WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:14.320 This is Awson Wells speaking from London. The Black Museum 2 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:19.120 a reposity of dicks. Yes, here in the grimstone structure 3 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:23.000 on the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse 4 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:29.120 of homicide. Or everyday objects a man's necktrye, a woman's glove, 5 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:32.079 a boy's school cap, or are. 6 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:40.320 Touched by murders. Now here's a champagne glass. 7 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:44.280 That's a familiar object, long stem, delicate curve, shining crystal. 8 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.759 This fragile object belongs to New Year's Eve, to weddings 9 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:50.200 and the anniversary. 10 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.039 Funny about things. 11 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.079 Like this sudant funny, Sir, I'd say that one was loaded. 12 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:01.119 I want funny in a philosophical set of Sudan funny. 13 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:04.000 How human beings can take an article of meant for 14 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.439 happiness and use it for. 15 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:12.879 Tragicy Oh, anyway, that champagne glass can be found. 16 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:24.640 Today in the Black Museum. 17 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.640 From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the 18 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.079 London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the 19 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:35.400 crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards. Gallery of Death, 20 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:55.000 the Black Museum. 21 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.680 Okay, we are the Black. 22 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:00.000 Scotland Yards Museum. 23 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:05.799 Murder and the Brace echoes with violent death voices are 24 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.439 hollow here. Whether the hollowness is caused by the high 25 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:12.639 bolted feelings or by the reaction of the human mind 26 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.439 of the atmosphere of this room, the effect is the same. 27 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.199 Everybody who comes here lends the sense of. 28 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:32.280 Fere's natural, because here like death, death cruel, unnecessarily, a vengeful, greedy, 29 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:35.960 silver kind of death brought by one man or one 30 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:39.919 woman on another. This is a record that they studied, 31 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.520 not merely by criminologists, but by every. 32 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:45.080 Students of man's in humanity. 33 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:45.639 The man. 34 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.479 There's an iron skillet's heavy in your hand. The kind 35 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.479 of kitchen you sense of your grandmother is well balanced, 36 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:57.439 quite suitable for frying eggs or real shots, and for 37 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.759 bashing a skull, perhaps a little out of the use 38 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.280 which brought this particular skillet here. 39 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.800 Yes, and here's a champagne. 40 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:13.400 Glass, well designed, graceful. If you place it for the 41 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.800 companion on a silver tray, as Colonel Harry Reid did, 42 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.680 I poper cork, and then fill the glasses as Colonel 43 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:30.639 Harry Reid did. And you might say, as the dapper 44 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.240 colonel did to you, my dear. 45 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:36.479 Elizabeth, to your return and your complete recovery. 46 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.759 I wish I could dream to that wholeheartedly. 47 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.960 Harry, ready I do, well, why not, my dear, You've 48 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.199 been released you all day? 49 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:50.199 Yes, exactly, I've been released, not merely send home from 50 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.599 a hospital, so to speak, after all the hospital I 51 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.400 was in at the. 52 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.919 Windows, Oh, I insist, my dear, that you would touch 53 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.400 glasses with me and think at once. 54 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:01.639 That's no way to talk, are they know? 55 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.840 But Elizabeth, many people have had nervous breakdowns and the 56 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.080 vast majority of them have recovered. 57 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:12.719 Very well, Dear, not to me, to you the most 58 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:18.240 patient of husbands in the world. 59 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:23.920 So they drank the champagne. That all was well. It's 60 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.560 very pleasant, very relaxing, reassuring. 61 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.519 But the world is always too much with us. Since 62 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.680 the colonel finally had to say. 63 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:33.600 Are you resting until dinner? 64 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:36.879 Elizabeth, I have a brief appointment with my solicitor Davis. 65 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:40.160 You remember him, must you, dear? Tonight? Well, it's at 66 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.639 his request. I won't be long. 67 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.000 And the Colonel kissed his wife and the colonel went 68 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:47.279 off to his appointment. 69 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.879 It's six months now, read one way or the other. 70 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.480 The matter ought to be settled. I assure you, Davis, 71 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.079 is nothing to worry about. These things take time, there 72 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.160 being plenty of time. Look red if you don't. 73 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.879 Want to complete the deal, return the five hundred pounds. 74 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.199 But it's not up to me, my client. 75 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.319 Or what client indicate your wedding is to dispose of 76 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.040 the property. My clients paint the deposit in good faith. 77 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.519 We considered the bang on the contlex. We've waited six months. 78 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:18.319 Your five hundred pounds is quite safe. 79 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:18.920 Davis. 80 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.839 You can reassure your client and on my side, we'll 81 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.160 go through the deal as soon as everything is clear. Well, 82 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:26.800 I certainly hope so. My people want to take possession, 83 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.160 and they shall, They shall, indeed and soon. Meanwhile, there's 84 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.360 no reason for misunderstanding between us. 85 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.879 Is there? After all, we live in the same small town. 86 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.879 We see each other constantly here, John, I have often 87 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:41.560 wondered why we don't see more of each other. 88 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:48.600 Oh, socially. That is rather a changeable fellow, the colonel, 89 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:48.959 isn't he? 90 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:55.560 There were other changes ahead, more serious ones, somewhat public notice. 91 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.920 The night our colonel called doctor Ashley to his home. 92 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:07.360 A Dr Esley, good of you to come so quickly, 93 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:08.079 made it sound on. 94 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.680 The rig in channel did it really here this? Yes, 95 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.480 I'm afraid, doctor, really afraid. It's my wife, as she 96 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.600 broken down again. No, she complains of chedrible pain in 97 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.600 her abdomen. I better heear her it once. Yes, this way, pleased, 98 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:26.920 if if you can, doctor. 99 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.800 Yes, she seems need to be as much frightened as 100 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.120 she is in pain. Though what exactly do you mean 101 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.279 by that frightened the world? That her pain is in 102 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:36.079 her imagination? 103 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.639 I see, oh very well, I'll bear that in my 104 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:48.199 gob in here. If you wait outside, General. 105 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:53.480 Pym must die, doctor, I prefer it very well. Now, 106 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:59.759 miss please? Can you? Shall you? Miss? Is the good? 107 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:04.560 And I waited outside the door, up and down, back 108 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:08.360 and forth. He paced, almost as we were once again 109 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:16.240 on God duty. Grim faced tants waited long as. 110 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:22.600 You better come in? Clon quick? Doctor? Is she? I'm 111 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:25.279 a facer. I've done everything I can. 112 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:38.199 A few moments later, Elizabeth Reid was at rest at last. 113 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.360 Tears streamed down the colonel's cheeks, but he was silent. 114 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.639 I seemed nothing to say. The doctor led him away 115 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:49.240 and told him gently. 116 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:53.600 It was acute guesstrits and her heart a hum of 117 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.800 the ministerized hum, and the mortician, I'll send the certificate 118 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:11.360 over natural cozy. 119 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:14.000 There was a well attended funeral. 120 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.399 The flowers were quilty, contributed to the colonel's position in 121 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.160 the town as well as to the memory of his wife. 122 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.360 And then the colonel resumed his life, somewhat more lonely, 123 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:27.000 but still active, telling himself in military fashion as he 124 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.240 went about his small real estate business, and time drifted 125 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:36.480 by one month too, and then one day on the main. 126 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:39.960 Street, A good morning, colonel, Ah David, good to see you. 127 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:45.360 I've hesitated discussing this. Your recent bereavement is on. But 128 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:47.600 don't you think we need to close our deal? 129 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:51.360 Read? Or is yes? Of course, I I'll set his 130 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.360 I'm brother by myself these days. Would you care to 131 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:55.600 join me for tea? 132 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:58.919 Or if it's something stronger one afternoon you say, then Read, 133 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:03.080 I'll be gad to excellent? Then should we say tomorrow? Fibish? 134 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.120 Why up your place or my? 135 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:06.360 Oh mine? Of course? 136 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:07.240 Delighted to have you. 137 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.559 Have a corner man, really excellent. My housekeeper has quite 138 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:14.039 the tops. 139 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:17.159 Thank you. I will almost as if we were a 140 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:21.679 pair of elderly ladies. Deon's calm. Two gentlemen somewhat past. 141 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.879 Middle age, enjoying tea and scones and making ready. 142 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:25.559 To discuss business. 143 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.600 In fact, they did discuss business, the five hundred pounds 144 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:34.279 deposits and defending deal. John Davis went home quite satisfied. 145 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:45.519 John Davis went home and a little later called doctor Ashley. 146 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:52.360 I'm understanding doctor by my stomachs like like cast Iron always. 147 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.240 Has been, now suddenly this. None of us are quite 148 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.919 as young as we used to be. Even cost Iron 149 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.480 can wear a thin he's anything out of the orphanage 150 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:07.080 on today, yesterday? No, no, nothing, hes some scungs for tea. 151 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.519 That batter may have been a bit wrenched him. 152 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:14.559 And chasing urdative fresh over Kurr of reads and reads. Yes, 153 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.600 is why we have a little business to discuss, he 154 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:18.279 asked me over. 155 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:21.600 It seems quite lowly since his wife passed on, as 156 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.320 why went mostly we keep him company and night of you. 157 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.320 Well, let's just take the description. I'm leaving you rest 158 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:32.919 today too. Fu'll be all right. What's wrong doctor? Oh nothing, 159 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.320 just a quirk of memory. Oh, how so you're symptoms 160 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.759 and missus Reed's wrong the same, Nothing serious about it. 161 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.600 Gos odd that we should have two similar. 162 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.639 Cases in such close juxtaposition a town like this, adoptor 163 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:47.799 gets to know most of you. 164 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:53.240 Because the doctor said, nothing serious, It's just an interesting coincidence. 165 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.279 And in a day or so John Davis is up 166 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:57.039 and about. 167 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.000 Aside from a slight tenderness and his abdom and he thought, 168 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.279 no after effects. 169 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.480 All was well, all. 170 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:09.360 Was quiet, Everyone was his courteous Silph, including Colonel Reeds. 171 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.399 Oh no candy, And from the colonel, how decent of it? 172 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:23.399 Here? It is daughter the same rappings that came in 173 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:24.000 nice meeting? 174 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:24.480 Bossed? 175 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:26.000 Don't you care for candy? 176 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:26.240 John? 177 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.440 You haven't eaten much? As an obit that I don't. 178 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.120 I did offer a piece to the charmer at the office. 179 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.679 You see one's listening to the charm Eh is that 180 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.320 the way you fred a gift with the hope you 181 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.600 are sufficiently recovered to enjoy this. Henry reed of the 182 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:44.720 decent of him. That's what I thought until the charum 183 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.279 was taken with pains and reaching an hour office. 184 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:51.000 He ate the candy? Are you suggesting anything? John? 185 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.279 That would be foundrous at this stage would miss nothing 186 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:57.559 to it? John, That couldn't be the colonel lying quiet 187 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:58.519 at the private office. 188 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.919 He did rather well following his wife's death and her will. 189 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:03.919 You know he never had any money of his own 190 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.360 to speak of. The former military men rarely do. 191 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.399 Yes, it might be interesting. 192 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.240 I don't practically no laboratory well on my own sometime, 193 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.000 but I have a little equipment. I time I handled 194 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:17.399 a bit of chemical analysis. 195 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.000 John, I'm curious about the contents of that. 196 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:31.919 Props of candy. Use him to be as well as I. 197 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.480 The doctor was an astrodical, to say the leasts. 198 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.519 He took his time setting up his equipment, preparing reagents, 199 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:40.720 making ready for his pride of a test. 200 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.879 Meanwhile, John Davis ran into his ground the colonel on 201 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:49.519 the streets, John, good to see you. How are you hurted? 202 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.639 You're looking vets well that way. 203 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.679 Kevin joined me for another attack of indigestal men. 204 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.200 To day. The Champagne glass we've been talking about can 205 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:04.399 be seen, as you. 206 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:26.879 Might expect, among the other exhibits in the Black Museum. 207 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.159 The Colonel and John Davis planted quite amicably on the street. 208 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.919 Davis watched the smart military walk the ramrod straight back. 209 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:38.919 As the colonel paraded into his own business office. John 210 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.279 Davis shook his head, Sam, I didn't seem quite plausible 211 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:47.000 at this night, and might just might be something quite 212 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:48.759 different than what he seemed. 213 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:53.759 Like. 214 00:13:53.879 --> 00:14:01.759 The afternoon, the celephone rang in John Davis's office. 215 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:09.759 Yes, let you don't This is Harry, Yeah, Harry, Oh yes, yes, 216 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:10.279 of course. 217 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:18.159 How are you very well? You quite well? No, please, sorry, 218 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.919 old man. I I can't this evening, but perhaps in 219 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:21.399 a day or so. 220 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:33.840 Oh, do go by bye that evening. 221 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:38.240 Davis had a previous appointment with doctor Ashley. It makes 222 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.960 your flaboratory, this little operation. 223 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:49.440 It is the mark sense or ask me interesting, yes, 224 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:49.799 isn't he? 225 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.840 Particularly since I found that every piece of candy in 226 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.600 your gift box, head asked mcginney. 227 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.000 Good jord. 228 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:09.519 Arsenic, you see, is a cumulative poison. The person may 229 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.600 have a tolerance for quite a large amount of it. 230 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.559 It usually fails to pass through the human system. It accumulates, 231 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.039 and dip by dip, the fatal dose is build up, 232 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:26.879 until one day the victim dies. Doctor Ashley explained all 233 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.080 this to John Davis. Finally, John grasps the significance of 234 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:31.799 the facts. 235 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:34.840 Each piece of candy would never follow the ordinary stomach 236 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.279 or the cast iron type such as you both that 237 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.840 you have. Most people could eat a piece of two. 238 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.360 And nothing would happen. But if, as it may. 239 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:47.159 Have been intended, you would eat most of the candy yourself. 240 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:52.159 Well you follow me again, follow you, doctor, and a 241 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.080 step ahead of your But exactly what that, Steff is, 242 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.799 I'm not sure. I think we need expert help the 243 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.200 local constabulary is said expert to help ware from the 244 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:17.879 CID Scotland Yard. It is a clear coljunt letter assigning 245 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.200 the situations Doctor Ashley and John Davis knew it. It 246 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.720 was addressed to the Home Secretary, the gentlemen of the 247 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.480 British Government responsible to the police force. 248 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.320 In general and you course. 249 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.559 The letter reached the desk of Inspector Charles in Scotland 250 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:35.759 Yard following a set routine. Inspector Charles showed the communication 251 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.200 to his immediate assistant to tect. 252 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.480 You, Sergeant Hatch, Well, nothing else for it. You and 253 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.639 I will have to take a small trip to the country. Frankly, 254 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.080 I want mine. I can use a touch of country. 255 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.840 They came into the quiet town unobtrusively, two men on 256 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:55.679 a walking tour vacationists. They caught up at the inn 257 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:02.480 towards sundown. They strolled about the town casually. They turned 258 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.119 in at the gate with its little sign announcing that 259 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:07.599 doctor Ashley had his dispensary there. 260 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.240 Once, however, within the doctor's office. 261 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:14.160 Now then, doctor, perhaps you'd let start and hatch and 262 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:14.839 I have it. 263 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:15.519 From the beginning. 264 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:19.200 Well, my entrance into the situation came shortly after missus 265 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:23.880 Reed returned from the sanitarium. She'd been ill, mentally ill, 266 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:28.359 help us breakdown. Rather more then she'd been certified insane. 267 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.960 She was discharged as being quite stable once again. 268 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.680 And you were called. In my professional. 269 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.640 Capacity, I found her past help acute guestritis, or say 270 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.480 seemed at the time, But it doesn't seem so now 271 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:42.559 you understand. 272 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.000 Him sac that I have no facts at least on 273 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:45.519 that sign. 274 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.559 I merely analyzed the boss of Chanda received by John 275 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:49.960 Davis shortly. 276 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.920 After he'd been taking Neil doctor. Would this Teronel Reed 277 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.039 benefit from from mister Davis's death. 278 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.599 There'd been something about a real estate and the deposit 279 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:01.240 paige quite a large sum. 280 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.759 I believe mister Davis can give you the details. 281 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.319 One final question said, who had Missus Reed committed to 282 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.839 the institution in the first instance? 283 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:10.000 Why? 284 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.799 I believe the husband did. But the records will be 285 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:14.400 available to you, of course, of. 286 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.839 Course, Oh, thank you, doctor, if we need you. 287 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:20.079 By the time they left the doctor's office, Inspector Charles 288 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:24.279 and Sergeant Hatch felt they had heard an interesting, circumstantial story. 289 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.559 The next uppatrially was John Davis's home. 290 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.599 You have no idea, gentlemen, what a relief it is 291 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.039 to have police officers of your caliber on the job. 292 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.240 Thank you about the candid and the card on the box. 293 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.079 Do you have any definite reason to believe the colonel 294 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:43.559 wants you well out of the way. There's a matter 295 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:47.000 of five hundred pounds he either will not or cannot explain. 296 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:52.279 And doctor Ashley mentioned Missus Reed's will. He is curious 297 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.400 about that there was one will made out entirely in 298 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.400 favor of her children by her first marriage, a will 299 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:02.079 which was accepted an executed, was in the Colonel's handwriting, 300 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.680 but signed by Missus Reed and produced subsequent to her death. 301 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:10.839 You find that interesting. I take a partant I expect 302 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:11.839 you do as well, sir. 303 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:16.359 Quite mister Davis, do you think it might be possible 304 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.359 to exhume Missus Reed's body without the matter of becoming 305 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:21.079 common knowledge in the whole town. 306 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:31.160 So the men from Scotland yard accomplished the almost impossible. 307 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:33.400 Armed with the proper. 308 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:38.720 Takers, first tools and dark lanterns, they supervised the removal 309 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.319 of the body at night. No one the wiser except 310 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:47.079 for necessary officials. This feat completed. They waited quite quite patiently. 311 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:49.119 The government analysts called in. 312 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:51.440 The report was brief. 313 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.440 Inspected Charles ready to doctor Ashley. 314 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:59.160 Examination reveals the presence of four grains of arsenic more 315 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.119 than a fatal day jose, and the largest amount of 316 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.079 the poison. 317 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.000 I have ever found in human remains. 318 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:10.079 Oh, that said, doctor, and I didn't recognize the symptoms 319 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:11.839 acute guest citis. 320 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:12.480 I call it. 321 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.079 Why should you have recognized them, sir? Are they say 322 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.640 murder of any kind? There is hardly a common occurrence 323 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.559 in your practice. Well, sergeants, since our warrant, it's all 324 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:23.559 in order. It begins to appear that a search of 325 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:26.359 Colonel Reed's premises may be next on the agenda. 326 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.680 Now the pretense of the working Joe was completely discarded. 327 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.160 It was Saturday and the sleepy little village was just 328 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.839 about disturbing itself. The inspector and the sergeant walked a 329 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.519 short distance from the end of Colonel Reed's place of business, almost. 330 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:50.960 Directly after the David's office. 331 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:59.680 The sergeant tried the door, Not lot, sir, A lot 332 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.519 go all in these parts would arise more suspicion than 333 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:04.000 not let go in? 334 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:04.359 Shall we? 335 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:15.200 One file cabinet, one risk, telephone chair for visitors. 336 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:17.920 Can't do much of a business, but they'll say not, 337 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:21.640 Let's get to it. The search was quite thorough. 338 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:23.680 The desk was emptied of its contents. 339 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.319 These were replaced in an orderly fashion, and nothing extraordinary. 340 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:32.680 Year sir, h what do you make of this, sir? 341 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:38.160 Champagne glass the oard of the file cabinet, todd sall 342 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:43.200 I hold it aside, sir, Yes, that well interesting. The 343 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:47.039 taste of sediment apparently it was never washed after the 344 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:50.480 produce the last time anything else in there? 345 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:55.519 Sudden? Oh, what's going on here, Colonel read? 346 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.119 Yes, more than the point you to identify yourselves and 347 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:03.599 your business here. If any inspector Charles cid my identity card, 348 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:08.119 let a Sargeant hatch I see, I assume you have 349 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:09.240 a warrant for this search. 350 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:14.359 We do right here, Donnel, very well, go on with 351 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:14.880 your work. 352 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.039 May I ask why you were keeping the champagne glass 353 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.519 and the file cabinet a memento to. 354 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:21.319 My poor wife. 355 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.440 We drank from it, that is, if she did about 356 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:26.559 a week before she passed away. 357 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:31.559 A nice gesture. Finally, say so, and still with the 358 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:33.319 trace of the sediment at the bottom. 359 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:36.960 Okare for sir. It'll be a pity to have the 360 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:38.759 glass break after all this time. 361 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:43.400 Sorry, aw could not meet him brush against it like that? Yes, 362 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:46.079 wasn't it all right? 363 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:48.359 Sergeant? You can open the desk door the colonel just 364 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:50.240 closed and see what he put in it. But you 365 00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:54.079 said you'd feed your pardon, colonel. I'm head quite enough 366 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.559 of this. These paper packets went in here a few 367 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:00.680 minutes ago. Inspector, how many you would have? Twenty? 368 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:06.319 I'll take one, just thank you. Why pad, Well, this 369 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:08.480 wouldn't be arsenic, would it? 370 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:12.400 Cuddal? Not only would be it is weird. Well, as 371 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:15.559 you can see, I'm wearing my gardening coat. Ordinarily I 372 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.160 do not come into the office on Saturday, but something 373 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:18.680 came up. 374 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:21.720 I've been planning an experiment in my garden, hence the 375 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:26.319 arsenic A garden an experiment with twenty packets of arsenic. Yes, 376 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.880 my lawn is pig with dandelions, roughly two dozen of them. 377 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:31.880 I plan to drew a small hole at the root 378 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:34.799 of each weed, pulling the arsenic in each of those packets, 379 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.039 and kill each dandelion individually, rather than take the chance 380 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.359 of ruining the whole lawn. Sorry, Colonel, it's a good story, 381 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:44.720 but rallah far fetched, particularly since you try to ridge 382 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:46.920 us off of the packets before we search your person, 383 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:51.359 and particularly sence the charge pending is wilful moder of 384 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.640 your wife by arsenical poisoning. 385 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:56.640 But this is ridiculous. Someone is poisoned. 386 00:23:57.000 --> 00:23:59.839 Keep that champagne glass eight before Colonel Read succeeds in 387 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:03.720 watching it. Yes, Colonel Reed, you are under arrest the 388 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:06.839 charger's mother. I must warn you that anything you may 389 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:07.599 be saying. 390 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:12.559 I will not him. You'll see it in all elisia, 391 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:14.839 I'll make out. 392 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:18.599 Colonel, you've made several mistakes, not the least of which 393 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:22.319 was your attendant John Davis, and your preservation of this 394 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:28.240 glass a sentimental gesture, but rather silly. My bet is 395 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:29.880 the sediment in it will turn out. 396 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:30.359 To be arsenic. 397 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:34.480 You must have been very sure of yourself, Colonel, to 398 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.559 leave this glass unwashed, very sure of yourself. 399 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:39.839 Indeed, bring him along sergeant. 400 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:43.759 I think he'll come quietly now. 401 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:49.079