Ep.67 The Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Great Gold Robbery

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series, initially airing internationally between 1949 and 1951. Selected episodes finally came to a US radio network for a brief run much later in 1957 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. The series boasted well over 100 episodes. The Secrets of Scotland Yard was an independent production of the Towers of London syndicate in England for world wide distribution. Each week, an audience of anxious radio-listeners tuned in to hear t...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie K. And it's
0:23.1	my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For today's episode, I bring you the
0:28.7	Secrets of Scotland Yard, episode titled The Great Gold Robbery, where a routine shipment of three
0:35.7	boxes of gold was stolen or replaced with lead.
0:40.0	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:45.7	Thank you for listening. How do you do?
0:59.0	We call this the story of the great gold robbery.
1:34.3	On the night of May the 15th, 1855, gold coins and bars were delivered in three iron-bound boxes to London Bridge Station to be dispatched by the Southoutheastern railway to the continent. These boxes had been sealed and weighed by the carriers.
1:38.3	At the railway station they were placed in safes that were considered impregnable
1:42.3	and transferred to the Folkestone boat train under care of the guard. Each safe had two locks, and duplicate keys
1:50.7	were in the position of trusted servants of the railway company, at London Bridge, at Fokston,
1:56.7	and with the captain of a channel boat.
2:03.6	At Bouloyne, the safes were opened,
2:06.6	and as a matter of routine,
2:08.2	the boxes were weighed before being sent on to Paris.
2:13.7	I cannot understand it.
2:15.6	This number two case,
2:17.0	it weighs 40 pounds less than it should do according to the paper.
2:20.3	Maybe they make a mistake in London. What about the other boxes?
2:23.3	They weigh about the same, except for the fourth box, that weigh a little more.
2:28.3	There must be something wrong with their scales in London.
2:31.3	Anyway, they are still up all right. What had we better do?
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