Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin

CHAPTER 45

A BANK WITHDRAWAL

⁶⁹⁶ Charles J. Sweeney: My depiction of Sweeney's task force is drawn from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection. See also Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 43.

⁶⁹⁷ Doris Catherine Westwood: Westwood statement in the sixty-three-page compendium document Scotland Yard Files, Hughes Collection.

⁶⁹⁸ Maurice Isaacs and his wife: This passage is drawn from various accounts in the London papers--including the Times and the Telegraph--and my own visit to the jewelry store address near Paddington Station. I also benefited from an interview with the Isaacses' son, Vincent Isaacs, June 27, 2008, London.

⁶⁹⁹ Robert Wood: From Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files, Hughes Collection.

⁷⁰⁰ Ian Colvin: My recounting of Sneyd's calls to Colvin is primarily drawn from Colvin's article "Dr. King Suspect Here 3 Weeks, Mystery Calls to the Daily Telegraph," London Daily Telegraph, June 10, 1968, p. 1. See also Frank, American Death, p. 320.

⁷⁰¹ "He was nervous": Nassau, quoted in Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 166.

⁷⁰² Trustee Savings Bank in Fulham: My account of Sneyd's robbery is largely drawn from Scotland Yard interviews with the bank employees, in Scotland Yard Files, Hughes Collection. See also Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 249; Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 166; and Frank, American Death, p. 321.

⁷⁰³ "Mr. Sneyd, on April 4": My depiction of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police interrogation of Ramon Sneyd is primarily drawn from "Statement of Ramon George Sneyd, Born October 8, 1932, Cautioned by: R. Marsh, Detective Sergeant, Metro Toronto P.D.," Royal Canadian Mounted Police Files 1, Hughes Collection.

⁷⁰⁴ "He seemed ill": My depiction of Sneyd's stay at the Pax Hotel in Pimlico is drawn from "The Man in Locked Room," Evening Standard, June 10, 1968. See also Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, p. 167.

⁷⁰⁵ "I was in a daze": Young, Easy Burden, pp. 486-87.

⁷⁰⁶ "We were all still trying": Ibid.

⁷⁰⁷ "I haven't heard from Major Wicks": Colvin, "Dr. King Suspect Here 3 Weeks," p. 1. See also Posner, Killing the Dream, p. 248.

⁷⁰⁸ "many criminals seeking refuge": Butler's obituary, Times (London), April 21, 1970.

⁷⁰⁹ "We knew that the fugitive": DeLoach, Hoover's FBI, p. 249.