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This is Auson Wells speaking from London. The Black Museum. Here in a

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grihamstone structure on the Thames which houses
Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide,

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a warehouse where everyday objects, a
piece of wash, line of medicine,

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bottle and electric light bulb all all
are touched by murder. Here's a

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telegram that's a familiar object. Usually
it's his happy birthday, or congratulations on

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your wedding, or will arrive ten
o'clock train. This telegram was an urgent

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request to die. Take this telegram, miss please, yes, sir,

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Daily Star come up once four point
thirty train Waterloop, Ballmouth Central. We'll

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meet. Sorry sir, what is
this car? Car? We'll meet today?

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This telegram can be seen in the
Black Museum. From the annals of

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the Criminal Investigation Department of the London
Police. We bring you the dramatic stories

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of the crimes recorded by the objects
in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death, the

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Black Museum. Here we are the
Black Museum, Scotland Yards, Mausoleum of

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murder. Hallies, death arranged on
shows and cabinets, ranked along the floor

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and on the tables. Death in
many disguises this oil lamp. This one

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was found in Thyme. There were
others before it in other places. Part

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of a baited trap. A house
cat leaped knocking over the lamp. Flames

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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

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gift unwrapped in pleasant anticipation was death
Ah a telegram. There we are.

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It's a slip of yellow paper with
familiar type pasted and stripes across its face,

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urgent summons. One day, this
wire rested in a closed handbag on

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a woman's lap. She was riding
on a train. Response to the wire,

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men sharing the seat with her smile, started a conversation. You going

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all the way to Bournemouth. No, I'm getting off at Bascom. This

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train do stop at Boscom, doesn't
he? Well, I believe it.

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I'm going through to Bournemouth themselves,
So I didn't pay particular attention your holidays.

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Well you know why. I'm taking
a day off to see some friends

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and I'm going back to Southampton to
catch a ship for her business triph.

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It that's been nice to have a
life like that. Mine's very dull.

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Oh well then might I get is
that like some of the ladies, I

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know, you'll find your gaiety in
your heads? No, mane, it's

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tovagant. I've always liked your pretty
hair. Just chr chats on a train

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speeding southward from London. The gentleman
contributed no information about his business. The

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lady didn't give her name. She
did have a volunteer. I'm going down

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to Bascom to cook for some people. That's what I do cook. And

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the time passed. Others entered the
compartment of the train at various stops and

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left a little later. But that
was all. And as the train slowed

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from Bascom, here let meet me
shirt that back looks heavy, parget down

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for you. Oh please don't travel, sir, It is no trouble at

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all. Here we are come.
Well, it's been pleasant chatting with you

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all. Good luck at the new
job, and thank you sir, and

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good luck on your trip. Thank
you, miss big Gardens, you the

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new cook for vegans and wooden neras
yes, in this way please missus.

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Egan told me to watch for you. I'm their chauffeur. I have the

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car. It's a fair way out, you see. Oh, yes,

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the telegram said the car would meet
me. Is it nice working? Please?

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She put her luggage in the back
of the big limousine, stepped into

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the front seat next to the chauffeur. The train out of the Bascom station

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just as the car moved away along
the road. Apparently it was a fair

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ways out, as the chauffeur put
it. The road wounds through the countryside.

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The land seemed to grow more and
more bleak. As they rolled along.

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The sun dropped all of the horizon. The young woman began to feel

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a little edgy. Is it much
further? Seems to be getting dark.

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It not only seems to be getting
dark, my girl, it is getting

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dark. You never told me if
it's nice working out here, you won't

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have any trouble. If you're nice, that is, if I'm nice.

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Got the masters and mistresses ears?
What I say usually goes. Anyone who's

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not nice to me goes. I
don't understand. You've worked before, haven't

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you well? Yes, of course, have the very best of references.

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In most places, it's the butler, isn't it out here? It's me.

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I don't understand. Why have you
left the road, because my girl,

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I took you out this way for
reasons of my own. Now now

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I came out here for a job
as cook. I get that. Come

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here. I know you can't God
not to me. It's someone else,

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no one else, it's you,
understand Now'll be good, be quiet.

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That was all till the next morning. Farmer cutting across the empty fields found

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that they were not quite as empty
as he supposed. Here here, what's

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this youth like? Miss she?
She's dead? Ah? This be for

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the police. The farmer made it
as fast as he could the nearest telephone,

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and within an hour the police had
arrived. They will not I suppose

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you repeat your starliarship. You're inspector
gardener. Ah, well they told you

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go ahead. Well I was cutting
across the field. They save a few

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steps, and I come on her
line like that. I went for help.

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That's soul, sir. You didn't
touch anything, You didn't mess up

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the ground. No, no,
sir, nothing like that. All right,

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give the constable your name and address. We'll call you for an egypt

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Yes, sir, thank you,
sir. What do you make up a

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martin? One of those things?
Inspector murder by person unknown after a bit

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of a struggle, it looks like
yes, ground's pretty well trembled. Any

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idea of the time of death.
Medical examiner can't see it, Sir.

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My guess is sometime after seven o'clock
last night. The rain stopped around six

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thirty. She is not even damp, sir, very good, I judge

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from the tire texts. We'll get
to make up tires in the size of

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the cars. You know, Yes, sir, you have her handbag,

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yes, right here, so hm, Yes, we had an identity card,

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Ida Matthews, Stretham, London.
We can check that quickly enough.

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Well, it's a telegram Daily Star
come at once four point thirty train Waterloo

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Bomber Central car will meet Joy Expence's
paid Egan, woodmere House, Boscombe.

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Yes, I've seen this sort of
thing before. What are the odds,

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Martin? There is no woodmere House
nor any Egan hereabouts. The odds were

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high. The inspector was right,
no woodmere House and no Eagon. But

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the telegram is a lead, and
importantly for a thread to start on.

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Not very many post offices in Bascom, and you send telegrams from post offices

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Neihland. Detective Martin had an assignment. I'm sorry to bother you, but

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this wire filed at this office,
not at that office. No, no,

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at the next one, but the
one after that. Yes, that's

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one of ours. May I see
the original of the wire? Please?

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Well, now I don't know hit
scop and my credentials. Ah, well,

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that makes it properly. And since
it was proper and Detective Martin returned

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to his superior with the original of
the wire. Did you ever see such

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atrocious handwriting, Inspector, I can't
I ever have party, can't spell either?

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No E in Bournemouth and expenses with
a C in place of an S.

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Interesting Martin, it will be a
long job. Check through central post

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office and guard the Bournemouth area yourself, get the originals of every wire over

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the past six months that have had
bad handwriting and worse spelling. It's a

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long job. Patience and routine the
two great strengths of the forces of law

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and order, and they pay off. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes only

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weeks. This time it was two
weeks. A triumphant detective, I'd returned

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to Inspector Gardner. We've got two
more wiles and good work Martin. Here,

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sir, notice this first one to
the Dandre woman, no e in

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Bournemouth, see an expense and a
new era. Two f's in if at

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this one to the domestic agency.
Someone wanted a young pleasant nurse without an

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a in pleasant And again the e
is missing in Bournemouth. Her writing's identical,

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no question about it. Put some
calls to Martin. I wonder if

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the Dandre woman or the young pleasant
nurse ever came down this way. That

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track was an easy one, not
trouble at all. The Dandre woman came

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down, no car. She went
back a lucky lady. That one.

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Apparently Priment agency was a bit more
careful. The agency wrote to the return

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address for more information. Name and
address were fictitious, of course, of

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course. All right, Martin,
back to the bascom post dropice jog A

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few memories, will you? I
see, Miss, you filed this wire.

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I did we get a lot of
business through you are with that awful

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handwriting. Do you remember anything about
the person who gave it to you?

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Well, it was a man,
I know that that's something there was that.

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Let me think now now it's all
black. I don't try to hard,

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Miss, It'll come back to you
here. Let me read you the

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wire Daily Star come at once four
thirty train Waterloo, Bournemouth Central and something

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here I can't quite make out.
That's it car, car, we'll meet.

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I asked him the same question.
He repeated the words like that car,

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car will meet. I'd know his
voice anywhere. Why it was that

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kind of voice? Smooth, too
soft? Since she was out for me?

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Do you remember the man at all? No, sir, you know

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how it is. Don't look at
all the people who come in here.

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But I think I'm not positive,
but I think you are on the chauffeur's

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uniform, patience and routine were bringing
results from nothing except Ida Matthew's body.

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They built their evidence to a man
in a chauffeur's uniform who couldn't spell,

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and from the tire tracks they knew
the make of tires and the length and

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widths and therefore the make of the
car. Within hours now every chauffeur in

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the vicinity who drove a live sedan
of a certain make had been called into

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the police station. Now do you
Aleventhop was in London? So with my

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money we lost a boy in the
war. Inspector and the whole family always

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gets together an armist this night for
that reason, So no remember the eleventh

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Inspectator. I was off that night. I didn't have the car. Now

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the young Master was permitted to drivers
himself that night. Seeing as I was

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having my regular night off, I
picked up the old man, mister Dutton,

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and he's a regular train, drove
him home, put the car away

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and locked it up. Did you
have your own keid of garage? No,

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sir, I always turned it into
the big house after I put the

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car away. That's what I did
that night, sir. And after that

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mature, I went into Bournemouth on
the bus, had a button, went

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to the cinema. You should remember
all that very well. It was over

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a month ago. The case we're
investigating happened. I've got a great memory.

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Well how is it unspelling? I
wouldn't know. I never tested it.

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Let's test it right now. Take
this pad and pencil and write the

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words I asked you. I know
you were smart and we shouldn't have let

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the newspapers publish those wires. Not
one of these cheps spills those words wrong,

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and their handwriting doesn't match. Nothing. As it's too bad Inspector to

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draw a blank when it looks so
good for a bit. That's about it,

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Martin. For once we've drawn a
blank completely. But that was not

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to be the end. Fate was
to play a hand, and one of

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the strongest cards in that hand turned
out to be the telegram. Yes,

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this same telegram that can be seen
today in the Black Museum. Arson Wells

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will be back with you in just
a moment, And now we continue with

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the Black Museum, starring Awesome Wells. They'd drawn a blank, but carefully

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built up points which should have led
to a vicious killer lead nowhere. The

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full and tragic story of Idam Matthews
seemed headed directly for the unsolved file at

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Scotland yarnd. How do account for
what happened next? Chance, stupidity,

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the intelligence to capitalize on a tiny
fact. It really doesn't matter. What

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does matter is that one morning at
the post office in Bascon, how many

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steps for this package? Miss?
I just put it on the scale.

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I take care now it's mark French. I don't even see that. I

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see it. It'll be one and
three, right you are, Thank you?

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Miss Jimmy Quick Please, where's he
going? Good fellow in the show

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for suit? Where's he going get
to the window. I can't leave the

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cage quick. Yeah, he's getting
a little a car grace there, get

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the number whatever for wait l K
nine O five four twenty four. Ex

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husband knows you elimen he a'm ridiculous. That's the man who sent the telegram,

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the one the coppers was so interesting. I know his voice anywhere?

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Yeah, you take over. I'm
going to telephone that nast detective. A

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chance, a coincidence. The young
man might have taken that package, the

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girl might have forgotten the voice.
Neither of these things happened, and a

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new lead was developed for the yard. Mitchell drives that car Inspector John Mitchell,

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owner is done. We had Mitchell
in his writing, doesn't mentionine his

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spelling's fine. Well, the girl
swears he's the man Martin. Can you

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picture a British jury hanging a man
because a girl remembered his voice? No

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such things are. But the points
were added to the Ida Matthews file and

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held waiting their use. Patience and
more patience and more results. Depect the

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gardeners beging this is Sidney Harris.
I'm told her that I want to give

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my information to you. It's on
the Matthews case. You see, I

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rode down to Bosco on the train
with her. Sydney Harris received a warm

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welcome at Scotland. Sit down,
mister Harris, thank you. If I

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may ask, what took this a
lot? I was out of the country,

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Inspector. I returned just yesterday.
Go on, mister Harris, will

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you see my business takes me abroad
quite a bit. I had the opportunity

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to spend a night with some friends
of mine in Bournemouth before I sailed the

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next day. That's how it happened
that I was on the train. The

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Matthews woman was in my compartment.
We talked a bitter I commented on our

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Harold, just passing the time.
I'd never have thought of it again,

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I suppose if my ship had sailed
on time, but it didn't. The

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steward brought aboard some late papers which
came out while we werestled in Southampton.

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I saw them after we've been at
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this woman's picture and the story I
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what information do you have which may
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rack on the car, Inspector.
It was a large gray sedan. How

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did you happen to notice it?
I watched across to the station platform.

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I saw a man meet in a
sofa's uniform. I wanted to enter this

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car. Now it happens, Inspector, that I design auto bodies. The

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Luggies wrec attracted my attention. It
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It's been specially fitted. You're a
very observed man, mister Harris, for

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which our deepest appreciation. At one
point, mister Harris, among these ladies'

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hats on the desk, which one
would you say was miss Matthews or this

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one' sir, that, mister Harris, is the hat we found beside Ida

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Matthew's body. At last someone to
establish that Ida Matthews had been mat bess

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chauffeur at the buscon station. Which
chauffeur. Yes, that's the car,

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the gray one, LK nine oh
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I was talking about. But the
handwriting and the spelling. Ask the

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licensed Bureau for Mitchell's application for the
driver's license. I want to see the

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handwriting on it. Within a day, the application lay on the inspector's desk.

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Decided with the originals of the wires
with the misspelled words. Well,

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Martin, not much doubt about it, as there inspector, the experts will

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testify for us, Martin. But
I'm satisfied. Get your hat. We're

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going to pick up Mitchell. Well
Martin, what kept jump? I saw

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his room, Sir, and spoke
with mister Dutton. Mitchell must have got

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the wind up. He's gone.
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the key duplicate key to the garage. Mitchell had access to the car Edit

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II. He wanted to use it, and mister Dutton tells me he was

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on the verge of calling us,
but I walked in. Mitchell is paying

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the expenses of his little trip with
forged checks. That does it, Martin.

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Let's get back to the office now. The fast interlocking network of police

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authorities and police communications went into action
all across and up and down England.

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The teletypes carried the message bornmous to
all stations General alarm for one John Mitchell,

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age about forty two five feet eight
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and sixty five pounds, hair,
brown eyes, blue distinctive suppose, low

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pitched voice, wanted for forgery and
murder. The word was out somewhere in

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England. A policeman would recognize John
Mitchell. And the policeman did inspect your

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gardener speaking this is super didn't con
and ready, inspector. We have this

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John Mitchell for you picked him up
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gearage. He has a mechanic.
John Mitchell was brought back to Vuscan.

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But the job wasn't done even yet. After all, when the charge is

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murdered, the plea of not guilty
is mandatory. There must be a trial

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and there must be attorneys for the
defensive man is to be presumed innocent and

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to prove and guilty. Therefore,
the case had to be air tight,

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foolproof. No loopholes were a smart
defense. Guns now get missed. When

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you walk into this room, there'll
be a dozen men there where their backs

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turned towards you. You're walking backwards
yourself, so there'll be no chance of

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your seeing even the becks of their
heads sort of blind peltasts. Yes,

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without benefit of blindfold. You ready
now as ready as our lepathy. Let's

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go who here? These may have
been briefed Martin, Yes, sir,

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they know what to do. They're
to read the words on the cards.

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I've good, very well, you
can begin, all right. You car

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car will meet, next car,
car will meet, next car, car

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will meet, next peers car,
car will meet, and the next car

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car will meet. That's him,
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Anyway. They were ready now,
they felt to give the Crown its chance

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to avenge the untimely and brutal death
of one of its subjects. The prosecutor

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was confident. The defense was bold. Time and again, despite the experts,

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despite the weight of evidence, the
defense managed to throw what seemed a

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reasonable doubt on the guilt of John
Mitchell. A climactic moment came when Mitchell

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himself was on the witness stand.
The prosecutor faced the prisoner, mister Mitchell,

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we're about to go back to school. We shall have a spelling lesson.

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I'm ready ask the way will you
spell? If I if? If

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we shall be more difficult, if
we go along, will be good enough

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to spell expense ax p e n
Is he very good? Mister Mitchell?

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Who learned your lesson? Well?
And then please spell Bournemouth bo you r

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in em o uta? Well,
well fine, just fine, and pleasant,

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mister Mitchell, how do you spell
pleasant? P L S E N

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T. I see pleasant, just
like a present. That's right, But

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it isn't right, mister Mitchell.
Pleasant is spelt with an A, but

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you didn't spell it with an a
today, Nor did you spell it with

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an a when you wrote the telegram
asking for a pleasant young nurse. And

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what was your plan, mister Mitchell? Did you want to murder a nurse

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the way you murdered? I don't
mat views. Perhaps in that terrible moment,

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as he stood in the dark at
the Old Bailey, the mind of

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John Mitchell may have turned to that
other moment, when all unsuspecting he wrote

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out that fateful telegram, the self
same telegram that can be seen to day

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in the Black Museum. It might
be said that John Mitchell was hanged by

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a missing letter A in the word
pleasant. Be that as it may.

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Circumstances caught up with this gentleman one
morning at eight o'clock, and he passed

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from this world because of a set
of coincidences which fitted together in the minds

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of alert detectives in Scotland yard.
If Mitchell had known how to spell correctly,

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if Harris had not been a keen
eyed designer of automobiles, if Harris

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had not taken a trip when he
did, if Marge, the post office

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clerk, had not been struck by
Mitchell's voice. But it's no matter now.

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Now the telegram was to be found
in its customary place in Scotland Yard,

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in the Black Museum. And now
until we meet next time in the

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same place, I tell you another
story about the Black Museum. I remain

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as always, will be game for
yours. M hmmm,