WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:11.519 This is Awson Wells speaking from London. The Black Museum 2 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:17.480 a repository of death. Yes, he and the grim Stone 3 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.399 structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard. He's a 4 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:28.800 warehouse of homicide where everyday objects a kitchen knife, a roller, skate, 5 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:39.759 a violin string, all touched by murder. Here's a thirty 6 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:40.799 two caliber bullet. 7 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:42.280 It's a familiar object. 8 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.679 Brass cartridge case, snow, leaden nose, not very pretty to. 9 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.079 Look interesting this bullet, shargant Notice the back of the 10 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:51.759 cartridge case. 11 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:53.640 Yes, sir, it's for a center fire weapon. 12 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:55.840 The firing pin and the pistol must strike the center 13 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:56.840 of the cartridge right. 14 00:00:57.320 --> 00:00:59.159 But the weapon in which we found this bullet was 15 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.560 a rim fire The firing thin could strike only the 16 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.560 edge of the cartridge. That little fact, Sergeant, saved at 17 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:07.040 least one life. I'd say. 18 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.079 Well today that sensor fire bullet can be seen in 19 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:23.560 the Black Museum. 20 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.400 From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the 21 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.680 London Police. We bring you the dramatic stories of the 22 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.799 crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death, 23 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:52.519 the Black Museum. 24 00:01:52.560 --> 00:02:05.159 Here we are Black Museum, Scotland Yards, museum, Museum of Murder, Allies, death, 25 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:10.439 so orderly, so well kept, Row and row, a macab 26 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.719 record of the violence of many generations. 27 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.080 Each object in its place, each marked. 28 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.000 Tagged carded with name and place and date. Each object 29 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.639 in this room enjoyed in its life one supreme moment, 30 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.800 when the eyes of the world were upon it, and 31 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:33.479 it played its silent part in a case of murder. Anyway, 32 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:37.240 I has a jeweled ring fit for a princess, but 33 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.000 born of a mind like the gorger's dressed the jewel 34 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:45.759 so and a tiny point locks out of fang, dripping death. 35 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:54.400 Shake hands with your enemy shortly thereafter he dies. A bathtub, yes, 36 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.479 a bathtub, white smooth, shining in the dimness. Once a 37 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:01.800 man floated face down in the tub. He slipped or 38 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.039 he had been pushed. Was the mark on his skull 39 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.960 caused by striking his head as he slipped, or by 40 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:08.759 a blunt weapon. 41 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:11.039 In any case, he drowned. 42 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.560 I see the thirty two caliber bullets even here, lying 43 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.159 so quietly, so somble. It's it's ugly. This object was 44 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.599 made for killing. As a matter of fact, he never 45 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:27.439 did kill. That's the story. It began on a London Street. 46 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.120 A dark sedan drove slowly into the stream of traffic. 47 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.319 The three young men in it. One seems quite a 48 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.719 bit younger than the other. Even so, the car continues 49 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:39.439 to cruise above. 50 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:45.240 You've got everything straight? 51 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:45.560 Blood? 52 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:45.919 Sure? 53 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:46.280 Sure? 54 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:47.159 Do you think I'm a goon? 55 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:48.319 You just want to be sure? 56 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:49.439 Kid? That's all? 57 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:51.439 What did we tell you? 58 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:53.479 I'll stay in the car till you wigwag. 59 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:54.879 It's all cleared in our game with you. 60 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:57.439 Hey, there's a chance to part the old. 61 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.120 Bus step fenders now. 62 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.479 I want nobody to ask for your license a turn 63 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:03.759 like this? 64 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:04.360 Many? 65 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:06.319 Sure, sure, just. 66 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:07.159 Kidding in, that's all. 67 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:08.560 What's the matter you edgy? 68 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:09.599 Hold his eyes? 69 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.039 That's me, Yeah, I. 70 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:12.520 Says what we're gonna get? 71 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:14.479 What's it? Let's go. 72 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.839 Two young men leave an automobile stroll up the street, 73 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:24.000 hands and pockets, cigarettes dangling loosely from their mouths. 74 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.680 They walk past the busy jewelry store. 75 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:27.800 Pretty crowded. 76 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.399 Maybe we ought to wait, could be no. 77 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:31.439 Use taking chances. 78 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.600 They stroll a few steps farther on and return start 79 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.480 back right casual. 80 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:38.879 Hey, what's the kid doing? 81 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:40.319 The guy's going into the store. 82 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.800 Come on, a coon must have thought we made a signal, 83 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:46.120 got your gunbody else slow down? 84 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:55.240 Now here we go. Rod, what's the idea you went back? 85 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:55.800 Didn't you? 86 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.600 Never mind? Just do it right? 87 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.319 All right, everybody, this is a hold up. I'm gonna 88 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:00.800 get that ball. 89 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:02.720 Anybody he's guns are loaded. 90 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.639 No, you're going to my store. 91 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:05.759 Shut up? 92 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.480 You quiet. Anybody talks. I'm giving awa run grip the 93 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:10.360 junk on the counters. 94 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:11.639 You're there, stand Phil. 95 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:14.319 I'm button runs the car. 96 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.319 Stop the engine. Many screams shot. 97 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:24.959 Down that storm. 98 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.680 Man, exact the truck, the double pump. We can't get 99 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.560 the car out. He stuck behind that truck. Put a 100 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.399 kid bad. I can't get the car out. 101 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:33.240 I can't hold on. Keep movies stuff you stop, stop, job, 102 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:34.399 the sees stop. 103 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:39.160 Got my way, I got you, I got your Please. 104 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:56.439 Now it's just a fire front, lady. 105 00:05:47.600 --> 00:06:02.319 A man laid dead on the sidewalk. The crowd knelled 106 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:07.319 around him. The black sedan stayed in its place. Three 107 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.600 young men disappeared in the teeming streets. Disappeared completely and utterly. 108 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.240 A few hours later, in a quiet office and scarpenter, 109 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:20.759 Inspector Bowers and detective Sergeant would looked at what they 110 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:21.839 had not. 111 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:22.759 Very much of anything. 112 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.079 Every sergeant knows that descriptions which could be any of 113 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.160 one hundred men and two bullets. 114 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.360 Forty five bullets from the woodwork in the jewelry store, 115 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:31.920 and the thirty two which killed that. 116 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:33.680 Fellow with no guns to go with them. 117 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.240 If those boys were smart at all, they've ditched the guns. 118 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.920 Funny, you'd expect a lot more shooting in a thing 119 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:39.360 like that. 120 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:44.040 They were conserving ammunition. Oh well, I don't know. Circularize 121 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:46.160 the descriptions and what there is of them. That's about 122 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:46.839 all for the moment. 123 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.240 Yes, sir, three men, youngish, white handkerchiefs. 124 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:50.560 Over and that was all. 125 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.319 And where do you start among eight million people searching 126 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.120 for three youngish men who maybe miles. 127 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.680 Away by now? Well, the answer is you don't start. 128 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:01.639 You wait. 129 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.600 You have patience, and sometimes your patience is rewarded, sometimes 130 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:09.600 sooner than you expect. 131 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.439 This is Wilson, expector he's the Cabby who called in 132 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:18.279 this morning. How do you do Wilson? Thanks very much. 133 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.680 Wilson may have something on the jewelry store killing. Well, 134 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:22.160 let's hear it. 135 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:25.000 Wilson will say, I never thought about it, and I've 136 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.560 seen the papers. This morning, all about the hold up 137 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:29.839 and that poor fellow got himself killed yesterday. 138 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.839 Go on, Wilson, Wills, I was taking me. 139 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.240 Came along Queensbury Road, you know, about a block from 140 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:37.319 the place where it all happened. When a fellow with 141 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.600 a white scene around his neck hops on the running 142 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:42.720 board of affair, so I waves him off. Then I 143 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:45.319 see him going to that big building in the brook building. 144 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.720 I think it is a corner of Queensbury and Maidson. 145 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:50.439 You're certain of this, Wilson, Oh, yes, sir. Anything else 146 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.160 I'm not so sure of this, inspector, But I think 147 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:56.399 I saw another fellow round in the building after the 148 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:57.759 one what jumped onto my cat. 149 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.600 Very good, Wilson, Well you may have been quite helpful. 150 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:01.279 Thank you very much. 151 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.319 Thanks, get your head, sergeant. We're going exploring. 152 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.079 The reward of patience, and sooner than expected, but only 153 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.720 a bear and vague beginning. This kind of investigation takes 154 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:20.000 long hours and hard work and endless, endless questions up 155 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.079 and down the hallways of the large office building, in 156 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:23.519 and out of business offices. 157 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.600 Did you notice any commotion in the hall yesterday around 158 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:27.199 three o'clock. 159 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:29.680 Did a man with a white scarf around his neck. 160 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:31.920 Take your elevator. Around three o'clock yesterday? 161 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.080 Did you hear any running or anything like that? Around 162 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:36.159 three o'clock yesterday? 163 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:41.919 On and on upstairs, downstairs. Nothing? No one noticed anything, 164 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.480 nothing irregular, no commotion. How does that is the part 165 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:46.320 or notice anything? 166 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:49.879 Two fellows, one of them at a raincoat. I think 167 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.679 both of them had white rags around their collars. Sort 168 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.360 of your shot of this, Oh, yesterday they seemed in 169 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:56.399 a hurry, sort. 170 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.279 Of Where did they go? Which office? 171 00:08:58.320 --> 00:08:58.600 You mean? 172 00:08:58.639 --> 00:08:59.159 That's right? 173 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:00.240 Well, I wouldn't know, sir. 174 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.759 We went up the stairs just as I was putting 175 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.639 some empty waistcns on the service lift. 176 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:05.919 Did you see them in again? 177 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:06.200 No? 178 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:07.000 You mention it? 179 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.879 Yes, I did, well. On the third floor. It was 180 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.399 I was taking my mop to the hall. One of 181 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.440 them was sort of half sitting on the steer rail. 182 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.960 The other fellow was looking out of the hall window 183 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:18.159 that opens under Queensbree. 184 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:18.360 Sir. 185 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:21.919 They didn't have the white rags, but they were the 186 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.600 same fellows. Anything else, no, sir, not that I remember. Oh, 187 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.840 Pops Saunders might know something, inspector. 188 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:30.799 Oh the Saunders. He drives a van. 189 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.159 He's been making delivers to this place every afternoon for years. 190 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.399 Thank you right, Well, let's go, sardon't Maybe mister Saunders 191 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.279 does know something. We have your address. 192 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.039 They reached the street outside just as a large, rather 193 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:44.200 decrepit truck. 194 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.000 Driven by an equally decrepit elderly man. 195 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.799 Pulled up for the kurtst You pop, Saunders. Let's be 196 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.679 who are you, sergeant would in Scotland yard. This is 197 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:54.519 Inspector Barry's. 198 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:55.120 Yes. 199 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:56.559 Have I done something? 200 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.679 No that you may have seen something that will help us? Yes, sir, 201 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:02.720 were you here at this time yesterday? 202 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.559 Yes, sir, I'm always here this time of day. 203 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:07.919 Well did you notice anyone with a white scarf go 204 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:09.759 into the building running? Perhaps? 205 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:11.799 Oh? Those two? 206 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:15.200 Yes, I did funny thing. They seemed in such a 207 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.279 harry when I met a raincoat. 208 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.080 They came out later. No scars, no raincoat. 209 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.320 Now the search is on for a raincoat. 210 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.559 Scarves, handkerchiefs can go into pockets, not raincoats. The Brook 211 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.720 building swarms with police. Every nook and cranny is inspected. 212 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:44.919 In the cellar in a dark corner. 213 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:47.759 This must be an inspector. Every other raincoat in the 214 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.480 buildings accounted for, not a mark on it. 215 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:52.879 Nothing, Try ripping the lining side, and. 216 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.360 Nothing, sir, except the manufacturer's top tag under the armpit. 217 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.519 Much but a little at any rate. 218 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.919 Check the manufacturer from there to the Jaba who bought. 219 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.720 The lot in which that code was packed, from the 220 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:10.840 Java to the retailer. 221 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.879 It's times like this I thank Heaven for rationing. At 222 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:15.679 least they have to keep a record of the clothing 223 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.120 coupons and the names of everyone who buys anything. 224 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.200 A thin, tenuous trail and a mountain of sales slips 225 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:25.399 to go through, but nothing strikes a chord of memory, 226 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.399 and then the sergeant thinks of something. 227 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.200 Inspector, when they make out these records, don't they write 228 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.480 the last names first? 229 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:38.120 Yeah, you're right they do. Oh well, back over it again. 230 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:44.000 Here, How about this Argent mac Stanley the other way, 231 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:44.919 Stanley Mack. 232 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:52.080 Remember that name, s Argent Stanley Mack. Not a usual name, Yes, sir, 233 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.840 I do. Didn't he testify at a trial about two 234 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:57.679 years ago? He did the trial of Jack Jordston. He 235 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.639 was sent away for armed robbery, first offense, light sentence. 236 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:02.039 Now georgetonn't ought to. 237 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.240 Be out by now, all right, let's get his dossier 238 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.759 over here, Sergeant and then invite him in for a talk. 239 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.159 It may be interesting if nothing else. 240 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:12.320 Well. 241 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:16.240 Today that center fire bullet can be seen in the 242 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:29.279 Black Museum. Who's a long chance? One man buys a raincoat. 243 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.240 This man happens to be a witness at another man's trial. 244 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.039 The defendant is sent to prison for armed robbery under 245 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:40.240 circumstances similar to the case and investigation. The inspector in 246 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:44.600 charge sends for the convicted man's dossier and finds. 247 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.519 Well so Jack Jeordstone was released from prison six days 248 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:53.480 before the Queen's be killing. Let's have the young man 249 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:55.639 into the yarch, are we, Sergeant, you'll be able to 250 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.279 find him easily enough, I think. If not, we can 251 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.159 suspect the flight because of guilt, can't send a pickup 252 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:01.919 order out for him. 253 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:05.799 Jack Georgeton was found found quite easily in London. 254 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.799 Look, you have nothing on me, inspector, and you know it. 255 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:15.559 Maybe maybe not, Sergeant, show mister Georgeton the garment. 256 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.440 It is Georgeton. You recognize it. 257 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.960 There's a million raincoats like that, but not bought by 258 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:22.919 Stanley mack. 259 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:26.240 Uh that coat you know it? 260 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.399 Yeah, yeah, I didn't have nothing against the rain last 261 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.879 week when I got out, So Stan give me a coat. 262 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.399 Oh where did you lose it? I didn't lose it. 263 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:39.600 I never lost nothing except a little time recently. 264 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.879 Yeah, we know about that. I'll figure you did keep 265 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.559 a simple tongue in your head. Georgeton understand, okay, okay? 266 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.440 I said, Well, now, since you didn't lose this raincoat, 267 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:50.120 how is it that we found it? 268 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.240 I uh, I'll loaned it to a fellow. How should 269 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.279 I know what he did with it? 270 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:55.559 Oh? 271 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:56.159 Who had it? 272 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:58.000 I don't remember. 273 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.240 Now you receive a raincoat as a gift against the raid. 274 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.960 Within a matter of days, you'll learn it to someone, 275 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:05.360 But you don't remember to who? 276 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:07.720 That's right, I don't remember. 277 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:11.399 You try him, sergeant, Yes, sir, speak up now? Who 278 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:12.000 had that? Code? 279 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:13.399 I don't remember? 280 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.879 And maybe I can refresh your memory. My coat's hooked 281 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.320 up with a murder? Who had it? 282 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:25.080 I don't remember. I don't remember. Your friend, I don't remember. 283 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.240 How could they make him remember? Finally they let him go. 284 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:30.279 I think I hold him on. 285 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.320 Inspector Bowers said, I want a tail on him, Sergeant, 286 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:36.840 twenty four hours a day. We'll pick up his friends 287 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:38.799 one by one and see where he leads us. 288 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:42.399 One of those friends was a boy named Rodney Hamilton. 289 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:44.159 Let me alone. 290 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.799 I never did nothing. How old are you Hamilton? Seventeen? 291 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:47.519 And you got no right. 292 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.120 We happen to know that you've been away to a 293 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:49.720 reform school. 294 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.720 Hamilton. You were caught snatching ladies purses two years ago. 295 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:54.080 So what I did me time? 296 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.519 You don't keep very good company. 297 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:55.799 Son. 298 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.919 Georgeton has been out of prison about a week. 299 00:14:58.960 --> 00:14:59.919 And we like each other. 300 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:00.600 I'll pick me. 301 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:01.240 I'm friends. 302 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:02.360 Where were you day before? 303 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:02.759 Yesterday? 304 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.639 About two thirty in the afternoon, I am in bed 305 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.000 er sleeping late and I was sick, had a fever. 306 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.159 We can check that, you know, go ahead check it. 307 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:11.639 I was that. 308 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.440 I am in bed all afternoon, no. 309 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.279 Morning, and all night. I was sick. Yes, we know 310 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.120 you said that before, now look here. 311 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:19.399 But it didn't do any good. 312 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:23.840 The boy was obviously afraid, but whether the police or. 313 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:24.960 The many knew it was impossible to tell. 314 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:29.000 Still, the patience of Scotland Yard was rewarded once again. 315 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.840 Her report came in from detectives assigned to follow both 316 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:36.399 Georgetown and Hamilton, and they've been present at a party 317 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:39.519 in a bar given by a third young man named 318 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:43.080 Mattie Canvas. 319 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:47.399 Dot here on canvas, Inspector A thank you, sir. 320 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.840 Nice lad stole a car when he was eleven. Convicted, 321 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:57.080 assault with intent to rob convicted, jewel robbery, convicted armed 322 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:01.679 robbery and assault. Nice. This little trio are three friends. 323 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:03.879 Not exactly do you want Canvas brought in? 324 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.279 Some peers do that? Oh wonder, Sergeant, Bring the other 325 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:09.919 two along, but keep them separated. Don't let any one 326 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:11.240 of them know that we have the other two. 327 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.919 Nothing highly dramatic, mainly routine Scotland yard routine, recognizable as 328 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.799 standard practiced by any policeman in any large city. 329 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:28.120 Bring them in for questioning. 330 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.600 It always helps to have a few facts, facts on 331 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:35.799 which to base the questions. With this in mind and 332 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:40.159 knowing their underworld, Inspector Bowers and Sergeant Wood repaired to 333 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:44.039 that certain bar where Mattie Canvas held parties for its friends. 334 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:47.279 Nothing much here, well they maybe keep your ears open 335 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.320 another point of ail, please very right, Let. 336 00:16:51.200 --> 00:17:02.440 Me sit yourself, Miguel, sit yourself. Oh well down the headshide. 337 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:19.000 Patience frequent the bar. Wait, keep your ears open, don't talk, 338 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:21.559 just wait. 339 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:24.319 Say lady you heah. 340 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:25.279 They picked up natty. 341 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.359 Yeah, and the other two to that kid, Well, I 342 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:31.839 for one age. Sorry, here's a place a bad name. 343 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.319 I mean, kids are out with guns in that pockets. 344 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.799 Not right, Canvas ain't right? That's for sure. That said 345 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.000 o' get bunked out of five thousand quids? Where the 346 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.640 stuff gets mad? Where's the kid like that? 347 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.039 They're rod? Oh, well, so it goes, I will say, 348 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:47.720 not a couple of mines please, miss Oh, yeah, sure. 349 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:54.960 There you are. 350 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:57.640 Do you know a lad name Canvas? 351 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:58.039 Me? 352 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.079 I don't know nobody. How about a kid named Hamilton. 353 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.119 Do you think I'll keep check of everybody comes in here? 354 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.759 That would be difficult. I thought I heard you mentioned 355 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.160 mister Canvas by name. So did my friend here? 356 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:11.039 Any thought wrong? 357 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.799 We don't encoarriage conversation with the other. 358 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.440 No, I don't suppose you do have a drink on us. 359 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:33.440 I'm not certain the iright drinks with cops, mister, More routine, ahead, 360 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:34.599 more routine. 361 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.839 The inspector and the sergeant aft. They left the buyer. 362 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.720 They checked descriptions of the men seen at hold ups 363 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.440 and robberies prior by some months to the tragedy in 364 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:47.960 Queensboro Street. In one case, a description Talid with Nattie Kanvas. 365 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:52.200 Mister Canvas was invited out of his cell and into 366 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:53.920 the Inspector's office. 367 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:58.680 All right, Canvas, you've been identified on the davior's job. 368 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:00.920 You'll do a good long stretch for you. May as 369 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:02.920 well tell us what you know about the Queensbury shooting. 370 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:03.680 I don't know nothing. 371 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.160 Turn King's evidence, Canvas, and you'll get off easily. Otherwise 372 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:15.799 it's a hanging matter. 373 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.519 You can't pin that one on me. I was miles away. 374 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:19.160 I can prove it. 375 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.680 I suppose I told you. The kid's been talking his 376 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:28.079 head off. 377 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:32.000 Rod talk not in your life. It's too scared. Some 378 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.160 of your caddies never out. 379 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:37.720 Oh right, Canvas, if that's the way you wanted, take 380 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.279 him back, Sarteant. We'll give him plenty of time to think. 381 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:46.640 No luck with Georgeton either, But the kid, there's a 382 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:50.680 chance he'd break, just a chance. Inspector took it. 383 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:53.279 Look, boy, your pals are saying that you held a 384 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.200 gun that killed a fellow in the Queensberry hold up. 385 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:57.599 I never had a gun. Maybe they're framing you, lad. 386 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:00.519 After all, you're pretty young seventeen. You won't hang they 387 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:02.319 will so naturally, they say, it was you. 388 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.519 I didn't. I never touched the gun. Member says you 389 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:06.319 did that. You had the thirty two all the time. 390 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:06.880 I never did. 391 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:08.720 They can't say it, they can't, but they do. 392 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:10.960 Both of them told me it looks to us like 393 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.400 they got together to put the job on you. 394 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:15.519 Well, why shouldn't they. They might have to die. 395 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:16.480 There were only two guns. 396 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:17.000 They had them. 397 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:17.920 You've got to believe that you gun. 398 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:19.920 We don't have to believe anything except evidence. 399 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:21.359 If you had the guns. If I told you where 400 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.599 they were, I said it. I didn't mean to talk. 401 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:25.160