The Valentino Affair (61 page)

18
New York Times,
December 3, 1917.

19
Syracuse Herald,
December 3, 1917.

20
New York Times,
December 3, 1917.

21
Evening World,
December 3, 1917.

22
Ibid.

23
New York Times,
December 3, 1917.

24
Ibid.

25
Evening World,
December 3, 1917.

26
Ibid.

27
Ibid.

28
Washington Times,
December 4, 1917.

29
New York Times,
December 4, 1917.

30
Washington Times,
December 4, 1917.

31
Ibid.

32
New York Tribune,
December 9, 1917.

33
In July 1917, Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm, an officer serving on the Western Front, returned to England on furlough and caught his wife in bed with Anton Bamberg. Malcolm thrashed Bamberg severely, but he could do nothing to prevent the affair. On August 17, he surprised the couple in a London hotel, and this time he shot Bamberg dead. An inquest returned a verdict of “justifiable homicide,” and he was subsequently acquitted at trial. The senior defense lawyer, Sir John Simon, had told the jury that he was not going to appeal to the “unwritten law.” In his summation the judge stressed that the so-called unwritten law did not exist in England.

34
New York Tribune,
December 9, 1917.

35
Chicago Defender,
April 4, 1918.

36
Atlanta Constitution,
April 15, 1918.

37
Chicago Defender,
April 4, 1918.

38
Amsterdam Evening Recorder,
August 21, 1918.

39
New York Times,
January 12, 1919.

40
New York Times,
January 13, 1919.

41
Chicago Daily Tribune,
April 23, 1918.

42
Syracuse Herald,
January 5, 1922.

43
Emily W. Leider,
Dark Lover
, 99.

44
Adela Rogers St. Johns, “Valentino: The Life Story of the Sheik, Part 2,”
Liberty,
September 18, 1926, 66.

45
Valentino had divorced Jean Acker in 1922. In a typically impulsive gesture, that same year he married Natacha Rambova before his divorce decree was absolute, leading to him being briefly jailed on charges of bigamy.

46
Milwaukee Sentinel,
June 14, 1942.

B
IBLIOGRAPHY

Because this is the first full-length book dealing with the de Saulles case, and because the court records and a trial transcript were lost in a fire, the main sources of research, by necessity, have been contemporary newspapers. Thanks to the high caliber (and exhaustive length) of crime reporting in the early twentieth century, there was no shortage of material. The following newspapers were consulted at length:

Amsterdam Daily News

Atlanta Constitution

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Chicago Daily Tribune

Evening World

Ithaca Daily News

Lockport Union-Sun and Journal

Los Angeles Times

Nassau Post

New York Evening Telegram

New York Herald

New York Sun

New York Times

New York Tribune

Rome Daily Sentinel

South Side Messenger

Syracuse Herald

Washington Herald

Washington Post

Washington Times

In addition, the following books provided background information:

Baden, Michael, with Judith Adler Hennessee.
Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner.
New York: Ballantine, 1989.

Botham, Neil.
Valentino: The First Superstar.
New York: Metro, 2002.

Capuzzo, Michael.
Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence.
New York: Random House, 2001.

Cuthbert, C. R. M.
Science and the Detection of Crime.
London: Grey Arrow, 1962.

Dearden, Harold.
Death under the Microscope.
London: Hutchinson, 1934.

Ellenberger, Allan R.
The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Hocking, Denis.
Bodies and Crimes.
London: Arrow Books, 1994.

Leider, Emily W.
Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003.

Morland, Nigel.
Science in Crime Detection.
London: Camelot, 1958.

Morris, Michael.
Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.

Saferstein, Richard.
Criminalistics: Introduction to Forensic Science.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.

I
NDEX

Note: Page numbers in
italics
indicate illustrations.

A

Acker, Jean
, 254–55

Alimony
(movie)
, 146

B

Bailey, Lulu D.
, 54

Balmaceda contribution
, 19

Battle, George Battle
, 119
, 131
, 241

Becker, Lt. Charles
, 73

Beecher, Henry Ward
, 119

Beedman, Dean Frederick
, 118

Beers, Herman H.
, 144

Belmont, August, Jr.
, 23

Belmont, Perry
, 23

Benton , Arthur
, 214

Bleekman, John E.
, 104
, 109

Bliss, Cornelius, Jr.
, 42

Boissevain, Inez
, 67
, 180

The Boomerang
(comedy)
, 80

Bowles, Thomas H.
, 250

The Box (Jack’s Westbury home)

after Jack’s death
, 105
, 109
, 126
, 150–51

during Jack’s lifetime
, 67
, 78
, 81
, 82
, 84
, 85
, 87
, 89–90

sale
, 250–51

Brown, Waldron T.
, 10

Bruce, John E.
, 245–46

Bryan, William Jennings
, 45

Bucken, John C.
, 142
, 237

C

Campbell Funeral Church
, 109
, 114
, 257

Carbone, Robert
, 136