May 22, 2025 • 26 mins
A crime anthology that delves into real-life cases, presenting dramatized stories that highlight the darker aspects of human nature. Each episode offers a suspenseful journey into criminal investigations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It speaking from London from the Black Museum, a museum
of death. Yes, here in the grim stone structure on
the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide,
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a warehouse where everyday objects a paper weight, of broken
wine bottle, a shaded lamp all are touched by murder.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To take his jackets.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Woolen handed is a baby's garment, dusty with age and
only half completed sleeves are missing, Inspector, and it still
has to be stitched up. Yes, looks rather pathetic, doesn't it, Sergeant?
It does help? Yes, got to put it back to
me a test case. I've been needing it before. On today.
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That jacket's sleeveless and unstitch can be seen in the
Black Museum. From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department
of the London Police.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We bring you the dramatic stories of the crimes recorded
by the objects in Scotland Yard's Gallery of Death, the
Black Museum. In just the moment, you will hear the
Black Museum starring Awesome Wells now the Black Museum steyn
(02:08):
Awesome Wells.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yards,
Museum of murder. Herelive death, dressed in its Sunday best. Here,
for example's the nail file was once used by a
manicurist suprembent Ay finkingails was a beautiful woman, later used
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by an insane killer. Here's a length of cord weighted
with lead and either ends pomis enough to look at,
but lethal in its effect. Is a weapon of murder. Ah,
Heilia says. The jacket muffles and dusty, somewhat inconspicuous in
its place on the shelf, a tragic relic of passion
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and violence. I'm going to take you back quite a
few years to a warm Sunday morning in June of
the year nineteen twenty one. We are outside a small
chapel in the London suburb of Kensal Rise. The service
is not long ended, and the congregation files slowly from within.
Out of the brilliant sunshine. A young girl emerges, who
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waves till a few friends gathered near the entrance, and
turns along the dusty yellow road in the direction of
the tarniship. She's gone but half a block, and she
hears an unfamiliar voice calling out to miss Miss. She
turns and finds herself face to face with a man
she has never seen before, a stocky, broad shouldered young
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man with a round face and black penetrating eyes. I
beg your pardon, miss, I think you'll drop this.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, my him.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It is yours?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Then?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh yes, I wasn't quite sure. Hate you ever so much?
Oh that's all right.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I don't know what i'd have done if i'd lost it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Mother never forgiven me. She gave it to me my
twelfth person. Yet I've had it ever since.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
In that case, it is a good thing.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
And I happened to be looking your way.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yes, well, I must be old het you again.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You're getting towards the village.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, I live on the other side of the eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm going that way myself. Perhaps you wouldn't mind my
walking with you, not at all, Sonny.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I thought I knew most of the posts about these thoughts,
but I don't ever remember.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Seeing you before.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's not surprising. I mean, newcomer to kensal rise. I
already been here a few days, and that explains it.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Yes, I've been transferred to the bank here.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh you're except to be staying long, No longer than
I can help. I'm trying to save enough money to
buy a chicken farm.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
A chicken farm, it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Probably strikes you as being a queer ambition tell to have,
but I've always wanted one ever.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Since I was a youngster.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I've even got a small piece of land picked out
half an eggre at Clobra in Sussex.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Ciber as a friend who lived there on the land. Yes,
it's a wonderful spot.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I've stayed there for a week once, and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
After every minute of it, well then you've probably learn
more about the place than I do. I mean, had
just passed through it. But that's when I saw the
lamb for sale.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
How long ago was that?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All? About six or seven months?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Have it's been sold in the meantime, No, that's hardly likely.
You see, I spoke to the agent.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
His home years had already been up for sale two years,
and looked like saying that waiting for the next ten Oh,
I see, I really hope he knew what he was
talking about. The two walked on in silence for several moments,
then suddenly the young man laughed. I say, I've been
walking along telling you my inmost secrets, and I haven't
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even introduced myself.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I was just about to say the same thing.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Well, the name's Move, Trevor Move, and mine's evening Rose.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Every one calls me Edie.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that's how it all began, a romance destined to
flower with all the beauty of young love, only to
wither and die of tragic death. But let us not anticipate,
let us follow the course of that romance, or rather
let us pick out the more pertinent of its developments.
After their first meeting, Trevor Moon and Evie Rose spent
most of their time in each other's company. For twelve months,
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they were rarely seen apart, and then one evening, while
strolling in the moonlight, Moon asked Stevie to Mellian, I
haven't much you off. You're dying and well, apart from
what I put aside from the farmize no money. But
if there is such a thing as loud as I've
really fallen victim.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
To it, Oh time.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
You're sure it's what you want, my dear, as easie
as it wasn't, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Have asked you. I suppose he would.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It's just that, said the flat.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, I wasn't expecting it. You took me unawares.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I would be quite truthful, darning, I.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Took myself unawares to.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He hasn't given me an answer yet. Now to be
or not to be? That is the question.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Silly, of course, how merry you are, son, you just
as soon as you want you to.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But Moon was in no hurry. The contrary, he was
the type who could not be hustled, and a further
twelve months passed, during which time he remained as devoted
as ever, but appeared singularly reluctant to take the proverbial plunge. Easy,
on the other hand, became more impatient as the days
went by, and when informed by her suitor that he
had at last saved enough money to leave the bank
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and purchased his precious chicken farm in Sussex, her emotions
gave them to words.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Oh, trebble, I'm so tired of all this waiting. How
much longer was we going like this?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Just a few men, darling, till I get the farms straightened,
eyes and ready for business.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
But why com'ping me married right away?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Till I a shop your straightening down?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
You can help me, immerse, darling by being just a
little more patient at the moment.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I get things in order down at Crowborough. I was
sent for you. Let's a promise, so Evie had to
consent to go on waiting. Two weeks later, matters having
been settled, Moon busy sweetheart a fawn, farewell and left
for Sussex. A month passed and no word from him.
Evie had done her best to be patient as hee
he dies, but this was too much. Packing a bag,
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she took a train for Crowborough, and, upon reaching a destination,
checked in at the local inn, but she made inquiries
as to the location of the Moon property. Within the hour,
she was knocking at the door of a small shack
on the outskirts of the village.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Evie shall a darlick.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
She don't be angry with.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Me, but God to see you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Ask how did you get here?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
By train? I had to come, darny.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
If I've waited another day, i'd i'd have got out
of my mind.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
It's been you can't stay here.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You'll realize that.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Why I don't have to stay at the hotel.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
No, you're touching the next train back home.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'll walk to the station.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
No, trigger, No, I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You're not going.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I'm staying in Kroger till I'm marriage.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I see, and if I happen to decide against going through.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
With it, I must prad you haven't haven't any alternative? Triver?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Why you see I'm going to have.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
A child, your child, Well you'd better stay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
The scene changes just three months later, we're in the
office of the Kromer a police station. Constable's Harris and
Vernon for playing checkers. Oh, didn't see that one coming him?
Playing for that a while? Alarm puts me in a
bit of a spot. Hey, does that all right? Right enough?
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I'll get it. No fancy moves one and back's to
neither do you? If I will? It wouldn't be the
first time over at police Staton comfortable out of his feeling.
What's that? Yes? Yes, hold of a pickle? I get
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me no book and take down a few particulars.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Now, what name.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Was it again?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Rose?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Missus Lena Rose? Yeah, and the missing girl daughter Evelyn
known as Evie andres fourteen miles of variet kindle Rise years?
How long has your thought have been going, Missus Rose?
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Since seventy morning? I see, Yes, we'll let you do
with the prison, Missus Rose. You'll be hearing promise.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Yeah, that's right, Yes, good night, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Trouble how now it won't keep now? A missing girl,
that's all. But Constable Hallis was in error. It was
not simply a case of another missing girl who disappeared
for a few days. There's a case of a missing
girl who disappeared for good.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Today.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Evidence of that fact can be seen here in the
Black Museum.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
In just a moment, we will continue with the Black
Museum starring awesome Wells. And now we continue with the
Black Museum starring awesome Wells.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Just another missing girl. Yes, that's how the reported disappearance
of ev Rose was first described. Nothing particularly unusual about
such a report. Almost every day of the week, someone
or other vanishes without any apparent reason or cause to
show up again in due course, the perfectly simple explanation
for the supposedly mysterious absence. But of course there's always
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the exception, which is why the police wasted little time
as possible in checking up on such matters. So it
was that the following day Missus Lena Rose received a
visit from Sergeant Cross as the Crower Police station. Well, then,
Missus Rose, let's get the fact. Wait, tall we according
to this report you had brought her left home early
on Saturday morning.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
That's right, Sergeant. Two days ago she told us she
was going out.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Of Clobra for the day.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Cobra, he's a visit, has to answer. He has a
chicken farm there had a very big one. I understand
he only bought it a few months ago.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
But she's doing very well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You've been in touch with him, I take it.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Oh, yes, he said he was expecting easy for lunch
on Saturday, but she didn't arrive.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Was she in the habit of visiting him often? No.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Several weeks ago she went down to see how he
was getting long.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That was the only time she returned the same name get.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
In time for tea. I come to think of it,
just about that time that.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
She changed so changed.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Yes, she used to be such a hatty sort of girl,
you know, A was laughing and joking, and then suddenly
she became moody, sullen, and so as if something was worrying.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Her, something she couldn't speak of, even to me.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I have no idea what it could have been. I suppose.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Oh, well, perhaps I shouldn't tell you this, but I
had a feeding. It has something to do with Trevor
Trevor Trevor Moon had thence.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Oh what kind of something, missus Rose.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well, that's what heavy puzzle.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
I just come to an agent. Trefford was such a
nice boy and.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So fond of Ev.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I'm quite sure he wouldn't have done or said anything
to hurt her, well, not intentionally, that is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
How long have they been keeping company? All?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
About two and a half years?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
As long as that? Eh? And when were they to
be married?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well, I'm not sure, sergeant.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Besides, I know they haven't actually set at date.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I see, well, I think I might pop down the
crow but I don't have a chat with mister Moon.
He may be aboko on me something. Thanks for your help,
Missus Rose, and don't worry, we'll find your daughter. You're
probably be hearing from me again in a day two.
With an encouraging smile, Sergeant Cross took his leave at
the anxious mother and said for the railway station, of
thoughtful expression crowding his wrinkled brow. That same expression was
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still present when he stepped from the train on the
platform at Crowborough and headed along the lonely lane that
led to the Moon Chicken farm. The gate was open,
and seeing no one about.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
He made his way up to the front.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Doors with shacked not. Yes, mister Moon, that's right. I'm
sergeant Cross, so I wonder if you could spare a
few months. Your silent fire means sergeants come right in.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Place. Is in a bit of a mess?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm afraid that's all right. Sit down, yer, thanks. I
suppose you know why I'm here. Well, I have a
fair idea. It's about ev Rose, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yes, still near a signpa, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
There are just a few questions i'd like to ask you,
mister Moon, ut thine, you understand nothing more. But of
course I've just come from kencel Rise. I've been talking
to missus Rose, who gave me full of details. She's
only the sight of her mind with worry. Well, under
the circumstances, I think she's taken it very well.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I understand that you and the missing girl and engaged
to be married, that's heir, and that she was on
her way down here to visit you when she disappeared. Yes,
I was at the station to meet her, but she
wasn't on the train.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
What train was that? The eleven o'clock I waited an
hour for the next one, but she wasn't on that either,
So I came back home. Were you worried at all? No? Not,
And Julia I just assumed she'd changed her mind about coming.
You didn't think it's odd that you hadn't heard from her? No,
I can't say I did. How long is it since
you last saw her? Oh? Roughly speaking about for two months?
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That was when she last visited you. Yes, she only
came here once. And I see, how did she seem then?
How did you mean? Well? Did she seem depressed or
worried about it? Nothing? Not that I can recall. No why, Oh,
no particular reason. Not for one second during the intellgame
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did Sergeant Cross shift his gaze from Moon's face. He
had never trusted black eyes, and he wasn't quite sure
he liked the look of this young fellow. But despite this,
the inscrutable mister Moon gave no indication that he knew
any more about the missing Evil Rose than he was
ready to admit, and certainly did not appear.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
To have anything to hide.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It's the country. In fact, Back at the Krograth police
station later that same day, Cross admitted as much to
his superior to visional Inspector Broughton. So you think you
so all he knows as Argant. Well, so let's just
say that he gave me that impression. It was those
black eyes of his that set me thinking, sure, you've
got a shifty look about them. You can hardly hold
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the color of a man's eyes against his. His sergeants
perhaps not said even so, I think the best thing
we can do at the stage is to give the
newspapers the photograph of the missing girl and the description
of the coach he was wearing on the day of
a disappearance. Just as you say that, I'll attend to
it right away. First it was that a photo graph
of ev Rose, together with a description, found its way
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onto the front page of three London newspapers. Well that
should do the trick. Yes, let's hip, says Argent. Two
weeks past, during which time no information regarding missing girl
was forthcoming. Yet a third week went by and still
there was no trace for d. V. Rose, Well Sardan,
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which as if we've borne a blank her. What's to
do now, that's the question. I think I might pay
your friend miss the Moon visit by that if you'll
get much more from him than I got. Possibly not
no harm. In trying to this day, Inspector Broughton could
not say exactly why he so suddenly decided to pay
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Moon a call. Perhaps it was the prompting of fate.
Perhaps he acted simply on a blind impulse. Whatever it was,
he wasted no time about it, and that same afternoon
he made his way out to the moon Fire found
Borne seated on the narrow land, thoughtfully puffing at a
much smoked play. Hello, you are another of those tempoor reporters.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
You can go to.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, No, I'm not a reporter. Well that's a relief anyway.
He'd been showing up here in a says stream for
the past three weeks. Is that a fact? Yes, you know.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I'm convinced they really believe I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Murdered that girl, that easy rose, prying fools that they are,
the way they asked questions to think I was on trial.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yes, bes you are.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But I mean I think you will know more than
you're telling. Why should facing that? No, he was supposed
to be on a way to visit you and she disappeared.
It doesn't mean I'm murderer, No, I mean anyone could
have done it, done one murderer who said she was murdered? Why? No,
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one not in so many words. But that's what they're inferred,
those special reporters. You're sure you're not imagining it.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Of course I'm not imagining it. Oh I should I
imagine it?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Whoa? Why should you? Indeed, you're shy on not a reporter?
Quite sure? Who are you?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Then?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Oh, they're okay, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Detective detective, His thicker pardons the name. Oh well, I'm
I'm gad it's not inspect that what caught you here?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I just want to ever look about the place, quite clearly,
answered him. I suppose you wanted to question me too, Well,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I did want to, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Want to anymore. I think you're giving me all the
answers I need. With a nod, the inspector turned and
walked back down the path. He didn't look back, but
he could feel Moon's eyes staring after him, the eyes
that had told him so much, so convincingly. It's just
like that, almost like the sort of stuff one reads
in a cheap detective fiction magazine. Well this was cheap.
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It wasn't fiction. Was life life, and its first is
suit that was quick, Inspector, how do you make us
you could kill us? And we yes, I'm sure that
as I am, I think that we'll see the end
of the v reast case to night. You think he
killed it, well if he didn't like NI to be
out of a job. And I've benn know of your
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chime because I'm thanking everything on the huntspit he did
my repetition included, and don't ask me why if I
told you your t is mad. We're wasting valuable time.
Con get a squad together. We got work to do. Work.
We're off back the Moon's place and they're gonna search
every inch of it. If we don't find anything inside
the house, we start on the ground. And even if
we dig all night, Pargeant, we're gonna keep on digging
to the strike oil. So less than an hour later,
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Inspector Broughton was back at the chickilar a touch across
and four constables, but the shack was searched from top
to bottom and finding nothing on the inside, they started
on the outside with picks and shovels and everything. A
good lader hands on, Broughton was risking his career on
an intangib impulse and he hear wis so he didn't
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think it was much of this nothing so far, and
inspect up, we've got a lot of ground to cover yet. O.
I hope you're not making a mistakes that I am.
But if I am, you and up a boy, and
you promise.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
You that I wasn't thinking of don't worry about me.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
My shoulders are broad enough. The deking continued, but it
was too dark to see. Lanterns were lift four hours
slipped by, and Eaton brought was ready to throw in
us all and ye inspect, Mmmm, what is it doing?
Just look what handsome has dug up the head against
want to get a knifel of.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
The initials on it.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And he seems as if.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Your hunch might have been right after all.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, come on, open it up.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Maybe it's something in it right.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, it doesn't feel like it. Hello, what's this? Looks
like a jacket of zamzor a baby's jacket. That's what
it is, all right, only half complete it seeleaves are
missing and it too has to be stitched up. Yes,
looks rather pathetic, doesn't it, Garden it does her? Yes?
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Better put it back in the case. Probably rending it.
Before long, with the discovery of the attache case, the
search was renewed with an added vigor, and stray articles
of clothing were brought to light one by one, clothes
identical to those worn by the missing girl on the
day of a disappearance. A green scarf, a yellow jumper,
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a brown skirt, had leather shoes.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
A brown beret.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Doesn't leave much to the imagination and specked up. Yeah,
not much. But we still had to find the body. Yes,
they still had to find a body. But they thought
it couldn't be far away, and they were right, except
that it wasn't a body, but rather a scattering of
bits and pieces at once had.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Been a body.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Confronted with the evidence, Trevor Moon made no attempt to
deny the charge of murder that was subsequently leveled at him.
He seemed, in fact, somewhat relieved to relate his gruesome
story of how he had sent for if he rose and,
knowing that she was soon to bear his child, strangled her,
later dismembering her body and burying it together with her
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clothing and the Attacha case, the contents of which today
occupies its place in the Black Museum.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Arson Wells will be back with you in just a moment.
Now Here in person is Arson Wells.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Moon's defense, if it could be called a defense, was
a great let down to the hundreds who kicked and
shoved their way into the old Baileys who witness his trial.
For mister Moo pleaded guilty. There was much more to
it than that. Oh yes, he had an excuse, brandied excuses.
There are no excuses for murder. That Fury's verdict was
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never in doubt. Trevor Moon was found guilty of murder
in the first degree, and two months later the day
he was hanged. So there you have it, And now
do we need next time in the same place, and
I'll tell you another story about the Black Museum.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Harry Mayne is always OpEd of fields.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
A Black Museum starring Orson Wells is presented by arrangement
with Metro Goldwyn Mayor Radio Attraction, with original music composed
and conducted by Sydney Torsch, produced by Harry Allen twas
Speaker 1 (26:05):
La
It speaking from London from the Black Museum, a museum
of death. Yes, here in the grim stone structure on
the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide,
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a warehouse where everyday objects a paper weight, of broken
wine bottle, a shaded lamp all are touched by murder.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To take his jackets.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Woolen handed is a baby's garment, dusty with age and
only half completed sleeves are missing, Inspector, and it still
has to be stitched up. Yes, looks rather pathetic, doesn't it, Sergeant?
It does help? Yes, got to put it back to
me a test case. I've been needing it before. On today.
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That jacket's sleeveless and unstitch can be seen in the
Black Museum. From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department
of the London Police.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We bring you the dramatic stories of the crimes recorded
by the objects in Scotland Yard's Gallery of Death, the
Black Museum. In just the moment, you will hear the
Black Museum starring Awesome Wells now the Black Museum steyn
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Awesome Wells.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yards,
Museum of murder. Herelive death, dressed in its Sunday best. Here,
for example's the nail file was once used by a
manicurist suprembent Ay finkingails was a beautiful woman, later used
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by an insane killer. Here's a length of cord weighted
with lead and either ends pomis enough to look at,
but lethal in its effect. Is a weapon of murder. Ah,
Heilia says. The jacket muffles and dusty, somewhat inconspicuous in
its place on the shelf, a tragic relic of passion
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and violence. I'm going to take you back quite a
few years to a warm Sunday morning in June of
the year nineteen twenty one. We are outside a small
chapel in the London suburb of Kensal Rise. The service
is not long ended, and the congregation files slowly from within.
Out of the brilliant sunshine. A young girl emerges, who
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waves till a few friends gathered near the entrance, and
turns along the dusty yellow road in the direction of
the tarniship. She's gone but half a block, and she
hears an unfamiliar voice calling out to miss Miss. She
turns and finds herself face to face with a man
she has never seen before, a stocky, broad shouldered young
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man with a round face and black penetrating eyes. I
beg your pardon, miss, I think you'll drop this.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, my him.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It is yours?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Then?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh yes, I wasn't quite sure. Hate you ever so much?
Oh that's all right.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I don't know what i'd have done if i'd lost it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Mother never forgiven me. She gave it to me my
twelfth person. Yet I've had it ever since.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
In that case, it is a good thing.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
And I happened to be looking your way.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yes, well, I must be old het you again.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You're getting towards the village.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, I live on the other side of the eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm going that way myself. Perhaps you wouldn't mind my
walking with you, not at all, Sonny.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I thought I knew most of the posts about these thoughts,
but I don't ever remember.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Seeing you before.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's not surprising. I mean, newcomer to kensal rise. I
already been here a few days, and that explains it.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Yes, I've been transferred to the bank here.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh you're except to be staying long, No longer than
I can help. I'm trying to save enough money to
buy a chicken farm.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
A chicken farm, it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Probably strikes you as being a queer ambition tell to have,
but I've always wanted one ever.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Since I was a youngster.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I've even got a small piece of land picked out
half an eggre at Clobra in Sussex.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Ciber as a friend who lived there on the land. Yes,
it's a wonderful spot.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I've stayed there for a week once, and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
After every minute of it, well then you've probably learn
more about the place than I do. I mean, had
just passed through it. But that's when I saw the
lamb for sale.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
How long ago was that?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All? About six or seven months?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Have it's been sold in the meantime, No, that's hardly likely.
You see, I spoke to the agent.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
His home years had already been up for sale two years,
and looked like saying that waiting for the next ten Oh,
I see, I really hope he knew what he was
talking about. The two walked on in silence for several moments,
then suddenly the young man laughed. I say, I've been
walking along telling you my inmost secrets, and I haven't
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even introduced myself.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I was just about to say the same thing.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Well, the name's Move, Trevor Move, and mine's evening Rose.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Every one calls me Edie.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that's how it all began, a romance destined to
flower with all the beauty of young love, only to
wither and die of tragic death. But let us not anticipate,
let us follow the course of that romance, or rather
let us pick out the more pertinent of its developments.
After their first meeting, Trevor Moon and Evie Rose spent
most of their time in each other's company. For twelve months,
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they were rarely seen apart, and then one evening, while
strolling in the moonlight, Moon asked Stevie to Mellian, I
haven't much you off. You're dying and well, apart from
what I put aside from the farmize no money. But
if there is such a thing as loud as I've
really fallen victim.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
To it, Oh time.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
You're sure it's what you want, my dear, as easie
as it wasn't, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Have asked you. I suppose he would.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It's just that, said the flat.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, I wasn't expecting it. You took me unawares.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I would be quite truthful, darning, I.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Took myself unawares to.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He hasn't given me an answer yet. Now to be
or not to be? That is the question.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Silly, of course, how merry you are, son, you just
as soon as you want you to.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But Moon was in no hurry. The contrary, he was
the type who could not be hustled, and a further
twelve months passed, during which time he remained as devoted
as ever, but appeared singularly reluctant to take the proverbial plunge. Easy,
on the other hand, became more impatient as the days
went by, and when informed by her suitor that he
had at last saved enough money to leave the bank
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and purchased his precious chicken farm in Sussex, her emotions
gave them to words.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Oh, trebble, I'm so tired of all this waiting. How
much longer was we going like this?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Just a few men, darling, till I get the farms straightened,
eyes and ready for business.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
But why com'ping me married right away?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Till I a shop your straightening down?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
You can help me, immerse, darling by being just a
little more patient at the moment.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I get things in order down at Crowborough. I was
sent for you. Let's a promise, so Evie had to
consent to go on waiting. Two weeks later, matters having
been settled, Moon busy sweetheart a fawn, farewell and left
for Sussex. A month passed and no word from him.
Evie had done her best to be patient as hee
he dies, but this was too much. Packing a bag,
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she took a train for Crowborough, and, upon reaching a destination,
checked in at the local inn, but she made inquiries
as to the location of the Moon property. Within the hour,
she was knocking at the door of a small shack
on the outskirts of the village.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Evie shall a darlick.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
She don't be angry with.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Me, but God to see you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Ask how did you get here?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
By train? I had to come, darny.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
If I've waited another day, i'd i'd have got out
of my mind.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
It's been you can't stay here.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You'll realize that.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Why I don't have to stay at the hotel.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
No, you're touching the next train back home.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'll walk to the station.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
No, trigger, No, I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You're not going.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I'm staying in Kroger till I'm marriage.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I see, and if I happen to decide against going through.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
With it, I must prad you haven't haven't any alternative? Triver?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Why you see I'm going to have.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
A child, your child, Well you'd better stay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
The scene changes just three months later, we're in the
office of the Kromer a police station. Constable's Harris and
Vernon for playing checkers. Oh, didn't see that one coming him?
Playing for that a while? Alarm puts me in a
bit of a spot. Hey, does that all right? Right enough?
(10:15):
I'll get it. No fancy moves one and back's to
neither do you? If I will? It wouldn't be the
first time over at police Staton comfortable out of his feeling.
What's that? Yes? Yes, hold of a pickle? I get
(10:37):
me no book and take down a few particulars.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Now, what name.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Was it again?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Rose?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Missus Lena Rose? Yeah, and the missing girl daughter Evelyn
known as Evie andres fourteen miles of variet kindle Rise years?
How long has your thought have been going, Missus Rose?
(11:13):
Since seventy morning? I see, Yes, we'll let you do
with the prison, Missus Rose. You'll be hearing promise.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Yeah, that's right, Yes, good night, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Trouble how now it won't keep now? A missing girl,
that's all. But Constable Hallis was in error. It was
not simply a case of another missing girl who disappeared
for a few days. There's a case of a missing
girl who disappeared for good.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Today.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Evidence of that fact can be seen here in the
Black Museum.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
In just a moment, we will continue with the Black
Museum starring awesome Wells. And now we continue with the
Black Museum starring awesome Wells.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Just another missing girl. Yes, that's how the reported disappearance
of ev Rose was first described. Nothing particularly unusual about
such a report. Almost every day of the week, someone
or other vanishes without any apparent reason or cause to
show up again in due course, the perfectly simple explanation
for the supposedly mysterious absence. But of course there's always
(12:45):
the exception, which is why the police wasted little time
as possible in checking up on such matters. So it
was that the following day Missus Lena Rose received a
visit from Sergeant Cross as the Crower Police station. Well, then,
Missus Rose, let's get the fact. Wait, tall we according
to this report you had brought her left home early
on Saturday morning.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
That's right, Sergeant. Two days ago she told us she
was going out.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Of Clobra for the day.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Cobra, he's a visit, has to answer. He has a
chicken farm there had a very big one. I understand
he only bought it a few months ago.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
But she's doing very well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You've been in touch with him, I take it.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Oh, yes, he said he was expecting easy for lunch
on Saturday, but she didn't arrive.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Was she in the habit of visiting him often? No.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Several weeks ago she went down to see how he
was getting long.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That was the only time she returned the same name get.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
In time for tea. I come to think of it,
just about that time that.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
She changed so changed.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
Yes, she used to be such a hatty sort of girl,
you know, A was laughing and joking, and then suddenly
she became moody, sullen, and so as if something was worrying.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Her, something she couldn't speak of, even to me.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I have no idea what it could have been. I suppose.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Oh, well, perhaps I shouldn't tell you this, but I
had a feeding. It has something to do with Trevor
Trevor Trevor Moon had thence.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Oh what kind of something, missus Rose.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well, that's what heavy puzzle.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
I just come to an agent. Trefford was such a
nice boy and.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So fond of Ev.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I'm quite sure he wouldn't have done or said anything
to hurt her, well, not intentionally, that is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
How long have they been keeping company? All?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
About two and a half years?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
As long as that? Eh? And when were they to
be married?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well, I'm not sure, sergeant.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Besides, I know they haven't actually set at date.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I see, well, I think I might pop down the
crow but I don't have a chat with mister Moon.
He may be aboko on me something. Thanks for your help,
Missus Rose, and don't worry, we'll find your daughter. You're
probably be hearing from me again in a day two.
With an encouraging smile, Sergeant Cross took his leave at
the anxious mother and said for the railway station, of
thoughtful expression crowding his wrinkled brow. That same expression was
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still present when he stepped from the train on the
platform at Crowborough and headed along the lonely lane that
led to the Moon Chicken farm. The gate was open,
and seeing no one about.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
He made his way up to the front.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Doors with shacked not. Yes, mister Moon, that's right. I'm
sergeant Cross, so I wonder if you could spare a
few months. Your silent fire means sergeants come right in.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Place. Is in a bit of a mess?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm afraid that's all right. Sit down, yer, thanks. I
suppose you know why I'm here. Well, I have a
fair idea. It's about ev Rose, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yes, still near a signpa, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
There are just a few questions i'd like to ask you,
mister Moon, ut thine, you understand nothing more. But of
course I've just come from kencel Rise. I've been talking
to missus Rose, who gave me full of details. She's
only the sight of her mind with worry. Well, under
the circumstances, I think she's taken it very well.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I understand that you and the missing girl and engaged
to be married, that's heir, and that she was on
her way down here to visit you when she disappeared. Yes,
I was at the station to meet her, but she
wasn't on the train.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
What train was that? The eleven o'clock I waited an
hour for the next one, but she wasn't on that either,
So I came back home. Were you worried at all? No? Not,
And Julia I just assumed she'd changed her mind about coming.
You didn't think it's odd that you hadn't heard from her? No,
I can't say I did. How long is it since
you last saw her? Oh? Roughly speaking about for two months?
(16:39):
That was when she last visited you. Yes, she only
came here once. And I see, how did she seem then?
How did you mean? Well? Did she seem depressed or
worried about it? Nothing? Not that I can recall. No why, Oh,
no particular reason. Not for one second during the intellgame
(17:00):
did Sergeant Cross shift his gaze from Moon's face. He
had never trusted black eyes, and he wasn't quite sure
he liked the look of this young fellow. But despite this,
the inscrutable mister Moon gave no indication that he knew
any more about the missing Evil Rose than he was
ready to admit, and certainly did not appear.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
To have anything to hide.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It's the country. In fact, Back at the Krograth police
station later that same day, Cross admitted as much to
his superior to visional Inspector Broughton. So you think you
so all he knows as Argant. Well, so let's just
say that he gave me that impression. It was those
black eyes of his that set me thinking, sure, you've
got a shifty look about them. You can hardly hold
(17:43):
the color of a man's eyes against his. His sergeants
perhaps not said even so, I think the best thing
we can do at the stage is to give the
newspapers the photograph of the missing girl and the description
of the coach he was wearing on the day of
a disappearance. Just as you say that, I'll attend to
it right away. First it was that a photo graph
of ev Rose, together with a description, found its way
(18:04):
onto the front page of three London newspapers. Well that
should do the trick. Yes, let's hip, says Argent. Two
weeks past, during which time no information regarding missing girl
was forthcoming. Yet a third week went by and still
there was no trace for d. V. Rose, Well Sardan,
(18:25):
which as if we've borne a blank her. What's to
do now, that's the question. I think I might pay
your friend miss the Moon visit by that if you'll
get much more from him than I got. Possibly not
no harm. In trying to this day, Inspector Broughton could
not say exactly why he so suddenly decided to pay
(18:47):
Moon a call. Perhaps it was the prompting of fate.
Perhaps he acted simply on a blind impulse. Whatever it was,
he wasted no time about it, and that same afternoon
he made his way out to the moon Fire found
Borne seated on the narrow land, thoughtfully puffing at a
much smoked play. Hello, you are another of those tempoor reporters.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
You can go to.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, No, I'm not a reporter. Well that's a relief anyway.
He'd been showing up here in a says stream for
the past three weeks. Is that a fact? Yes, you know.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I'm convinced they really believe I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Murdered that girl, that easy rose, prying fools that they are,
the way they asked questions to think I was on trial.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yes, bes you are.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But I mean I think you will know more than
you're telling. Why should facing that? No, he was supposed
to be on a way to visit you and she disappeared.
It doesn't mean I'm murderer, No, I mean anyone could
have done it, done one murderer who said she was murdered? Why? No,
(19:51):
one not in so many words. But that's what they're inferred,
those special reporters. You're sure you're not imagining it.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Of course I'm not imagining it. Oh I should I
imagine it?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Whoa? Why should you? Indeed, you're shy on not a reporter?
Quite sure? Who are you?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Then?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Oh, they're okay, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Detective detective, His thicker pardons the name. Oh well, I'm
I'm gad it's not inspect that what caught you here?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I just want to ever look about the place, quite clearly,
answered him. I suppose you wanted to question me too, Well,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I did want to, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Want to anymore. I think you're giving me all the
answers I need. With a nod, the inspector turned and
walked back down the path. He didn't look back, but
he could feel Moon's eyes staring after him, the eyes
that had told him so much, so convincingly. It's just
like that, almost like the sort of stuff one reads
in a cheap detective fiction magazine. Well this was cheap.
(20:58):
It wasn't fiction. Was life life, and its first is
suit that was quick, Inspector, how do you make us
you could kill us? And we yes, I'm sure that
as I am, I think that we'll see the end
of the v reast case to night. You think he
killed it, well if he didn't like NI to be
out of a job. And I've benn know of your
(21:18):
chime because I'm thanking everything on the huntspit he did
my repetition included, and don't ask me why if I
told you your t is mad. We're wasting valuable time.
Con get a squad together. We got work to do. Work.
We're off back the Moon's place and they're gonna search
every inch of it. If we don't find anything inside
the house, we start on the ground. And even if
we dig all night, Pargeant, we're gonna keep on digging
to the strike oil. So less than an hour later,
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Inspector Broughton was back at the chickilar a touch across
and four constables, but the shack was searched from top
to bottom and finding nothing on the inside, they started
on the outside with picks and shovels and everything. A
good lader hands on, Broughton was risking his career on
an intangib impulse and he hear wis so he didn't
(22:03):
think it was much of this nothing so far, and
inspect up, we've got a lot of ground to cover yet. O.
I hope you're not making a mistakes that I am.
But if I am, you and up a boy, and
you promise.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
You that I wasn't thinking of don't worry about me.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
My shoulders are broad enough. The deking continued, but it
was too dark to see. Lanterns were lift four hours
slipped by, and Eaton brought was ready to throw in
us all and ye inspect, Mmmm, what is it doing?
Just look what handsome has dug up the head against
want to get a knifel of.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
The initials on it.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And he seems as if.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Your hunch might have been right after all.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, come on, open it up.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Maybe it's something in it right.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, it doesn't feel like it. Hello, what's this? Looks
like a jacket of zamzor a baby's jacket. That's what
it is, all right, only half complete it seeleaves are
missing and it too has to be stitched up. Yes,
looks rather pathetic, doesn't it, Garden it does her? Yes?
(23:08):
Better put it back in the case. Probably rending it.
Before long, with the discovery of the attache case, the
search was renewed with an added vigor, and stray articles
of clothing were brought to light one by one, clothes
identical to those worn by the missing girl on the
day of a disappearance. A green scarf, a yellow jumper,
(23:28):
a brown skirt, had leather shoes.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
A brown beret.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Doesn't leave much to the imagination and specked up. Yeah,
not much. But we still had to find the body. Yes,
they still had to find a body. But they thought
it couldn't be far away, and they were right, except
that it wasn't a body, but rather a scattering of
bits and pieces at once had.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Been a body.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Confronted with the evidence, Trevor Moon made no attempt to
deny the charge of murder that was subsequently leveled at him.
He seemed, in fact, somewhat relieved to relate his gruesome
story of how he had sent for if he rose and,
knowing that she was soon to bear his child, strangled her,
later dismembering her body and burying it together with her
(24:23):
clothing and the Attacha case, the contents of which today
occupies its place in the Black Museum.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Arson Wells will be back with you in just a moment.
Now Here in person is Arson Wells.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Moon's defense, if it could be called a defense, was
a great let down to the hundreds who kicked and
shoved their way into the old Baileys who witness his trial.
For mister Moo pleaded guilty. There was much more to
it than that. Oh yes, he had an excuse, brandied excuses.
There are no excuses for murder. That Fury's verdict was
(25:11):
never in doubt. Trevor Moon was found guilty of murder
in the first degree, and two months later the day
he was hanged. So there you have it, And now
do we need next time in the same place, and
I'll tell you another story about the Black Museum.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Harry Mayne is always OpEd of fields.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
A Black Museum starring Orson Wells is presented by arrangement
with Metro Goldwyn Mayor Radio Attraction, with original music composed
and conducted by Sydney Torsch, produced by Harry Allen twas
Speaker 1 (26:05):
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