WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:14.119 This is Orton Wells speaking from London. A black a 2 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.320 museum of death. 3 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:20.399 Yes, here in the grim Stone structure on the Thames 4 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.480 which houses. 5 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.320 Cotton Yard, is a warehouse. 6 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:30.039 Of homicide where everyday objects a fountain pen, a cufflink, 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.719 a high heeled shoe, all touched by murder. 8 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.560 Here's a sky horn. 9 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.560 And ragged the faded tartan, the cheap reproduction of the 10 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:52.320 honorable colors of the Stewarts, red with green blue crossings 11 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.640 and a double over check of white and yellow. The 12 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:01.600 guard belonged to Walter Hoffman, Pierssky, known to the police 13 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:07.280 and his friends in the underworld as the Pike. There's 14 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.959 no doubt about the scarf being his property, Superintendent. 15 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.159 He was wearing it when he was sent to Dartmore 16 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.000 ten years ago. 17 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:15.879 The description saler of him exactly. 18 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:19.200 It's all written down in the prison property book, even 19 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:24.760 to the papelofe. So the pikes are made and yet 20 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:29.439 him they did, and all because of a scarf appropriately 21 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.519 known in cockney circles. 22 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:31.920 As a choker. 23 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:38.719 The pike applies his choker to human throats, the throat of. 24 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:40.519 The driver of a post office. 25 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.319 Then the pike pulled the choker too hard. It was 26 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:51.239 instrumental in convicting him of murder, and that's why it 27 00:01:51.319 --> 00:02:03.439 turned its place here in the Black Museum. 28 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.400 From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the 29 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.800 London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the 30 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:11.360 crimes recorded. 31 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.159 By the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death, the 32 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:25.240 Black Museum. 33 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:31.120 Here we are from the Black Museum. Beyond these gray walls. 34 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:36.960 The mighty roar of London never sucks in its crimes. 35 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.759 Come with me out of the freeze of death masks, 36 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.560 the masks of criminals of bygone days, suspends it grimly. 37 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:45.960 Under the ceiling. 38 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.599 Come to our right and left, rolls of murder exhibits. 39 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.479 Each one carefully labels that. 40 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:58.039 Cut glass sensory, subtractive, even known. 41 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:03.439 I even take its play on matter's stressing table. So 42 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:06.520 we stopping the label written under it. 43 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.759 I asked, been used to spray anesthetic over the faces 44 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:17.719 of helpless women as a prelude to murder? No sickly 45 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:21.840 a roma now, So we squeezed the ball, except for 46 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:27.879 its grim associations. The fragile exhibits, insignificant, easily broken. I 47 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.879 thought it was strong enough to hang a man who 48 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:37.319 used it. There has a brass candlestick over. 49 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.199 Their taper to go with it. Now here we are, 50 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.479 here's what we're looking for, the fabous tartan. As I 51 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:46.840 taken out of the showcase. 52 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:49.639 I asked you to come with me back to the 53 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:54.960 time when this scarf was new fifteen years ago. Walter 54 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:58.080 Keetsky bought it from a storeholder in one of London's 55 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.840 famous street markets, Kurt Lane. 56 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.800 Yes, so I'll take one of the stars, mister, Right. 57 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.840 Sir, he's wishing my word. What's your plain temple's temeral? 58 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.840 But damon on a cloud, old genuine tonton today jump 59 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:14.159 from the. 60 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:16.199 Iron right, all right, I've bought it already. 61 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.879 Don't need to give me that stuff. I'll take this one. 62 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.879 It's the Stewart and fetterla that you cannot do not 63 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.800 offer the car, not five off the con and chip 64 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.120 of the price, Thank you very much. Can it get 65 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.759 just such temples from honest John mackay? 66 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:36.079 Can it for the honest? John continued his honest trade. 67 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.920 The pike went about his own particular business was less 68 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.279 exhausting than John's, and it was worked from a public 69 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:43.920 call box. 70 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.279 In professional circles. They called it the hospital trick. 71 00:04:52.079 --> 00:05:01.079 Hella, is that missus Peterson speaking the London hospital? 72 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:02.120 Here in missister sitson. 73 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.199 There's no need for a mediate alarm, but I'm sorry 74 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:08.800 to say that your husband is met with a serious accident. 75 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:11.720 What happened? 76 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:13.639 He was knocked down by a bus in the White 77 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.319 Chapel Road about half an hour ago, A mean, crude trick. 78 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.360 But more often than not had worked. 79 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.279 While the stricken woman hurried to the hospital to find 80 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:23.920 the husband, who of course is not at it all. 81 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.040 The pike would visit a house with the coast crave 82 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:28.920 to help himself whatever he could lay his hands on 83 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:30.240 and get out before the. 84 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:31.519 Bewildered woman returned. 85 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.720 And you noticed that the pike could almost camoufage that accent. 86 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.079 This gift gave him a confidence which was almost his undoing. 87 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.120 One time when he and some friends. 88 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.439 Were removing the entire contents of the house while the 89 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:52.600 owners were away on holiday, What about. 90 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.240 The piano pike? 91 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:53.920 Do we take that? 92 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.639 Of course, we take everything you would think of moving 93 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:58.000 out and leaving a piano yard. 94 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:08.560 They get this bill, okay, boys, heads, oh Craig in 95 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:09.759 a phone, what. 96 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:10.439 Don't we do about that? 97 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:11.160 Did it? 98 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:11.920 Ring us face. 99 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.120 Maybe someone's seen the van. I said, he's checking up 100 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.399 the glasses. Yeah, yeah, go easy, don't worry. 101 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:19.680 I don't know my jobs that. 102 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:27.040 Are Oh yeah, hello, No, I'm howefully sorry. 103 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.079 He won't be back until about seven o'clock. 104 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:30.480 I'm his brother in law. 105 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:32.399 There. 106 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.680 Oh, Julie's just got up half an hour. 107 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:35.720 Can I take a message? 108 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:37.000 Yes, I think you can. 109 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:38.480 I'm a runner. 110 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:39.680 Who the plaser? 111 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:39.959 Are you. 112 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:41.720 Good? 113 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:42.040 Boys? 114 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:43.000 Let's get out of here. 115 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:53.160 So the piano was left behind after all, but Frank 116 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:55.879 got away with most of the household belongings and observed 117 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.879 not only were his operations becoming bold of us yet 118 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.399 planned his action care but he even knew that missus 119 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.040 Wilson's first name was Julie, but he didn't know she 120 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.240 had a brother. That must have shaken him, because from 121 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:12.959 then on he changed his tactics. The Pike entered the 122 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.800 Motor Rackets, a racket which was to take him, in 123 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:22.720 turn from Dartmoor Prison to the scaffold. But in his 124 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:24.800 early days as a motor seif. 125 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.959 There was still a trace of strange humor about his work. 126 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.199 The padlock car was a case in point. 127 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.959 Ojay, how okay? 128 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.240 Do you tell me me he wouldn't go reaching for 129 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:52.439 the gunman parking. 130 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:52.879 Wolves, don't you? 131 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.839 I'm sorry, park is reserved. A relax and listen to me. 132 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:58.600 I've got a job for you. 133 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.079 I'm off of it. Okay. 134 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:02.240 We who pays the rent? 135 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:04.199 Many going in for the small shop? 136 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:05.959 Well, this is a small job I'm offering you. 137 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.040 What are you bussing in to the Bank of England. 138 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.240 It's a simple matter of knocking off a nice new motor. 139 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:19.519 Well, what's the open? It's this way. A car belongs 140 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.279 to a fellow named Lambert who lives at fourteen grays Dyke. 141 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:25.720 Presently see he can't get it into the Gama's beside 142 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:26.399 the house, and a. 143 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.279 Kind of had been too big? Why didn't measure it before? 144 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.920 He concerned? 145 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.080 He knocks the car up at night and I will 146 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.120 change it. Do you pick a head of key? 147 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:38.080 Oh? 148 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:42.120 Nice work here? What do you want me on the job? 149 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:43.120 For you yourself? 150 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.600 Oh there is a little complication. Oh I thought there 151 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:46.960 would be. 152 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:48.559 It's been a lamb. But there's like a mother with 153 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:50.879 a child over this car. He fixes it to a 154 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.519 lamb pushtip and I put two big padlocks and a 155 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.240 double chain. 156 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:55.759 When it doesn't put a nappy on it. 157 00:08:57.639 --> 00:08:59.159 What do we do? We take the let post as 158 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.440 well as the car before I'll tell you. Are you 159 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.240 in with me or our pikeman and listen to what 160 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:05.639 I tell you. 161 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:09.759 In the early hours of the following morning, the Pike 162 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:12.799 and his assistant went along to grays Jack crescented and there, 163 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.320 sure enough changed at the lamp post outside number fourteen 164 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.799 was a fine new motor car, its celluloss and chromium 165 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.639 work glinting invitingly under the lamplight. 166 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.919 We can clean up four fifty on this, and all 167 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:31.919 we've got to do is to remove the back wheel, 168 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.120 which is chained of a lamp post. We could on 169 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:35.080 the stair and went away. 170 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:37.039 Okay, Pike, let's get quickly. 171 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.639 The offending wheel was removed from the axle and left 172 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:44.559 still chained to the lamp post, and by the light 173 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.320 of the helpful rays from above, the spare wheel was 174 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.279 bolted on. The tools were replaced in the boot, and 175 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.120 the two men climbed into the car. 176 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:54.600 I hope that if. 177 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:55.679 Mission key of yours work. 178 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:55.960 Spot. 179 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.320 Of course it works, I tried to add last night. 180 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:00.279 Oh good feel and here we out. 181 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:10.639 I told you it was going to be easy, didn't I. 182 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:13.759 His money for Old River. 183 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.399 And I are good if you are key. 184 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.039 Yeah, it just didn't mean I when you need any more, 185 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:20.480 I'm a man. 186 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:24.360 Ordofiesky pulled his tart and scarfs snugly around his throat 187 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.960 and agreed that he would certainly keep his assistant in mind. 188 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.039 The cat itself was taken to a garage. 189 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.320 Where its numbers and appearance were carefully changed, and in 190 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.960 due course found its way by devious routes back to 191 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.759 the open market. The Pike, of course, had to split 192 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.519 the profits, which hurt him, so on his next job 193 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.480 he decided to work alone. And it was the next 194 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:51.000 job which put him on a long, long walk, which 195 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:52.600 was to finish on the scaffold. 196 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:59.480 Now, what's the number of the couch? Here's this works part. Lady, 197 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:00.519 you're in the money. 198 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.000 It all depends on how good I can sign on 199 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:03.480 the phone. 200 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.000 A couple boss itself. 201 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:24.519 Here we go, Oh, brain spells. 202 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:29.759 Hello brings. 203 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:35.840 Yes, my name is Maurice Blue of seventeen Grandfoot cot. 204 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:40.639 Oh, yes, I know big pockets. That's right. 205 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:44.360 I am staying here with a friend, the Major General Louis. 206 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.799 He tells me that you have a new Roles coupee 207 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:52.200 in your showroom. Yes, I yes, well, I'm anxious to 208 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.320 take such a car back to the continent with me, 209 00:11:54.440 --> 00:12:00.159 but time is dressing. Yes, if someone could bring the 210 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:01.559 car I should like to see. 211 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.120 Are you sure that is not too much trouble? No, 212 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:10.480 thank you, hurry, thank you. I should be waiting for you. 213 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.000 Fifteen minutes later, the car drove up to the block 214 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.879 of flats. The driver salesman got out and went inside. 215 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.200 Entering the lift, he went up to the third floor, 216 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:21.679 after the door of number seventeen. 217 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:24.960 Needless to say, the occupier had never heard of either 218 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:26.600 Maurice Bluett. 219 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.159 Or Najor General Lewis. 220 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.759 But while the questions and explanations sorted themselves out, well 221 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:36.960 that Yessky was already driving the luxury car toward the garage, 222 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:41.919 where practiced hands were waiting to completely change its identity. First, 223 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.919 what the Pike did not know was that he had 224 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.840 provided the police with a vital clue and was to 225 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.399 lead him first to prison and then, by reason of 226 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.039 the tartan scarf. 227 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:56.399 To the gallows. 228 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.840 But the scarf was yet to earn its place, of course, 229 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:18.799 among these strange exhibits here in the Black Museum. We 230 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:24.879 returned to Walter Chevski, known as the Pike, elated that 231 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:29.519 the success of his confidence Scartrick he made a handsome 232 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.240 prophet on the rolls, and despite the fact that the 233 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:35.840 police subsequently traced it, they never traced the theft back 234 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.200 to the Pike, not until he tried the same operation again. 235 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.480 Certainly changed the district, but as is so often the 236 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:47.399 case of the regular criminal, he developed regular habits and 237 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:51.320 the routine served up to the local garage was almost 238 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.240 exactly as before. 239 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.720 Leslie and it says you got the straight eche in 240 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.799 the showroom. I'm most anxious to get car back for 241 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.240 the continent with me, but kis pressing. 242 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:11.519 If you're sure that it's not too much trouble, that. 243 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.240 Is most kind. Thank you excellent, But. 244 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.000 You wouldn't think it was so excellent from your point 245 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.320 of view if you knew what was happening at the garage. 246 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:19.960 Fight. 247 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:28.000 Hello, give me the police. 248 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:30.240 Is that Scott in yard? 249 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:31.000 Yes? 250 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:35.879 Information, Listen, my name is Slader. I run again on Carl's. 251 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:36.639 Brook Street, No. One. 252 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.559 A few weeks ago the local police warned me about 253 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.240 a carfeo who worked at Telephone Drink as his head 254 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.480 was going to take cars around to fake addresses for inspection. 255 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.720 It might be him or it might be Dingling, but 256 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:51.480 he asked me to take a car around to twenty 257 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.679 one Coast in court All Street. 258 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.000 On the advice of Scotland. The artists later took the 259 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:58.960 car to Ghost and Court to make it easier for 260 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.679 the seats. He he left the doors unlocked and went 261 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.759 into the building. When he was safely inside, the pike 262 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.399 left his telephone box and walked smartly over to the 263 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:09.080 waiting motor. 264 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.399 There were just two things he didn't know. 265 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:17.320 First, an ignition wire had been snipped, and second he 266 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:23.399 was being watched. You'll never start until that broken wires 267 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:28.200 and mended bike. You're wasting your time. You've got to 268 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:32.360 waste a lot more time too, seven years. 269 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:36.559 To be exact. Hello, you're han't a bit of start 270 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:37.000 in trouble. 271 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:38.440 Hello officer. 272 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.919 Yes, I don't know what happened. 273 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:45.000 Here, said I start things for Celoconsta. 274 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.919 Here a gains two of you, and there's a lot 275 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:49.240 more at the end of the roads. 276 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:49.879 The board. 277 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:51.519 You hop out of that and let us see whether. 278 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:52.279 We can't get the car go. 279 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:55.240 I can manage all the same. 280 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.799 You might let us have a go for you. Okay, 281 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:02.000 that's the idea. I use the order of the car. 282 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:03.799 Hold his doors. 283 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:07.600 Yet they tell you. 284 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.840 He told hi quit go alrights everyone? 285 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.639 How is he got to his door? Bright his face right? 286 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.519 Take us mend of the scene. What's his name? I'm 287 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:22.639 talking very well. 288 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:25.840 I'm charging you with grievous bodily harm and resisting arrest 289 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:26.919 for the attempted. 290 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:27.360 Theft of this vehicle. 291 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:32.720 There may be further charges. There were further charges, including 292 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:37.360 the theft of the Big Roles. Walter Jessky alias the Pike, 293 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.519 had played the same game once too often. In the 294 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:41.919 search of his flat in the East End produced more 295 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:43.840 evidence of his very career in crime. 296 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.240 The police been waiting for him to think his first 297 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.879 mistake the time he'd done it. If the Old Bailey pleaded. 298 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.559 Guilded over a hundred crimes, and there were hundreds more 299 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.480 with which he was never charged. He was sent to 300 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:00.039 prison for seven years, and immediately on his reception his 301 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.639 personal belongings were added in the property book, and he 302 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:08.079 was wearing the tartan scarf which later was to hang him. 303 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:14.279 Had gray seven half collar, sixteen brown one scarf, red background, 304 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.279 green and blue striped white. 305 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.599 And yellow overchecked that cant it? 306 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.759 Do you know that puk cell I bought it from him? 307 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:24.279 Petticoat lane taking his word for it. 308 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.279 Oh, it's a small chair five. 309 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:31.440 Inches from one corner, roughly patched and put that down. 310 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:36.200 Boys, I want to choose you of you, I'll. 311 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.400 Be retired by then one pair letter gloves size ain't 312 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.160 one fair black socks, ten brown shoes me The Tartan 313 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:49.000 scarf had been duly entered, and little did the retiring 314 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:52.960 prison officer dream that his hastily scribbled details would have 315 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.599 be subsequently brought up as key evidence in. 316 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:56.519 A murder trial. 317 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.480 But Tifsky signed the list of his personal him. For 318 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.920 the next seven years he was a guest of His 319 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.359 Majesty's government in the most famous prison in England, Dartmoor. 320 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.880 But in nineteen forty six justice had run its course, 321 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:16.079 the pike was given back his personal properties, which included 322 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:20.960 the Tartan scarf. Of course, all due resigned for though 323 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.759 he was released upon a battles guard London. Time passed 324 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.000 and he added to his lawful wages by meager pickings 325 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.279 from the black markets. And more time passed until one 326 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.960 day the inspiration came to him like a bolt from 327 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:37.400 the blue. 328 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:40.160 He molded over in his mind. 329 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.680 He carried out the research, and not until the plans 330 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.240 were cut and dried did he put ed Javison in 331 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:47.839 the picture. 332 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.039 This is going to be the cleaner baby. 333 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:52.240 Yeah, what is your pike? 334 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.759 We're going to stick up a pust office vans, a 335 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:58.079 poutful fast and. 336 00:18:58.359 --> 00:18:59.720 Standing in her chef selling papers. 337 00:18:59.799 --> 00:18:59.880 Right. 338 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.680 I had a big post office in the West End. 339 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.039 Every night I watched the mail bags coming out and 340 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:05.079 going into the vans. 341 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.680 Arounround six o'clock. And the other night I hired a 342 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:08.599 car and followed one. 343 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.119 It comes through Western News the park lane. 344 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:13.720 Did you say you hired the car? Yes? What about it? 345 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:15.039 Never mind? 346 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:16.839 There go on and I had it out three nights 347 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.079 and I found the vans don't change their root. It's 348 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.559 the news in beside that's off a bit of traffic, 349 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:21.920 you see. 350 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:23.359 Yeah, yeah, they're good board. 351 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.640 Now the news are very dark, badly bombed and. 352 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:26.720 No residents with our cancy. 353 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:29.640 Yeah. All we have to do is get a fast 354 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.319 car and wait down until the last dan comes through. 355 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.720 How many are there? Only two? We draw our car 356 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:36.480 out on the path of the second one. As if 357 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:38.559 we were going to back into the galla. See the 358 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:39.319 van stops. 359 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.759 We fixed the two men and fill up our car 360 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:43.480 from the back and bring the top back. 361 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:44.559 Here salt to the salt. 362 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:47.519 How I like that? 363 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:49.319 Yeah? 364 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:51.519 Yeah, here we can bring it through the back way. 365 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:53.400 When do we do it? Well? 366 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:56.079 I think our most comfortable or a bit to night Friday? 367 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:57.079 What about a car? 368 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:58.359 You can leave that to me. 369 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.079 And Walter Peirsky ran through the forward. He wanted a 370 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.480 fast car in a hurry. He applied the mesadine you. 371 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.640 We worked a telephone trick on the young and trusting 372 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:14.359 motor salesman who duly delivered a shining, high powered. 373 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:17.480 Limousine to a block of flats has He disappeared. 374 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:18.519 Into the entrance full of expectation. 375 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:21.759 The pike drove off rapidly to Braston News for his 376 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:23.000 partner was waiting for him. 377 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.200 The timing was perfect. As the car starts, the first 378 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:28.200 post office van was already approaching. 379 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:38.519 Okay, get there, done it in the council. The second 380 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:39.960 one might be more than a minute to sobid. 381 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:42.200 Because ten o'clock brought tight onto us. 382 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:49.759 How did you get this sparass in hand stand? 383 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.319 Pick safe to leave him in the back of the luggage. 384 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.039 No, nothing can get by. 385 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.839 Now, what happens if something charged to get through before 386 00:20:58.880 --> 00:20:59.680 the van or arts? 387 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.599 Wait for it didn't come back another night, didn't necessarily 388 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:05.400 it's this. 389 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:08.319 It's a van. We're going to be all right. 390 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:10.440 Nobody about couldn't. 391 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.039 Get up? Yeah, keep your tin tucking the car. 392 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:18.880 Like me, pretend to be putting the car. 393 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:26.240 But could a push? 394 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:27.920 Sorry it musn't leave a van. 395 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.680 Oh well, look in that cake. 396 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.119 I want to do about trying yourself tend body. 397 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:35.440 If you could ring this number for us and you 398 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.359 get to your own destination, it's it's my again. Lock 399 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:39.440 them send a breakdown for you. 400 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.039 That's the idea? Or I am I doing that for you? 401 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:43.119