11 The name was, of course, originally spelled Drucker. The change—possibly some vague attempt at Americanization—was made by Mrs. Drukker when she settled in this country. [↩︎]
12 He gave me very much the same impression as did General Homer Lee when I visited him at Santa Monica shortly before his death. [↩︎]
13 Saturday was a “half day” at the District Attorney’s office. Swacker was Markham’s secretary. [↩︎]
14 The old anonymous nursery rhyme, “The Death and Burial of Cock Robin,” is not, as is commonly supposed, one of the original “Mother Goose Melodies,” although it has often been included in modern editions of that famous work. [↩︎]
15 Inspector William M. Moran, who died two years ago, was, at the time of the Bishop case, the Commanding Officer of the Detective Bureau. [↩︎]
16 This expression was actually developed by Christoffel for a problem on the conductivity of heat, and published by him in 1869 in the “Crelle Journal für reine und angewandte Mathematik.” [↩︎]
17 A similar state of panic obtained in London in 1888 when Jack-the-Ripper was engaged in his grisly, abnormal debauch; and again in Hanover in 1923 when Haarmann, the werwolf, was busy with his anthropophagous slaughters. But I can recall no other modern parallel for the atmosphere of gruesome horror that settled over New York during the Bishop murders. [↩︎]
18 Chief Inspector O’Brien was then in command of the entire Police Department. [↩︎]
19 Captain Hagedorn was the fire-arms expert of the New York Police Department. It was he who, in the Benson murder case, gave Vance the data with which to establish the height of the murderer; and who made the examination of the three bullets fired from the old Smith & Wesson revolver in the Greene murder case. [↩︎]
20 Akiba Rubinstein was then, and is to-day, the chess champion of Poland and one of the great international masters of the game. He was born in Stavisk, near Lodz, in 1882, and made his début in international chess at the Ostend tournament in 1906. His recent visit to America resulted in a series of new triumphs. [↩︎]