WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 This is Orson Welles speaking from London. 00:03.000 --> 00:12.000 The Black Museum. 00:12.000 --> 00:19.000 Here in the gravestone structure of the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide. 00:19.000 --> 00:35.000 Where everyday objects, a flower pot, a coffee cup, a curtain rod, all are touched by murder. 00:35.000 --> 00:41.000 Here's a shilling. This is a familiar object, a shilling. It's a coin of the realm. 00:41.000 --> 00:45.000 So much silver alloyed with harder metals for purposes of wear milled edged. 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 Engraved with the face of a British sovereign. Very familiar object indeed. 00:50.000 --> 00:51.000 It's a lucky piece, all right inspector. 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 Lucky for you, Bob. 00:53.000 --> 00:55.000 That's just what I mean, sir. 00:55.000 --> 01:11.000 Shillings don't buy much these days, but this one bought plenty. 01:11.000 --> 01:31.000 Now the Black Museum starring Orson Welles. 01:31.000 --> 01:38.000 Well here we are in the Black Museum. Scotland Yard's Museum of Murder. 01:38.000 --> 01:45.000 Now here's a small radio, made for entertainment, for obtaining all the sounds that reach out through the ether, through your ear, sing for joy, for pleasure. 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 But note the little wires protruding here, connected to the switch that turned this little sound box on. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 The man turned that knob, as was his habit. 01:54.000 --> 01:58.000 The little extra wires conducted current through an explosive. 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 The man died. 02:00.000 --> 02:07.000 Later he was followed to death by his murderer. 02:07.000 --> 02:12.000 Oh yes, here we are. Here's the shilling, subject of our story. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 Some tarnished still, gleaming silver. 02:16.000 --> 02:22.000 Without a doubt it passed through many hands, reposed in pockets and purses. 02:22.000 --> 02:30.000 And then one day, a telephone rings. So many things are heralded by that sound. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 This one rings in an office in the Yard. 02:33.000 --> 02:38.000 Two men interrupt a desultory conversation, one of them picks up the instrument. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 Inspector Graves office. For you, Inspector. 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Thank you, Sergeant. 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 The inspector listens briefly, acknowledges the message, hangs up the telephone. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 Well, well, well. Trouble, sir? 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Not yet. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 That's an interesting bit of information. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 Remember Joey Barth? 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Dartmore, isn't he? 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Not after the night. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 Oh, is it that long since we sent him away? 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 Time off for good behavior. He gets out in the morning. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Hmm, wonder if Brother Davy knows. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 Same idea across my mind. 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 How do you suppose it feels, Sergeant, to know your brother is getting out? 03:09.000 --> 03:12.000 When you've taken over his business, bar, band and bottle club, 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 and your brother believes you framed him into Dartmore? 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 There's a word for it, sir. Uncomfortable. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 That, of course, is an understatement, particularly when it's well known, 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 both to the underworld of London and to the police, 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 that Brother Joey has sworn to get Brother Davy as soon as such action is possible. 03:28.000 --> 03:32.000 Now, obviously, no self-respecting police force appreciates murder. 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 Follows them at certain precautions, must be taken. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 Sergeant, will you arrange for a 24-hour detail to stay with Brother Joey 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 from the moment he leaves the hospitality of Dartmore tomorrow? 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Yes, sir. 03:42.000 --> 03:47.000 And advise the station house, which covers Brother Davy's rather disreputable club, 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 that Davy is expecting company? 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 Yes, sir. 03:50.000 --> 03:55.000 I'd rather like to be there, you know, when Joey tells his brother he wants the club back, 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 and his share of the earnings of these past six years. 03:59.000 --> 04:07.000 Yes, it must have been quite a meeting. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 It took place, of course. No question about that. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 In fact, no attempt was made to prevent it. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 The police knew when it happened. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 They knew exactly when Joey Bart walked past the uniformed doorman into the nightclub in question. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 They saw reported to Inspector Graves. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 It was some 45 minutes later that his telephone rang once more. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Inspector Graves, office. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 Detective Smythe here. Is the inspector available? 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 Just a moment. Smythe, inspector. He's on the Bart matter. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 I'll take him. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Yes, Smythe? 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 I'm in Davy Bart's office at the club, inspector. He's dead. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Where's Joey? 04:39.000 --> 04:43.000 Gone, sir. We saw him go in. We didn't see him get out. 04:43.000 --> 04:50.000 No, a self-respecting police force does not appreciate murder 04:50.000 --> 04:55.000 when the murder is committed while policemen are on watch outside the scene of the crime. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 It is appreciated even less, if possible. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 Therefore, action is required. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 General alarm for Joey Bart. The description is available. 05:04.000 --> 05:05.000 Yes, sir. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 Close that club and hold the customers and staff until I get there. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.000 Let's go, sergeant. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 All the resources of a great police department spring to life, 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 and soon the inspector and Sergeant Maxwell are at the scene, 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 viewing the body of Davy Bart through the hole in his chest. 05:18.000 --> 05:24.000 Yes, that's Bart all right. All right, Smythe, let's have it. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Well, that's just the way we found him, sir. Sprawled like that. Gun near him. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 Nothing's been touched except a check for fingerprints. 05:30.000 --> 05:31.000 Pictures been taken? 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 Yes, sir. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 Colonel been here? 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 Yes, sir. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 All right, take him away. Sergeant? 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Very good, sir. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 Print on the gun. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 Only the dead man's. Just the one set. They're his. 05:42.000 --> 05:43.000 Medical report? 05:43.000 --> 05:47.000 Shot at close range. Powder burns. At the point three eight automatic. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.000 I can see that. Anything else? 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 Well, there's a wall safe. It was searched. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 What's this? 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 It's a shilling, sir. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 What's it doing here? 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 It was lying there on the desk when we got in, sir. 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 The lights were on and it was shining in the lamp. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 Quite clear, wasn't it? A killing. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 An ex-convict disappeared, open and shot, simple. 06:06.000 --> 06:11.000 Still, the evidence must be collected with a view toward the eventual trial. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 You're George Lyons. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Yes, sir. 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 You have a record. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Well, I went away once. Three months. 06:16.000 --> 06:17.000 Attempted robbery. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 Since then? 06:18.000 --> 06:19.000 I worked for Mr. Boss. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Doing what? 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Oh, sort of his assistant. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Yes, I know what you mean. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 All right, what happened here tonight? 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Well, Joey came here and the boss told me to let him in. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Joey told the boss he needed money. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 The boss said he didn't have any. They started to argue. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 That was when the boss told me to wait outside and I did. 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 Hear anything? 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Oh, the place is soundproof, inspector. It's a nearer thing. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Why did you come back inside? 06:41.000 --> 06:46.000 It took a chance. Seemed like an awful long time when Joey didn't come out. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 I found him. The boss, I mean. 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 What do you know about this? 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 Hey, that's the boss's lucky piece. 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 When Joey asked for money, the boss took it out of his pocket 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 and told him it was all the money he had on him. 07:00.000 --> 07:04.000 That's when Joey said, I ought to kill you for that. 07:04.000 --> 07:11.000 Only your life ain't worth a shilling. 07:11.000 --> 07:16.000 Build a case. Interview the employees. First the doorman. 07:16.000 --> 07:19.000 Well, I was kind of surprised, inspector, 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 but Mr. Bart said let Joey in the club when he showed up. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 Why? 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Well, everybody knows, sir. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 Joey thought Mr. Bart framed him to get the club away from him. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 So you let him in? 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 So I let him in. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 See him leave? 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 No, sir. He must have gone out the back way, through that door. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 It leads out to the kitchen and the dressing rooms. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 There's a rear exit, sir, out in the alley behind. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Now it's the turn of the kitchen help. 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 The man in the best position to notice anything is the second cook. 07:45.000 --> 07:49.000 Yes, sir. That's my position, opposite the door. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Did you see anyone go by tonight? 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 Only waiters and the girl in the show. 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 The girl in the show? 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 Yes, she has a dressing room in the hall. She sings. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 Her name? 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Miss Fair, Mitzi Fair. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Get the girl, Sergeant. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 Yes, sir. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 You were just stationed all evening? 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 The chef, he called me over to taste his dressing. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Only once. All the rest of the time I... 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 Yes, then you must have missed anyone who went through the hall during that time. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 It was only a minute or two. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 That would be enough. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 All right, leave your name and address for the constable on view. 08:21.000 --> 08:24.000 The henchman Lyons saw and heard nothing. 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 The doorman was too far away. The kitchen help were too busy. 08:27.000 --> 08:33.000 Still everyone seemed to have known that Joy Bart was there that night, everyone, including the girl in the show. 08:33.000 --> 08:36.000 You sing in the floor show, Miss Fair. Is that it? 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 Well, I am the show, you might say. Or was. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 Yes, was. The club is closed. You'll need another job. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 Thanks for the two weeks notice. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 We can do without that. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 What do you mean, I am the show? 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Well, I sing. With the piano. When the band rests. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 There's no line, no comics. The space is too small. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 I see. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 What's your background, Miss Fair? 08:58.000 --> 09:06.000 It was the usual shabby story, the early ambitions, the voice that failed to make the big time, the small jobs to make a living in the eternal hope for the break. 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 Then the steady work in the club. 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 Any particular reason why Dave Bart kept you here so long? 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 If you mean what I think you mean, there was nothing like that. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 Did you know his brother? 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 Well, only here. David talked about him. I came here after David took over. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Your dressing room is out there, off the hall. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 If you can call the 6 by 8 rat trap a dressing room, yes. 09:27.000 --> 09:28.000 Seeing a stranger tonight? 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 Not tonight. 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 Other nights? 09:30.000 --> 09:35.000 Maybe. Maybe not. And if I had, I'd know better than to talk, Inspector. 09:35.000 --> 09:44.000 Davey operated within the law, as far as I know. But I've been around, Inspector. And if I knew anything, chances are my life wouldn't be worth that shilling. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Never see it before. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 Looks like any other to me. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 I'm told it was Davey Bart's lucky piece. 09:50.000 --> 09:56.000 Oh, did? Well, I wouldn't know. With me, a shilling is a shilling, and they don't come my way easy. 09:59.000 --> 10:05.000 But today, the shilling can be found in the Black Museum. 10:05.000 --> 10:17.000 In just a moment, we will continue with the Black Museum, starring Orson Well. 11:05.000 --> 11:28.000 Inspector Graves waited in his office at Scotland Yard for the report he knew was inevitable, that Joey Bart had been run to Earth. This was routine. Meanwhile, he sifted facts with Sergeant Maxwell. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 Nothing to it, Inspector. It's Joey. It couldn't be anyone else. 11:31.000 --> 11:37.000 Say that in court and a smart lawyer will prove it could have been anyone of a dozen people. Reasonable doubt, that's all. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 But Joey said he'd get his brother once he got out. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 That's not evidence, and you know it, Sergeant. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 There's plenty of evidence of the gun, for instance. 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 Davey's gun, registered with only Davey's prints on it. 11:46.000 --> 11:50.000 The doorman saw him go in. Lyons was there at the beginning of the fight, the open sale. 11:50.000 --> 11:55.000 With nothing stolen. At least plenty of money in it, and Joey came for money. 11:55.000 --> 11:56.000 He left by the back way. 11:56.000 --> 12:05.000 Well, no one saw him. No one saw him go out. They could have missed someone else coming in. Our case is full of holes, Sergeant. It's not the kind I want to go into. 12:05.000 --> 12:19.000 You see, it's one thing to be certain in your own mind that someone committed murder. It's another thing to prove it in court, where your facts are subject to attack by lawyers, subject to the workings of twelve minds in the jury box, subject to the judge's interpretation of reasonable doubt. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 The inspector knew this. 12:21.000 --> 12:26.000 The telephone again. Perhaps this time. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 Dave speaking. 12:28.000 --> 12:39.000 Smythe here, inspector. We've found Bart. He's holed up in a tenement in the East End. 409 Ellison. One of those places cut up into one room flatlets. He's in the third floor rear. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 Set the cordons, Smythe. Seal the place. Don't go in until I get there. 12:43.000 --> 12:58.000 The quarry run to earth, his hole sealed front and rear by the cordon of police. The inspector arrives. 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 All under control, Smythe. 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 Yes, sir. He won't get out the back way this time. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Good enough. Let's go in. 13:04.000 --> 13:10.000 A small tight group gathers around the inspector. Smith, Maxwell, several uniformed constables all around. 13:10.000 --> 13:18.000 They enter the ramshackle building, start up the rickety stairway. Somehow this place escaped the holocaust of Hitler's bomb. It's old, dirty, dangerous. 13:18.000 --> 13:24.000 The landings are illuminated by fitful light from flickering yellow electric bulbs and fixtures that once held gas burners. 13:24.000 --> 13:31.000 At the third landing, the group stops. Splits up. Each man takes his station one to each side of the doorway. 13:31.000 --> 13:35.000 The officer with a gun in position to shoot off the lock on the scaly door. 13:35.000 --> 13:40.000 Inspector with Sergeant Maxwell and Detective Smith facing the doorway. 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 Here they go. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 Who is it? 13:46.000 --> 13:49.000 You know who it is, about. Police. Open up. 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 Come in, gentlemen. Come in. 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 Check him out, Sergeant. 13:56.000 --> 13:57.000 Yes, sir. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Nothing odd of you, inspector. No weapon. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 Very well. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 You could have told her that. No guns for me, inspector. 14:05.000 --> 14:11.000 I'm glad you got here first, though. I thought maybe it was some of Davie's boys with the same idea you have. 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 But I didn't kill him. Not much sense killing the goose with the golden eggs, is there, inspector? 14:17.000 --> 14:22.000 They took him to the yard. Held for questioning, the record said. 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 The questioning was sharp and to the point. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 What did you get from your brother? 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 A hundred pounds to start. 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 That was all? 14:29.000 --> 14:33.000 I argued first, but I got good and saw. Told him his life wasn't worth the shilling he threw at me. 14:33.000 --> 14:34.000 We know about that. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 Yeah, Georgia Lions were still there. 14:36.000 --> 14:41.000 After that, Dave threw him out. Then I told Dave I could prove he'd framed me. 14:41.000 --> 14:42.000 He acted like he believed me. 14:42.000 --> 14:45.000 Told me I'd be a fool to take the club back after the way he'd built it up. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 Said he'd cut me in for plenty. 14:47.000 --> 14:51.000 He went to the wall safe, took out a hundred quid and gave it to me as a down payment, sort of. 14:51.000 --> 14:54.000 Of course I took it. And took his shilling, too. 14:54.000 --> 14:57.000 Told him he'd get his luck back when I figured he was going to be a regular on the payoff. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.000 You took his shilling? 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 Yeah, here. That's it. He had it since he was a kid. 15:02.000 --> 15:07.000 See that nick in it? He got that putting it on a railroad truck so the train could run over it. 15:07.000 --> 15:10.000 Sergeant, bring Lions and the fair girl down here. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 Yes, sir. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 You see anybody in that back hall about? 15:15.000 --> 15:20.000 Nobody. Dave said to go out that way and I did. I wanted a little privacy, you see. 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 Your boys were with me all the way to the club from Dartmoor. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 You hear anything in that hall? 15:24.000 --> 15:28.000 Only the pans in the kitchen. Now look, Inspector, I didn't kill him. 15:28.000 --> 15:32.000 Why should I? He was paying off. Nobody kills a guy who pays. 15:32.000 --> 15:37.000 Maybe. Maybe not. Outside, Bob, and wait there. I'll see you again later. 15:40.000 --> 15:44.000 An accommodating ex-convict, to say the least. And willing to talk. 15:44.000 --> 15:49.000 Willing to talk his head off. The inspector was puzzled. This was not part of the usual pattern. 15:49.000 --> 15:53.000 The puzzle seemed deeper when Mitzi Fair told him. 15:53.000 --> 15:58.000 That shilling? No, that's not Davies. Davies was the one on the desk. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 I watched him play with it lots of times. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 You're certain of that? 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 I'm sure. Positive. 16:03.000 --> 16:07.000 And the puzzle seemed deeper still when George Lyons said. 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 Yeah, I remember now. That Nick in the shilling. 16:10.000 --> 16:15.000 Hey, Inspector, if Joey had this shilling with him, who'd put the other one on the desk? 16:15.000 --> 16:20.000 Know something, Lions? The answer to that question could be very interesting. 16:20.000 --> 16:23.000 Very interesting indeed. 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 A whole new avenue of inquiry suddenly opened up. 16:31.000 --> 16:36.000 Suddenly became possible that Joey Bart had not been the last person to see his brother alive. 16:36.000 --> 16:40.000 It's a matter of who is telling the truth about those coins, Sergeant. 16:40.000 --> 16:45.000 If Lyons and Bart are, then the girl is lying. If the girl is honest, then Lyons and Bart are both lying. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 How do we find out, Inspector? 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 We take our time and we let Joey go for the time being. 16:50.000 --> 16:54.000 With a continuous watch on him, of course. Arrange for it, will you, Sergeant? 16:54.000 --> 16:58.000 I want a little quiet. I've got some thinking to do. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.000 The Inspector had his peace and quiet briefly. 17:08.000 --> 17:14.000 Shortly thereafter, he adjourned to the padlock nightclub with Sergeant Maxwell and Detective Smith. 17:14.000 --> 17:18.000 I saw him to provide wall-to-wall carpeting. I hate tearing up floorboards. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Well, it helps for soundproofing. 17:20.000 --> 17:21.000 How are you coming along the wall, Smith? 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 Nothing, hollow. Soundproof tiling under all the draperies. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 Hello, here's something. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 Back of the couch, Inspector. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 Bobby pin, blonde. 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 The singer's a blonde? 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Too bad she's not the only blonde in London. 17:33.000 --> 17:37.000 If she were, we'd have to prove she dropped it after Joey left this office. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 Nothing doing on the walls, Inspector. Next? 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 The desk. Take it apart if necessary. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Yes, sir. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Dave Bart looked too honest, Sergeant. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 There's a reason for soundproof offices. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 And if there's any record of that reason, it'll be here, someplace. 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 Well, the girl said something about visitors' back door visit. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 I know she did. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 Hello. Here's something. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 A false bottom to this drawer. 17:59.000 --> 18:05.000 It measures six inches deep on the outside and only four and a half on the inside. 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 Sliding panel? 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 Probably. Sounds hollow enough. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Ah, here it is. 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 The bottom slides back when you press this nail head. 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 A couple of letters here. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 The record book. 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 Good work, Smith. 18:21.000 --> 18:24.000 Well, Mr. Bart was methodical. 18:24.000 --> 18:29.000 Record of payments to the witnesses who swore his brother into prison. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 Income from various enterprises. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 Letters? Well, well, well. 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 Enough there on the girl to keep her working for free the rest of her life. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 To say the least. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Then it's the girl, Inspector. 18:40.000 --> 18:43.000 Or Jerry. Or both. Or neither. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 Lions? 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 There's a great deal on him, too. 18:46.000 --> 18:51.000 His 90-day sentence seems to have covered up a small item which could have meant 10 years. 18:51.000 --> 18:55.000 Apparently several people were interested in the sudden death of Mr. Dave Bart. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Shut the drawer, Smith. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Leave everything as it was except for the papers. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 We'll take those. 19:01.000 --> 19:06.000 And as we leave, Sergeant, suppose you forget to snap the lock on the front door. 19:06.000 --> 19:07.000 Understand, Sergeant? 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 Yes, sir. 19:08.000 --> 19:13.000 It was neat. Neat and simple. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 The bait, of course, was the contents of the drawer. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Three people were interested in what it contained. 19:18.000 --> 19:22.000 Given an open padlock, the opportunity to search. 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 The magnet, which was the letters and records in that desk, 19:25.000 --> 19:30.000 should draw at least one person back to the room where someone had killed Dave Bart. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 And left a shilling on the desk. 19:32.000 --> 19:37.000 The inspector waited. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 With him, Sergeant Maxwell and Detective Smith. 19:40.000 --> 19:43.000 A dozen assorted detectives and constables. 19:43.000 --> 19:48.000 They waited in the silent, darkened nightclub behind the door with its open padlock. 19:48.000 --> 19:54.000 They waited in the dark hallway near the kitchen, among the piled up tables and chairs in the main room. 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 They waited in the echoing, empty club. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Waited for the sounds they knew would come. 20:00.000 --> 20:08.000 Sounds which did come when the safety of night shrouded the street outside. 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 The door, Inspector. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 I heard it, Sergeant. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 Crouched in the darkness, they heard the footsteps. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 Light, tentative. 20:18.000 --> 20:21.000 Then bolder, more confident. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 As eyes became accustomed to the gloom. 20:24.000 --> 20:28.000 A moment later... 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 Another one, sir. 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 Quiet, Sergeant. 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 The first intruder was aware of the second. 20:36.000 --> 20:40.000 More quickly now, the footsteps came into the main room of the club. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Crossed the dance floor. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Suddenly the second person broke into a run. 20:44.000 --> 20:50.000 Caught up to the first. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Ah, thought you'd come back, eh? 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 Tried to pin down me, did you, with the sick and shilling? 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 You listened outside the door, didn't you? 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 I came back when I came through. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 All right, Smith, the light. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 What's all this? 21:02.000 --> 21:03.000 All right, Bob. 21:03.000 --> 21:06.000 Miss Fair, we'll take over now. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Smart coppers, eh? 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 Sitting in the dark, waiting, eh? 21:10.000 --> 21:11.000 Take him over, Sergeant, take him over. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 I told you once, Inspector, no guns from me. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 She's got one, though, in her bag. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Tried to sock me with it. 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 Well, Miss Fair, why did you plant that second shilling? 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 I knew George was in there. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 We joined me. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 There's crack about the shilling. 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 And after George left, I wanted my letters. 21:28.000 --> 21:31.000 David may be miserable enough with them if we argued. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 He tried to threaten me with his gun. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 I grabbed for it and it went off. 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 I thought if there was a shilling, you'd think it was George. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Ah, a woman. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 Every time it's a woman. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 Never mind, Bob. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 You can tell that to your friend. 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 Miss Fair, you're taken in charge. 21:47.000 --> 21:54.000 And the charge is murder. 21:54.000 --> 21:59.000 And today, the shilling, which was the main clue in this case, 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 can be seen in an honored position in the Black Museum. 22:03.000 --> 22:25.000 Horson-Wells will be back with you in just a moment. 22:25.000 --> 22:53.000 Thank you. 22:53.000 --> 23:17.000 Now here in person is Horson-Wells. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 There was no premeditation. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 That was clear. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 And certainly there was provocation. 23:22.000 --> 23:26.000 Mitzi Fair went away convicted of manslaughter. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 Joey Bart eventually reopened the club, 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 which had been his property in the first place. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Seems to be going straight. 23:32.000 --> 23:36.000 Only time and the careful eye of the Metropolitan Police 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 will know about that. 23:38.000 --> 23:42.000 Meanwhile, the shilling, contributed by Joey Bart, 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 remains in its customary place in Scotland Yard 23:46.000 --> 23:49.000 in the Black Museum. 23:49.000 --> 23:53.000 Until next time, if we meet in the same place for another story 23:53.000 --> 24:08.000 about the Black Museum, I remain as always obediently yours. 24:08.000 --> 24:12.000 The Black Museum, starring Horson-Wells, 24:12.000 --> 24:16.000 is presented by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mare Radio Attraction. 24:16.000 --> 24:20.000 The program is written by Ara Marion with original music 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, 24:23.000 --> 24:45.000 produced by Harry Allen Towers. 24:45.000 --> 24:49.000 The Black Museum, featuring Horson-Wells, 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 is presented by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mare Radio Attraction. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 The program is written by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mare Radio Attraction. 24:54.000 --> 25:01.000 The program is produced by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mare Radio Attraction.