May 22, 2025 • 25 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):
This is Auson Wells speaking from London. The Black Museum.
Here in a grihamstone structure on the Thames which houses
Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide, a warehouse where
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everyday objects, a piece of wash, line of medicine, bottle
and electric light bulb.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
All all are touched by murder.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Here's a telegram that's a familiar object. Usually it's his
happy birthday, or congratulations on your wedding, or will arrive
ten o'clock train. This telegram was an urgent request to die.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Take this telegram, miss please.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yes, sir, Daily Star come up once four point thirty
train Waterloop, Ballmouth Central.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We'll meet.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Sorry sir, what.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Is this car?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Car?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We'll meet today?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This telegram can be seen in the Black Museum.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the
London Police. We bring you the dramatic stories of the
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death,
the Black Museum.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Here we are the Black Museum, Scotland Yards, Mausoleum of murder. Hallies,
death arranged on shows and cabinets, ranked along the floor
and on the tables. Death in many disguises this oil lamp.
This one was found in Thyme. There were others before
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it in other places. Part of a baited trap. A
house cat leaped knocking over the lamp. Flames flared arson
and somebody dies, and such a fire arson becomes the murderer.
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There's a bit of ribbon from a Christmas package, shining
tinseled ribbon. A gift unwrapped in pleasant anticipation was death
Ah a telegram.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
There we are.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's a slip of yellow paper with familiar type pasted
and stripes across its face, urgent summons. One day, this
wire rested in a closed handbag on a woman's lap.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
She was riding on a train.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Response to the wire, men sharing the seat with her smile,
started a conversation.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You going all the way to Bournemouth.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
No, I'm getting off at Bascom. This train do stop
at Boscom, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, I believe it.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
I'm going through to Bournemouth themselves, So I didn't pay
particular attention your holidays.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well you know why.
Speaker 9 (03:18):
I'm taking a day off to see some friends and
I'm going back to Southampton to.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
Catch a ship for her business triph.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
It that's been nice to have a life like that.
Mine's very dull.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
Oh well then might I get is that like some
of the ladies, I know, you'll find your gaiety in
your heads?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
No, mane, it's tovagant. I've always liked your pretty hair.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Just chr chats on a train speeding southward from London.
The gentleman contributed no information about his business. The lady
didn't give her name. She did have a volunteer.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
I'm going down to Bascom to cook for some people.
That's what I do cook.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And the time passed.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Others entered the compartment of the train at various stops
and left a little later.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But that was all. And as the train slowed from Bascom.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
Here let meet me shirt that back looks heavy, parget
down for you.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Oh please don't travel, sir, It is no trouble at all.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Come.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, it's been pleasant chatting with you all.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Good luck at the new.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Job, and thank you sir, and good luck on your trip.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Thank you, miss big Gardens, you the new cook for
vegans and wooden neras yes, in this way please missus.
Egan told me to watch for you. I'm their chauffeur.
I have the car. It's a fair way out, you see.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Oh, yes, the telegram said the car would meet me.
Is it nice working?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Please? She put her luggage in the back of the
big limousine, stepped into the front seat next to the chauffeur.
The train out of the Bascom station just as the car.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Moved away along the road.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Apparently it was a fair ways out, as the chauffeur
put it. The road wounds through the countryside. The land
seemed to grow more and more bleak. As they rolled along.
The sun dropped all of the horizon. The young woman
began to feel a little edgy.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Is it much further? Seems to be getting dark.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It not only seems to be getting dark, my girl,
it is getting dark.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You never told me if it's nice working out here, you.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Won't have any trouble. If you're nice, that is, if
I'm nice. Got the masters and mistresses ears? What I
say usually goes. Anyone who's not nice to me goes.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You've worked before, haven't you well?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yes, of course, have the very best of references.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
In most places, it's the butler, isn't it out here?
It's me.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Why have you left the road, because my girl, I
took you out this way for reasons of my own.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Now now I came out here for a job as cook.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Come here. I know you can't God not to me.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's someone else, no one else, it's you, understand Now'll
be good, be quiet.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That was all till the next morning.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Farmer cutting across the empty fields found that they were
not quite as empty as he supposed.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Here here, what's this youth like? Miss she? She's dead? Ah?
This be for the police.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The farmer made it as fast as he could the
nearest telephone, and within an hour the police had arrived.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
They will not I suppose you repeat your starliarship.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
You're inspector gardener.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Ah, well they told.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
You go ahead.
Speaker 11 (07:07):
Well I was cutting across the field. They save a
few steps, and I come on her line like that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I went for help. That's soul, sir.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
You didn't touch anything, You didn't mess up the ground.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
No, no, sir, nothing like that.
Speaker 10 (07:21):
All right, give the constable your name and address. We'll
call you for an egypt Yes, sir, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What do you make up a martin?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
One of those things?
Speaker 12 (07:31):
Inspector murder by person unknown after a bit of a.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Struggle, it looks like yes, ground's pretty well trembled.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Any idea of the time of death.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
Medical examiner can't see it, Sir. My guess is sometime
after seven o'clock last night. The rain stopped around six thirty.
She is not even damp, sir.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Very good, I judge from the tire texts. We'll get
to make up tires in the size of the cars.
You know, Yes, sir, you have her handbag, yes, right here,
so hm, Yes, we had an identity card, Ida Matthews, Stretham, London.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
We can check that quickly enough.
Speaker 10 (08:09):
Well, it's a telegram Daily Star come at once four
point thirty train Waterloo Bomber Central car will meet Joy
Expence's paid Egan, woodmere.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
House, Boscombe.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Yes, I've seen this sort of thing before. What are
the odds, Martin? There is no woodmere House nor any
Egan hereabouts.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The odds were high. The inspector was right, no woodmere
House and no Eagon. But the telegram is a lead,
and importantly for a thread to start on. Not very
many post offices in Bascom, and you send telegrams from
post offices Neihland.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Detective Martin had an assignment.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
I'm sorry to bother you, but this wire filed at
this office.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Not at that office.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, no, at the next one, but the one after that.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yes, that's one of ours.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
May I see the original of the wire? Please?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Well, now I don't know hit.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Scop and my credentials.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Ah, well, that makes it properly.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And since it was proper and Detective Martin returned to
his superior.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
With the original of the wire.
Speaker 12 (09:26):
Did you ever see such atrocious handwriting, Inspector.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
I can't I ever have party, can't spell either? No
E in Bournemouth and expenses with a C in place
of an S. Interesting Martin, it will be a long job.
Check through central post office and guard the Bournemouth area yourself,
get the originals of every wire over the past six
months that have had bad handwriting and worse spelling. It's
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a long job.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Patience and routine the two great strengths of the forces
of law and order, and they pay off. Sometimes it
takes months, sometimes only weeks. This time it was two weeks.
A triumphant detective, I'd returned to Inspector Gardner.
Speaker 12 (10:14):
We've got two more wiles and good work Martin. Here, sir,
notice this first one to the Dandre woman, no e
in Bournemouth, see an expense and a new era. Two
f's in if at this one to the domestic agency.
Someone wanted a young pleasant nurse without an a in
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pleasant And again the e is missing in Bournemouth.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
Her writing's identical, no question about it.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Put some calls to Martin.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
I wonder if the Dandre woman or the young pleasant
nurse ever came down this way.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That track was an easy one, not trouble at all.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
The Dandre woman came down, no car. She went back
a lucky lady.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That one.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Apparently Priment agency was a bit more careful.
Speaker 12 (11:02):
The agency wrote to the return address for more information.
Name and address were fictitious, of course, of course.
Speaker 10 (11:08):
All right, Martin, back to the bascom post dropice jog
A few memories, will you?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
I see, Miss, you filed this wire.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I did we get a lot of business through you
are with that awful handwriting.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Do you remember anything about the person who gave it
to you?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Well, it was a man, I know that that's something
there was that.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Let me think now now it's all black.
Speaker 12 (11:38):
I don't try to hard, Miss, It'll come back to
you here. Let me read you the wire Daily Star
come at once four thirty train Waterloo, Bournemouth Central and
something here I can't quite make out.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
That's it car, car, we'll meet.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I asked him the same question. He repeated the words
like that car, car will meet. I'd know his voice anywhere.
Why it was that kind of voice? Smooth, too soft?
Since she was out for me?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Do you remember the man at all?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, sir, you know how it is.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Don't look at all the people who come in here.
But I think I'm not positive, but I think you
are on the chauffeur's.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Uniform, patience and routine were bringing results from nothing except
Ida Matthew's body. They built their evidence to a man
in a chauffeur's uniform who couldn't spell, and from the
tire tracks they knew the make of tires and the
length and widths and therefore the make of the car.
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Within hours now every chauffeur in the vicinity who drove
a live sedan of a certain make had been called
into the police station.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Now do you Aleventhop was in London? So with my
money we lost a boy in the war. Inspector and
the whole family always gets together an armist this night
for that reason.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
No remember the eleventh Inspectator. I was off that night.
I didn't have the car. Now the young Master was
permitted to drivers himself that night. Seeing as I was
having my regular.
Speaker 13 (13:16):
Night off, I picked up the old man, mister Dutton,
and he's a regular train, drove him home, put the
car away and.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Locked it up.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Did you have your own keid of garage?
Speaker 13 (13:28):
No, sir, I always turned it into the big house
after I put the car away. That's what I did
that night, sir. And after that mature, I went into
Bournemouth on the bus, had a button, went.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
To the cinema.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
You should remember all that very well. It was over
a month ago. The case we're investigating happened.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I've got a great memory.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Well how is it unspelling? I wouldn't know. I never
tested it. Let's test it right now. Take this pad
and pencil and write the words I asked you. I
know you were smart and we shouldn't have let the
newspapers publish those wires. Not one of these cheps spills
those words wrong, and their handwriting doesn't match.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Nothing.
Speaker 12 (14:06):
As it's too bad Inspector to draw a blank when
it looks so.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Good for a bit.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
That's about it, Martin. For once we've drawn a blank completely.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But that was not to be the end.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Fate was to play a hand, and one of the
strongest cards in that hand turned out to be the telegram. Yes,
this same telegram that can be seen today in the
Black Museum.
Speaker 14 (14:36):
Arson Wells will be back with you in just a moment,
And now we continue with the Black Museum, starring Awesome Wells.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They'd drawn a blank, but carefully built up points which
should have led to a vicious killer lead nowhere. The
full and tragic story of Idam Matthews seemed headed directly
for the unsolved file at Scotland yarnd.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
How do account for what happened next?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Chance, stupidity, the intelligence to capitalize on a tiny fact.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What does matter is that one morning at the post
office in Bascon.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
How many steps for this package? Miss?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I just put it on the scale.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I take care now it's mark French. I don't even
see that.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
I see it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It'll be one and three, right you are, Thank you?
Miss Jimmy Quick Please, where's he going? Good fellow in
the show for suit? Where's he going get to the window.
I can't leave the cage quick.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Yeah, he's getting a little a car grace there, get
the number whatever for.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Wait l K nine O five four twenty four.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Ex husband knows you elimen he a'm ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
That's the man who sent the telegram, the one the
coppers was so interesting. I know his voice anywhere? Yeah,
you take over. I'm going to telephone that nast detective.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
A chance, a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The young man might have taken that package, the girl
might have forgotten the voice. Neither of these things happened,
and a new lead was developed for the yard.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Mitchell drives that car Inspector John Mitchell, owner is done.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
We had Mitchell in his writing, doesn't mentionine his spelling's fine.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well, the girl swears he's the man Martin.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Can you picture a British jury hanging a man because
a girl remembered his voice? No such things are.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
But the points were added to the Ida Matthews file
and held waiting their use. Patience and more patience and
more results.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Depect the gardeners beging this is Sidney Harris.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
I'm told her that I want to give my information
to you. It's on the Matthews case.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You see, I rode down to Bosco on the.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Train with her.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Sydney Harris received a warm welcome at Scotland.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
Sit down, mister Harris, thank you. If I may ask,
what took this a lot? I was out of the country, Inspector.
I returned just yesterday.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Go on, mister Harris, will you see my business takes
me abroad quite a bit. I had the opportunity to
spend a night with some friends of mine in Bournemouth
before I sailed the next day. That's how it happened
that I was on the train. The Matthews woman was
in my compartment. We talked a bitter I commented on
our Harold, just passing the time. I'd never have thought
of it again, I suppose if my ship had sailed
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on time, but it didn't. The steward brought aboard some
late papers which came out while we werestled in Southampton.
I saw them after we've been at sea for a
few hours. There was this woman's picture and the story
I understand. And now, mister Harris, what information do you
have which may.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Be of help to us?
Speaker 9 (18:04):
The luggage rack on the car, Inspector.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It was a large gray sedan.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
How did you happen to notice it?
Speaker 9 (18:10):
I watched across to the station platform. I saw a
man meet in a sofa's uniform. I wanted to enter
this car. Now it happens, Inspector, that I design auto bodies.
The Luggies wrec attracted my attention. It doesn't belong to
that make of car. It's been specially fitted.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
You're a very observed man, mister Harris, for which our
deepest appreciation. At one point, mister Harris, among these ladies'
hats on the desk, which one would you say was
miss Matthews or this one' sir, that, mister Harris, is
the hat we found beside Ida Matthew's body.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
At last someone to establish that Ida Matthews had been
mat bess chauffeur at the buscon station.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Which chauffeur.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Yes, that's the car, the gray one, LK nine oh
five to four.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
That's the Luggies wreck. I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But the handwriting and the spelling.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
Ask the licensed Bureau for Mitchell's application for the driver's license.
I want to see the handwriting on it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Within a day, the application lay on the inspector's desk.
Decided with the originals of the wires with the misspelled words.
Speaker 12 (19:15):
Well, Martin, not much doubt about it, as there inspector.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
The experts will testify for us, Martin. But I'm satisfied.
Get your hat. We're going to pick up Mitchell. Well Martin,
what kept jump?
Speaker 12 (19:34):
I saw his room, Sir, and spoke with mister Dutton.
Mitchell must have got the wind up. He's gone. But
I found this in his room, the key duplicate key
to the garage. Mitchell had access to the car Edit II.
He wanted to use it, and mister Dutton tells me
he was on the verge of calling us, but I
walked in. Mitchell is paying the expenses of his little
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trip with forged checks.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That does it, Martin.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Let's get back to the office.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The fast interlocking network of police authorities and police communications
went into action all across and up and down England.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The teletypes carried the message.
Speaker 15 (20:13):
Bornmous to all stations General alarm for one John Mitchell,
age about forty two five feet eight inches tall, weightd
about one hundred and sixty five pounds, hair, brown eyes,
blue distinctive suppose, low pitched voice, wanted for forgery and murder.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The word was out somewhere in England. A policeman would
recognize John Mitchell. And the policeman did.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Inspect your gardener speaking this is super.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Didn't con and ready, inspector.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
We have this John Mitchell for you picked him up
when he tried to get a drop to gearage.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
He has a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
John Mitchell was brought back to Vuscan. But the job
wasn't done even yet. After all, when the charge is murdered,
the plea of not guilty is mandatory. There must be
a trial and there must be attorneys for the defensive
man is to be presumed innocent and to prove and guilty. Therefore,
the case had to be air tight, foolproof. No loopholes
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were a smart defense.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Guns now get missed. When you walk into this room,
there'll be a dozen men there where their backs turned
towards you. You're walking backwards yourself, so there'll be no
chance of your seeing even the becks of their.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Heads sort of blind peltasts.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yes, without benefit of blindfold. You ready now as ready
as our lepathy. Let's go who here? These may have
been briefed Martin.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
Yes, sir, they know what to do. They're to read
the words on the cards. I've good, very well, you
can begin, all right.
Speaker 16 (21:48):
You car car will meet, next car, car will meet,
next car, car will meet, next peers.
Speaker 12 (22:00):
Car, car will meet, and the next car car will meet.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
That's him, that's the voice.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They were ready now, they felt to give the Crown
its chance to avenge the untimely and brutal death of
one of its subjects. The prosecutor was confident. The defense
was bold. Time and again, despite the experts, despite the
weight of evidence, the defense managed to throw what seemed
a reasonable doubt on the guilt of John Mitchell. A
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climactic moment came when Mitchell himself was on the witness stand.
The prosecutor faced the prisoner.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Mister Mitchell, we're about to go back to school. We
shall have a spelling lesson. I'm ready ask the way
will you spell? If I if? If we shall be
more difficult, if we go along, will be.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Good enough to spell expense.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Ax p e n Is he very good? Mister Mitchell?
Speaker 14 (23:02):
Who learned your lesson?
Speaker 10 (23:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And then please spell Bournemouth bo you r in em
o uta?
Speaker 11 (23:11):
Well, well fine, just fine, and pleasant, mister Mitchell, how
do you spell pleasant?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
P L S E N T. I see pleasant, just
like a present. That's right, But it isn't right, mister Mitchell.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
Pleasant is spelt with an A, but you didn't spell
it with an a today, Nor did you spell it
with an a when you wrote the telegram asking for
a pleasant young nurse.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And what was your plan, mister Mitchell? Did you want
to murder a nurse the way you murdered?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I don't mat views.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Perhaps in that terrible moment, as he stood in the
dark at the Old Bailey, the mind of John Mitchell
may have turned to that other moment, when all unsuspecting
he wrote out that fateful telegram, the self same telegram
that can be seen to day in the Black Museum.
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It might be said that John Mitchell was hanged by
a missing letter A in the word pleasant.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Be that as it may.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Circumstances caught up with this gentleman one morning at eight o'clock,
and he passed from this world because of a set
of coincidences which fitted together in the minds of alert
detectives in Scotland yard. If Mitchell had known how to
spell correctly, if Harris had not been a keen eyed
designer of automobiles, if Harris had not taken a trip
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when he did, if Marge, the post office clerk, had
not been struck by Mitchell's voice.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But it's no matter now.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Now the telegram was to be found in its customary
place in Scotland Yard, in the Black Museum. And now
until we meet next time in the same place, I
tell you another story about the Black Museum.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I remain as always, will be game for yours. M hmmm,
This is Auson Wells speaking from London. The Black Museum.
Here in a grihamstone structure on the Thames which houses
Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide, a warehouse where
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everyday objects, a piece of wash, line of medicine, bottle
and electric light bulb.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
All all are touched by murder.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Here's a telegram that's a familiar object. Usually it's his
happy birthday, or congratulations on your wedding, or will arrive
ten o'clock train. This telegram was an urgent request to die.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Take this telegram, miss please.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yes, sir, Daily Star come up once four point thirty
train Waterloop, Ballmouth Central.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We'll meet.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Sorry sir, what.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Is this car?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Car?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We'll meet today?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This telegram can be seen in the Black Museum.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the
London Police. We bring you the dramatic stories of the
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death,
the Black Museum.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Here we are the Black Museum, Scotland Yards, Mausoleum of murder. Hallies,
death arranged on shows and cabinets, ranked along the floor
and on the tables. Death in many disguises this oil lamp.
This one was found in Thyme. There were others before
(02:15):
it in other places. Part of a baited trap. A
house cat leaped knocking over the lamp. Flames flared arson
and somebody dies, and such a fire arson becomes the murderer.
(02:36):
There's a bit of ribbon from a Christmas package, shining
tinseled ribbon. A gift unwrapped in pleasant anticipation was death
Ah a telegram.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
There we are.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's a slip of yellow paper with familiar type pasted
and stripes across its face, urgent summons. One day, this
wire rested in a closed handbag on a woman's lap.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
She was riding on a train.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Response to the wire, men sharing the seat with her smile,
started a conversation.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You going all the way to Bournemouth.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
No, I'm getting off at Bascom. This train do stop
at Boscom, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, I believe it.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
I'm going through to Bournemouth themselves, So I didn't pay
particular attention your holidays.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well you know why.
Speaker 9 (03:18):
I'm taking a day off to see some friends and
I'm going back to Southampton to.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
Catch a ship for her business triph.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
It that's been nice to have a life like that.
Mine's very dull.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
Oh well then might I get is that like some
of the ladies, I know, you'll find your gaiety in
your heads?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
No, mane, it's tovagant. I've always liked your pretty hair.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Just chr chats on a train speeding southward from London.
The gentleman contributed no information about his business. The lady
didn't give her name. She did have a volunteer.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
I'm going down to Bascom to cook for some people.
That's what I do cook.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And the time passed.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Others entered the compartment of the train at various stops
and left a little later.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But that was all. And as the train slowed from Bascom.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
Here let meet me shirt that back looks heavy, parget
down for you.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Oh please don't travel, sir, It is no trouble at all.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Come.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, it's been pleasant chatting with you all.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Good luck at the new.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Job, and thank you sir, and good luck on your trip.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Thank you, miss big Gardens, you the new cook for
vegans and wooden neras yes, in this way please missus.
Egan told me to watch for you. I'm their chauffeur.
I have the car. It's a fair way out, you see.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Oh, yes, the telegram said the car would meet me.
Is it nice working?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Please? She put her luggage in the back of the
big limousine, stepped into the front seat next to the chauffeur.
The train out of the Bascom station just as the car.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Moved away along the road.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Apparently it was a fair ways out, as the chauffeur
put it. The road wounds through the countryside. The land
seemed to grow more and more bleak. As they rolled along.
The sun dropped all of the horizon. The young woman
began to feel a little edgy.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Is it much further? Seems to be getting dark.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It not only seems to be getting dark, my girl,
it is getting dark.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You never told me if it's nice working out here, you.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Won't have any trouble. If you're nice, that is, if
I'm nice. Got the masters and mistresses ears? What I
say usually goes. Anyone who's not nice to me goes.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You've worked before, haven't you well?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yes, of course, have the very best of references.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
In most places, it's the butler, isn't it out here?
It's me.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Why have you left the road, because my girl, I
took you out this way for reasons of my own.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Now now I came out here for a job as cook.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Come here. I know you can't God not to me.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's someone else, no one else, it's you, understand Now'll
be good, be quiet.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That was all till the next morning.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Farmer cutting across the empty fields found that they were
not quite as empty as he supposed.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Here here, what's this youth like? Miss she? She's dead? Ah?
This be for the police.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The farmer made it as fast as he could the
nearest telephone, and within an hour the police had arrived.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
They will not I suppose you repeat your starliarship.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
You're inspector gardener.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Ah, well they told.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
You go ahead.
Speaker 11 (07:07):
Well I was cutting across the field. They save a
few steps, and I come on her line like that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I went for help. That's soul, sir.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
You didn't touch anything, You didn't mess up the ground.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
No, no, sir, nothing like that.
Speaker 10 (07:21):
All right, give the constable your name and address. We'll
call you for an egypt Yes, sir, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What do you make up a martin?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
One of those things?
Speaker 12 (07:31):
Inspector murder by person unknown after a bit of a.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Struggle, it looks like yes, ground's pretty well trembled.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Any idea of the time of death.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
Medical examiner can't see it, Sir. My guess is sometime
after seven o'clock last night. The rain stopped around six thirty.
She is not even damp, sir.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Very good, I judge from the tire texts. We'll get
to make up tires in the size of the cars.
You know, Yes, sir, you have her handbag, yes, right here,
so hm, Yes, we had an identity card, Ida Matthews, Stretham, London.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
We can check that quickly enough.
Speaker 10 (08:09):
Well, it's a telegram Daily Star come at once four
point thirty train Waterloo Bomber Central car will meet Joy
Expence's paid Egan, woodmere.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
House, Boscombe.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Yes, I've seen this sort of thing before. What are
the odds, Martin? There is no woodmere House nor any
Egan hereabouts.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The odds were high. The inspector was right, no woodmere
House and no Eagon. But the telegram is a lead,
and importantly for a thread to start on. Not very
many post offices in Bascom, and you send telegrams from
post offices Neihland.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Detective Martin had an assignment.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
I'm sorry to bother you, but this wire filed at
this office.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Not at that office.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, no, at the next one, but the one after that.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yes, that's one of ours.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
May I see the original of the wire? Please?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Well, now I don't know hit.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Scop and my credentials.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Ah, well, that makes it properly.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And since it was proper and Detective Martin returned to
his superior.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
With the original of the wire.
Speaker 12 (09:26):
Did you ever see such atrocious handwriting, Inspector.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
I can't I ever have party, can't spell either? No
E in Bournemouth and expenses with a C in place
of an S. Interesting Martin, it will be a long job.
Check through central post office and guard the Bournemouth area yourself,
get the originals of every wire over the past six
months that have had bad handwriting and worse spelling. It's
(09:49):
a long job.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Patience and routine the two great strengths of the forces
of law and order, and they pay off. Sometimes it
takes months, sometimes only weeks. This time it was two weeks.
A triumphant detective, I'd returned to Inspector Gardner.
Speaker 12 (10:14):
We've got two more wiles and good work Martin. Here, sir,
notice this first one to the Dandre woman, no e
in Bournemouth, see an expense and a new era. Two
f's in if at this one to the domestic agency.
Someone wanted a young pleasant nurse without an a in
(10:35):
pleasant And again the e is missing in Bournemouth.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
Her writing's identical, no question about it.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Put some calls to Martin.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
I wonder if the Dandre woman or the young pleasant
nurse ever came down this way.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That track was an easy one, not trouble at all.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
The Dandre woman came down, no car. She went back
a lucky lady.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That one.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Apparently Priment agency was a bit more careful.
Speaker 12 (11:02):
The agency wrote to the return address for more information.
Name and address were fictitious, of course, of course.
Speaker 10 (11:08):
All right, Martin, back to the bascom post dropice jog
A few memories, will you?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
I see, Miss, you filed this wire.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I did we get a lot of business through you
are with that awful handwriting.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Do you remember anything about the person who gave it
to you?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Well, it was a man, I know that that's something
there was that.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Let me think now now it's all black.
Speaker 12 (11:38):
I don't try to hard, Miss, It'll come back to
you here. Let me read you the wire Daily Star
come at once four thirty train Waterloo, Bournemouth Central and
something here I can't quite make out.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
That's it car, car, we'll meet.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I asked him the same question. He repeated the words
like that car, car will meet. I'd know his voice anywhere.
Why it was that kind of voice? Smooth, too soft?
Since she was out for me?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Do you remember the man at all?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, sir, you know how it is.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Don't look at all the people who come in here.
But I think I'm not positive, but I think you
are on the chauffeur's.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Uniform, patience and routine were bringing results from nothing except
Ida Matthew's body. They built their evidence to a man
in a chauffeur's uniform who couldn't spell, and from the
tire tracks they knew the make of tires and the
length and widths and therefore the make of the car.
(12:48):
Within hours now every chauffeur in the vicinity who drove
a live sedan of a certain make had been called
into the police station.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Now do you Aleventhop was in London? So with my
money we lost a boy in the war. Inspector and
the whole family always gets together an armist this night
for that reason.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
No remember the eleventh Inspectator. I was off that night.
I didn't have the car. Now the young Master was
permitted to drivers himself that night. Seeing as I was
having my regular.
Speaker 13 (13:16):
Night off, I picked up the old man, mister Dutton,
and he's a regular train, drove him home, put the
car away and.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Locked it up.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Did you have your own keid of garage?
Speaker 13 (13:28):
No, sir, I always turned it into the big house
after I put the car away. That's what I did
that night, sir. And after that mature, I went into
Bournemouth on the bus, had a button, went.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
To the cinema.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
You should remember all that very well. It was over
a month ago. The case we're investigating happened.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I've got a great memory.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Well how is it unspelling? I wouldn't know. I never
tested it. Let's test it right now. Take this pad
and pencil and write the words I asked you. I
know you were smart and we shouldn't have let the
newspapers publish those wires. Not one of these cheps spills
those words wrong, and their handwriting doesn't match.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Nothing.
Speaker 12 (14:06):
As it's too bad Inspector to draw a blank when
it looks so.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Good for a bit.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
That's about it, Martin. For once we've drawn a blank completely.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But that was not to be the end.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Fate was to play a hand, and one of the
strongest cards in that hand turned out to be the telegram. Yes,
this same telegram that can be seen today in the
Black Museum.
Speaker 14 (14:36):
Arson Wells will be back with you in just a moment,
And now we continue with the Black Museum, starring Awesome Wells.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They'd drawn a blank, but carefully built up points which
should have led to a vicious killer lead nowhere. The
full and tragic story of Idam Matthews seemed headed directly
for the unsolved file at Scotland yarnd.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
How do account for what happened next?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Chance, stupidity, the intelligence to capitalize on a tiny fact.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What does matter is that one morning at the post
office in Bascon.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
How many steps for this package? Miss?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I just put it on the scale.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I take care now it's mark French. I don't even
see that.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
I see it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It'll be one and three, right you are, Thank you?
Miss Jimmy Quick Please, where's he going? Good fellow in
the show for suit? Where's he going get to the window.
I can't leave the cage quick.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Yeah, he's getting a little a car grace there, get
the number whatever for.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Wait l K nine O five four twenty four.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Ex husband knows you elimen he a'm ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
That's the man who sent the telegram, the one the
coppers was so interesting. I know his voice anywhere? Yeah,
you take over. I'm going to telephone that nast detective.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
A chance, a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The young man might have taken that package, the girl
might have forgotten the voice. Neither of these things happened,
and a new lead was developed for the yard.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Mitchell drives that car Inspector John Mitchell, owner is done.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
We had Mitchell in his writing, doesn't mentionine his spelling's fine.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well, the girl swears he's the man Martin.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Can you picture a British jury hanging a man because
a girl remembered his voice? No such things are.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
But the points were added to the Ida Matthews file
and held waiting their use. Patience and more patience and
more results.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Depect the gardeners beging this is Sidney Harris.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
I'm told her that I want to give my information
to you. It's on the Matthews case.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You see, I rode down to Bosco on the.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Train with her.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Sydney Harris received a warm welcome at Scotland.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
Sit down, mister Harris, thank you. If I may ask,
what took this a lot? I was out of the country, Inspector.
I returned just yesterday.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Go on, mister Harris, will you see my business takes
me abroad quite a bit. I had the opportunity to
spend a night with some friends of mine in Bournemouth
before I sailed the next day. That's how it happened
that I was on the train. The Matthews woman was
in my compartment. We talked a bitter I commented on
our Harold, just passing the time. I'd never have thought
of it again, I suppose if my ship had sailed
(17:46):
on time, but it didn't. The steward brought aboard some
late papers which came out while we werestled in Southampton.
I saw them after we've been at sea for a
few hours. There was this woman's picture and the story
I understand. And now, mister Harris, what information do you
have which may.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Be of help to us?
Speaker 9 (18:04):
The luggage rack on the car, Inspector.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It was a large gray sedan.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
How did you happen to notice it?
Speaker 9 (18:10):
I watched across to the station platform. I saw a
man meet in a sofa's uniform. I wanted to enter
this car. Now it happens, Inspector, that I design auto bodies.
The Luggies wrec attracted my attention. It doesn't belong to
that make of car. It's been specially fitted.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
You're a very observed man, mister Harris, for which our
deepest appreciation. At one point, mister Harris, among these ladies'
hats on the desk, which one would you say was
miss Matthews or this one' sir, that, mister Harris, is
the hat we found beside Ida Matthew's body.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
At last someone to establish that Ida Matthews had been
mat bess chauffeur at the buscon station.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Which chauffeur.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Yes, that's the car, the gray one, LK nine oh
five to four.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
That's the Luggies wreck. I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But the handwriting and the spelling.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
Ask the licensed Bureau for Mitchell's application for the driver's license.
I want to see the handwriting on it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Within a day, the application lay on the inspector's desk.
Decided with the originals of the wires with the misspelled words.
Speaker 12 (19:15):
Well, Martin, not much doubt about it, as there inspector.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
The experts will testify for us, Martin. But I'm satisfied.
Get your hat. We're going to pick up Mitchell. Well Martin,
what kept jump?
Speaker 12 (19:34):
I saw his room, Sir, and spoke with mister Dutton.
Mitchell must have got the wind up. He's gone. But
I found this in his room, the key duplicate key
to the garage. Mitchell had access to the car Edit II.
He wanted to use it, and mister Dutton tells me
he was on the verge of calling us, but I
walked in. Mitchell is paying the expenses of his little
(19:54):
trip with forged checks.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That does it, Martin.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Let's get back to the office.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The fast interlocking network of police authorities and police communications
went into action all across and up and down England.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The teletypes carried the message.
Speaker 15 (20:13):
Bornmous to all stations General alarm for one John Mitchell,
age about forty two five feet eight inches tall, weightd
about one hundred and sixty five pounds, hair, brown eyes,
blue distinctive suppose, low pitched voice, wanted for forgery and murder.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The word was out somewhere in England. A policeman would
recognize John Mitchell. And the policeman did.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Inspect your gardener speaking this is super.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Didn't con and ready, inspector.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
We have this John Mitchell for you picked him up
when he tried to get a drop to gearage.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
He has a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
John Mitchell was brought back to Vuscan. But the job
wasn't done even yet. After all, when the charge is murdered,
the plea of not guilty is mandatory. There must be
a trial and there must be attorneys for the defensive
man is to be presumed innocent and to prove and guilty. Therefore,
the case had to be air tight, foolproof. No loopholes
(21:16):
were a smart defense.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Guns now get missed. When you walk into this room,
there'll be a dozen men there where their backs turned
towards you. You're walking backwards yourself, so there'll be no
chance of your seeing even the becks of their.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Heads sort of blind peltasts.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yes, without benefit of blindfold. You ready now as ready
as our lepathy. Let's go who here? These may have
been briefed Martin.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
Yes, sir, they know what to do. They're to read
the words on the cards. I've good, very well, you
can begin, all right.
Speaker 16 (21:48):
You car car will meet, next car, car will meet,
next car, car will meet, next peers.
Speaker 12 (22:00):
Car, car will meet, and the next car car will meet.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
That's him, that's the voice.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They were ready now, they felt to give the Crown
its chance to avenge the untimely and brutal death of
one of its subjects. The prosecutor was confident. The defense
was bold. Time and again, despite the experts, despite the
weight of evidence, the defense managed to throw what seemed
a reasonable doubt on the guilt of John Mitchell. A
(22:35):
climactic moment came when Mitchell himself was on the witness stand.
The prosecutor faced the prisoner.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Mister Mitchell, we're about to go back to school. We
shall have a spelling lesson. I'm ready ask the way
will you spell? If I if? If we shall be
more difficult, if we go along, will be.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Good enough to spell expense.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Ax p e n Is he very good? Mister Mitchell?
Speaker 14 (23:02):
Who learned your lesson?
Speaker 10 (23:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And then please spell Bournemouth bo you r in em
o uta?
Speaker 11 (23:11):
Well, well fine, just fine, and pleasant, mister Mitchell, how
do you spell pleasant?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
P L S E N T. I see pleasant, just
like a present. That's right, But it isn't right, mister Mitchell.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
Pleasant is spelt with an A, but you didn't spell
it with an a today, Nor did you spell it
with an a when you wrote the telegram asking for
a pleasant young nurse.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And what was your plan, mister Mitchell? Did you want
to murder a nurse the way you murdered?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I don't mat views.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Perhaps in that terrible moment, as he stood in the
dark at the Old Bailey, the mind of John Mitchell
may have turned to that other moment, when all unsuspecting
he wrote out that fateful telegram, the self same telegram
that can be seen to day in the Black Museum.
(24:09):
It might be said that John Mitchell was hanged by
a missing letter A in the word pleasant.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Be that as it may.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Circumstances caught up with this gentleman one morning at eight o'clock,
and he passed from this world because of a set
of coincidences which fitted together in the minds of alert
detectives in Scotland yard. If Mitchell had known how to
spell correctly, if Harris had not been a keen eyed
designer of automobiles, if Harris had not taken a trip
(24:37):
when he did, if Marge, the post office clerk, had
not been struck by Mitchell's voice.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But it's no matter now.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Now the telegram was to be found in its customary
place in Scotland Yard, in the Black Museum. And now
until we meet next time in the same place, I
tell you another story about the Black Museum.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I remain as always, will be game for yours. M hmmm,
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