
8 Sunday Post, 2 Mar 1924, p. 9; Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 29 Feb 1924, p. 5
9 Basil Tozer, Confidence Crooks and Blackmailers: Their Ways and Methods, T. Werner Laurie, 1929, p. 234
10 Ibid., p. 227
11 Sunday Dispatch, 6 Dec 1931, p. 4
12 Derby Daily Telegraph, 19 Nov 1929, p. 6
13 Daily Herald, 28 Sep 1921, p. 1
14 Answers, 2 Aug 1919, p. 183
15 Sunday Post, 15 Apr 1923, pp. 1–2
16 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 29 Jun 1928, p. 1
17 Yorkshire Post, 26 Aug 1925, p. 8
18 Era, 5 Mar 1919, p. 18
19 New Zealand Truth, 17 Oct 1908, p. 5
20 The Times, 7 Mar 1919, p. 5; Globe, 19 Jan 1920, p. 7; Northern Whig, 21 Jun 1928, p. 7; West London Observer, 22 Nov 1929, p. 9
21 Globe, 19 Jan 1920, p. 7
22 Yorkshire Post, 24 Sep 1934, p. 2
23 Daily Herald, 18 Nov 1920, p. 2
24 West London Observer, 23 Oct 1931, p. 7
25 The Times, 26 May 1925, p. 13; Bucks Herald, 13 Jun 1925, p. 8
26 M. A. P. (Mainly About People), 19 Nov 1910, p. 611; Ideas, 22 Jan 1913, p. 12; Derby Daily Telegraph, 17 Nov 1928, p. 4
27 Nottingham Journal, 12 Feb 1924, p. 5; Nottingham Evening Post, 1 Apr 1924, p. 6
28 Derby Daily Telegraph, 19 Nov 1929, p. 6
29 New Zealand Truth, 17 Oct 1908, p. 5
30 Good Housekeeping, Sep 1927, pp. 74, 157–8
31 Tozer, p. 228; see also Sir Basil Thompson, ‘Beware of Hyde Park’, Sunday News, 30 May 1926, p. 1
32 H. Montgomery Hyde, The Other Love: An Historical and Contemporary Survey of Homosexuality in Britain, Mayflower, 1972, pp. 206–7
33 Angus McLaren, ‘Smoke and Mirrors: Willy Clarkson and the Role of Disguises in Inter-War England’, Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Spring 2007), pp. 597–618
34 Lloyd’s Weekly News, 19 May 1907, p. 6
35 Pearson’s Weekly, 5 Apr 1913, p. 1045
36 Answers, 2 Aug 1919, p. 183
37 The Times, 24 May 1927, p. 13
38 Sunday Dispatch, 6 Dec 1931, p. 4
39 Ibid.
40 New Zealand Truth, 17 Oct 1908, p. 5
41 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
42 Northern Whig, 5 May 1922, p. 7; Chemist and Druggist, 29 Apr 1922, p. 52
43 Belfast Newsletter, 8 Feb 1928, p. 11
44 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
45 Hendon and Finchley Times, 12 and 26 Apr 1918, p. 4; 16, 23 and 30 Apr 1920, p. 4; 23 Jan 1920, p. 4; 7, 14 and 21 Oct 1921, p. 4
46 Hendon and Finchley Times, 18 Nov 1927, p. 5
47 National Archives WO364/1124
48 Hendon and Finchley Times, 8 Oct 1920, p. 7
49 Hendon and Finchley Times, 15 Oct 1926, p. 7
50 Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910-1950, ancestry.co.uk
51 Weekly Irish Times, 8 Feb 1930, p. 3
Chapter Nine: Wanted – Someone Innocent
1 Pearson’s Weekly, 19 May 1928, p. 1323
2 Portsmouth Evening News, 5 Oct 1920, p. 1
3 Era, 2 May 1923, p. 14
4 UK Patent number GB283359: Suction hat and coat hook, published 12 Jan 1928
5 Hendon and Finchley Times, 15 May 1925, p. 10
6 See, for example, pantomime audition call for Brown’s Agency, Era, 20 Oct 1920, p. 3. Other agencies and production companies at Albion House included Nat Day, Joe Collins, Fred Peel, Macmaric productions and Collins & Gladwin Theatres.
7 Leeds Mercury, 3 Apr 1920, p. 2
8 Queenslander (Australia), 3 Dec 1921, p. 47
9 Pearson’s Weekly, 7 Jun 1919, p. 731
10 Ibid.
11 Globe, 3 Mar 1920, p. 6
12 Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 29 Sep 1928, p. 11
13 Aberdeen Press and Journal, 24 Oct 1928, p. 7
14 Sunday Dispatch, 22 Nov 1931, p. 4
15 Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond, or Life and Death (thirteenth edition), Methuen, 1916, p. xv
16 Illustrated Police News, 20 Sep 1934, p. 4
17 Daily Mail, 7 Jul 1904, p. 3. See also 10 Aug 1904, p. 3; 1 Sep 1904, p. 3; 7 Oct 1904, p. 3
18 Morning Post, 5 Oct 1904, p. 3
19 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1 Sep 1904, p. 5
20 Morning Post, 18 Aug 1904, p. 7
21 Globe, 29 Dec 1916, p. 5; Daily Mail, 13 Dec 1916, p. 3
22 Sunday Post, 14 Mar 1926, p. 11
23 Daily Sketch, 22 Mar 1926, p. 2
24 Light, 13 Mar 1926, p. 125
25 For a description of Munnings’ seances and trickery see Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, May 1926, pp. 73–5; Daily Sketch, 16 Mar 1926, p. 2
26 Sunday Post, 14 Mar 1926, p. 11
27 Sunday Dispatch, 22 Nov 1931, p. 4
28 New York Tribune, 10 Jul 1921, p. 2
29 Pearson’s Weekly, 17 May 1919, p. 671
30 Answers, 9 Aug 1919, p. 209
31 People, 11 Jun 1939, p. 9; Globe, 7 Aug 1911, p. 7
32 Illustrated Police News, 10 Dec 1925, p. 6; Aberdeen Press and Journal, 3 Dec 1925, p. 7
33 Answers, 6 Sep 1919, p. 285
34 Good Housekeeping, Feb 1928, p. 120
35 Answers, 5 Jul 1919, p. 111
36 Mackay Daily Mercury (Australia), 3 Jun 1938, p. 3; New Zealand Herald, 6 Jan 1938, p. 3
37 Daily Mail, 29 Oct 1937, p. 8
38 Mackay Daily Mercury (Australia), 3 Jun 1938, p. 3
39 General Register Office. Birth Certificate. Willesden. 1913 Jun Q. Vol. 3a, p. 641. Elliott, Evelyn
40 Sunday Dispatch, 29 Nov 1931, p. 4
Chapter Ten: Tracks in the Snow
1 News Chronicle, 24 Nov 1938, p. 8
2 Frank Dalton O’Sullivan, Crime Detection, O’Sullivan Publishing, 1928, p. 193
3 John Goodwin, Crook Pie, Alston Rivers, 1927, pp. 191–2
4 The Times, 22 Jul 1890, p. 3
5 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, p. 431
6 Illustrated Police News, 1 Sep 1921, p. 2
7 The Times, 20 May 1913. p. 9
8 Answers, 23 Aug 1919, p. 248
9 Gloucester Citizen, 10 Nov 1929, p. 4
10 See, for example, ‘Women Blackmailers’, Cornishman, 14 Apr 1920, p. 2
11 Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Dutch East Indies), 29 Mar 1930, pp. 288 and 290
12 Sunday Chronicle, 14 Feb 1926, p. 3
13 Sunday Dispatch, 29 Nov 1931, p. 4
14 The Times, 16 Feb 1916, p. 9
15 The Times, 12 Feb 1916, p. 3
16 See, for example, the case of the Kosmo Dance Club in Edinburgh, as reported in the Daily Herald, 30 Nov 1933, p. 7
17 Sunday Chronicle, 14 Feb 1926, p. 3
18 Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Dutch East Indies), 29 Mar 1930, p. 290; Sunday Chronicle, 14 Feb 1926, p. 3
19 Weekly Irish Times, 15 Mar 1930, p. 3
20 Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Dutch East Indies), 9 Ju
l 1930, p. 3
21 Sunday Dispatch, 29 Nov 1931, p. 4
22 Scotsman, 13 Jan 1927, p. 7
23 Daily Herald, 10 May 1924, p. 3
24 Mary S. Allen, Lady in Blue, Stanley Paul & Co, 1936, p. 229; Aberdeen Press and Journal, 2 Nov 1925, p. 3
25 Sunday Post, 22 Aug 1926, p. 11; The Times, 23 June 1926, p. 5
26 Mooi Limburg (Dutch East Indies), 10 Sep 1938, pp. 6-7
27 Teresa Billington-Greig, ‘The Truth About White Slavery’, The English Review, Vol XIV (April–July 1913), p. 428
28 Ibid., p. 445
29 Joan Lock, The British Policewoman: Her Story, Robert Hale, 1979, p. 19
30 Billington-Greig, p. 434
31 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate. Lewisham. 1901 Jun Q. Vol 1d, p. 1843. Barber, Edith Maria
32 General Register Office. Birth Certificate. Greenwich. 1885 Mar Q. Vol 1d, p. 1017. Barber, Edith Maria
33 General Register Office. Death Certificate. Greenwich. 1887 Jun Q. Vol 1d, p. 585. Barber, Edith Maria; Register of Burials, Royal Borough of Greenwich, May 1887, no. 104, www.deceasedonline.com
34 San Francisco Examiner, 16 May 1926, ‘American Weekly’ section, p. 2
Chapter Eleven: Partners in Crime
1 Policewoman’s Review, Apr 1931, pp. 139–40
2 Scotsman, 7 Mar 1922, p. 8; Nottingham Evening Post, 6 Mar 1922, p. 1; Pall Mall Gazette, 6 Mar 1922, p. 1
3 Lloyd’s Sunday News, 12 Mar 1922, p. 5
4 Nottingham Evening Post, 8 Apr 1922, p. 1
5 Account to Hart Jackson from private detective Charles Richards, 11 Nov 1906. Cumbria Archives Service BDHJ/88/10/8
6 Perth Daily News (Australia), 4 Jul 1907, p. 9
7 Ideas, 13 Mar 1914, p. 6
8 Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Dutch East Indies), 29 Mar 1930, pp. 288 and 290
9 Policewoman’s Review, Apr 1931, p. 140
10 The Times, 26 May 1925, p. 16
11 Quoted in Western Chronicle, 20 Oct 1899, p. 3
12 Leicester Daily Post, 17 Feb 1914, p. 5
13 Daily Mirror, 27 Jun 1914, p. 3
14 Joan Lock, The British Policewoman: Her Story, Robert Hale, 1979, p. 99
15 Ibid., p. 107
16 A. H. Henderson Livesey, League of Womanhood Pamphlet No.1: The Women Police Question, League of Womanhood, 1924
17 The Times, 15 Aug 1924, p. 7
18 Lock, p. 15
19 Vote, 25 Jul 1913, p. 9
20 Lock, p. 16
21 The Times, 12 Aug 1920, pp. 7 and 11
22 Lock, p. 126
23 The Times, 25 Feb 1921, p. 15
24 Lock, pp. 100–1, 154
25 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
26 New York Tribune, 10 Jul 1921, p. 2
27 Bruce Herald (New Zealand), 18 Oct 1901, p. 2
28 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
29 Competitors’ Journal and Everybody’s Weekly, 29 May 1926, p. 11
30 Ibid.
31 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3; New Zealand Herald, 26 Sep 1931, p. 3
32 Ibid.
33 Mooi Limburg (Dutch East Indies), 10 Sep 1938, pp. 6–7
34 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
35 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, p. 6
36 Policewoman’s Review, April 1931, pp. 139–40
37 Competitors’ Journal and Everybody’s Weekly, 29 May 1926, p. 11
38 John Goodwin, Sidelights on Criminal Matters, Hutchinson, 1923, p. 195
39 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, p. 6
40 Manchester Guardian, 5 Aug 1925, p. 16
41 Competitors’ Journal and Everybody’s Weekly, 29 May 1926, p. 11
42 Charles Booth Poverty Map 1889, Square M10, www.booth.lse.ac.uk
43 General Register Office. Birth Certificate. Greenwich. 1880 Dec Q. Vol 1d, p. 940. Barber, Edith Maria
44 General Register Office. Birth Certificate. Greenwich. 1886 Sep Q. Vol 1d, p. 1020. Barber, Alice
45 John R. Gillis, For Better, for Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 234
46 Weekly Irish Times, 29 Mar 1930, p. 3
Chapter Twelve: The Wrong Man
1 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, pp. 430–4
2 Irwin S. Cobb, Europe Revised, George H. Doran Co., 1914, p. 337; Langham Hotel brochure c.1920
3 Portsmouth Evening News, 29 Apr 1930, p. 5
4 Pearson’s Weekly, 31 May 1919, p. 711
5 Portsmouth Evening News, 29 Apr 1930, p. 5
6 Divorces in England and Wales: Number of couples divorcing, by party petitioning/decree granted, 1858–2014, Office of National Statistics
7 A. P. Herbert, Holy Deadlock, Methuen & Co., 1934, p. 27
8 Sphere, 23 Jan 1932, p. 115
9 Ibid.
10 John Goodwin, Crook Pie, Alston Rivers, 1927, pp. 201–2
11 Sunday Dispatch, 13 Dec 1931, p. 8
12 The Times, 15 Dec 1937, p. 4
13 Daily Express, 12 Apr 1905, p. 5
14 Globe, 28 Nov 1919, p. 9
15 Globe, 2 Nov 1920, p. 8
16 The Times, 29 Nov 1919, p. 4
17 June Hillman, The Glass Ladder, Heinemann, 1960, p. 17
18 Ibid., p. 230
19 Ibid., p. 231
20 Petition for nullity, 1930. National Archives, J77/2806/6904
21 Hillman, p. 247–8
22 Ibid., p. 272
23 Ibid., p. 273
24 Ibid., p. 276
25 Ibid., p. 281
26 Edinburgh Evening News, 16 Nov 1933, p. 9
27 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 22 Dec 1933, p. 1
28 Hillman, p. 281
29 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 22 Dec 1933, p. 1
30 Ibid., p. 4
31 Ibid.
32 Yorkshire Post, 23 Dec 1933, p. 10
33 Ibid.
34 Dundee Courier, 23 Dec 1933, p. 7
35 Western Daily Press, 2 Dec 1927, p. 3
36 General Register Office. Birth Certificate. Lewisham. 1902 Jun Q. Vol. 1d, p. 1200. Elliott, Cecil Henry; Greenwich. 1904 Jun Q. Vol. 1d, p. 1035. Elliott, Vera Edith; Wandsworth. 1907 Jun Q. Vol. 1d, p. 801. Elliott, Denis Frank; Brentford. 1908 Dec Q. Vol. 3a, p. 93. Elliott, Keith Eugene; Fulham. 1910 Sep Q. Vol. 1a, p. 334. Elliott, Neville John; Willesden. 1913 Jun Q. Vol. 3a, p. 641. Elliott, Evelyn
37 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
Chapter Thirteen: Sweet Danger
1 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
2 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, pp. 430–4
3 Sunday Post, 14 Mar 1926, p. 11
4 Lloyd’s Weekly News, 19 May 1907, p. 6
5 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 4 Nov 1921, p. 7; Gloucester Citizen, 9 Apr 1926, p. 6
6 Ideas, 13 Mar 1914, p. 6
7 Pearson’s Magazine, 1 Nov 1926, pp. 433–4
8 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
9 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, pp. 430–4
10 Globe, 2 Sep 1911, p. 1
11 West London Observer, 28 Jun 1935, p. 11. See also The Times, 23 Feb 1935, p. 4; 25 Feb 1935, p. 9
12 Globe, 8 Jul 1920, p. 7; The Times, 2 Jul 1920, p. 4
13 Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite, Murder in the Métro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France, Louisiana State University Press, 2010
14 A. S. M. Hutchinson, This Freedom, Hodder & Stoughton, 1922, p. 9
15 Ibid., p. 186
16 Ibid., p. 239
17 Pall Mall Gazette, 1 Aug 1922, pp. 1–2. See also 3 Aug 1922, pp. 8–9 and 4 Aug 1922, p. 7
18 New York Tribune, 10 Jul 1921, p. 2; New Zealand Herald, 13 Aug 1921, p. 2; Perth Daily News, 20 Aug 1921, p. 6
19 Perth Daily News, 20 Aug 1921, p. 6
20 New Zealand Herald, 13 Aug 1921, p. 2
21 Perth Daily News, 20 Aug 1921, p. 6
22 Sunday Chronicle, 14 Feb 1926, p. 3
23 National
Archives HS9/22/10
24 M. R. D. Foot, SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–46, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1984, p. 48
25 Divorce Court File, National Archives J77/2949/1180
26 Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 14 Mar 1931, p. 11
27 Lancashire Evening Post, 9 Mar 1931, p. 2; 12 Mar 1931, p. 5; Scotsman, 13 Mar 1931, p. 11
28 Western Daily Press, 29 Jan 1931, p. 3
29 Hendon and Finchley Times, 11 Mar 1932, p. 7
30 Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 25 Mar 1922, p. 1
31 Australia’s Offer to the British Boy, Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1922, p. 12
32 Hendon and Finchley Times, 12 Sep 1924, p. 10
33 Hendon and Finchley Times, 27 Jul 1923, p. 8
34 Sir John McEwen quoted in G. P. Walsh, ‘McLeod, Malcolm Athol Wallace (1894–1989)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 18, Melbourne University Publishing, 2012, p. 95
35 Letter from Percy Lord (aged 9), ‘The Letterbox’, Freeman’s Journal (Australia), 17 Jun 1920, p. 46
36 Farmer and Settler (New South Wales), 24 Apr 1924, p. 4
37 Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate (Australia), 2 Jun 1924, p. 2
38 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
Chapter Fourteen: Look to the Lady
1 Pearson’s Weekly, 19 May 1928, p. 1323
2 Competitors’ Journal and Everybody’s Weekly, 29 May 1926, p. 11
3 Sunday Times, 30 Nov 1919, p. 16; Efficiency Club membership form, Women’s Library, London School of Economics SE 7/PHS/1/A/3
4 Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 21 Jul 1916, p. 3
5 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 13 Dec 1922, p. 9; Pall Mall Gazette, 25 May 1920, p. 9
6 Pall Mall Gazette, 15 Jan 1920, p. 9; Gloucestershire Echo, 8 Feb 1933, p. 6
7 Pall Mall Gazette, 26 Nov 1919, p. 11; Sunday Times, 1 May 1927, p. 15
8 The Times, 20 May 1919, p. 7
9 Sunday Times, 30 Nov 1919, p. 16
10 Daily Mail, 6 Nov 1931, p. 10
11 Portsmouth Evening News, 18 Nov 1920, p. 2
12 Jane Robins, The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath, John Murray, 2010, pp. 207–18
13 Daily Telegraph, 14 Nov 1930, p. 16
14 Lancashire Evening Post, 14 Nov 1930, p. 6
15 Dorothy L. Sayers to Ivy Shrimpton, 19 Nov 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers Papers, folder 60, p. 46. The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
16 Daily Sketch, 14 Jan 1926, p. 16
17 Livesey (League of Womanhood pamphlet), back cover
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