Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to persons who may still
Speaker 1: be living. Character names in some of these true unsolved
Speaker 1: mysteries have been changed. Doctor Jclin Mister Hyde a remarkable
Speaker 1: and somewhat ghastly piece of fiction written by the famous
Speaker 1: Robert Lewis Stevenson. Fantastic but utterly impossible. You say fantastic, yes,
Speaker 1: ghastly yes, but impossible no for a juculant hide complex
Speaker 1: was the answer to the crimes which horrified and terrified London.
Speaker 2: In the late eighties. The famous Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 3: Murders something.
Speaker 1: At the scene is London the time evening, A thick
Speaker 1: rolling fog shrouds the Thames Embankment, and the lights lining
Speaker 1: Blackfriar's Bridge.
Speaker 2: Have a ghostly tinge. High in the fog, Big.
Speaker 1: Ben booms the hour and over at Scotland Yard, Detective Lester,
Speaker 1: hearing the familiar chime of the old bell, looks at
Speaker 1: his watch, decides that it is time to be off
Speaker 1: and is closing his desk when the door opens.
Speaker 2: And in walk a man and a woman.
Speaker 4: Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5: My name's Weiss, James Weiss, and yes this is my.
Speaker 2: Wife and delighted to meet you.
Speaker 4: Won't you sit down?
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: But you're saying I made James come and see you. Yes,
Speaker 2: James has a dream.
Speaker 4: Yes, one does have dreams occasionally. But are you quite
Speaker 4: certain you came to the right place. This is Scotland yard.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, this is the right place. Tell them about
Speaker 2: your dream, James.
Speaker 6: Last night it was, sir, I waken and told my
Speaker 6: wife I saw a murder.
Speaker 2: Committed you in my dream.
Speaker 4: I mean, oh, I see when I admit, that's rather
Speaker 4: a horrible dream, but.
Speaker 6: It was too real in spitsfield. It was I could
Speaker 6: see the woman walking along, and I could see the
Speaker 6: man following her. I tried the warner. I tried as
Speaker 6: hard as I could.
Speaker 5: It was ghastly to.
Speaker 6: Watch your just walking along like everything was all right,
Speaker 6: and him creeping up behind her, and me trying to
Speaker 6: cry out and couldn't, and then he killed her. She
Speaker 6: didn't have a chance, not even a chance to scream.
Speaker 4: Wait, you'll have me turning up the yard. You're so realistic.
Speaker 4: You'll have me believing that it happened instead of being
Speaker 4: just a dream.
Speaker 2: That's just it.
Speaker 4: When James dreams things like that, they have happened this time.
Speaker 4: James must be wrong, because you see, we haven't found
Speaker 4: any murdered women in London, let alone Spitzfield.
Speaker 5: I told you they wouldn't. Listen, Margaret, let's get going.
Speaker 4: I don't wish to appear unappreciative, but you realize, don't you,
Speaker 4: that I can't do anything. After all? What would my
Speaker 4: superior say if I arrested someone because of a dream?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: I understand, Sorry to have taken up your time.
Speaker 4: Good night, madam, good night.
Speaker 1: Next morning, Detective Inspector let walks into his office at
Speaker 1: Scotland Yard.
Speaker 2: He hangs up his hat and coat, seats.
Speaker 1: Himself at his desk, lifts up the morning report and
Speaker 1: starts to read.
Speaker 2: Suddenly he stops. His eyes start from his head.
Speaker 1: He reads again, then turns, stuttering to his secretary what
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 2: What is this a joke? A joke? Sir?
Speaker 4: What sort of a woman found Murderdon's pitchfield?
Speaker 2: Is there nothing a joke about there? Sir?
Speaker 7: She was a horrible sight, ripped to pieces, sir, never
Speaker 7: even had a chance to cry out.
Speaker 4: But it's impossible, impossible, sir.
Speaker 2: What's impossible about it? Sir?
Speaker 7: The body's in the morgue if you want to go
Speaker 7: and look at it, although I don't advise it, sir.
Speaker 7: It's a messy one and I've seen lots of them.
Speaker 4: Who investigated Brown, Sir. Get him in, Yes, sir. What
Speaker 4: time was she found?
Speaker 2: Three o'clock? You wanted me, sir?
Speaker 4: Any progress on this murder in s Pittsfield?
Speaker 2: Brown not yet know.
Speaker 4: Who she heels or was?
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, just one of the many women around that
Speaker 7: neighborhood at that time of night.
Speaker 4: No motive then, so far.
Speaker 2: No, there isn't a clue as to who could have
Speaker 2: murdered her.
Speaker 5: Not a thing.
Speaker 7: Nobody heard a scream, although I don't think she had
Speaker 7: a chance to scream.
Speaker 4: All right, Brown, get hold of McCafe and have him
Speaker 4: search lung until he finds a chap with the name
Speaker 4: of James Weiss and his wife Margaret.
Speaker 2: I want them here.
Speaker 4: I want them to as quickly as you can find me, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: But James Weiss and his wife Margaret were not to
Speaker 1: be found, and the body lying in the morgue was
Speaker 1: not the only one Scotland Yard was to view. In
Speaker 1: the following months, London was in a state of panic.
Speaker 2: Hardly a week.
Speaker 1: Passed that a woman was not found brutally and horribly murdered.
Speaker 1: The newspapers called the unknown fiend jacked the Ripper, and
Speaker 1: women were advised not to walk alone after dark in
Speaker 1: the Whitechapel district, where the majority of the crimes were committed.
Speaker 1: But one day, all unmindful of the police search for him,
Speaker 1: James Weiss and his wife returned from their trip to
Speaker 1: the Continent board a bus at notting Hill, in the
Speaker 1: very heart of London.
Speaker 8: Harper, Harper for London.
Speaker 2: Parks. Place.
Speaker 4: Step forward in the bus. Place, Fair's place, it happens
Speaker 4: to Marble archer. Yes, sir, Why what's the matter?
Speaker 2: James?
Speaker 3: You look ill.
Speaker 6: I've got that feeling I had that night, I had
Speaker 6: the dream. What do you mean the man I saw
Speaker 6: kill the woman? He's on the bus. I know it,
Speaker 6: I feel it around. Grip on yourself in the opposite corn.
Speaker 4: Getting off quick.
Speaker 2: James quick follow him, but the stranger got into a
Speaker 2: cab and was driven off.
Speaker 1: Weiss appealed to a policeman who only laughed at him
Speaker 1: when he asked for the stranger's arrest.
Speaker 2: That night, another Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 1: Murder, and in the morning's papers Weiss reads that the
Speaker 1: police are looking for him.
Speaker 2: Before London is astir.
Speaker 1: Weiss is at Scotland Yard and the inspector and two
Speaker 1: sergeants take the clairvoyant to the scene of the latest killing.
Speaker 4: Helmas to Weiss, this is where the murder was committed.
Speaker 2: Do you look at him? Quiet?
Speaker 5: He he's going into a trance.
Speaker 2: He's tearing off into space. He's starting to walk through.
Speaker 1: The maze of London's streets, walks the strange group.
Speaker 2: Mile after mile.
Speaker 1: Weiss follows the psychic trail, never hesitating until they reached
Speaker 1: the west End. Then outside an imposing house, Weiss stops, staggers.
Speaker 1: His glazed eyes turn imploringly to the inspectors. Again, he
Speaker 1: staggers and almost falls to the ground. Look out there,
Speaker 1: catch him.
Speaker 2: What's the matter? Are you all right in there?
Speaker 5: In that house? The murder? The man you want jerk
Speaker 5: the ripper?
Speaker 4: All right, boys, will take a chance, be ready for fire.
Speaker 2: Maybe we're in a wild goose chain. It does seem kind.
Speaker 4: Someone's coming. Yes, gentlemen, the police officers who wish to
Speaker 4: search this house, come in.
Speaker 3: I I suppose there's no use hiding.
Speaker 4: It any long way, No, madam, no use hiding it
Speaker 4: any longer. The doctor's insane. When he's in his right mind,
Speaker 4: he's the kindest man alive. But when this other thing
Speaker 4: takes hold of him, there's no saying.
Speaker 3: What he might do.
Speaker 4: I've lived in constant dread. I've been afraid that he
Speaker 4: might even commit murder. Then you you don't know who
Speaker 4: he is? I mean, why we're here, who he is?
Speaker 2: Why he's doctor blank, iron, missus blank.
Speaker 1: He's in there and doctor blank. He was when in
Speaker 1: his right mind, but when his dual personality took hold
Speaker 1: of him, he became Jack the Ripper, the monstrous fiend
Speaker 1: who killed for the love of killing. A group of
Speaker 1: eminent British doctors examined him, and when it was definitely
Speaker 1: decided that he was insane, he was committed to an
Speaker 1: asylum and all were warned to secrecy. His death was
Speaker 1: announced to account for his disappearance, and surely that mock funeral,
Speaker 1: attended by the prominent people of London was one of
Speaker 1: the strangest rights that old city ever witnessed, A strange,
Speaker 1: fantastic rite and the fitting close to the unsolved mystery of.
Speaker 2: Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, you will hear a solution to
Speaker 1: the clairvoyants extraordinary trance.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Inasmuch as any.
Speaker 1: Solution must have necessity be supposition, liberties of time, place,
Speaker 1: and characters have.
Speaker 2: Been taken in the solution for what you have been waiting.
Speaker 2: It is many years after the famous Jack.
Speaker 1: The Ripper murders and detective Inspector Lester is discussing the
Speaker 1: Ripper case with a.
Speaker 2: Well known London or now dead.
Speaker 4: You see, Tom, the Ripper case isn't the only case
Speaker 4: where we've had the yard use a clairvoyant, and this
Speaker 4: clairvoyant has helped it out when we couldn't find a
Speaker 4: starting place. Of course, well it just doesn't do to
Speaker 4: let that sort of thing get spoken about from the papers.
Speaker 2: What other keys can you tell me? Off?
Speaker 4: Well, it was a Crumbles case. We were at a
Speaker 4: dead end. A medium was consulted and she described the murderers.
Speaker 4: But more than that, she told us where they were living.
Speaker 2: The rest and.
Speaker 4: Proof were simple.
Speaker 7: Or if there must be some explanation to such peculiar happenings.
Speaker 2: Yes there is.
Speaker 4: Look at it this way. Mediums or clairvoyants, I don't
Speaker 4: particularly care what they're called, make a practice of going
Speaker 4: into a tramp so many times that they become more
Speaker 4: and more susceptible. I mean that there are times when,
Speaker 4: merely because they are not thinking about anything in particular,
Speaker 4: their minds are open to suggestion, although at that particular.
Speaker 2: Time they may not be aware of it.
Speaker 7: Yes, I can understand that.
Speaker 4: Now here's a peculiar thing. What emotion, next to an
Speaker 4: effort to save one's life do you think is uppermost
Speaker 4: in nine persons out of ten who are murdered. I
Speaker 4: never gave there the thought what is an overpowering desire
Speaker 4: to have the police know who killed him? Now, that
Speaker 4: desire for well call it revenge, coupled with fear of
Speaker 4: discovery of the murderer, produces a tremendously powerful thought way
Speaker 4: which is received by a clairvoyant who is receptive to
Speaker 4: suggestion at the moment, almost.
Speaker 7: Like a radio set which has been left switched on
Speaker 7: and tuned to a station which is off the air.
Speaker 7: Suddenly the station comes on the air and the message
Speaker 7: is received.
Speaker 4: And pretty good explanations.
Speaker 7: I accept all this, But how was Weiss seeing the
Speaker 7: murder at Spitsfield's before it was even committed?
Speaker 4: Weiss was more than an ordinary clairvoyant. It was fully
Speaker 4: susceptible to the subconscious mind, and the subconscious has no
Speaker 4: measurement of time. Past, present, of future is all one
Speaker 4: to the subconscious, and therefore to the subconscious, it made
Speaker 4: no difference whether the murder was committed, was being committed,
Speaker 4: or was to be committed.
Speaker 7: In other words, the trances that mediums have that are
Speaker 7: apparently meaningless would not be meaningless if they could be
Speaker 7: linked up with the proper time. I'm in the right place,
Speaker 7: and people.
Speaker 4: Affect exactly in the Jack the Ripper case, the Crumbles case,
Speaker 4: in half a hundred others that I know of. The
Speaker 4: ordinary law of coincidence permits a certain number of occurrences
Speaker 4: in which all the elements are present, and that results
Speaker 4: in a workable application of clairvoyants.
Speaker 2: Amazing isn't to think about.
Speaker 4: Amazing, Yes, because we don't understand it. But someday, yes, someday,
Speaker 4: when the police of the world wake up to the
Speaker 4: value of this study, catching criminals will be a simple matter.
Speaker 4: But when that day comes, criminals will be few and
Speaker 4: far between. Why because criminals too will be able to
Speaker 4: see and to know what awaits them. If not in
Speaker 4: this world, then in the next.
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