WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.599 This is Alton Wells speaking from London. 2 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.839 Black Museum, Stopping Yard, Museum of Murder. 3 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.239 Here in a grim stone structure on. 4 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:27.039 The Thames which houses scoff and Yard, is a warehouse 5 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:31.239 of homicide. Well everyday objects. 6 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.520 Things like a packet of matches, a colossi parts, a 7 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:36.799 very knife. 8 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:52.759 Oh I touched fine murder, a hair is, a pint bottle, 9 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:01.039 labels meatsjuice. That's you've seen one of these if grandmother 10 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:02.840 said that so one fact when you were a child, 11 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.159 you man and fair meat use for the islands strength. 12 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:09.000 It contained from just such a small glass bottle. Yet 13 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:11.719 there it is, in the midst of all the other 14 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:12.640 relics of. 15 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:14.439 This well insteator. 16 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.840 What do you think, mister Heron, We did our best. 17 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.920 A little bit of quite sediment at the bottom of 18 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:26.239 the bottle. See if they're still you know what? 19 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:26.959 That is? 20 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.480 Yes, arsenic and to me. 21 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:32.879 At least the means of murdering my brother. 22 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.760 Of to day that bottle of meat juice can be 23 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:53.480 seen in the Black Museum. 24 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:56.840 From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the 25 00:01:56.879 --> 00:02:00.000 London Police, we bring you the dramatic. 26 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:03.159 Story of the crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland 27 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:08.319 Yards Gallery of Death, the Black Museum. 28 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.719 In just a moment you will hear the Black Museum 29 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:13.879 starring awesome world. 30 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:41.840 Here we are a Black Museum, Scotland Yards. 31 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:42.479 You see him. 32 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:50.080 Yes, here are all these castry labeled weapons labeled in boxes. 33 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:56.159 And violence here is something unexpected violent deaths. 34 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:58.000 Yeah. 35 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.560 Resence is a small mule conch as you might find 36 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:05.360 in any lady's hand bag that had printing ladies. 37 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:09.520 This one once inspect to escape teen girls or brown hair, 38 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:10.960 and what she. 39 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:17.400 Saw reflected up nearly disordered beauty. She saw murders striking. 40 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.280 As here and it's the bottle of label beat juice. 41 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.680 Obsolete archaics type of writing on this label repeat with 42 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.039 flourishes and shading, no prosaic typing, hand written by an 43 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:31.919 ext ft ten. 44 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.120 And this was only naturale in the eighteen nineties. And 45 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.400 this bottle became a focus of the odds, even a 46 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:40.840 very disturbing situation. 47 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:44.960 Of course, on the surface, the Hammond family, Liverpool, England 48 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:52.080 eighteen ninety two displayed no evil, always happiness on the scenes. 49 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.759 That salary to the great events. Good, Oh, forgive me 50 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:00.520 a bottle? What did they there? 51 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.560 You have it, my dear, my own brother doesn't remember 52 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.120 our wedding anniversary and your anniversary old name? 53 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:11.240 Which one I at Arthur eight years of happiness, not 54 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:15.240 to mention six years of our son and author you forgot, 55 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.160 perhaps because I. 56 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:17.079 Wasn't to the wedding. 57 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.560 That's right, Robert met me and we were engaged in America, 58 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.680 because we were married here with my aunt changed exactly 59 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.639 while I was in America myself. 60 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.959 Well, with all that straightened, ud, shall we post the occasion? 61 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:31.000 After all? 62 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:33.720 How many times it's a pleasant family gathering on a 63 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:35.000 pleasant family occasion. 64 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:40.759 Nothing evil on the surface. Of course, undercurrents do show themselves. 65 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:46.920 Occasion almost three o'clock the time I took my medicine. 66 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.920 Yes year, which one is it? This time? 67 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:50.600 The liquid or that happens? 68 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.480 I took the liquid tool that means the tablets now 69 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:54.800 they are. 70 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.040 Oh, you have no idea as for what it means 71 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:59.839 at my age having to head my bustles. 72 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:01.439 Uncle stands me. 73 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:06.079 Aye, I really don't your rhypo condriac Robert hetch taste 74 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:11.439 the truth, no laughing matter of these sedatives, well, I 75 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.759 learned all about them when I was an America lost one. 76 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.680 Contains art Nick the other has spected in it all. 77 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:21.759 Now you are Joki. I'm not in very small quantities, 78 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:22.879 but pison. 79 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:28.240 Nevertheless, here are your tablet's loater, Dear, thank you, thank 80 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:29.199 you for everything. 81 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.000 It's not easy, I know, for God, be married to 82 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.439 a man twice. 83 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:38.079 For an age don't very ridiculous, Robert. I'm very happy, 84 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.079 and so would you be if you let yourself honestly. 85 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:43.240 Others, sometimes I. 86 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:49.319 Think you detect the undercones, the constant harp being their 87 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:51.279 fifty year old husband on the fact is white. 88 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.639 It's not your thirty all. The evil is there deep 89 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:58.879 down underground, but it's there. I would hardly say it 90 00:05:58.959 --> 00:05:59.800 came to the surface. 91 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:08.439 An incidents such as this, I think someone. 92 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.319 Might he just a note to the Plaza hotel in London. 93 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:17.560 He Plaza, London. Yeah, I had word this morning. Aunt 94 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.279 Rose is video and there's no one to stay with her. 95 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.040 You've been out all day, so I've written to rest 96 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.240 room to save time before I could. 97 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:30.079 Yes, of course you want to go party can watch her. 98 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.639 But David, I suppose Doty is a jeweler man servants Dear, 99 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.120 of course she can excellent. 100 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:41.439 I saw doctor Hubert's day my dear, he's not at 101 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:45.959 all satisfied with my condition. However, we shall see he's 102 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:52.720 given me an evil to him who evil thinks. Perhaps still, 103 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:56.439 the bleeding between plants a niece at the Plaza Hotel 104 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:02.560 in London was something to think about it, Dolly, Oh. 105 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.800 So long, too long, my bloodd too long. 106 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:14.199 But now, my sweet three whole days together, three glorious days, Oh, John. 107 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.399 An interesting irons, would you say, particularly when the. 108 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:26.240 Young white is half her husband's aid. Now, there were 109 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.399 some things which Ruth Hammond had in common with her husband. 110 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.839 One was a love of horses, horse racing. 111 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.639 They followed them. Upon the time for the Grand National arrived, 112 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.199 Robert pulled himself together and took his wife to the 113 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:44.040 world famous race. And then an incident took place relevant 114 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:44.680 to the story. 115 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.279 Oh it's wonderful, Robert, just wonderful. 116 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:55.199 I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, my dear. To imagine running into. 117 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:59.759 You here, John, John, the gentleman seems to know. 118 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:00.560 You, my dear. 119 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.000 I'm sorry, mister John Browney, my husband, how do. 120 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.639 You doing well? Thank you? You as well as can 121 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:10.399 be expected. 122 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.439 John's no friend of mine, Robert, aren't you? 123 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.560 John? Yes, I think I can say, I am. Don't 124 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:17.199 you join us? 125 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.040 There's plenty of room in our box, and I'm. 126 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.279 Sure we'll be happy to have a casual meeting. Is 127 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:24.680 simple introduction of gesture of hospitality. 128 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.040 But who would expect a circumspect young woman to cast 129 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:29.279 cut from land. 130 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.519 Good behavior to the winds? Bobby? 131 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:34.879 Yes? 132 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:38.000 Where were you? 133 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:41.919 The past day is with you? 134 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:43.639 I left her at the racetrack? 135 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:48.039 Won't she be along? Since I don't care what you 136 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:54.480 mean or what she does? Robert, Robert can never forgive. 137 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.960 Me if you must make an exhibition of your self, Ruth, 138 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:57.639 must it. 139 00:08:57.679 --> 00:08:58.279 Be in public? 140 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.399 Is thereveryone care about your public pride? 141 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.840 I ought to by you from my dead and body that, 142 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:08.120 even when for my son, I would. 143 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.919 Please please forgive me. I'll never have to like that again. 144 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:19.360 John Rowling is out of my life through me. Very well. 145 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:25.120 We shall see got it? Yes, sir, forguess what you've 146 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:33.000 seen here? Understand forget it all? And now does the 147 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:36.600 husband's turn to visit London? Robert Hammond weather it's a 148 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.559 specialist about his nerves, about the pains he believed came 149 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.679 from a b From a specialist. He went directly to 150 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:43.600 a chemist shop. 151 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.240 I'd like this prescription field please here a good sair 152 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:55.639 in Can you. 153 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:56.559 Make it up quickly? 154 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:03.080 He said, he is a candidate and you have to 155 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.879 sign a receipt for this preparation that it contains stickening. 156 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:15.279 My wife too, was visiting a chemist, a chemist in Liverpool. 157 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.559 Anything else now, No, I think that completes the list. 158 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.240 Oh nos, I'd almost forgotten tie papers. You do have 159 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:26.480 thie papers, don't. 160 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:28.840 Yes, ma'am, any particular brand. 161 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:32.639 No, but I prefer the strongest you have. I hate 162 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.200 to see anything linger longer than necessary. 163 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:44.679 Ruth Hammond took her purchases with her at home. She 164 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:45.840 ranked the maid. 165 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:51.240 You love them? Yes? Isn't any hot water on the stove? 166 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:51.600 Oh? 167 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:55.039 Yes, we must cook as kIPS kettle boiling very well, Dottie. 168 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:57.960 I want the kettle and the dish. Can I have 169 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:02.480 the sup and tie paper. That's a juggist for a 170 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.399 chemist you'd call him in America. 171 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:05.679 Showed me how to obtain the. 172 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:07.080 Arctic from fly David. 173 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.519 It's part of a preparation to keep the complexion fresh. 174 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.200 And my skin is none too good these days. 175 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.559 Dotted fixed the kettle in the fish hand. 176 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.519 Will you please thank you. 177 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.000 Perhaps nothing more would have been thought about that, about 178 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.519 the quarrel in the hall, if another event about the credos. 179 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:31.960 Immediately Robert Hammond fell ill, not merely the imagine the 180 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.120 illness of the hypochondract with an actual illness. Doctor Hubert 181 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:38.480 was called manic examination. 182 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.600 Then may I see you a moment, Missus Hammond in 183 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.039 cost not the lt. I'm possibles by mister Hammond's symptoms. 184 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:51.120 His heart seems from enough be de complained. 185 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.919 The chest page and the conference fortin you. 186 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.360 I'm boied, Missus Hammond. Have you no diagnosis? 187 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:07.840 I preferred a consultations. Stop the consultation to learn it. 188 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.679 Doctors probed and listens and probed again. 189 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.559 By then wait after huberts to die there and waited 190 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.720 outside the sacred not to Davis address himself of the problem. 191 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:21.960 I don't like it, Hubert. All that chine is the plad. 192 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:25.360 Symptom of our cynical poisoning, the man injting himself with 193 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:26.879 our clinical medicine. 194 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.360 Oh yeah, and I know those compounds. You know. The 195 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:33.840 arsenic is minute Hubert, who is nursing him by his wife, 196 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.399 of course, and I, with some help from the maid, 197 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.519 I want a registered nurse in there and no one else. 198 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:44.200 You don't suspect anything day this. I want to convent 199 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.799 suspicion if I can get a nurse in there as 200 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.399 soon as possible. Mean why you will prescribe tonics? He 201 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:51.919 chooses a mesttle thing. 202 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.279 I want the bubbles watched night and day, the medicine, 203 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:59.600 the patients to nurse, all that's in the signal, everything 204 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:05.759 and everyone else outside, including the lovely wife, Yes, including 205 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:15.240 the lovely wife that the day bttle of meat juice 206 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:25.080 just seen Black mus In just a moment we will 207 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.919 continue with the Black Museum. 208 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.960 Starring Awesome Well. 209 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:50.200 Eighteen ninety two. 210 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:55.240 A man might die slowly for unexplained reasons without benefit 211 00:13:55.320 --> 00:14:01.240 of laboratory tests, gastric TESTI examinations, any of the aids 212 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.000 to life and living which grace hard times sixty years later. 213 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.039 The doctors in eighteen ninety two did their level best. 214 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.759 They used their knowledge well as if. 215 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.480 It came to placing a nurse in charge, denying. 216 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.279 A wife access to the sick room, or nearly ordering 217 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:23.559 concentrated meat juss atomic. They performed their functions according to 218 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:27.399 the time in which they lived. Thus it came about 219 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:31.399 that Robert Hammond suffered in his bed. Ruth Hammond was 220 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:34.840 ordered from his room, and his brother Arthur came to 221 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.759 stay in that tense for boarding household. 222 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.759 Yes I did, ash, said mistress sir. She asked me 223 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:49.519 please to mail this letter that let us open. Oh please, 224 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:53.879 I can explain. Get on with it. I'll take it 225 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.559 to the post box and I'll dropped distant beyond and 226 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:58.399 Outpris thirty. 227 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.240 You can see the Marster I see but one else. 228 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.879 I wanted to change the nplson. 229 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:06.840 Stad it opened. 230 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:13.519 I couldn't help read the beginning stain you gardeners. 231 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:16.000 Play for the bans. 232 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.399 And dressed to mister. 233 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:33.720 John Browneys, is it necessary to add more to report 234 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.759 the contents of that poor, indiscreet love letter. 235 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.240 I doubted the letter read, and then put away. Arthur 236 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:43.919 Hammond strode to his brother's room. Called the nurse's side. 237 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:49.320 I want you to keep special watch Getty, special watch nurse, And. 238 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:54.759 Under no circumstances omit, Missus Hammond, anywhere near these medicines. 239 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.480 But even a nurse's rest in two an hour off 240 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:06.240 each day, this nurse is replaced by Dotty Hammond's maid. 241 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:14.519 Oh, Missus Hammon of the topic. Sis, you're not becoming mere. 242 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:16.600 Please don't be ridiculous, doti. 243 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:24.840 Of course, my dear, have they been keeping you away 244 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:30.399 from me? Oh? Please? Are these all your meds? Miss Robert? Yes? 245 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:35.039 Most of them out filthy tasty, poor Robert. 246 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:39.480 Oh, ma'am, you're not supposed to touch with me. You 247 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:44.799 stn't be bad, Robert, m it certainly smells good, my 248 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.919 good rare steak oom. I wouldn't mind taking it myself. 249 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:51.639 You'll leave other pills. 250 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.360 Wouldn't you mind taking it yourself? Missus Hammond? I wonder 251 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.200 now then I'm. 252 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:01.080 Not alone in that brother Arthur wanted to had he worried, 253 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.400 particularly when he found you alone in the pantry washing 254 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:13.000 medicine bottles, Hiru, washing bottles. 255 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:15.079 Isn't that dot his work? 256 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.079 This is at least I can do for my husband, 257 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.039 even I'm not allowed to see. 258 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.359 But you did see him yesterday. 259 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.240 And if I did, who has a better right? 260 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.079 I'm not speaking of rights, route, I'm speaking of wrongs. 261 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:29.839 If you have something of which you wish to accuse me, 262 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:30.519 why don't you? 263 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.359 I may you see I had the leak too, shoe 264 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:38.960 hander yesterday analyzed I see you did it contained arsenic, 265 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:41.440 and you insinuate. 266 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:41.640 I put it there. 267 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:41.960 I do. 268 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.799 I did put something in that bottle. Robert ar Smitchel, 269 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.839 some powdery head in a small box. He told me 270 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.200 it all. It gave him relief, and the doctors had 271 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:51.680 forbidden it. 272 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:56.440 I see they forbade it. Well, my dear sister in law, 273 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.839 we shall see what we shall see. 274 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.680 They saw sooner as twenty four hours later, a weeping 275 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:09.440 dartis old brother Arthur. 276 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:15.759 The doctor's death. Just as I where to go, so 277 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:20.519 cricket came. No, don't try to call anybody not keeping you. 278 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:27.400 Mister, doctor Hubert stated, I personally will not certify his 279 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:31.079 death until there has been a piste bottom by doctor Davis, 280 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:36.079 and doctor Davis reported this was due. 281 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:40.759 To aggravated inflammation of internal organs. The body contains something 282 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.160 less than half a grain of arsenic. I recommend an 283 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.559 immediate investigation by the police. 284 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:59.119 Enter Inspector Adams the CID. What's your opinion of the 285 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.640 Hubert as an expert on this case. It will be 286 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:04.119 very difficult to have an opinion, Inspector. 287 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:09.039 You see, mister Hammond was a too hypocondriac, always still 288 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.559 seeing himself with patent's medicines, all kinds of prescriptions. But 289 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:16.400 the man's dead, and added to the difficulties that there 290 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.519 seems no really natural cause. 291 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:20.160 For his passing. 292 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:24.400 Thank you doctor, not at all, Inspector, anything I can 293 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:25.000 do for him? 294 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:27.440 From a doctor's office, the inspector made his way to 295 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.440 the House of Mourning. There his first object to inquire 296 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:35.640 was Arthur Hammond. So you are suspicious of the cause 297 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:37.039 of death, wouldn't. 298 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:37.680 You be, Inspector? 299 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.119 I need more facts in my positionion. 300 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.359 The os are things as libel or, sir, and charges 301 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.559 of false arrest. Perhaps you'll be interested in this, Inspector. 302 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.200 What is it? A letter written by the widow to 303 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:57.279 High London Paramoa and discovered. 304 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:01.680 Quite by accident. Thank you anything else, mister Allan, what 305 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.279 you think might be? There were several things which brother Arthur. 306 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.200 Brought to the attention to the inspector, and these in 307 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:08.599 turn brought Garthy into the presence of the man from 308 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:13.839 the yard list. There's Mammy bef I can get what's 309 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:18.000 all this about your mistress? And a bottle of mistus if. 310 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:26.079 Hit something in the bottle, cut the bottles here it is, sir, did. 311 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.759 Anyone else touch this? Bottle beside Missus Helen. 312 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:34.519 She got the medicine proper. She did watch better than 313 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:35.079 her course. 314 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:39.440 I see, then you are prepared to swear that no 315 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:43.559 one touched the bottle before or after Missus Hammond except. 316 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:50.000 The mess Yes, sir, oh swear sir? You mean in 317 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:52.039 a child like inspector? 318 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.960 Yes, Megir, hadn't you thought of it before the police 319 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.000 gave it? The questioning completed to the moment Inspector Adams gave. 320 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:04.720 It instructions, Sergeant, I don't heaven house sets from top 321 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:05.279 to bottom. 322 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:07.039 Here's a wallet. Get away. 323 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:09.640 The sergeant took a crew and did go to work. 324 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:11.799 Every milk and granny at the old house was seen. 325 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:14.400 Two closet walls were founded in such a secret. 326 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:17.839 Panel's heart stones were pride loose. Even the cold then 327 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.799 was emptied. Sergeant Hall reported back to the inspector. Here 328 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:25.640 it is, say, I'll stick all over the place. It 329 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:28.960 followed it the next morning, I have a warrant for 330 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:35.799 your arrest Missus Heaven. The charge is wilful letter. It 331 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:39.400 was a celebrated trial. The court room in Liverpool was 332 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:43.039 packed with the curious, the cruel, and the very very 333 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.799 few who found some sympathy in their feelings. The newspapers 334 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.079 enjoyed their traditional field day with the lourid scandalous details 335 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:54.759 of the story really pregnant. Details of the case were few, however, 336 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:58.839 simple and contradictory. 337 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.160 Arsenic was found in the possession of the prisoner. She 338 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:04.720 did not deny it with hers. 339 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:11.279 Doctor Davis testified concerning the post morton. I found a 340 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:13.799 little less than half a grain of arsenic in the 341 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:16.680 body he has darted. But would you say that this 342 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:20.920 poison was the cause of death? I would, And then 343 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.960 the contradictions set him. I asked the same question. Doctor 344 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:28.319 Hubert replied, no, I would. 345 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:30.759 Not say so, and certainly not in the case of 346 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:31.400 this patient. 347 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:33.279 Ah, why not? 348 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:36.359 Miss Diamond had. 349 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:40.680 Accustomed himself over the years in taking arsenic in small hauntities. 350 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:41.920 He was used to it. 351 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:46.599 The prosecution countered this with the Liverpool chemist, whom missus 352 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:47.720 Hammond had visited. 353 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:51.039 While her husband was in London. She came in that 354 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:52.039 morning with a list. 355 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.359 The flypaper was not on the list. The chemist had 356 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:58.039 no idea what Ruth Hamid had wanted with the flypaper. 357 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:03.759 However, Doughty did, Yes, Sir. She bought the arsenic out 358 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.759 of the fly pape, borrowed it out whatever for she said, 359 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:10.920 to make something for a complexion. She told me she 360 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:12.920 died about it in America. 361 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:16.319 Sir, And did you darthy ever see her use such 362 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:16.960 a preparation? 363 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:20.640 Nonswir, I never did. 364 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:24.440 Of the defense well. In eighteen ninety two, the accused 365 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:28.440 did not testify himself defense. The accused was permitted, however, 366 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:29.599 to make a statement and. 367 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:36.000 Look, my Lord justice, with your permission, my lord, twa things. 368 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.759 I did soak the flypapers for the arsenic they contained. 369 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:45.119 I made a cosmetic preparation from it, which I learned 370 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:46.319 about from doctor. 371 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:49.400 Henry Maysfield in Brooklyn, New York, when I lived there. 372 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:54.960 I did put clowder into my husband's medicine. He asked 373 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:55.319 me too. 374 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:59.200 This was a preparation he brought back from London, which 375 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:01.200 had helped him times before. 376 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:05.759 But which his doctors year refused to give him. Finally, 377 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:08.559 my Lord, I wish to state that for the state 378 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.440 of our son, for. 379 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:15.720 David's sake, my husband and I had a complete reconciliation, 380 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.279 and on the day before his death, I made a 381 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:22.279 full confession of the terrible wrong I had done him. 382 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:33.000 The jury retired the court waited, the President waited, the 383 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:39.440 crowds waited. Hours passed, then a knock on the locked 384 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:46.319 door of the jury room. Bailey opened the twelve good 385 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:50.160 men and crew file back and the jury boxes. The 386 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:59.519 judge's gabble rights the prodcast performan to rise and face 387 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:05.599 the prison. He told the traditional question, gentlemen of the jury, 388 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:10.440 have you reached a verdict? We have and what is 389 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:14.759 your verdict? We find the prisoner guilty of pre meditative murder, 390 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:22.880 and today the bottle of METU's, the decisive clue in 391 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:27.039 this case, is still to be found in the Black Museum. 392 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.680 Austin Wells will be back with you in just a moment. 393 00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:50.200 Well they didn't hang Ruth Hammond now, despite the fact 394 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:52.359 that public sentiment was so much against her. 395 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:55.799 At the start of the trial, he changed quite drastically 396 00:25:55.920 --> 00:26:00.480 once she had been sentenced to hanging. Letters telegrams poured 397 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.720 into the Home Office and took a London Times, and 398 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:08.359 her reprieve was granted, and after many long years in prison, 399 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:13.039 Ruth Hammond was released. She returned to America to die, 400 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:16.680 there forever silent about the crime for which she had 401 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:21.599