Speaker 1: This is howson Wells speaking from London.
Speaker 2: Here in the Grimstone structure on the Thames which houses.
Speaker 1: Scotton Yard, he is a warehouse of souvenirs.
Speaker 2: Where everyday objects, a candlestick, of china, doll, a broom.
Speaker 1: All are touched by murder.
Speaker 2: Protective button, brass buttons.
Speaker 1: The symbol of a barracks parade ground. But this was
Speaker 1: not found on any parade ground.
Speaker 3: This is interesting, sir.
Speaker 1: A brass button.
Speaker 4: The interestings added, it's from an army uniform to day.
Speaker 1: That button can be seen in the Blue Black Museum.
Speaker 5: Oh, here we are in the Black.
Speaker 2: Museum, Scotland Yards, Museum of murder.
Speaker 1: Shelf upon shelf of curious and repellent.
Speaker 2: Objects be urged to kill, illustrated in many many ways,
Speaker 2: here lies death.
Speaker 1: Here in the echoing.
Speaker 2: Stillnesses of the long room, one stands and looks of.
Speaker 1: Violence expressed by the exhibits that line the shells, the
Speaker 1: tables on the walls. Repellent they may be, but by
Speaker 1: reason of their association.
Speaker 2: Only for most of these tokens of murder are very
Speaker 2: ordinary objects. It's a medicine bottle.
Speaker 1: The drug it contained was beneficial in small.
Speaker 2: Doses, but since a woman was forced to drink the
Speaker 2: whole contents and died shortly after.
Speaker 1: The jury called it murder. He has a kitchen knife.
Speaker 1: No householders was out one, but this knife was not used.
Speaker 2: So if a kitchen tasks was found embedded in a
Speaker 2: man's heart, here we are.
Speaker 1: The brass button it is. It's an innocuous, ordinary brass button.
Speaker 1: This was found near the dead body of a woman.
Speaker 2: But come back with me to the beginning of this story,
Speaker 2: to a day some years ago on the common outside
Speaker 2: the Kentidge village of Wayfield, a girl was sitting beneath
Speaker 2: a tree busily sketching. She was too engrossed to hear
Speaker 2: the approach of a young soldier until he spoke, hello.
Speaker 6: H Hello, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't hear your cunning enough.
Speaker 1: It was so busy with whatever you're doing.
Speaker 6: What are you doing sketchy?
Speaker 1: Can I see?
Speaker 6: You're probably enough?
Speaker 5: Haven't show me?
Speaker 1: Mm?
Speaker 5: That's very good?
Speaker 6: Do you really think too?
Speaker 5: You must be the one they call the swamp girl.
Speaker 6: That's what they call me in the village. Poor routine,
Speaker 6: dull people.
Speaker 3: You don't like routine ways of living, do you?
Speaker 5: From what I've heard, you're something of a rebel.
Speaker 6: Am I. You seem to know a lot about me.
Speaker 1: I heard things.
Speaker 6: What kind of things?
Speaker 7: Are you living an old shanty at the edge of
Speaker 7: the swamp?
Speaker 5: And are you roam the common and stitch and paint?
Speaker 3: You're well informed?
Speaker 5: People talk about you sometimes.
Speaker 8: I was interested, and so you came down to see yourself.
Speaker 6: What's the matter? Couldn't you find a girl in town.
Speaker 3: Much to meet you?
Speaker 5: To talk to you?
Speaker 3: And now that your head, will.
Speaker 6: You please go away and let me work all.
Speaker 5: You can work anytime. I'll go away soon if you're
Speaker 5: nice to me.
Speaker 3: Go now.
Speaker 6: I have no intention of being nice to you, whatever
Speaker 6: you may think.
Speaker 3: Come on, get away.
Speaker 6: When you found out so much about me, you might
Speaker 6: have also found out that I'm not interested in them,
Speaker 6: least of all soldiers.
Speaker 1: That's not very kind.
Speaker 8: Come go away, okay, Please don't tell me o kaid.
Speaker 2: A woman screamed and cried for help on the way
Speaker 2: you'll common, but there was no one.
Speaker 1: Within a mile. Here there are screams.
Speaker 2: Two days later, in the post office at Wayfield, a
Speaker 2: letter was returned by the postmistress.
Speaker 3: Missus rawlegh. Yes, Jimmy, that registered rettly who set me
Speaker 3: up with? There was nobody about to sign for it.
Speaker 6: Oh, wasn't this swamp girl at home?
Speaker 3: No, ma'am, I called out, miss Morgan, but it.
Speaker 5: Wasn't an answer.
Speaker 6: You are right, who could leave it tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Whose?
Speaker 9: Ma'am?
Speaker 1: Her name was Jeanette Morgan.
Speaker 2: The people of the town called her the swamp Girl
Speaker 2: because of a vagrant strange way of living.
Speaker 1: The next day, Jimmy, the.
Speaker 2: Postal messenger, rode out on his fight to deliver the
Speaker 2: registered letter, but once again the swamp girl was not
Speaker 2: at home. Then on the way back, taking a short cut,
Speaker 2: Jimmy found her, Miss Morgan. Jimmy's only her legs at first,
Speaker 2: protruding from a bush which had been.
Speaker 1: Meant to hide her. At first he thought she was asleep.
Speaker 1: We didn't think so for long.
Speaker 5: She's I've gotta give the news.
Speaker 2: Murder transforms a little village like wayfield. All work ceases,
Speaker 2: that people gather in small groups in the streets to
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Have you heard the news there's been a murder.
Speaker 10: Yes, out of the common the smart girl a founder body.
Speaker 3: I was rather afraid that poor girl would come to grief.
Speaker 5: Sooner or later.
Speaker 3: Well, Vica, you know how it is.
Speaker 6: These days, no parental.
Speaker 5: Authority be that as it may.
Speaker 3: The men who did.
Speaker 1: It must be found, no bird.
Speaker 4: If young Jimmy Miles hadn't come upon that body like
Speaker 4: he did, it.
Speaker 5: Might a lane hedden some months, even years.
Speaker 1: I wonder how it's happened. Well now the way I
Speaker 1: see it is me now in the bar of the local.
Speaker 1: They sit there via and discussed the sensation. Jimmy became
Speaker 1: something of a hero.
Speaker 2: He found the body, and even now is being questioned
Speaker 2: by the London detectives.
Speaker 1: From Scotland yard.
Speaker 3: Eh, this is Jimmy Miles.
Speaker 4: Hello, Jimmy, you found the body. I understand her it
Speaker 4: is inspected gullico.
Speaker 5: Was she really murderer?
Speaker 3: Well that's what we must find out, and you can
Speaker 3: help us.
Speaker 1: Ope.
Speaker 4: Really, hell, I believe you rode out to her shanty
Speaker 4: at the edge of the swamp to deliver a registered
Speaker 4: letter to miss Morton.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, sir.
Speaker 3: She used to get a registered dead every month.
Speaker 4: I always took about and she had the sign bottom
Speaker 4: of course. Oh yes, then you've got an earl.
Speaker 3: I suppose. Well, don't tell personals, sist. Sometimes I did
Speaker 3: stand talk for a while. What was she like?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: She was nice and really friendly.
Speaker 4: People said she was a bit peculiar, but I never
Speaker 4: thought so, and she could draw her I think carefully, Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see her with anyone man or woman
Speaker 3: who never inspect her? She had no friends around here,
Speaker 3: she once told me so, no friends. I see about
Speaker 3: this registered letter? Was that the first time you had
Speaker 3: taken it out? Oh?
Speaker 4: No, sir, I went out the previous day on Monday,
Speaker 4: but she wasn't there.
Speaker 3: Did you call out? Yes?
Speaker 1: And no.
Speaker 3: I went round to Common, to the place where she
Speaker 3: used to go and sketch. I know most of them,
Speaker 3: and she.
Speaker 5: Wasn't anywhere of her. I'm nowhere at all.
Speaker 3: What time of the day was this, Well, I just
Speaker 3: left the post.
Speaker 1: Office just on ten.
Speaker 5: It's about half an hour's frong.
Speaker 3: We were at there by ten thirty.
Speaker 5: Ah, right, Jimmy, thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Is that all inspected going?
Speaker 3: It's all for the moment.
Speaker 1: You'd be very helpful.
Speaker 2: A lucky witness, young Jimmy Miles A break for Inspector
Speaker 2: Gallical early in the case, for with the evidence of
Speaker 2: the police surgeon, certain facts could be established.
Speaker 3: What's your verdict on the post mortem?
Speaker 1: Doctor?
Speaker 4: Well, the cause of death didn't give us any trouble, inspector.
Speaker 4: She was strangled. What about the time of death, whom
Speaker 4: That's not so easy.
Speaker 3: I'd say she died forty eight hours ago.
Speaker 4: At least wait a minute, that means before noon on Monday.
Speaker 4: It dies in doctor good. But at what time before noon?
Speaker 4: I would not care to predict. The contents of the
Speaker 4: stomach indicates she'd had breakfast, and sometime between breakfast and
Speaker 4: noon she met her death. And she was no word
Speaker 4: about ten thirty when the personal boy brought her letter.
Speaker 4: What about that letter, sat.
Speaker 5: Heir, I haven't here, sir. Was it fun?
Speaker 4: It's from Missus Morgan of Tunbridge Wells. Her mother money
Speaker 4: I suppose ten pounds, said, had a pleaded come home
Speaker 4: and live a normal life. Firm Missus Morgan, I thought
Speaker 4: I couldn't even die a normal death.
Speaker 1: The pattern of the crime begins to make itself clear.
Speaker 2: The victim's identity is known, the approximate time and the
Speaker 2: cause of death is known.
Speaker 1: Now the hunt will begin for the killer.
Speaker 5: Here is a police message.
Speaker 1: The body of a woman named Jeanette Morgan has been
Speaker 1: discovered on Wayfield. Common evidence suggests that she met her death.
Speaker 11: By strangulation some time before noon on October the nineteenth.
Speaker 2: Any person who is in the vicinity of Wayfield Common
Speaker 2: on that day or can give any information, shall communicate
Speaker 2: to the nearest police station.
Speaker 1: In order to assist in the search for the murderer.
Speaker 2: And in this the police will be aided by a
Speaker 2: brass button that saying brass button.
Speaker 1: That to day can be found in the black musat
Speaker 1: to a small cottage in Tunbridge.
Speaker 2: Well, now I'll go the detectives from Scotland Yard to
Speaker 2: a house of the blinds.
Speaker 1: Drawn, where at the and bitter woman answered their questions
Speaker 1: in a strangely lifeless voice.
Speaker 6: Yes, I knew you. I knew was the genie when
Speaker 6: I saw the newspapers.
Speaker 3: Why didn't you get in touch with that one?
Speaker 6: Why you get in touch with me if you wanted me? Besides,
Speaker 6: what business is it of mine?
Speaker 3: But she was your daughter?
Speaker 5: Was she?
Speaker 8: She?
Speaker 6: Next younger sister lives here with me, walks at a
Speaker 6: shot nearby. She's my daughter.
Speaker 3: Yes, I see what you mean.
Speaker 10: I told you that it comes to no good end.
Speaker 10: Live in that strange and unnatural kind of way.
Speaker 3: Missus Morgan.
Speaker 1: We won't trouble you any longer.
Speaker 4: But could you tell us did your daughter have any
Speaker 4: close men friends, name friends?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 6: I wish she had that your boyfriend would have been
Speaker 6: too ordinary for her. She had to be different, she
Speaker 6: had to.
Speaker 8: Be the swamp girl.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: Why did you get to happen to her?
Speaker 5: To me?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? I'm from the police, the police.
Speaker 1: I don't recognize him, you see, I'm.
Speaker 5: Not from the local police.
Speaker 1: I'm from London. I'm down here in connection with the murder. Oh, yes, terrible, Yes,
Speaker 1: but how can I help you?
Speaker 4: Well, you're going to have a good deal, said, did
Speaker 4: you see a local police?
Speaker 6: Said?
Speaker 1: Pretty short hand. And Inspector Garrica has decided that our.
Speaker 5: Next move should be to make a very paras search
Speaker 5: of the.
Speaker 3: Common, particularly round about where the body was found.
Speaker 11: Right, I see, And I suppose you want some help
Speaker 11: from my parishioners.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, that's wrapped the idea very well.
Speaker 11: Then we'll help you in every way we can.
Speaker 3: You can depend upon us, all right, Say, let's get
Speaker 3: on with this up. You'll take smart and working from
Speaker 3: the road. I take Rodgers and working from the field side.
Speaker 3: I'll meet you bothered a.
Speaker 4: Here is here is it escape, sir? It's a pencil
Speaker 4: drawing that view across there.
Speaker 3: I'd say yes, it is unfinished too.
Speaker 1: She might have been working on it.
Speaker 3: What else have you got done? This is interesting?
Speaker 4: So it's a grass button, Very interesting, Sergeant, it's from
Speaker 4: an army uniform.
Speaker 3: Where's the nearest camp to Wakefield?
Speaker 4: I believe he's run across the rivers there about two
Speaker 4: miles away.
Speaker 2: Inspector Gallico left his sergeant in charge of searching the
Speaker 2: common and went to the army camp to unless they
Speaker 2: help in cooperation with commanding officers.
Speaker 5: Gentlemen, to see you, sir from Scotland Yard. Oh, ask
Speaker 5: him to come in? Will you get him?
Speaker 1: Will you come through?
Speaker 3: Please? Thank you? Magic Curtis. I'm Inspector Gallico from Scotland Yard.
Speaker 3: Sit down, won't Joe?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: Now I'm gonna help you, Inspector.
Speaker 4: I'm here to investigate the murder of Jeannette Morgan.
Speaker 1: Oh, the sunco mystery, the.
Speaker 4: Sturdy business JA. Not far from where the body was left.
Speaker 3: We found this an arm it button. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 7: He's he well, we got to assist in anywhere I can,
Speaker 7: but imply to hope that it wasn't any.
Speaker 3: One of my men? How many men are there in.
Speaker 7: Camp here, Major at the present time, our unit strength
Speaker 7: is one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 5: We're an engineer section, as you may know, one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty men.
Speaker 4: Mm hm, I wondered, iffny of them has a button
Speaker 4: missing from his tunic?
Speaker 3: Well, if you.
Speaker 5: Wish, I'll order an immediate inspection.
Speaker 3: Not eta, you can assist me in another way first.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, inspector, Well, I want.
Speaker 3: A list of all those absent from camp on Monday morning. Oh,
Speaker 3: that would be easy.
Speaker 1: They don't leave on any week morning.
Speaker 5: If anyone who was away from camp, it must have
Speaker 5: been for a special.
Speaker 3: Reason, anyone at all between the hours of seven in
Speaker 3: the morning and one o'clock.
Speaker 5: Oh, the accident can help us out.
Speaker 4: I'll get him to make out a list of always
Speaker 4: away from camp on Monday morning immediately.
Speaker 2: The commanding officer was away a short term, and on
Speaker 2: his return he brought with him a piece of paper
Speaker 2: containing a list of names.
Speaker 1: He gave it to the London detective.
Speaker 5: Yes, there you are, Inspector.
Speaker 7: Five men were away from camp during the time you
Speaker 7: asked about.
Speaker 1: Willis they company?
Speaker 5: Yes, he's our caterer. At the present time.
Speaker 1: We're on the staff.
Speaker 5: Of course, Saton Willis and Private Fields were in town
Speaker 5: with a provision truck. They were together, Yes, so we
Speaker 5: could always check that with one or the other.
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm very interested in those two.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 3: What about Private liston B Company.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's the unit driver.
Speaker 7: I sent him into town shortly before noon on a
Speaker 7: private land shortly before noon.
Speaker 3: Well at leave two Corporal Paul Fellis.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's our mail man. He needs every morning at
Speaker 5: eight o'clock and drives the mail truck.
Speaker 4: In to pick up the unit mail bag from the
Speaker 4: Wayfield post office at firend Yes.
Speaker 3: What time does he generally return?
Speaker 5: Oh? Sometimes by nine, though.
Speaker 3: On occasions he has to wait for registered mail.
Speaker 7: You know, I'd even known him to be held up
Speaker 7: as Slat's for eleven or.
Speaker 3: Or e's eleven thirty. Would anyone know what time he
Speaker 3: returned on Monday?
Speaker 4: I'll find that out for nah, this last man Private
Speaker 4: William Day Company.
Speaker 5: Yes, if you ask me beyond their inspector.
Speaker 7: Oh, why because you was absent without leave for nine
Speaker 7: hundred hours on Monday morning until.
Speaker 3: Fourteen hundred hours nine till two.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: I'd better see him and the personal tappy.
Speaker 5: I'll have them paraded. Corporal Fellas Ivan Williams. This is
Speaker 5: Inspector Gallico from Staffan Yard. He has some questions to
Speaker 5: ask you both.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: The Corporal Fellas will take you first. Yes, Suspector, what
Speaker 4: time did you leave camp last Monday morning?
Speaker 1: On your mail run at.
Speaker 5: Day hundred hours?
Speaker 3: And what time did you return?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I yeah, if I remember correctly, the may who has
Speaker 7: brought wrong rather late that morning, Corporal, Yes, sir, I
Speaker 7: was just.
Speaker 5: That, explained to the inspector. I had to wait for
Speaker 5: several registered letters.
Speaker 3: What time did you actually return?
Speaker 5: Shortly before eleven hundred hours?
Speaker 3: Thank you, corporal.
Speaker 4: Now, Private Williams, you were absent without.
Speaker 3: Leave throughout Monday morning? Yes?
Speaker 5: Are you able to give a satisfactory.
Speaker 3: Account of your whereabouts? I dare prefer not.
Speaker 7: SUSA prevent Williams as consistent to if you was any
Speaker 7: explanation of his conduct in spectrum, that's rather I'm wise Williams.
Speaker 3: If you have an alibi, you'll read it. This is
Speaker 3: an investigation in the murder. I didn't do no murder.
Speaker 3: I was with me Gurley Waitfield what's her name?
Speaker 5: Hey, Susie Walker, nine Ice Street. You are, sir, If
Speaker 5: I wasn't there, I didn't want to get her into.
Speaker 1: Any commonly understand that's all but murder.
Speaker 5: Oh I don't know nothing about that girl.
Speaker 3: Who was killed.
Speaker 5: Holly show down.
Speaker 4: Oh, we'll check your state with Williams. I finished the
Speaker 4: nabas Private Williams dismiss.
Speaker 2: Infecting Allaho drove into Wakefields number nine High Streets.
Speaker 8: Oh no, Susie wasn't out with him that day.
Speaker 6: I remember distinctly.
Speaker 5: She went over to see your girl, saying it's Kendry.
Speaker 5: Wait and ask yourself.
Speaker 2: Susie Walker was a small, frightened girl, the counterpart of
Speaker 2: Private Williams inspector.
Speaker 8: I hope he hadn't done anything growing up at the
Speaker 8: camp in not telling him where he was. Oh, letuld
Speaker 8: be terrible.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't tell a lie.
Speaker 8: I know that, I'm sure of it. You see that
Speaker 8: acquired and he wanted to see me. I didn't dare
Speaker 8: let mother know, so I made up a story about it.
Speaker 2: She confirmed his alibi, and Gallagher went next to the
Speaker 2: post office to interview missus Riley.
Speaker 3: Just one enquirer. I'd like to make Missus.
Speaker 6: Riley, really tomatory Inspector fitting for that pause and my
Speaker 6: Jimmy Myers fighting up.
Speaker 4: Can you recall off hand whether you had any registered
Speaker 4: mail for the army unit on Monday?
Speaker 6: Registered mail on Monday? Well, I couldn't remember off hand, Inspector,
Speaker 6: but I'll have here in the book. Will commute and
Speaker 6: I look it up. No, no, there was nothing on Monday.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 6: Hasn't been your biggest abneted to the army since last week.
Speaker 4: And the personal corporal wouldn't have been delayed on Monday morning.
Speaker 12: Not him.
Speaker 6: He was in for his mail bag and out again
Speaker 6: as quick as you like.
Speaker 8: Didn't even stop, richet.
Speaker 11: I remember that.
Speaker 3: Now, what time would you have left here, Missus Raleigh?
Speaker 3: Can you give me an idea?
Speaker 6: I can give it to you right on the dot.
Speaker 6: It's come back to me quite cleanly. We opened the
Speaker 6: gate thirty. Corporal Serrace was here waiting when I arrived to.
Speaker 5: Open up, and he didn't stay.
Speaker 6: No, he got more than a few minutes.
Speaker 2: The inspector picked up Sergeant Worthington, and together they drove
Speaker 2: back to the army camp. A few orders of the
Speaker 2: commanding officer in Corporal Terrace was paraded once more and
Speaker 2: his gear searched at the bottom of his kit bag,
Speaker 2: they found what they were looking for.
Speaker 9: Here we are, said, a battle jacket with one button missing,
Speaker 9: and it matches. Sergeant her parents, What have you got
Speaker 9: to say about this?
Speaker 5: Crazy sir, do anything about it.
Speaker 4: She was sketching, wasn't she, Fetters, She drew a pencil
Speaker 4: drawing off her.
Speaker 3: Wasn't that, sir?
Speaker 5: You're laughing. She didn't do any drawing of me. It
Speaker 5: was a landscape scene.
Speaker 4: A landscape scene, Yes, so it was, and that fact
Speaker 4: has never been mentioned in any of the papers.
Speaker 5: Only the sergeant Fly knew with that.
Speaker 3: Fetters and the killer.
Speaker 2: Paul Ferris, was taken into custody and charged with the
Speaker 2: murder of Jeanette Morgan, the swamp.
Speaker 8: Girl I love in Corps.
Speaker 11: Ladies and gentlemen of the journey, you have heard the
Speaker 11: facts in this case, as related by the witnesses, which
Speaker 11: have been called both by the defense and the prostitution.
Speaker 5: The prisoner stands before you.
Speaker 11: Accused of the crime of murder, a particularly brutal murder,
Speaker 11: a murder without motive.
Speaker 1: But lack of motive is.
Speaker 11: Not necessarily a defense. It is for you to decide
Speaker 11: whether the facts which you have learnt.
Speaker 1: During this case, not only the.
Speaker 11: Words spoken by the witnesses, but the mute testimony of
Speaker 11: the material objects placed before you, justify your verdict, which
Speaker 11: must be beyond all reasonable.
Speaker 12: Such a brass button and a slip of the tongue
Speaker 12: led to his downfall. To day, that brass button occupies
Speaker 12: a place of honor in the Black Museum.
Speaker 2: The picture was completed when the tracks of a vehicle
Speaker 2: were found some fifty yards away from the.
Speaker 1: Scene of the crime.
Speaker 2: The tracks were identified as those of the mail truck
Speaker 2: of which the driver had been Corporal Paul Fellis. The
Speaker 2: defense did their utmost to prove insanity, but the jury were.
Speaker 1: In little doubt that the man was sane and that
Speaker 1: his advance as repulse he had strangled the swamp girl
Speaker 1: to death. They took seventeen minutes to find him guilty,
Speaker 1: and the brass button which had led to.
Speaker 2: His arrest, was exhibit ay on the court room table,
Speaker 2: from where, at the end of the trial and the
Speaker 2: pronouncement of the inevitable death sentence, it was taken to
Speaker 2: with presents resting place in the Black Museum and answer
Speaker 2: we meet next time in the same place I tell
Speaker 2: you another story about the Black Museum.
Speaker 1: I remain as always obedient to you.
Speaker 8: No want