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Authors: Michael Knox Beran

33
“Have you got every thing”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 251.
34
“I am sure”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 492.
34
“the chaise is ready”
: Ibid., 493.
34
Cumberland Street
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 31.
35
loin of pork
: Ibid., 23.
35
“Here they are”
: Ibid., 16.
35
“We know Jack is”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 255.
35
“sing a good”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 33.
36
“You get out here”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 494.
36
Bow Street Horse Patrol
:
Fairburn's Edition of the Whole Proceedings of the Trial of John Thurtell
(London: John Fairburn, 1824), 37.
36
landlord of the White Lion
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 32.
37
stagnant water
: Honoré de Balzac,
Lost Illusions
, trans. Ellen Marriage (London: J. M. Dent, 1897), 44.
38
“a charming”
: Lytton Strachey,
Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1931), 70.
39
“I then heard groans”
:
Fairburn's Edition of the Whole Proceedings
, op. cit., 39.
39
“I had my wife”
:
Horrid Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Atrocious Murder of Mr. Weare
(London: Hodgson, n.d.), 25.
41
“He seemed to think”
:
Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle
(London: Macmillan, 1886), II, 230.
41
“a loud, roaring”
: Carlyle,
Reminiscences
, op. cit., 122.
42
“not only did more”
: John Ruskin,
Præterita
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 6–7.
42
“What sort of person was Mr. Weare?”
: In fact, this exchange seems not to have taken place during the trial. The historian Albert Borowitz believes that the writer had in mind a passage in the
Observer
of 2 November 1823, in which it was reported that Probert “always maintained an appearance of respectability, and kept his horse and gig.” Percy Fitzgerald, in his
Chronicles of the Bow Street Police-Office
, points to a similar reference in the
Morning Chronicle
.
42
“The gig of respectability”
: Carlyle,
Reminiscences
, op. cit., 190.
43
“This is my friend Hunt”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 495.
43
“Now I'll take you”
: Ibid., 158.
43
“hardly above five feet”
: Carlyle,
Reminiscences
, op. cit., 152.
44
drug-laden dreams
: The images in this paragraph are derived from De Quincey,
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
, op. cit.
44
“was broad noon”
: Ibid., 120.
44
“It is just by”
:
Fairburn's Edition of the Whole Proceedings
, op. cit., 25.
44
“This is the place”
: Ibid.
45
“This is all”
: Ibid.
45
“As we were going”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 496–97.
45
“I never had”
: Ibid., 497.
45
“like the devil”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 18.
45–46
“fought with me”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit. 497.
46
“about the jugular”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 18.
46
“jammed the pistol”
: Ibid.
47
“hot from slaughtering”
: Borowitz,
Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case
, op. cit., 169.
48
“as I have turned”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 258.
48
“very cordially”
: Ibid.
48
“You think me”
: Ibid.
48
“tip them a stave”
: H. B. Irving,
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
(New York: Doran, 1918), 298.
50
“world of ordinary life”
:
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
(London: A. C. Black, 1897), X, 392–94.
50
“Hence it is”
: Ibid., 393.
51
Dionysian dowry
: See Friedrich Nietzsche,
Ecce Homo
, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1989), 266.
51
“horrible mixture”
: Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1967), 39.
51
“re-establishment”
: De Quincey, “On the Knocking at the Gate in
Macbeth
,” op. cit., 393.
52
“I suppose”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 258.
52
“We may as well”
: Ibid.
53
“That's your share”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 18.
53
“This is a bad”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 259.
54
“mighty labyrinths”
: De Quincey,
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
, op. cit., 59.
54
Charles Lloyd
: Thomas De Quincey,
Literary Reminiscences
(Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851), 157 et seq.
54
“never to pay”
: De Quincey, “On the Knocking at the Gate in
Macbeth
,” op. cit., 389.
55
“the great alphabet”
: De Quincey,
Literary Reminiscences
, op. cit., 167.
55
“sympathy must be”
: De Quincey, “On the Knocking at the Gate in
Macbeth
,” op. cit., 391.
55
“I think that would”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 24.
55
“You shall not”
: Ibid., 19.
56
“very fine moonlight”
:
Horrid Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 21.
56
“heard something dragged”
:
Pierce Egan's Account of the Trial of John Thurtell
and Joseph Hunt
(London: Knight & Lacey, 1824), 64.
56
“hollow noise”
:
Horrid Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 21.
57
John Harrington
:
Pierce Egan's Account
, op. cit., 64;
Fairburn's Edition of the Whole Proceedings
, op. cit., 43;
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 11.
59
“a great deal stained”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 262.
59
“We Turpin lads”
: Ibid., 117.
59
“would never do”
:
Fairburn's Edition of the Whole Proceedings
, op. cit., 35.
60
“O John”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 262.
61
“Then I'm baked”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 20.
61
“they can do nothing”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 462.
62
“will be better”
:
Fairburn's Edition of the Whole Proceedings
, op. cit., 27.
62
“to pick up some”
: Lockhart,
Life of Sir Walter Scott
, op. cit., I, 115.
63
“turns upon marvelous”
: Sir Walter Scott, “Romance,” in
The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott
(Paris: Galignani, 1827), V, 700.
63
“exulting demoniac”
: Sir Walter Scott,
The Bride of Lamermoor
(London: Archibald Constable, 1895), 488.
63
“a sort of romance”
:
Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott
(Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1894), 178.
63–64
“I never saw”
:
The London and Paris Observer
(Paris: Galignani, 1857), 665.
64
“Is that you, Jack”
: Egan,
Recollections of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 40.
64
“John, my boy”
: Borowitz,
Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case
, op. cit., 36.
66
“gentlemen of the first”
:
Fatal Effects of Gambling
, op. cit., 75.
66
“it was pork”
:
Trial of John Thurtell
, op. cit., 36.
66
“plum-colored frock-coat”
: Borowitz,
Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case
, op. cit., 143.
66
“clung to every separate”
: Ibid., 173.
66
“Cut me not off”
: Ibid.
67
“strong desperate man”
: Edward Herbert, “A Pen and Ink Sketch of a Late Trial for Murder,” in
Spirit of the English Magazines
, 1 April 1824. “Edward Herbert” was a pseudonym of John Hamilton Reynolds.
67
“cannot but give”
:
Complete History and Development
, op. cit., 194–96.
67
“all Sir Walter's”:
David Masson, “Thurtell's Murder of Weare,” in
Select Essays of Thomas De Quincey Narrative & Imaginative
(Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1888), 180.
67–68
“Very unsatisfactory”
:
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott 1825–1832
(Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891), 228.
68
“strange intricate”
: Ibid., 607.
68
Scott's visit to the cottage
: Ibid., 607–08.
68
“Indeed the whole”
: Ibid.
68
“took care always”
: Lockhart,
Life of Sir Walter Scott
, op. cit., IV, 63.
69
“I am glad of it”
: “Prize-Fighting,” in
The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine
(January 1834) (London: Henry Colburn, 1834), 62–63.
69
“since the calamitous”
:
The Newgate Calendar
(London: Robins and Co., 1828), IV, 402.
73
Toward the end of December 1836
: Unless otherwise noted, all facts and quotations relating to The Mystery of the Mutilated Corpse have their source in (1) the transcript of the Trial of James Greenacre and Sarah Gale, April 1837,
Old Bailey Proceedings Online
(www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 6.0, 17 April 2011) (t18370403-917), (2) “Edgware-Road Tragedy,” in
Annual Register
, April 1837, 37–42, or (3) the entry for James Greenacre in
Dictionary of National Biography
(New York: Macmillan, 1890), XXIII, 61 et seq.
74
“like to His glorious body”
: Philippians 3:21.
77
“It was what”
: “The Edgware Road Murder,” in
The London Medical and Surgical Journal
(London: Michael Ryan
et alia
, 1837), I, 62.
80
“hardly light enough”
:
New Letters of Thomas Carlyle
(London: John Lane, 1904), I, 53.
80
“Only once!”
: Matthew Arnold, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge,” in
The English Poets
, ed. T. H. Ward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1894), IV, 111.
82
Crimley Hall
: Kimberley Hall, in fact; but the name came to be spelled as it was pronounced. The pedigree which traces the descent of the Wodehouses from Sir Constantine de Wodehouse, a knight who in the reign of Henry I is said to have married an heiress of the Botetorts, has been pronounced spurious by at least one genealogist. See Walter Rye, “Doubtful Norfolk Pedigrees,” in
The Genealogist
(London: George Bell, 1879), 129–32. The specious derivation would perhaps have amused the most illustrious of the family's scions, P. G. Wodehouse.

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