Black Museum-18-The Hammerhead

This is Orson Welles speaking from London, the Black Museum. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide. Well every day objects, a picture frame of coating a file folder, a baby buggy, all are touched by murder.

Here's a hammerhead made of past steel, well shaped, extremely familiar, the front end, blunt, solid, designed for driving nails, the clogged prongs of the rear for pulling nails, very practical, very, very, very familiar, and so very, very, very lethal.

Odd one, this, wasn't it, Inspector? Just a little extra patience, a little extra routine work cross. That's one way to look at it, sir. My preferred to remember it as the case which began with almost two dozen disappearances and wound up with one killer who used a hammer with purpose.

Well today that hammerhead can be seen here 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. Now the Black Museum starring Orson Welles. Here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yards Museum of Murder. Beyond these walls the Thames seeds with a commerce which is life to London within these walls where some the river's dampness exudes from vaulted stone.

There's quiet. There's sinister quiet. The kind of silence which inevitably surrounds objects touched by horror and fear. As he lies death, behind glass doors, peaceful inanimate objects, on deal tables. The authorities have provided suitable identification in labels and neatly-legged cards, the motives, actions, and the reasons why these objects rest here now were all provided