Speaker 1: Missus Orton Wells speaking from London. The Black Museums through
Speaker 1: a positary of death. Yeah, it's here in the Grimstone
Speaker 1: start Armatam which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide.
Speaker 2: For everyday objects.
Speaker 1: A glass, ash tray, porcelain face, an electric fan, all
Speaker 1: are touched by merger.
Speaker 2: There's a piece of an iron chain.
Speaker 1: It's a familiar object, might be a bar on a
Speaker 1: gravel driveway. It might rest in an emergency truck, a
Speaker 1: use and throwing an automobile mid mice.
Speaker 2: So in this case, the cause of says, remember this.
Speaker 3: Was this hey, of course inspection You knew, didn't you.
Speaker 1: We just about then closed the file on the tail
Speaker 1: killing this you told me. It's just as well as
Speaker 1: those statutes.
Speaker 2: Of limitations on murder. And today that shain can be
Speaker 2: seen in its place in the Black Museum.
Speaker 4: From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the
Speaker 4: London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the
Speaker 4: crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death,
Speaker 4: the Black Museum.
Speaker 2: Oh here we are a Black Museum's couple of yards.
Speaker 2: Museum of murder. Hairline is that.
Speaker 1: It is different quite different from 'em. Yeah, him stones
Speaker 1: marked only the mons beneath which dust has returned to dust.
Speaker 3: But these white cars with the neat.
Speaker 2: Black lettering designates the means of death. And in every
Speaker 2: case it can ulu a hu chane.
Speaker 5: Chaine.
Speaker 2: I want you associated with the woods with the sound
Speaker 2: shade shift, some angers, slavery, fires and prisons, maybe, oh
Speaker 2: finny with the younger of twenty.
Speaker 1: Three seated in the hide share of their officers. How
Speaker 1: Scott from the eye. I'm sorry to ask you to
Speaker 1: repeat that statement, Miss Tomlinson. You'll understand that I find
Speaker 1: brother hard to believe you feel the same way, don't.
Speaker 3: You sudden I did that, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I rather expected your rooms in modern time. If I do,
Speaker 3: and you have no explanation of these uh phenomenon. If
Speaker 3: I heard, I wouldn't be here, inspector. You must believe
Speaker 3: me that it ghost. And I think you don't.
Speaker 2: Mean, Miss Thomlinson.
Speaker 3: But I'm noises in the night, and they fight UNEs
Speaker 3: and the voice, my father's voice. He wants me out
Speaker 3: of the house.
Speaker 6: Well, why should you want me out when you missed
Speaker 6: it to me, when you were so happy there together,
Speaker 6: just you and my father.
Speaker 3: Mother died when I was very little.
Speaker 6: I hardly knew her mother, only.
Speaker 3: Myself in the house.
Speaker 1: Answered, I see does this.
Speaker 2: Goest by any jus recal chabins.
Speaker 3: It's a super son.
Speaker 1: And kind did a good inspect at his own ideas
Speaker 1: about this ghost. In fact, after John Thominson left his office,
Speaker 1: interesting person in ghosts littles out hair in good looking
Speaker 1: air as a sagan.
Speaker 2: All that death naga.
Speaker 3: But it might be possible that someone else is or
Speaker 3: in their.
Speaker 1: Property, perhaps well looking to a person. If we don't,
Speaker 1: we all got the young lady will get back.
Speaker 2: Until we do. Let me have another person of morning.
Speaker 2: The morning was eight hours away.
Speaker 1: Sudge and Preston walked up the christ Street in the
Speaker 1: London suburb where he child stood alone in his own
Speaker 1: plot of ground.
Speaker 2: Even in the innattequate.
Speaker 1: Light in the streets anser side, you could see something
Speaker 1: of well kept.
Speaker 2: Laws and sis.
Speaker 1: He turned into the concrete driveway, studied two garages and
Speaker 1: tens of back gardens, hiding his way to a screen
Speaker 1: back porch or a light show.
Speaker 3: Briefly she changed SERGEANTY, thank you for the light my torch.
Speaker 6: I didn't want you to try the home house this way,
Speaker 6: I don't we'd ringing outstairs room.
Speaker 2: Whatever you seek business, it's your guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, and.
Speaker 3: What's stairs this way?
Speaker 1: The sergeant himself rather than saw in the darkness, and
Speaker 1: it was a large house. Seeing these several rooms on
Speaker 1: the ground floor and upstairs. They passed three closed doors
Speaker 1: before they end up the sitting room, which kind they
Speaker 1: extended before went to the building.
Speaker 6: That's the comfortable chair with the father.
Speaker 2: Thank you, miss, did you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Thank you at all? Smooth?
Speaker 3: Your fine man was of course, when does he come midnight?
Speaker 6: Any time after?
Speaker 3: I understand it? He really? I know it? Now wait wait.
Speaker 2: Nothing, think he'll come to.
Speaker 5: Night, miss, I'll say he starting juty starting.
Speaker 2: Non believe h.
Speaker 3: Hear me?
Speaker 5: Start how can I help you?
Speaker 3: Miss?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: So me.
Speaker 3: Okay, and you hear me. It's just it's something slash.
Speaker 2: Joy.
Speaker 3: I can't dress, I can't.
Speaker 1: Not dwaving.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: In a.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's human, it's gootably.
Speaker 2: That the sergeant really, because it has to be human.
Speaker 1: Does into a sound, Sergeant, have you ever heard of
Speaker 1: the researchers of colon oil and dozens of others?
Speaker 3: No, you'll believe me, sergeant there's something like my father,
Speaker 3: who oh.
Speaker 1: What call me?
Speaker 3: Tell me? All right?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 3: I don't looking right now?
Speaker 6: She will it won't come back until tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: I see only once to night.
Speaker 6: Yes, don't you want to watch the house or anything?
Speaker 2: Well, surgin, don't you? If this thing is human?
Speaker 3: And after this entry, sergeant.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it.
Speaker 3: That is?
Speaker 2: Whoever, whatever it is will be gone.
Speaker 3: Maybe tomorrow night you can report this to the instructor.
Speaker 2: Please, yes, yes, of course. Uh shouldn't you go to
Speaker 2: a hotel for a whileness? Still?
Speaker 3: This is good enough. I thought it did a way
Speaker 3: to go stargeant. But well, unlike my own moment, and
Speaker 3: if it is my father, she will hun me. She'll
Speaker 3: never do that. You know very certain of that, aren't you?
Speaker 2: Young lady? Andrew? Get confused? If you believe that, why worry?
Speaker 3: Why go to the police in the yard?
Speaker 2: Why be frightened of a fatherly ghosts?
Speaker 3: And under?
Speaker 2: Sergeantists said?
Speaker 3: I knew, I knew, but I wanted someone else to
Speaker 3: hear him. I was scared.
Speaker 6: Maybe I was imagining things I didn't like, Sergeant, I
Speaker 6: expect unceased in my own house.
Speaker 1: And so you send the sergeant on his way to
Speaker 1: sergeant who walked to a stretch the house you're taking
Speaker 1: down the backstairs and out the back door. Jone, you
Speaker 1: go upstairs alone to your own room, decided to undress.
Speaker 2: Talk to yourself, give yourself courage.
Speaker 3: Stop it.
Speaker 6: You don't Tom stop it here something you get a
Speaker 6: praid of.
Speaker 3: You're not great crazy the night coolo, So go let
Speaker 3: me m always on. Go away.
Speaker 6: It's f I have to hid to.
Speaker 7: I don't want to its spots pards some my honest month,
Speaker 7: I have to a hid to.
Speaker 5: Lease bars.
Speaker 3: Away, queezy, don't get me back.
Speaker 2: You comme comme. Yeah, I'm John down sticks.
Speaker 3: Somebody else. I waited about this, thought he might come next.
Speaker 3: Let's just slee now, see miss you don't.
Speaker 5: Getting straight on a stick, and I'm going straight to
Speaker 5: the ins like I.
Speaker 2: Looks at it.
Speaker 5: It's not a bit.
Speaker 3: Who would like the looks of it?
Speaker 1: Say he didn't believe in ghosts. Of course, Inspector Or
Speaker 1: didn't believe in ghosts. Standing designed Joan in her room
Speaker 1: at the hospital. He was quite explicit. It's a mighty
Speaker 1: corporeal Ghostmas, you're twist his ankle.
Speaker 2: That was no accident.
Speaker 3: A stare traid was formed through I understand how.
Speaker 2: Difficulty with cross cut sous ms Tyson.
Speaker 1: Do you have any next with Kim, that is, anyone
Speaker 1: who might benefit if anything happened to you?
Speaker 3: Hm hm Ely was some second company I haven't seen
Speaker 3: any years in London.
Speaker 6: And there was Larry Coke, he lived in in Manchester.
Speaker 6: I had a note after father died. And Jenny Hennessy
Speaker 6: she lived in Norwich. Yes, I think and hear this
Speaker 6: cost on costs. How to speak of her?
Speaker 3: She's a school teacher.
Speaker 6: Agnowledged a school in brisk But protection possibly said, want to.
Speaker 5: Ask the way of course?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: I see?
Speaker 3: Then how do you account for this? Miss Rogers?
Speaker 5: Yes, here it is.
Speaker 1: It's sweet in the cellar of your house, under some
Speaker 1: brea bags, right near.
Speaker 2: The furnace, Miss summonson the furnace.
Speaker 3: With its tin ducks to the registers in the bouse.
Speaker 1: Many a youngster use these echoing ducks to imitate a ghost,
Speaker 1: or to overhear what was going on in another room.
Speaker 2: Right in the forms Thominson, this is a mighty corporeal
Speaker 2: ghost he saw through stairs. He uses hot air ducks
Speaker 2: to amplify his voice, and he carries his own founder kicks,
Speaker 2: I don't like.
Speaker 3: This any more than certain Prestons does this.
Speaker 2: I don't like it at fall.
Speaker 1: And today that same change can be seen in the
Speaker 1: Black Museum, a piece of iron chain, the how the
Speaker 1: adducts to carry a voice through a lonely house. No
Speaker 1: ghost this but someone of the plans and the motive.
Speaker 1: Specterno had no illusions about ghosts, and certain on about
Speaker 1: the dangers to John Thomlinson.
Speaker 2: All right, pressed them, let's get to work on this.
Speaker 2: That's very god in the sight. The girl says, there's
Speaker 2: no possibility. Where was a will?
Speaker 1: Sergeant there's a way to start someone thinking the girl
Speaker 1: was wrong about her ghost, so he can be wrong.
Speaker 2: About her Coppins. Get the wires out.
Speaker 1: Of prisonm and I want an unobclusive guard on the
Speaker 1: house twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 3: You've got the names of those people you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Simple routine telo type messages, advis earliest convenience, and the
Speaker 1: advice came so conveniently early that inspector how who sat
Speaker 1: at his desk with the three of city out paper
Speaker 1: before him, the marxistargeant Preston, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Sergeant Coincidencer coincidence my foot. All three dead, there are
Speaker 3: a few days of each other.
Speaker 1: All three filed unresolved. Help July six, Hennessey July eighth.
Speaker 1: Can't say July twelve, such undone, No circumstancesy that girl.
Speaker 2: To be permitted to leave the hospital.
Speaker 3: That's in order to say, sir, how long inspect June?
Speaker 2: Shall I get back?
Speaker 5: Master?
Speaker 2: Don't look blank, Preston.
Speaker 3: Just look at these telegraph replies.
Speaker 1: I'm making a cooked two of these three cities, Manchester,
Speaker 1: Knowledge and Bristol.
Speaker 2: Obviously I need facts there seem to be quite a fuel.
Speaker 1: Facts in Manchester, Knowledge and Bristol, England isn't so very large,
Speaker 1: you see in the trains of facts in Manchester.
Speaker 3: I understand, Buzz visit the pilk case was in your hem?
Speaker 2: Islt's correct?
Speaker 1: Her?
Speaker 2: How far did you get? No motive?
Speaker 1: Nothing, Just this man telt walking home alone on a
Speaker 1: July night toward eleven, a dark street, a carving knife
Speaker 1: in his back.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 2: A night trains and knowledge.
Speaker 1: Another police headquarter is another detective anxious to cooperate.
Speaker 5: Henrices in sector.
Speaker 3: All we have on the Hennessy case sell there.
Speaker 2: Busses was some hit and rum driver.
Speaker 3: I kicked the scene myself.
Speaker 2: Hennessy was hit on the sidewalk. Looked as if some drunk.
Speaker 3: Had driven right up on the walk and pressed the man.
Speaker 2: Against the building wall. And saw a pattern emerges.
Speaker 1: Two men die quite unexpectedly, but in this case no clues,
Speaker 1: no indication that there was purpose or motive. After the
Speaker 1: third man died quite naturally in London, and his daughter
Speaker 1: was a victim of deliberate fights, and all those involved
Speaker 1: were related to each other.
Speaker 2: Where as a pattern emerges continued in Bristol.
Speaker 3: All right, half of it?
Speaker 1: What have you won?
Speaker 2: The castairs woman a school teacher.
Speaker 1: I believe he was yes, retired, quiet as the usual
Speaker 1: until he took some headache craimative and I sae July
Speaker 1: the twelve.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately for her.
Speaker 2: Someone who put stick thing in the bottle.
Speaker 1: I know that kind of death master him anything else.
Speaker 1: Some prints on the bottle, not hers.
Speaker 2: She has matched them with her own when she took
Speaker 2: the bottle out of the Midston cabinet.
Speaker 1: Her landladies said she had a visitor the day before,
Speaker 1: but she usually did former students.
Speaker 3: All that sort of thing. Mind, If I go over
Speaker 3: and see that lam lady and not at all.
Speaker 2: The name is Ross.
Speaker 3: I helped yourself quite at thought.
Speaker 1: Of that woman was a semi detached villa with a
Speaker 1: vacancy sign on the door. Missus Ross was indeed quite
Speaker 1: as talking and inspect.
Speaker 3: The whole leave talk at least fifteen years of a
Speaker 3: wonderful woman.
Speaker 6: Inspected, So many of our students come to see it,
Speaker 6: even after she retired. The kind of teacher at those
Speaker 6: times nowadays.
Speaker 2: Exactly what you mean.
Speaker 6: And she was so happy that day, what with her
Speaker 6: cousin being here the day before and all the cousins years.
Speaker 2: I remember it clearly.
Speaker 6: She called she was going out for a bit of
Speaker 6: cakes for tea, now that her cousin Michael Staud had
Speaker 6: comes to see her.
Speaker 1: A new name, another cousin, one Michael Stroud, Catherine inspector
Speaker 1: def Ley.
Speaker 2: You don't happen to know where.
Speaker 3: He was from now I'm from London. I have the
Speaker 3: address found an envelope in.
Speaker 6: The waist paperbaster while I was cheering.
Speaker 3: Out the poor Things room and the proof slow shirt
Speaker 3: that was so busy with their bustle and dusting everything
Speaker 3: for fingerprint station.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, of course, sir. Now Missus Ross may
Speaker 2: I have that address, Priest.
Speaker 1: That is a tematite message travels much faster than a
Speaker 1: train from Bristol to London. By the time the Inspector
Speaker 1: reached his office, Sergeant Preston was waiting with the answer
Speaker 1: where you've been there, sir? A Michael Stard had a
Speaker 1: flat at the address, but he's moved and left no
Speaker 1: forward in address.
Speaker 3: When did he move out?
Speaker 1: July thirteen, Sir, the day after the Carstairs woman died.
Speaker 3: When mcquarre is escaping.
Speaker 2: What do you do w reach your candor? Its close
Speaker 2: up as the gaps in the situation.
Speaker 1: Trying to develop motives and opportunity, the Inspector permented Johan
Speaker 1: Thomlinson to leave the hospital and to proceed in his
Speaker 1: company to the office of the Solicitor.
Speaker 2: Now sit down, Joan and you, Inspector.
Speaker 3: Mister Tommy dam.
Speaker 1: I gotta something as a mess, mister Thomas, we have
Speaker 1: reason to believe that three people have died because of
Speaker 1: Miss Thomlinson's intellison, and that her own life is.
Speaker 2: In danger, and that unbelievable, Sir.
Speaker 1: It usually is. However, the three who are dead all
Speaker 1: were all second cousins, and Miss.
Speaker 3: Thomason her next to Tim what fear here to find out?
Speaker 1: He is does the will under which he inherits her property,
Speaker 1: state of whom.
Speaker 2: That property divides in the event of her death, m
Speaker 2: not exactly. That is, if he dies in tested, the
Speaker 2: property under.
Speaker 1: The law would pass to a next of kin an
Speaker 1: equal shares, of course, and mister Thomas, with all her
Speaker 1: second cousin dead, a third cousin.
Speaker 2: Would be next in line. Correct, absolutely, of course, nor
Speaker 2: of no such relatives, sir, unfortunately say we do.
Speaker 3: His name is Michael Stroud. He's say about the presence.
Speaker 2: Are unknown and motive presence very definitely present.
Speaker 1: Opportunity obvious and seized at least three times in Manchester,
Speaker 1: Nut and Bristol. As to the next morn, the inspector
Speaker 1: outlined a plan.
Speaker 2: Briefly, Miss Tomlinson, do you still believe in ghosts?
Speaker 3: Not anymore?
Speaker 2: Very well? Would you be afraid to stay in your
Speaker 2: house alone?
Speaker 6: I see, I'm to be the biggest cheese in the.
Speaker 2: Tread corect Absolutely correct.
Speaker 3: Very well? Where do we begin?
Speaker 1: When they began that night, Joan left the hospital, return
Speaker 1: to her house, to the memories, to the now silent doubts,
Speaker 1: to the.
Speaker 2: Still chiming clock. The first night was uneventful. Others followed
Speaker 2: by dead Jones, slip back into a normal everyday routine.
Speaker 1: And a girl in her home with a servant during
Speaker 1: the day alone at night, a ghost, the three deaths
Speaker 1: and three cities. The inspects her began to take on aspects.
Speaker 2: Of a dream.
Speaker 1: Reality was coming home after leaving the city, going upstairs,
Speaker 1: listening to the little clock, protecting to sleep, indulging a
Speaker 1: little habit of talking of the silver.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to worry about, weirdly nothing. He's gone away.
Speaker 3: H the country. Maybe I forget Michael strut Joy, forget
Speaker 3: the whole sne.
Speaker 2: Oh Joan healing well and.
Speaker 3: Get out.
Speaker 1: That won't work, Jenny, you know I'm your cousin.
Speaker 2: I come to call.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've never sung before in my life.
Speaker 2: And now that you have seen me, what else is
Speaker 2: there to live for?
Speaker 3: You couldn't live away?
Speaker 2: Oh yes I could, I can.
Speaker 3: I will. You'll be a lovely.
Speaker 1: Suici idea carbon monoxide from the register, from the furnace
Speaker 1: or maybe yes, maybe they'll call it accidental, you.
Speaker 3: Say, if he wasn't around to seize me tonight?
Speaker 6: Was he?
Speaker 2: And I did he?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: At hidies more.
Speaker 3: I'll never tie me to cousin Laddie or cousin Jerry
Speaker 3: or cousin.
Speaker 2: Then now that's their.
Speaker 3: Worry, not mine, I said John.
Speaker 2: In that chair, I will sit.
Speaker 1: Down and have it planned that the kit CHOHn, you'll
Speaker 1: sit down, I'll tie you in that chair, shut the windows,
Speaker 1: the ball, turn on the heap. You'll be gagged too.
Speaker 3: I forgot to mention that you'll die. I'll come back,
Speaker 3: put you on the ball. You can't take him in
Speaker 3: chard sidebody, han't up.
Speaker 5: On the beach.
Speaker 3: I don't forgot your.
Speaker 1: Thanks yourself forgetting his gunaways nice three angle, Sargeant. You
Speaker 1: are right the Summerson. He is a very corporeal ghost, jeez, definitely,
Speaker 1: and I believe his corporeal fingerprints will match those in
Speaker 1: the handle of a very corporeal life in Manchester, a
Speaker 1: stealing wheeling knowledge, a buckle in Bristol, and a certain
Speaker 1: shame in the.
Speaker 2: Position of Scotland. John, have you ever heard of a
Speaker 2: ghost fingerprints? No, neither of I. But that chain isn't ghostly.
Speaker 2: You can see it today in the Black Museum.
Speaker 3: Orson Welles will be back with you in just a moment.
Speaker 2: It was close a traditional time. One morning, in the
Speaker 2: usual manner.
Speaker 1: Michael Stroud, at the hands of the Crown, became forever
Speaker 1: an incorporeal ghost, and the chain remains in a.
Speaker 2: Usual place in Scottland. And now I'm going I'll tell
Speaker 2: you another story of the Black Museum. I think it's
Speaker 2: always the