Black Museum-32-The Pink Powder Puff

This is Orson Welles speaking from London's from the Black Museum, a repository of death. Here in the Grimstone structure on the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects, a piece of carbon paper, a tin ash tray, a broken tea cup, all are touched by murder.

Now here's a woman's powder, though. Faded pink. We'll open the glass case and take it out. There you are, sir. Perhaps Madam would like to take it. Now you draw back. The lace is pitiful and torn across the puff itself as an ugly stain.

Once it was dark red, but its progress through the biological laboratory has left it bleached and pitted, where small areas have been teased out and examined under the microscope. This sample belongs to blood group three.

Are you sure? White. Group one is here as well. Blood groups one and three. That means there were two victims. Yes, the faded pink powder puff was used to gag two victims before they were brutally murdered.

That's why it can be seen today in the Black Museum. From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yard's Gallery of Death, the Black Museum.

In just a moment you will hear the Black Museum starring Orson Welles. Oh, the Black Museum starring Orson Welles. museum. He has beyond these storm walls, London,

throbs and is alive, but within these rooms there is silence and death. It's very quiet. Freeze of death masks. The masks of criminals of bygone days suspended grimly under the ceiling. We pass slowly along the rows of murder exhibits, not always frightening in themselves, but terrifying when considered in relation to their history. They are matchbox. Here's a nail