WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:12.960 This is Auson Wells speaking from London. The Black Museum. 2 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.359 Here in a grihamstone structure on the Thames which houses 3 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:21.920 Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide, a warehouse where 4 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.079 everyday objects, a piece of wash, line of medicine, bottle 5 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:26.600 and electric light bulb. 6 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.480 All all are touched by murder. 7 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.560 Here's a telegram that's a familiar object. Usually it's his 8 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.880 happy birthday, or congratulations on your wedding, or will arrive 9 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:48.439 ten o'clock train. This telegram was an urgent request to die. 10 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:51.399 Take this telegram, miss please. 11 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:56.039 Yes, sir, Daily Star come up once four point thirty 12 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:59.960 train Waterloop, Ballmouth Central. 13 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:01.079 We'll meet. 14 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:03.439 Sorry sir, what. 15 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:04.920 Is this car? 16 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:06.159 Car? 17 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:11.159 We'll meet today? 18 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:24.640 This telegram can be seen in the Black Museum. 19 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.560 From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the 20 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.959 London Police. We bring you the dramatic stories of the 21 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:35.200 crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death, 22 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:54.040 the Black Museum. 23 00:01:54.239 --> 00:02:01.599 Here we are the Black Museum, Scotland Yards, Mausoleum of murder. Hallies, 24 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:06.640 death arranged on shows and cabinets, ranked along the floor 25 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:12.080 and on the tables. Death in many disguises this oil lamp. 26 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.759 This one was found in Thyme. There were others before 27 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.800 it in other places. Part of a baited trap. A 28 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.400 house cat leaped knocking over the lamp. Flames flared arson 29 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:29.080 and somebody dies, and such a fire arson becomes the murderer. 30 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.680 There's a bit of ribbon from a Christmas package, shining 31 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:45.680 tinseled ribbon. A gift unwrapped in pleasant anticipation was death 32 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.080 Ah a telegram. 33 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:48.759 There we are. 34 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:51.280 It's a slip of yellow paper with familiar type pasted 35 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.520 and stripes across its face, urgent summons. One day, this 36 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.240 wire rested in a closed handbag on a woman's lap. 37 00:02:58.599 --> 00:02:59.719 She was riding on a train. 38 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:03.919 Response to the wire, men sharing the seat with her smile, 39 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:05.400 started a conversation. 40 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.439 You going all the way to Bournemouth. 41 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:11.599 No, I'm getting off at Bascom. This train do stop 42 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:12.560 at Boscom, doesn't he? 43 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:13.599 Well, I believe it. 44 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:15.680 I'm going through to Bournemouth themselves, So I didn't pay 45 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.520 particular attention your holidays. 46 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:18.759 Well you know why. 47 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:20.879 I'm taking a day off to see some friends and 48 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:22.840 I'm going back to Southampton to. 49 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.319 Catch a ship for her business triph. 50 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.039 It that's been nice to have a life like that. 51 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:29.000 Mine's very dull. 52 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.199 Oh well then might I get is that like some 53 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.319 of the ladies, I know, you'll find your gaiety in 54 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:33.919 your heads? 55 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.800 No, mane, it's tovagant. I've always liked your pretty hair. 56 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.439 Just chr chats on a train speeding southward from London. 57 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.000 The gentleman contributed no information about his business. The lady 58 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.360 didn't give her name. She did have a volunteer. 59 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.080 I'm going down to Bascom to cook for some people. 60 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:52.680 That's what I do cook. 61 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:04.759 And the time passed. 62 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:07.599 Others entered the compartment of the train at various stops 63 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:08.439 and left a little later. 64 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.400 But that was all. And as the train slowed from Bascom. 65 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.280 Here let meet me shirt that back looks heavy, parget 66 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:15.840 down for you. 67 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.959 Oh please don't travel, sir, It is no trouble at all. 68 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:21.240 Here we are. 69 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:22.800 Come. 70 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.720 Well, it's been pleasant chatting with you all. 71 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:26.639 Good luck at the new. 72 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.839 Job, and thank you sir, and good luck on your trip. 73 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:39.279 Thank you, miss big Gardens, you the new cook for 74 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:43.879 vegans and wooden neras yes, in this way please missus. 75 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.759 Egan told me to watch for you. I'm their chauffeur. 76 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.000 I have the car. It's a fair way out, you see. 77 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.480 Oh, yes, the telegram said the car would meet me. 78 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:53.720 Is it nice working? 79 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.720 Please? She put her luggage in the back of the 80 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.480 big limousine, stepped into the front seat next to the chauffeur. 81 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.199 The train out of the Bascom station just as the car. 82 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.399 Moved away along the road. 83 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.279 Apparently it was a fair ways out, as the chauffeur 84 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.600 put it. The road wounds through the countryside. The land 85 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.279 seemed to grow more and more bleak. As they rolled along. 86 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.600 The sun dropped all of the horizon. The young woman 87 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.040 began to feel a little edgy. 88 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.279 Is it much further? Seems to be getting dark. 89 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.399 It not only seems to be getting dark, my girl, 90 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:27.160 it is getting dark. 91 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.639 You never told me if it's nice working out here, you. 92 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.279 Won't have any trouble. If you're nice, that is, if 93 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.839 I'm nice. Got the masters and mistresses ears? What I 94 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.439 say usually goes. Anyone who's not nice to me goes. 95 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:43.480 I don't understand. 96 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:45.839 You've worked before, haven't you well? 97 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.639 Yes, of course, have the very best of references. 98 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.079 In most places, it's the butler, isn't it out here? 99 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:53.480 It's me. 100 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:55.160 I don't understand. 101 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.399 Why have you left the road, because my girl, I 102 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.920 took you out this way for reasons of my own. 103 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.519 Now now I came out here for a job as cook. 104 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:06.199 I get that. 105 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.560 Come here. I know you can't God not to me. 106 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.600 It's someone else, no one else, it's you, understand Now'll 107 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:18.040 be good, be quiet. 108 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:26.439 That was all till the next morning. 109 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:31.480 Farmer cutting across the empty fields found that they were 110 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:34.120 not quite as empty as he supposed. 111 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:45.399 Here here, what's this youth like? Miss she? She's dead? Ah? 112 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:50.600 This be for the police. 113 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:54.959 The farmer made it as fast as he could the 114 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.079 nearest telephone, and within an hour the police had arrived. 115 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.720 They will not I suppose you repeat your starliarship. 116 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.920 You're inspector gardener. 117 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:05.439 Ah, well they told. 118 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.800 You go ahead. 119 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.680 Well I was cutting across the field. They save a 120 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.120 few steps, and I come on her line like that. 121 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.319 I went for help. That's soul, sir. 122 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.079 You didn't touch anything, You didn't mess up the ground. 123 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:21.519 No, no, sir, nothing like that. 124 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.120 All right, give the constable your name and address. We'll 125 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.439 call you for an egypt Yes, sir, thank you, sir. 126 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:30.319 What do you make up a martin? 127 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:31.399 One of those things? 128 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.360 Inspector murder by person unknown after a bit of a. 129 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.279 Struggle, it looks like yes, ground's pretty well trembled. 130 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.040 Any idea of the time of death. 131 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:43.839 Medical examiner can't see it, Sir. My guess is sometime 132 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:48.160 after seven o'clock last night. The rain stopped around six thirty. 133 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:49.879 She is not even damp, sir. 134 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.040 Very good, I judge from the tire texts. We'll get 135 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.680 to make up tires in the size of the cars. 136 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.000 You know, Yes, sir, you have her handbag, yes, right here, 137 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:06.480 so hm, Yes, we had an identity card, Ida Matthews, Stretham, London. 138 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:08.360 We can check that quickly enough. 139 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:17.079 Well, it's a telegram Daily Star come at once four 140 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:21.519 point thirty train Waterloo Bomber Central car will meet Joy 141 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:24.800 Expence's paid Egan, woodmere. 142 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:25.639 House, Boscombe. 143 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.199 Yes, I've seen this sort of thing before. What are 144 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.440 the odds, Martin? There is no woodmere House nor any 145 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:37.960 Egan hereabouts. 146 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.559 The odds were high. The inspector was right, no woodmere 147 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.960 House and no Eagon. But the telegram is a lead, 148 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.799 and importantly for a thread to start on. Not very 149 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.480 many post offices in Bascom, and you send telegrams from 150 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:55.679 post offices Neihland. 151 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.159 Detective Martin had an assignment. 152 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.480 I'm sorry to bother you, but this wire filed at 153 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:02.720 this office. 154 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:03.440 Not at that office. 155 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.399 No, no, at the next one, but the one after that. 156 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:10.600 Yes, that's one of ours. 157 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:12.720 May I see the original of the wire? Please? 158 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.440 Well, now I don't know hit. 159 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.840 Scop and my credentials. 160 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.159 Ah, well, that makes it properly. 161 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.600 And since it was proper and Detective Martin returned to 162 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:24.879 his superior. 163 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:25.720 With the original of the wire. 164 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:29.159 Did you ever see such atrocious handwriting, Inspector. 165 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.960 I can't I ever have party, can't spell either? No 166 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:35.320 E in Bournemouth and expenses with a C in place 167 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.919 of an S. Interesting Martin, it will be a long job. 168 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.320 Check through central post office and guard the Bournemouth area yourself, 169 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.159 get the originals of every wire over the past six 170 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.000 months that have had bad handwriting and worse spelling. It's 171 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:49.799 a long job. 172 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:53.639 Patience and routine the two great strengths of the forces 173 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.840 of law and order, and they pay off. Sometimes it 174 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:00.600 takes months, sometimes only weeks. This time it was two weeks. 175 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.159 A triumphant detective, I'd returned to Inspector Gardner. 176 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.799 We've got two more wiles and good work Martin. Here, sir, 177 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:23.559 notice this first one to the Dandre woman, no e 178 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.080 in Bournemouth, see an expense and a new era. Two 179 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:30.360 f's in if at this one to the domestic agency. 180 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.279 Someone wanted a young pleasant nurse without an a in 181 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.360 pleasant And again the e is missing in Bournemouth. 182 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:41.440 Her writing's identical, no question about it. 183 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:43.000 Put some calls to Martin. 184 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.919 I wonder if the Dandre woman or the young pleasant 185 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.039 nurse ever came down this way. 186 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:53.600 That track was an easy one, not trouble at all. 187 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:57.240 The Dandre woman came down, no car. She went back 188 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:58.600 a lucky lady. 189 00:10:58.639 --> 00:10:58.960 That one. 190 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.919 Apparently Priment agency was a bit more careful. 191 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.759 The agency wrote to the return address for more information. 192 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.799 Name and address were fictitious, of course, of course. 193 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:11.039 All right, Martin, back to the bascom post dropice jog 194 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:12.600 A few memories, will you? 195 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.039 I see, Miss, you filed this wire. 196 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.399 I did we get a lot of business through you 197 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:25.799 are with that awful handwriting. 198 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.120 Do you remember anything about the person who gave it 199 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:28.399 to you? 200 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.279 Well, it was a man, I know that that's something 201 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:34.000 there was that. 202 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.960 Let me think now now it's all black. 203 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:40.600 I don't try to hard, Miss, It'll come back to 204 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:45.600 you here. Let me read you the wire Daily Star 205 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:52.399 come at once four thirty train Waterloo, Bournemouth Central and 206 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.159 something here I can't quite make out. 207 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.200 That's it car, car, we'll meet. 208 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.679 I asked him the same question. He repeated the words 209 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:06.840 like that car, car will meet. I'd know his voice anywhere. 210 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:11.879 Why it was that kind of voice? Smooth, too soft? 211 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:13.320 Since she was out for me? 212 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:14.879 Do you remember the man at all? 213 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:16.960 No, sir, you know how it is. 214 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.440 Don't look at all the people who come in here. 215 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.360 But I think I'm not positive, but I think you 216 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:25.879 are on the chauffeur's. 217 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:35.200 Uniform, patience and routine were bringing results from nothing except 218 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.159 Ida Matthew's body. They built their evidence to a man 219 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.960 in a chauffeur's uniform who couldn't spell, and from the 220 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.159 tire tracks they knew the make of tires and the 221 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.679 length and widths and therefore the make of the car. 222 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.000 Within hours now every chauffeur in the vicinity who drove 223 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.919 a live sedan of a certain make had been called 224 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:55.879 into the police station. 225 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.720 Now do you Aleventhop was in London? So with my 226 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.440 money we lost a boy in the war. Inspector and 227 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:04.600 the whole family always gets together an armist this night 228 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:05.519 for that reason. 229 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:05.360 So. 230 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.320 No remember the eleventh Inspectator. I was off that night. 231 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.159 I didn't have the car. Now the young Master was 232 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:15.279 permitted to drivers himself that night. Seeing as I was 233 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:16.399 having my regular. 234 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:23.080 Night off, I picked up the old man, mister Dutton, 235 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:25.639 and he's a regular train, drove him home, put the 236 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:26.320 car away and. 237 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:26.879 Locked it up. 238 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:28.519 Did you have your own keid of garage? 239 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:30.679 No, sir, I always turned it into the big house 240 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:32.799 after I put the car away. That's what I did 241 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:35.639 that night, sir. And after that mature, I went into 242 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:37.720 Bournemouth on the bus, had a button, went. 243 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:38.159 To the cinema. 244 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.159 You should remember all that very well. It was over 245 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.399 a month ago. The case we're investigating happened. 246 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:44.559 I've got a great memory. 247 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.279 Well how is it unspelling? I wouldn't know. I never 248 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.320 tested it. Let's test it right now. Take this pad 249 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:57.600 and pencil and write the words I asked you. I 250 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.399 know you were smart and we shouldn't have let the 251 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.759 newspapers publish those wires. Not one of these cheps spills 252 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:05.320 those words wrong, and their handwriting doesn't match. 253 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:06.000 Nothing. 254 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.840 As it's too bad Inspector to draw a blank when 255 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:09.399 it looks so. 256 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:10.080 Good for a bit. 257 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.240 That's about it, Martin. For once we've drawn a blank completely. 258 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.000 But that was not to be the end. 259 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.039 Fate was to play a hand, and one of the 260 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.519 strongest cards in that hand turned out to be the telegram. Yes, 261 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.799 this same telegram that can be seen today in the 262 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:36.759 Black Museum. 263 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:39.720 Arson Wells will be back with you in just a moment, 264 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:47.399 And now we continue with the Black Museum, starring Awesome Wells. 265 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.600 They'd drawn a blank, but carefully built up points which 266 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.039 should have led to a vicious killer lead nowhere. The 267 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.559 full and tragic story of Idam Matthews seemed headed directly 268 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.399 for the unsolved file at Scotland yarnd. 269 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:11.519 How do account for what happened next? 270 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:16.879 Chance, stupidity, the intelligence to capitalize on a tiny fact. 271 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:18.200 It really doesn't matter. 272 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.799 What does matter is that one morning at the post 273 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:22.159 office in Bascon. 274 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.279 How many steps for this package? Miss? 275 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:26.720 I just put it on the scale. 276 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.799 I take care now it's mark French. I don't even 277 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:30.159 see that. 278 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:31.720 I see it. 279 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:36.000 It'll be one and three, right you are, Thank you? 280 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:41.399 Miss Jimmy Quick Please, where's he going? Good fellow in 281 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.080 the show for suit? Where's he going get to the window. 282 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:45.879 I can't leave the cage quick. 283 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.360 Yeah, he's getting a little a car grace there, get 284 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:51.919 the number whatever for. 285 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.600 Wait l K nine O five four twenty four. 286 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:01.120 Ex husband knows you elimen he a'm ridiculous. 287 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.840 That's the man who sent the telegram, the one the 288 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.720 coppers was so interesting. I know his voice anywhere? Yeah, 289 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.080 you take over. I'm going to telephone that nast detective. 290 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.720 A chance, a coincidence. 291 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.440 The young man might have taken that package, the girl 292 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.559 might have forgotten the voice. Neither of these things happened, 293 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:30.080 and a new lead was developed for the yard. 294 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:34.720 Mitchell drives that car Inspector John Mitchell, owner is done. 295 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.679 We had Mitchell in his writing, doesn't mentionine his spelling's fine. 296 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.000 Well, the girl swears he's the man Martin. 297 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.919 Can you picture a British jury hanging a man because 298 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.960 a girl remembered his voice? No such things are. 299 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.559 But the points were added to the Ida Matthews file 300 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:56.000 and held waiting their use. Patience and more patience and 301 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:00.000 more results. 302 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.080 Depect the gardeners beging this is Sidney Harris. 303 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:05.480 I'm told her that I want to give my information 304 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.720 to you. It's on the Matthews case. 305 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:10.440 You see, I rode down to Bosco on the. 306 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:10.960 Train with her. 307 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.279 Sydney Harris received a warm welcome at Scotland. 308 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:20.519 Sit down, mister Harris, thank you. If I may ask, 309 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.559 what took this a lot? I was out of the country, Inspector. 310 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:24.759 I returned just yesterday. 311 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:27.599 Go on, mister Harris, will you see my business takes 312 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:30.440 me abroad quite a bit. I had the opportunity to 313 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:32.519 spend a night with some friends of mine in Bournemouth 314 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.519 before I sailed the next day. That's how it happened 315 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.119 that I was on the train. The Matthews woman was 316 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.680 in my compartment. We talked a bitter I commented on 317 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.599 our Harold, just passing the time. I'd never have thought 318 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.559 of it again, I suppose if my ship had sailed 319 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.680 on time, but it didn't. The steward brought aboard some 320 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.519 late papers which came out while we werestled in Southampton. 321 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.720 I saw them after we've been at sea for a 322 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.559 few hours. There was this woman's picture and the story 323 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:02.519 I understand. And now, mister Harris, what information do you 324 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:03.200 have which may. 325 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:03.839 Be of help to us? 326 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.440 The luggage rack on the car, Inspector. 327 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:08.839 It was a large gray sedan. 328 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:10.640 How did you happen to notice it? 329 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.200 I watched across to the station platform. I saw a 330 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.119 man meet in a sofa's uniform. I wanted to enter 331 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.880 this car. Now it happens, Inspector, that I design auto bodies. 332 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:23.079 The Luggies wrec attracted my attention. It doesn't belong to 333 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.119 that make of car. It's been specially fitted. 334 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:28.319 You're a very observed man, mister Harris, for which our 335 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:32.359 deepest appreciation. At one point, mister Harris, among these ladies' 336 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.680 hats on the desk, which one would you say was 337 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.480 miss Matthews or this one' sir, that, mister Harris, is 338 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.839 the hat we found beside Ida Matthew's body. 339 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.599 At last someone to establish that Ida Matthews had been 340 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.720 mat bess chauffeur at the buscon station. 341 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:52.599 Which chauffeur. 342 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:56.720 Yes, that's the car, the gray one, LK nine oh 343 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:57.319 five to four. 344 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:59.480 That's the Luggies wreck. I was talking about. 345 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:01.880 But the handwriting and the spelling. 346 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:06.720 Ask the licensed Bureau for Mitchell's application for the driver's license. 347 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:08.400 I want to see the handwriting on it. 348 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.440 Within a day, the application lay on the inspector's desk. 349 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.200 Decided with the originals of the wires with the misspelled words. 350 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:19.079 Well, Martin, not much doubt about it, as there inspector. 351 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.880 The experts will testify for us, Martin. But I'm satisfied. 352 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:32.599 Get your hat. We're going to pick up Mitchell. Well Martin, 353 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:33.680 what kept jump? 354 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.160 I saw his room, Sir, and spoke with mister Dutton. 355 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.920 Mitchell must have got the wind up. He's gone. But 356 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:43.720 I found this in his room, the key duplicate key 357 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.839 to the garage. Mitchell had access to the car Edit II. 358 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.559 He wanted to use it, and mister Dutton tells me 359 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:51.240 he was on the verge of calling us, but I 360 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:54.559 walked in. Mitchell is paying the expenses of his little 361 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:55.759 trip with forged checks. 362 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.039 That does it, Martin. 363 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:01.640 Let's get back to the office. 364 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:01.920 Now. 365 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.039 The fast interlocking network of police authorities and police communications 366 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:09.799 went into action all across and up and down England. 367 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.519 The teletypes carried the message. 368 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:18.000 Bornmous to all stations General alarm for one John Mitchell, 369 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.680 age about forty two five feet eight inches tall, weightd 370 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.519 about one hundred and sixty five pounds, hair, brown eyes, 371 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:32.799 blue distinctive suppose, low pitched voice, wanted for forgery and murder. 372 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:39.119 The word was out somewhere in England. A policeman would 373 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:43.119 recognize John Mitchell. And the policeman did. 374 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.640 Inspect your gardener speaking this is super. 375 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:49.039 Didn't con and ready, inspector. 376 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:51.799 We have this John Mitchell for you picked him up 377 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:53.319 when he tried to get a drop to gearage. 378 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:54.119 He has a mechanic. 379 00:20:55.039 --> 00:21:01.519 John Mitchell was brought back to Vuscan. But the job 380 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:04.160 wasn't done even yet. After all, when the charge is murdered, 381 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:06.359 the plea of not guilty is mandatory. There must be 382 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:09.240 a trial and there must be attorneys for the defensive 383 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:12.799 man is to be presumed innocent and to prove and guilty. Therefore, 384 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.599 the case had to be air tight, foolproof. No loopholes 385 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:17.599 were a smart defense. 386 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:20.400 Guns now get missed. When you walk into this room, 387 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:22.440 there'll be a dozen men there where their backs turned 388 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.680 towards you. You're walking backwards yourself, so there'll be no 389 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:27.440 chance of your seeing even the becks of their. 390 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:29.880 Heads sort of blind peltasts. 391 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:34.119 Yes, without benefit of blindfold. You ready now as ready 392 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:40.920 as our lepathy. Let's go who here? These may have 393 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:42.039 been briefed Martin. 394 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:44.440 Yes, sir, they know what to do. They're to read 395 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:46.839 the words on the cards. I've good, very well, you 396 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:48.319 can begin, all right. 397 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:55.519 You car car will meet, next car, car will meet, 398 00:21:55.759 --> 00:22:00.079 next car, car will meet, next peers. 399 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:05.599 Car, car will meet, and the next car car will meet. 400 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:07.559 That's him, that's the voice. 401 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:08.680