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3. He was named as Newbold in the minutes of the Central Criminal Court, instead of Hugo.
4. The Times, 22 July 1909.
5. Ibid. Berrett would eventually become a Chief Inspector, and wrote his memoirs, When I Was at Scotland Yard (London, Sampson Low & Co.), in 1932.
6. Lloyd’s Weekly News, 12 September 1909.
7. The Times, 7 July 1909.
8. The Times, 29 June 1909.
9. The Times, 22 July 1909.
10. The Times, 13 September 1909.
11. The Times, 3 July 1922.
CHAPTER NINE
1. Unless otherwise stated, the information contained in the Crippen section of this book was obtained from PRO CRIM1/117, PRO DPP 1/13, PRO MEPO 3/198, PRO P/COM 8/30 and Filson Young (ed.), The Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen (Notable British Trials, 2nd edition), Edinburgh and London, William Hodge & Company Ltd, 1933; Walter Dew, I Caught Crippen, London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son Ltd, 1938.
2. Sunday News, 12 January 1930.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
1. Sir Melville Macnaghten, Days of My Years, London, Edward Arnold, 1914, p. 195.
2. Ibid.
3. Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune, 15 July 1910.
4. Gooch later became a Chief Inspector and head of the Flying Squad. He died in a car crash in 1936.
5. Pall Mall Gazette, 15 July 1910.
6. Pall Mall Gazette, 14 July 1910.
7. The People, 17 July 1910.
8. The Times, 19 July 1910.
9. The Times, 16 July 1910.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1. The Times, 19 July 1910.
2. The Times, 20 July 1910.
3. The Times, 21 July 1910.
4. Daily Mail, 29 July 1910.
5. The Times, 20 July 1910.
6. The Times, 22 July 1910.
7. Macnaghten, Days of My Years, p. 189.
8. The controversy over Crippen’s title was later discussed in the letters column of The Times, on 2 November 1938 and 5 November 1938.
9. Daily Mail, 20 July 1910.
10. The Times, 22 July 1910.
11. Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune, 21 July 1910.
12. Macnaghten, Days of My Years, pp. 199–200.
13. Durban Daily News, 12 November 1938.
14. Liverpool Courier, 25 July 1910.
15. Montreal Daily Star, 30 July 1910.
16. The Umpire, 27 July 1910.
17. The Times, 29 July 1910.
18. Montreal Daily Star, 30 July 1910.
19. Ibid.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1. Daily Mail, 12 August 1910.
2. Macnaghten, Days of My Years, p. 189.
3. Reynold’s Weekly Newspaper, 7 August 1910.
4. The Times, 1 August 1910.
5. The Times, 2 August 1910.
6. Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune, 4 August 1910.
7. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 4 August 1910.
8. Liverpool Courier, 3 August 1910.
9. The Times, 6 August 1910.
10. Daily Chronicle, 8 August 1910.
11. The Times, 9 August 1910.
12. San Francisco Chronicle, 9 August 1910.
13. The Times, 5 August 1910.
14. Montreal Daily Star, 15 August 1910.
15. The Times, 16 August 1910.
16. Dornford Yates, As Berry and I Were Saying, London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., 1952, p. 240.
17. Liverpool Daily Post, 22 August 1910.
18. The Times, 29 August 1910.
19. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 22 August 1910.
20. Yates, As Berry and I Were Saying, p. 243.
21. Ibid., pp. 255–6.
22. Lloyd’s Weekly News, 13 November 1910.
23. Daily Mail, 29 August 1910.
24. Liverpool Courier, 29 August 1910.
25. Reynold’s Weekly Newspaper, 28 August 1910.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
1. Thomson’s Weekly News, 6 November 1920.
2. Travers Humphreys, A Book of Trials, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1953, p. 162.
3. Travers Humphreys, Criminal Days, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946, p. 112.
4. Sunday Express, 31 December 1923.
5. Tom Cullen, The Mild Murderer, London, The Bodley Head, 1977, p. 146.
6. Sunday Express, 6 January 1924.
7. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 4 September 1910.
8. Reynold’s Weekly Newspaper, 4 September 1910.
9. The Times, 1 August 1910.
10. Pall Mall Gazette, 14 September 1910.
11. The drug hyoscine is spelt both hyoscine and hyoscin in the various documents and books concerning the Crippen case. Here the spelling hyoscine is used throughout.
12. The Times, 7 September 1910.
13. The Times, 9 September 1910.
14. The Times, 13 September 1910.
15. Pall Mall Gazette, 14 September 1910.
16. The Times, 15 September 1910.
17. The Times, 17 September 1910.
18. The Globe, 21 September 1910.
19. Ibid.
20. Dictionary of National Biography.
21. Edward Marjoribanks, The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929, pp. 281–3. Travers Humphreys denied that this was the case. In his A Book of Trials, he wrote that Marshall Hall ‘declined to accept it for reasons which seemed good to him and which had nothing to do with the suggested defence of manslaughter’ (pp. 62–3).
22. Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune, 20 September 1910.
23. Penny Illustrated Paper, 1 October 1910.
24. The People, 23 April 1933.
25. The Times, 27 September 1910.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1. Dictionary of National Biography.
2. Rt Hon. Viscount Alverstone, Recollections of Bar and Bench, London, Edward Arnold, 1914, p. 274.
3. Douglas G. Browne and E.V. Tullett, Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases, London, White Lion Publishers Ltd, 1951, p. 48.
4. S. Ingleby Oddie, Inquest, London, Hutchinson & Co., 1941, p. 74.
5. Sidney Felstad, Sir Richard Muir: A Memoir of a Public Prosecutor, London, John Lane, 1927, p. 116.
6. Stanley Jackson, The Life and Cases of Mr Justice Humphreys, London, Odhams Press, 1952, p. 74.
7. Travers Humphreys, Criminal Days, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946, p. 113.
8. Ibid., p. 106.
9. Ingleby Oddie, Inquest, p. 13.
10. Douglas G. Browne, Sir Travers Humphreys: A Biography, London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1960, p. 69.
11. Travers Humphreys, A Book of Trials, London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1953, p. 55.
12. Ibid., p. 59.
13. The Times, 4 December 1939.
14. The Globe, 17 October 1910.
15. Felstead, Sir Richard Muir, p. 88.
16. Max Constantine-Quinn, Doctor Crippen, London, Duckworth, 1935, p. 45.
17. Pall Mall Gazette, 19 October 1910.
18. Lloyd’s Weekly News, 23 October 1910.
19. Pall Mall Gazette, 19 October 1910.
20. Felstead, Sir Richard Muir, p. 73.
21. Douglas G. Browne and E.V. Tullett, Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases, London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1951, p. 51.
22. Ibid., pp. 38–9.
23. Pall Mall Gazette, 21 October 1910.
24. Travers Humphreys, Criminal Days, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946, pp. 108–9.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
1. Macnaghten, Days of My Years, p. 201.
2. Sunday Express, 27 February 1927.
3. Yates, As Berry and I Were Saying, p. 258.
4. Alverstone, Recollections of Bar and Bench, p. 274.
5. Harold Eaton, ‘Crippen and the Belle Elmore’, in The Fifty Most Amazing Crimes of the Last 100 Years, London, Odhams Press Ltd, 1936, p. 119.
6. Browne and Tullett, Sir Travers Humphreys, p. 43.
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1. Dictionary of National Biography.
2. The Times, 26 October 1910.
3. Earl of Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin, Earl of Birkenhead, vol. 1, London, Thornton Butterworth, 1933, p. 300.
4. Ibid., p. 297.
5. Thomson’s Weekly News, 8 January 1920.
6. Thomson’s Weekly News, 16 October 1920.
7. Thomson’s Weekly News, 30 October 1920.
8. Thomson’s Weekly News, 20 November 1920. Contemporary reports state that Le Neve was given women’s clothes by the wardresses from Holloway.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1. Sunday Express, 6 January 1924.
2. Globe, 5 November 1910.
3. Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune, 11 November 1910.
4. Randolph S. Churchill, Young Statesman: Winston S. Churchill 1901–1914, London, Heinemann, 1967, p. 418. Churchill does not appear to have written anything about his involvement in the Crippen case, nor have his biographers. This seems a little odd, as he was so closely involved in the case, as was his best friend F.E. Smith. It may be an indication that, despite its notoriety, the Crippen case was of little historical significance compared to other events in Churchill’s monumental life.
5. Sunday Express, 23 June 1935.
6. Daily Mail, 17 November 1910.
7. The Umpire, 13 November 1910.
8. Sunday Express, 27 February 1921. Another, more sympathetic account of Mytton Davies’s feelings towards Crippen can be found in Tom Cullen’s book on the Crippen case, The Mild Murderer, published in 1977. Cullen spoke to Mytton Davies’s son Cynric, who recalled that his father ‘found Crippen to be a very mild, inoffensive little man who never gave anyone any trouble. He believed that Crippen was covering up for the real culprit, and was going to his death on that person’s behalf’ (p. 178).
9. The Leader, 17 June 1930.
10. Thomson’s Weekly Newspaper, 1 March 1919.
11. Thomson’s Weekly News, 19 July 1924.
12. Sunday Dispatch, 26 February 1956.
13. Reynold’s Weekly Newspaper, 27 November 1910.
14. Thomson’s Weekly News, 19 July 1924.
15. Unfortunately, there is no copy of this edition at the British Library Newspaper Library.
16. The Leader, 14 October 1930.
17. Thomson’s Weekly News, 16 September 1922. Newton once again made the claim that Crippen had confessed to murdering Cora in the Sunday Express, 6 January 1924.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
1. Police Review and Parade Gossip, 30 December 1910.
2. Lloyd’s Weekly News, 6 November 1910.
3. Dew wrote that ‘[a]part from “Jack the Ripper” case, I was never associated with what is described as “An unsolved murder”’. However, in 1908 he arrested Flora Haskell for the murder of her son at Salisbury. Haskell was reluctantly found guilty by a coroner’s jury, but acquitted after a second assize trial. Dew was probably of the opinion that she was guilty, hence his assertion that he worked on only one unsolved murder case.
4. Police Review and Parade Gossip, 30 December 1910.
5. PRO MEPO 4/343.
6. PRO MEPO 21/39.
7. PRO MEPO 7/72.
8. Tom Divall, Scoundrels and Scallywags, London, Ernest Benn, 1929.
9. Thomson’s Weekly News, 19 November 1910.
10. Saturday Post, 24 August 1912.
11. Daily Chronicle, 25 January 1911.
12. The Times, 4 April 1911.
13. Wandsworth volume of London Suburban Directory, 1911/1912.
14. The Times, 1 April 1911.
15. The Times, 2 May 1911.
16. Ibid.
17. The Times, 12 May 1911.
CHAPTER TWENTY
1. Jonathan Goodman, The Crippen File, London, Allison & Busby, 1985, p. 90.
2. A photograph of Dew in his garden was published in the Weekly News (aka Thomson’s Weekly News) on 30 August 1913.
3. PRO MEPO 21/69.
4. Police Review and Parade Gossip, 17 November 1933.
5. Saturday Post, 29 January 1916.
6. Filson Young (ed.), Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen, 2nd edition, Edinburgh and London, William Hodge & Company Ltd, 1933, p. xxx.
7. Again, as with Kate Morris, I have been unable to find anything substantial about the Idle sisters.
8. Worthing Herald, 19 December 1947.
9. Sunday Express, 12 December 1926.
10. Sunday Express, 2 October 1927.
11. The fullest and best account of this case is in Richard Whittington-Egan, The Riddle of Birdhurst Rise, London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1975.
12. Sunday Express, 1 September 1929.
13. Thomson’s Weekly News, 16 May 1936.
14. Lloyd’s Weekly News, 31 December 1911.
15. The story of the Smith case was part of the Notable British Trials series. It was published in 1922 and edited by Eric R. Watson. Cream’s case also appeared in 1923, edited by W. Teignmouth Shore.
16. Thomson’s Weekly News, 19 July 1924.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
1. Daily Mail, 10 July 1934.
2. The letter is contained in a scrapbook of Walter Dew’s containing cuttings relating to him and reviews of his biography. The scrapbook is in the possession of the crime historian Jonathan Goodman.
3. Thomson’s Weekly News, 15 September 1934.
4. Durban Daily News, 12 November 1938.
5. Constantine-Quinn, Doctor Crippen.
6. Ursula Bloom, The Girl Who Loved Crippen, London, Hutchinson & Co., 1955, p. 162.
7. Worthing Gazette, 10 August 1938.
8. These reviews and many more are contained in Walter Dew’s scrapbook.
9. Ibid.
10. The Times, 21 November 1938.
11. Worthing Herald, 8 March 1946, 15 March 1946.
12. Worthing Gazette, 17 December 1947; Worthing Herald, 19 December 1947.
13. The Times, 17 December 1947.
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