This is case closed, crime stories from the Golden Age of Radio. Whitehall, one two, one two.

This is Scuffland Yard.

The... For the first time in history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the authentic true stories of some of its most baffling cases.

These are the true stories, the plain, unbarnished fact, just as they occurred, reenacted

for you by an all-British cast. Only the names of the participants have for obvious reasons

been changed. The stories are presented with a full cooperation of Scotland Yard.

Research on Whitehall 112 is furnished through Percy Hoskins at the London Daily Express.

The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper.

Listen now to Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of Scotland Yard's famous Black Museum,

for a briefing on case number 270809.

Good afternoon.

I hope you don't think that we're mere souvenir collectors here in the Black Museum.

We do collect articles that have figured in many of the crimes we have solved.

But we have better reasons for doing so than the morbid satisfaction of

gloating over them. They form a kind of criminal compendium, not of how to do murder, but how

murder has been done. And the items we have on our shelves here fall into several categories.

Illustrations of motives.

Demonstrations are methods and means and examples of the mistakes that cause the murderers arrest and punishment.

Of course, we have these souvenirs from other types of cases.

But the reputation of the Black Museum rests largely upon the predilection of the human race for violent and unlawful death.

If you're contemplating this oldest of crimes, bear in mind the fact that here at Scotland Yard, we have thousands of reminders of the

hopelessness of it and change your mind before the hangman says to you,

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