Джентльмен и вор: идеальные кражи драгоценностей в век джаза - Дин Джобб
Ограбление Стилуэллов стало одним из первых – “Jewel Thief Admits Stilwell Residence Burglary Last Year,” Yonkers Statesman, June 11, 1927; “Believe Livermore Gem Thief Got Nearly Million in County,” Yonkers Statesman, June 15, 1927; “15 More Robberies Admitted by Barry,” New York Times, June 15, 1927.
Иногда они работали сообща – “Barry Identifies Houses He Robbed,” New York Times, June 29, 1927.
втереться в высшее общество – “Trap ‘Boston Billy,’ Shoot and Seize Him”; “Jewel Thief, 62, Dies in Poverty,” New York Times, October 25, 1960; “‘Boston Billy’ Boasts of Many Conquests; Denies Livermore Raid.”
«Он отполировал свою элегантность» – “Trap ‘Boston Billy,’ Shoot and Seize Him.”
«коллегами по бизнесу» – Anna Blake Barry, “My Life of Love and Fear as the Sweetheart and Wife of Arthur Barry, the World’s Most Famous Jewel-Thief,” Atlanta Constitution, January 15 and February 5, 1933.
«любая женщина – моя» – “‘Boston Billy’ Boasts of Many Conquests; Denies Livermore Raid.”
ему придется пожалеть – К такому выводу пришел Нил Хикки после бесед с Бэрри. См.: Hickey, “The Gentleman Was a Thief,” 87.
президента банка Марселиса Парсонса – “Rye, N. Y. Burglar Gets $6000 to $7000 in Jewels,” Boston Globe, November 13, 1924; “$6,000 in Gems Stolen,” Gazette (Montreal, QC), November 13, 1924; “Comly Elected Vice-President of the Rye National Bank,” Daily Item (Port Chester, NY), January 18, 1927.
Дональдсона Брауна и его жены Греты – “Rob G. M. C. Secretary,” Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI), December 5, 1924; “$10,000 Gem Theft,” Daily News, December 6, 1924; and “DuPont Company Names Directors,” Evening Journal (Wilmington, DE), March 9, 1925; “Believe Livermore Gem Thief Got Nearly Million in County”; “Scarsdale Murder Laid to Gem Thief,” New York Times, June 16, 1927.
порт-честерский дом Роя Аллена – “Second-Story Man at Work,” Ithaca Journal (NY), January 15, 1926; “Scarsdale Murder Laid to Gem Thief”; “Believe Livermore Gem Thief Got Nearly Million in County.”
в мае вернулся в Рай – “Motor Burglars Make Jewel Haul at Wheeler mansion in Rye, N.Y.,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 8, 1926; “See Men Fleeing from Rye Home of Can Company Head, Police Won’t Reveal Booty,” Daily Item, May 8, 1926; “Armed Crooks Menaced the Wheeler Family; Thought They Had Cut Phone Wire,” Daily Item, May 10, 1926.
Уилер был президентом ассоциации гольфа в 1918 году (см. “U.S. G. A. Gives Ouimet War-Time Present,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 26, 1918).
«Не будите мужа» – “Well-Mannered Bandits Rob Home of Pencil King While He Sleeps,” Yonkers Statesman, July 9, 1926; “Burglars Take Jewels,” Times Union, July 10, 1926; “Scarsdale Murder Laid to Gem Thief”; “Believe Livermore Gem Thief Got Nearly Million in County”; “15 More Robberies Admitted by Barry.”
Информация о Берольцхаймерах (они позднее сменили фамилию, сократив ее до «Берол»): “Alfred Berol, 81, of Eagle Pencils,” New York Times, June 16, 1974; “Berol Era,” in Kenneth L. Diem, Leonore L. Diem and William C. Lawrence, “A Tale Of Dough Gods, Bear Grease, Cantaloupe, and Sucker Oil: Marymere/Pinetree/Mae-Lou/AMK Ranch” (Moran, WY), University of Wyoming-National Park Service Research Center, 1986, http://npshistory.com/publications/grte/dough_gods/sec3.htm.
взяли железную стремянку – “Plum House Looted of $55,000 in Gems at Point of Guns,” Asbury Park Press (NJ), September 11, 1926; “Druggist Kills Wrong Man at Holdup, Claim,” Daily News, September 11, 1926; “$75,000 Gems Stolen from Seashore Home,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 11, 1926.
«Для покоя, процветания, для самих наших жизней» – “The Statesman Says—,” Yonkers Statesman, August 9, 1926.
Глава 18. Сокровища Рокфеллеров
В луче фонарика – Neil Hickey, “The Gentleman Was a Thief: The Colorful Story of Arthur Barry, a 1920’s Rogue” (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961), 83–85; “Rockefeller Home Thief Has Ladder,” Daily Item (Port Chester, NY), October 26, 1926; “Rockefellers’ Gems Stolen by Lone Thief,” Daily News (New York), October 27, 1926; “Thief Enters Percy A. Rockefeller’s Home at Greenwich and Takes Valuable Jewels,” New York Times, October 27, 1926; “P. Rockefeller Home Robbed as Family Dines,” Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1926; “Jewelry Burglar Robs Rockefeller Greenwich Home,” Hartford Courant, October 27, 1926.
попала в заголовки газет по всей Северной Америке – В том числе: “Percy Rockefeller’s Home Robbed as Family Dines,” San Francisco Examiner, October 27, 1926; “Rockefeller Jewels Stolen,” Pittsburgh Daily Post, October 27, 1926; “Lone Burglar Gets Rockefeller Gems,” Montreal Star, October 27, 1926; “Rockefeller Home Robbed,” Leader-Post (Regina, SK), October 27, 1926.
около ста миллионов долларов – “Two Americans Lead List of World’s Twelve Richest Men,” Daily News, October 7, 1926; Ron Chernow, “Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller” (New York: Vintage, 2004), 132, 226, 233, 337, 375–76, 632.
«капиталист первой величины» – “Percy Rockefeller, Financier, Is Dead,” Boston Globe, September 26, 1934.
«отпрысков миллионов» – Baltimore Sun, April 24, 1901.
«Я не покупала эти вещи» – “Rockefellers’ Gems Stolen by Lone Thief,” Daily News, October 27, 1926; “Rockefeller Gem Robbery Unsolved,” Daily News, October 29, 1926 – здесь стоимость украденного оценивается в $25 000. Первоначально называлась сумма $20 000 (см. “Rockefeller Jewel Thief Left No Clues,” Journal (Meriden, CT), October 27, 1926).
дело рук того же вора – “Jewelry Burglar Robs Rockefeller Greenwich Home,” Hartford Courant, October 27, 1926; “P. A. Rockefeller’s Home Robbed,” Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), October 29, 1926; “Thief Enters Percy A. Rockefeller’s Home at Greenwich and Takes Valuable Jewels,” New York Times, October 27, 1926.
вынес бриллианты на тридцать тысяч – “Greenwich Gem Thief Gets Rich,” Daily Item, September 27, 1926; “Robberies Total $800,000,” Hartford Courant, July 8, 1927.
Бизнес Армстронга: “Shoe Firm Founder’s Rites Will Be Here,” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), October 30, 1931.
Описание усадьбы: “Suit Over Residence Sale,” Hartford Courant, October 29, 1926; “A ‘Very English’ Citadel Could Possibly Be Your Subsequent Dwelling in Greenwich,” Luxury Homes News, April 5, 2021, https://luxuryhomesnews.com/a-very-english-citadel-could-possibly-be-your-subsequent-dwelling-in-greenwich.
избегал публичности – “Percy A. Rockefeller of New York Dies,” Boston Globe, September 25, 1934.
«одной из выдающихся резиденций» – Lee E. Cooper, “Percy Rockefeller Mansion to be Razed; Estate Once Insured Against Earthquakes,” New York Times, February 25, 1938.
самым высоким … доходом
