“General suspicion”: Ibid.
“Consequently I left”: Ibid.
“The watchful Detective”: Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, General Principles and
Rules of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, LOC.
“weakens the whole”: Ibid.
“shot her”: Report by Findlay, July 13, 1923, FBI.
“clue that seems”: Ibid.
“We are going”: Report by Findlay, July 10, 1923, FBI.
“she came out”: Mollie Burkhart et al. v. Ella Rogers, Supreme Court of the State of
Oklahoma, NARA-FW.
“a love that”: Ibid.
“prostituting the sacred bond”: Ibid.
“Burns was the first”: “Scientific Eavesdropping,” Literary Digest, June 15, 1912.
“a little baby”: Grand jury testimony of Bob Carter, NARA-FW.
“The fact he”: In proceedings of Ware v. Beach, Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma,
Comstock Family Papers.
“Operative shadowed”: Report by Findlay, July 13, 1923, FBI.
“endowed with”: Christison, Treatise on Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence,
Physiology, and the Practice of Physic, 684.
“agitated and trembles”: Ibid.
“untrained”: Oscar T. Schultz and E. M. Morgan, “The Coroner and the Medical
Examiner,” Bulletin of the National Research Council, July 1928.
“kind-hearted”: Washington Post, Nov. 17, 1935.
“Be careful”: Washington Post, Sept. 6, 1922.
“the most brutal”: Washington Post, July 14, 1923.
“CONSPIRACY BELIEVED”: Washington Post, March 12, 1925.
6: MILLION DOLLAR ELM
“ ‘MILLIONAIRES’ SPECIAL’ ”: Pawhuska Daily Journal, March 18, 1925.
“PAWHUSKA GIVES”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, June 14, 1921.
“MEN OF MILLIONS”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, April 5, 1923.
“Osage Monte Carlo”: Rister, Oil!, 190.
“Brewster, the hero”: Daily Oklahoman, Jan. 28, 1923.
“There is a touch”: Ada Evening News, Dec. 24, 1924.
“Come on boys”: Daily Journal-Capital, March 29, 1928.
“It was not unusual”: Gunther, The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way, 124.
“the oil men”: Quoted in Allen, Only Yesterday, 129.