WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:12.960 Speaking from London, the Black Museum, a repository tep Yes. 2 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:15.160 Here in the grim Stone structure on the Thames which 3 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:19.359 houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse, a farmer side where 4 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:26.160 everyday objects, a dictionaries, stenographer's notebook, a clothes hanger, all 5 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:34.880 are touched by murder. Here's a post guard. It's a 6 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.320 familiar object, slightly soiled in its passage through the mails. 7 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.600 Usual cancelation over the stamp, no ordary a dress twenty 8 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.359 nine Saint Paul's Road, London. The message yes on the 9 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:50.960 message side of drawing rather well done. The rising sun 10 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:56.000 rather a conventional representation, isn't it? Argent? Yes, h conventional, 11 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:02.240 still a rather unconventional matter. Murders as it is unconventional 12 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.760 in his ardent, I've often wondered why they owe so 13 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:09.480 many executions at sunrise? Why they end lives at the 14 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:15.599 beginning of the day. Anyway, that poster and today with 15 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.920 a rising sun on it can be seen among the 16 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:30.280 other exhibits in the Black Museum. 17 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.000 From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the 18 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.239 London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the 19 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:40.239 crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yard's Gallery of Death, 20 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.840 the Black Museum. In just a moment you will hear 21 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:52.280 the Black Museum starring awesome wells now the Black Museum 22 00:01:52.599 --> 00:02:08.400 starring awesome wells. 23 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:14.759 Uh. Here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yards 24 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.240 Museum of Murder. Yes, here lies death is a variety 25 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.560 of form, swift or slow, mercifuler crool death this year 26 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.960 laid out, remembered in detail, and perhaps waiting to strike 27 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:33.400 again as a typewriter. This is an incident, is that, yes? 28 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.919 Worthy of the Black Museum. Definitely the criminal care, the 29 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.439 vicious planning that went into its use till a person 30 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:45.159 who received the letters written on this machine in desperation 31 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:50.719 took her own life. As a Triald's toy, tiny mental airplane. 32 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:55.840 It's rusty in places, propeller doesn't turn anymore, but there 33 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.159 were fingerprints on this. They placed a killer at the 34 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:04.000 scene of the crime for which he was hanged. Ah. 35 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.479 Here we are as a postguards. The post guard with 36 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.479 its drawing of a rising sun. It's clear at once 37 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.159 that a skilled hand drew this turny picture. In this case, 38 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:18.960 many things were clear almost at once, and conclusions were drawn. However, that, 39 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.439 of course is the story, the story which begins for 40 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:25.240 us as Alfie Vine and his elderly mother turned into 41 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.719 the entrance of twenty nine Saint Paul's Road, London. Healthy. 42 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.800 I refuse to go as tet fur then till you've 43 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.120 told me what this is all about. 44 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.240 I'm surprising you, mums. Oh you've come all this way. 45 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:38.439 You're gonna spoil it all now. 46 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.800 I'm not set froot and this house until you stop 47 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:41.759 all this mystery. 48 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:44.719 Om mums, Well this is where I've got my rooms. 49 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.719 You're living here or twenty nine ports? 50 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:53.280 You know the address? Well, the dirty my place is 51 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.879 all right, it's only the outside and it's key Elfie. 52 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:59.759 You've not wanted to show me this before. 53 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.199 I want to show you the girl who was waiting upstairs, Hofing. 54 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.159 You haven't gone and got married, not yet, ma'am's, but 55 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.000 we're planning, so I want you to meet her. 56 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.039 Oh, right, are going? 57 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:16.040 They went in, the shabby young man, the rusty, black clad, 58 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.839 gray haired woman. They climbed the stairs one flight, only 59 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:21.839 only one, but enough for missus Vine to see the 60 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:27.079 scabby walls, a dirty stair rail, and untidy hall. Halfid 61 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.879 placed his key in the lock and turned it and 62 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.120 opened the door. Light from the window revealed a single 63 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:42.360 room and washed in bed had raised the scream cause 64 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.319 a young lady on the bed clad in the remnants 65 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:49.279 of a nightgown. The gown, the sheets, the pillow were bloodstained. 66 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.680 Why wouldn't they be? The young lady's hand had been 67 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:59.000 severed from her body. His mother had given her to 68 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:00.519 the care of a neighbor. Alf here find some of 69 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.439 the police. Shortly thereafter he faced Inspector Wood and Sergeant 70 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.519 Cross of the CID Scotland. Yearn Tombya's mind that this 71 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.560 Elice Cortland was once we say more than a fiance 72 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.480 to you. We was married. I didn't want my mother 73 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:15.000 to think we've gone and done it without our knowing, 74 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.439 so we planned to do it over again after mum's better. 75 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:19.360 Where were you last night? 76 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:19.639 Time? 77 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.040 Working? Oh? You can check on the postal clerk night 78 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.319 shift where Charing Cross substation? Check that, Sergeant sir, Of 79 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.839 course you work Night's a lot, fine, it's a split schedule, 80 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.600 Inspector two or three times sometimes more a week. You 81 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.680 don't think I'd done Alison, do you. We're not thinking anything. 82 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.120 Yet, not until we find out from the lab exactly 83 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:40.519 when she. 84 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.279 Died, poor Elie. She did you know much of her life? 85 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.480 Nothing to depend on Jube. She met me? What did 86 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.480 she do at night while you were working? I never asked. 87 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.160 We trusted each other, we did, I see, Sergeant, I 88 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.800 want the neighborhood expect to a skeptical You could hear 89 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:58.600 it in his voice. The story was hard to say 90 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:01.800 the least became a trifle more art one search and 91 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.720 cross reported. Then you were all right every bar in 92 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.279 the district, but not as Alice fine In most places. 93 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:13.759 She was Daisy Cumminspector understood. Came as no surprise therefore, 94 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.240 and a frightened little man, a mighty shore ship's cook 95 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:21.560 on leave, turned up with the Yes, Sir, I knew Daisy, 96 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.279 but I wasn't with a Wednesday night, no, sir. Not. 97 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.120 Then when did you see her last? That was Tuesday night, Inspector, 98 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.360 and before that Monday and Sunday, do sir. We had dates, 99 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.079 Daisy and me whenever I was ashore, always had a 100 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.199 few drinks together at the Orc, at the Rising Sun, 101 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.920 places like that along Saint Paul's Road. But not Wednesday night, no, sir, 102 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:45.959 Not the night she got herself killed. No, sir, why not? 103 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.120 She had a date with somebody else I saw on, Sir, 104 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.000 in the rising sun, I saw them. Were you jealous? No, Sir, 105 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.240 I was with Daisy's friend, Marty Good. Look at you? 106 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.920 Can you describe the men Daisy he was with? Why 107 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.199 to look at him? I I believe I could? Could 108 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.000 you pick him out of a group? What might sir? 109 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:13.199 I'd try for you, Inspector, I'd really try. Apparently, stepped 110 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.160 forward is about to be made in the case. The 111 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.639 ship's cook gives his description. Not very big, slim, like 112 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.920 too shabby, but in a chenteo kind of way, about 113 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:28.240 thirty years old, always totally loud, with a pencil kind 114 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.560 of fella. Can always pick up a chat a description, 115 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.480 not much to go on, but a starts again. The 116 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.000 canvases covered the area, and now the various barmaids and 117 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:40.759 tavern keepers remembered a man like that, remembered seeing a 118 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.720 man like that with Daisy alias Alice, the girl who 119 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.800 literally lost her head. However, they went off further traces 120 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:50.040 of the man in question. Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross 121 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.560 went back to the bedroom in Saint Paul's Road. Alright, 122 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.439 Sartant with a fine toothcomb the whole room down to 123 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:59.240 the base ports and behind them if necessary. The detectives 124 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.680 took the toddred room of parts. The bed was dismantled, 125 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.720 the window case run rolled, the washing cannon's piping sleep 126 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.920 explored the bureau's investigate. The drawers were pulled out their contents. 127 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:15.959 Tourist on the bed. Hello, here's something, Inspector, a postcard 128 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.120 I see purst mark the day before. Where was it 129 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.680 caught in the back of his drawer between the bank 130 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.560 board and the bottom? Interesting? What do you make of 131 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.439 that drawing, Sutant? It looks like the old jab Flagg 132 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:31.240 to me, I don't know of any Japanese eating place 133 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:36.559 near here, Inspector in Dacy, meet me at age fifteen 134 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:40.039 at the whatever the picture means? It's a rising sun, 135 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:42.960 isn't it? Artan? And there is a rising sun? Well 136 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:44.919 that show fellows who are on Wednesday night. 137 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:48.720 M rather well drawn, almost a skilled hand an artist, 138 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.759 maybe maybe possibly the killer as well. 139 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.919 Right back to work, Shartan. There may be a few 140 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.000 more little messages like this. They found two more, hitting 141 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:02.039 in the recesses of the back of the bureau. That 142 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:02.480 was all. 143 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:04.759 It's a thousand to one shots aren't. But we'll try 144 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.919 publishing these in the papers. Someone may recognize the handwriting 145 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.080 or the sketches. More likely the sketches, and someone did. 146 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:38.200 M Hello, Larry, this is May May. That's wonderful, is it? 147 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.240 Larry? Then? 148 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.320 Why hadn't I heard from you in weeks art? We 149 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.279 had a quadl Peari. I thought a certain beautiful mom 150 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.960 was pretty well through with a certain artist. I should be, 151 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:53.799 But you're not, Larry. Have you seen today's newspapers? 152 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:54.919 Why? 153 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.000 It's quite simple. A girl you'd been sending postcards to 154 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:01.159 was murdered Wednesday night. 155 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.399 Oh how do know? I send her cards? 156 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.799 They're in the paper with drawings. I know your style, 157 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:08.919 even in the PA. 158 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:11.399 I shall be flattered. 159 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:16.000 I guess I'm not nearly The police want to know 160 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:17.240 who sent those cards? 161 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:18.799 Hey, Will you believe me when I tell you I 162 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.519 never kill anyone? I believe you. I know you know? 163 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.679 For all times sake? Will you help me? I'm in trouble, May? 164 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:28.919 Will you want trouble? What do you want me to do? 165 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.240 Anyone asks? Will you anyone at all? Will you say? 166 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.159 We were together from ten thirty on on Wednesday night 167 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.759 for her long so then you went to earth Court 168 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.639 when I went to King's Cross? Well were you with her? 169 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:45.399 Does it matter me? 170 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:47.919 No? Not anymore? 171 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:52.840 I suppose cry to remember. May please n thirty earth Court, 172 00:10:53.080 --> 00:11:01.440 King's Cross. May Heston artist Martter once upon a time 173 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.399 in love with artist named Larry and now asked to 174 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:07.559 provide an alibi. In fact, he asked to provide an 175 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.080 alibi which might never be needed. 176 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.000 May Haster lived with what she knew for a day 177 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.240 or so, and then half reluctantly, her feet and her 178 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.039 conscience took her to an office in the old building 179 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.320 on the Thames. I understand your position, Miss Hester. I'm 180 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:23.399 grateful you came to see me. 181 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.879 I I don't believe he child to inspect her. 182 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.480 But as long as you're looking for him. 183 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:30.919 You won't be looking for the right person, will you. 184 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.840 That's one way of saying it. R Ms Christler, Yes, inspected. 185 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.360 I think you'd better give me his name it it's 186 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.200 very Duncan you know where he lives at present? 187 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.519 May Hester knew she gave Inspector Wood an address on 188 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:52.480 London's western edge. She left the environs of Scotland yard 189 00:11:53.600 --> 00:12:01.360 so did Inspector Wood Company, with sergeant course, mister Duncan. 190 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:06.399 Yes, I'm Duncan, I'm Inspector Woods id uh micro dentils. 191 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:09.440 This is our cross. Will you come in, gentlemen, No, 192 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:12.279 thank you. I'm afraid mister Duncan. We have to ask 193 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.679 you to come out with us. We need to ask 194 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.799 you a few questions and it'll be more convenient down 195 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:18.639 at the yard. 196 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.840 Or today the post guard the little picture of the 197 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:29.440 rising Sun on it is part of the exhibits the 198 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:30.200 Black Museum. 199 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.720 In just a moment we will continue with the Black 200 00:12:37.919 --> 00:13:49.919 Museum starring Awesome Wells. And now we continue with the 201 00:13:50.039 --> 00:14:02.200 Black Museum Starring Awesome Wells. Larry Duncan was held on 202 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:06.000 suspicion of murder. The inspector was convinced of his guilt. 203 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:11.639 Duncan protested his innocence. The family called in a famous defender, 204 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.399 but despite the presence in the case of Sir John Gripp, 205 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:17.159 Scotland Yard charged Larry Duncan with the murder of Alice 206 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.799 Vine alias Daisy Cummins, and preparations for the trial went forward. 207 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:30.360 Sir John conferred with Larry, how are you my boy? 208 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.279 Hally will sir that does my prison pallace show as yet, 209 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:38.039 not yet. I like your confidence, Harry. I didn't kill 210 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.720 a woman, sir, However, you were seeing with her that 211 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:44.320 night a man I say that I believe who had 212 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.679 been with her the three nights. 213 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.519 Previous, saw you both together in the writing. 214 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.919 Jun That's that's why I asked May to say we've 215 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:53.639 been together after ten thirty that night. 216 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.279 Well, they have another witness, a tram conductor who states 217 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.360 he saw you leave that house at five in the morning. 218 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:02.879 He couldn't to see me. I take your word, but 219 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.000 will a jury after that false alibi. I'll have to 220 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:06.960 take my chances on that. 221 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:07.440 I guess. 222 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:12.799 Well, we'll see a little further investigation may bring a 223 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:14.159 few more facts to light. 224 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:25.200 Sir John Cripps proceeded toward a few more effects. We 225 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:28.440 kept we learned very quiet. Now until the try itself 226 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.440 did he reveal his strategy, the evidence he expected to produce. 227 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:35.039 In fact, the first move came sometime after Inspector Wood 228 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.679 and Sergeant Cross had placed the police case in the record. 229 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.919 The tram conductor, one Charles Powers, was on the witness stand, 230 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.639 and I was certain, mister Powers, that the prisoner in 231 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.879 the dark is the man who saw leaving twenty nine 232 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.879 some Palls Road that morning. I am an answer positive. Oh, 233 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.639 mister boys walk, sir, he has a kind of a 234 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:59.559 free swinging stride. Thank you. You may cross exactly tell you, 235 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:05.320 mister Powers, let me refresh my memory. You have said 236 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:08.360 the weather that tragic morning was Terrisley. Oh I did 237 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.519 say so it was, thank you, And that you saw 238 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.440 the man quite clearly by the light of a lamp 239 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.399 boost Yes, sir, it's correct. And father, that you. 240 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.759 Heard a church clock in the vicinity strike five, I did, myler. 241 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.279 I offer him evidence as a rebuttal of this man's testimony, 242 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.919 the reports DULIA tested of the electric light company servicing 243 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.480 that district, which contains the record that the street lights 244 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.440 were extinguished that morning at four thirty seven a m. 245 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.759 This man could not have seen any one by the 246 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:42.320 light of a street lamp. Make it say, and if 247 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.600 it pleased the court, I have heard the Julia tested 248 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.919 records of the London Weather Bureau not one drop of 249 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:51.200 rain fell anywhere in London that morning. 250 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.080 I thank for ever. Thank you, my lad A skill 251 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:56.360 lawyer in actions A fine thing to watch, isn't it? 252 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.399 There was a witness and important with is completely demolished, 253 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:02.960 his facts called in question, and his responsibility to run 254 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.720 the pieces the prosecution suffered from them. Naturally, they attempted 255 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.319 to regain their loss with Marty Shaw, the ship's cook. 256 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.680 In conclusion, mister Shaw, you identified. 257 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.480 The prisoner as the man who was with the victim, 258 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.400 the knight of the murder, I did, sir, Thank. 259 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:20.839 You your witness. 260 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.839 Mister Shaw, were you frightened when you heard of Miss 261 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:27.480 cummings death? 262 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.519 Now? Why should not? Why shouldn't you be? 263 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:35.200 After all, mister Shaw, by your own testimony, you spent Sunday, 264 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.559 Monday and Tuesday evenings with Miss Cummings. She was killed 265 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:43.039 on Wednesdays, killed on Wednesday. Why shouldn't you have been frightened? 266 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:45.920 You mean because I was the next man to the prisoner, 267 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.160 next man to the murderer. Perhaps not next man to 268 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.279 the prisoner might be or was to. 269 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.440 Realize, didn't you that your position might turn out to 270 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:57.119 be unpleasant? Yes, sir, I'll tussargai. Then you discuss the 271 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:00.359 matter with another lady friend of the decease. What if 272 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:06.079 jed nothing nothing at all, except perhaps that from this 273 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:09.279 woman you obtained a detailed description of a certain friend 274 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:12.400 of Miss Cummings, and from that description you picked up 275 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:13.240 the prisoner at an. 276 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:19.039 Identification for thee Well, mister Shaw, answer me. Speak up, 277 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.279 mister Shaw. The judge and the jury want to hear 278 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:26.319 your answer. So ry, yes, sir, I did that. Thank you, 279 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:27.119 mister Shaw. 280 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:40.640 That is all another witness is testimony discredited, his motives 281 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.599 called in question the propriety of his identification. More than 282 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:48.559 call in question, the courtroom crowd was making bets as 283 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.200 it filed out. After the first day, the odds were 284 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.559 swinging away from the prosecution and toward the young man 285 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:59.920 who sat quietly in the prisoner's dark sketching. Sketching After all, right, 286 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:02.519 Duncan was an artist. An artist wants to keep the 287 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:06.000 record of his experiences, even on his life. Thanks and 288 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:18.359 the balance. Next day a prosecution called may Hester. Miss Hester, 289 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.839 how did you learn of this crime in the newspapers 290 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.680 and how did you first connect the prisoner with it 291 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:27.799 in your mind? 292 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.359 Well, when I saw the postcard in the paper. 293 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:35.000 The one with a drawing on it, it was Larry's, mister. 294 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:36.839 Duncan's style, I recognized it. 295 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.720 What did you do? I called him on the phone. 296 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.880 What happened? He asked me? To give him an. 297 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:48.759 Alibi, a false alabam. Yes, he wanted me to say 298 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.279 that I've been with him that night, And what did 299 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:54.759 you do? I agreed? Then I thought it over and 300 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:55.960 I went. 301 00:19:55.799 --> 00:20:02.799 To the police anywhere, Thank yous Sin Sabbath, miss Hester. 302 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:06.960 Why did you go to the police, Well, I was 303 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:10.240 afraid of suppose had you been in love with mister Duncan? 304 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:16.319 I'm that is? Yes? Uh huh? Was he in love 305 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.480 with you? I thought? So? Have you ever heard of 306 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.920 an emotion called jealousy? Miss Hester? He was over? 307 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:25.039 Are there reason to be jealous? 308 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.359 I submit, Miss Hester, that when you thought it over, 309 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.400 when you realized that mister Duncan had apparently gone to 310 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.759 this woman after his protestations to you that you were 311 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.279 not afraid that you were jealous enough to want to revenge? 312 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:41.279 He was not. So let's not you were afraid of 313 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:44.519 what that this man might try to murder? You know, 314 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.720 of course, not literally did mister Duncan could. Wasn't a sigh, 315 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:56.960 Miss Hester? When mister Duncan asked you for the alibi, 316 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.839 did you know the time of the murder? No? No, 317 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:01.680 when did you learn of it? 318 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:05.680 Here in the medical testimony, did the question of. 319 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:07.359 The time of the death, end of your mind when 320 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:09.759 you went to the police. No, no, of course not. 321 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.279 I asked you again, Miss Hester. Can you say you 322 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:17.279 were motivated only by fear and not by jealousy or revenge? Yes, yes, 323 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.000 I was. 324 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.599 Only afraid, afraid of what I was afraid that well 325 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.799 evenly hadn't done it, and and I had. 326 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.160 I'm getting to trouble myself. 327 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:34.039 And you were willing to sacrifice the reputation, perhaps even 328 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:36.839 the life of the man you loved because you were 329 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:41.400 afraid to get into the objestion the lord irrelevant, incompetent 330 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:46.559 and immitrrial. I withdraw the question. That is all, Miss Hester, 331 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:51.359 Thank you very much. Thereafter the prosecution rested their case, 332 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:54.839 or what was left of it, so John call Arry 333 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.519 Duncan as his first words for the defense testimony was short. 334 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.400 I didn't pure. I left him at the rising sun 335 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:04.799 that night around midnight. I kill Nor could the Crowns 336 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:08.559 prosecutor shake his statement. Next and last witness of the 337 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:12.799 defense one David Wallace, a ticket agent on a suburban railroad. 338 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:18.119 Mister Wallace, what is your address twenty six Saint Paul's Road? 339 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.000 What time did you leave your house. The morning after 340 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.039 this killing, my regular time, sir, five minutes to five 341 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.680 h Did you see anyone that morning? Yes, sir, a 342 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:34.079 man going in the opposite direction. Only one man, only one, sir. 343 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:38.440 Are you conscious that you have a rather free swinging stride? 344 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.200 Who I do it on purpose? It's good for you. 345 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:43.559 In the morning, with a permission at the court, I 346 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.440 request a small demonstration. Who see stepped down a moment, 347 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:51.759 mister Wallace, please I sir, No, then just telling up 348 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:54.680 the collar of your coat. Ah, thank you? Put on 349 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:56.039 your hat, will you thank you? 350 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:02.039 Now? Will you walk please? In the mornings, just out 351 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:09.200 briave deepon all please like this. It was unmistakable, the 352 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:12.440 free swinging stride. It was established that there was a 353 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:15.640 man on proper decent business walking in Saint Paul's road 354 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:19.519 at five that morning. The prosecution had no cross examination 355 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:30.319 for mister Wallace. The Crown summed up. Sir John sumed up. 356 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:34.599 The judge's charge was brief and to the point. In 357 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.559 cases such as this, if there is any reasonable doubt 358 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:42.279 in your minds, gentlemen of the jury, it is incumbent 359 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:46.359 on you to give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt. 360 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.039 At eight thirty. The same evening, the jury filed back 361 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:55.960 into the box. The clerk solemnly intoned the old question, 362 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:01.519 have you reached a verdict? We have? Again, the clerk spoke, 363 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:07.640 what is your verdict? We find the accused not guilty? 364 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:17.839 Er he to day that postcard, whatever it may mean, 365 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:21.960 with its rising sun, reposes in't a place of honor 366 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:23.279 in the Black Museum.