Black Museum-33-The Post Card

This is Orson Welles, speaking from London. The Black Museum. A repository of death. He has here in the Grimstone structure on the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard. It is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects are dictionaries.

Denographers' notebook, a clothes hanger, all are touched by murder. Here's a postcard. It's a familiar object slightly soiled and it's passage through the mail. usual cancellation over the stamp, Nordra Address, 29th St Paul's Road London.

The message? Oh yes. On the message side of drawing, rather well done. For the rising sun. Rather a conventional representation, isn't it, Sergeant? Yes, sir. Conventional, still a rather unconventional matter. Murder? Yes. Yes, it is unconventional.

In his art, I've often wondered why they held so many executions at sunrise. why they end lives at the beginning of the day. Anyway, that postcard today with a rising sun on it can be seen among the other exhibits 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 Well.

Black Museum starring Orson Well. In the Black Museum, Scotland Yards Museum of Murder.

Yes, here lies death in a variety of forms swift or slow merciful accrual death this year. Laid out remembered in detail and perhaps waiting to strike again. Here's a typewriter. This is an instrument of death.

Yes? Worthy of the Black Museum, definitely. The criminal care of vicious planning that went into its use till a person who received the letters written on this machine in desperation took her own life. There's a child's toy, a tiny metal aeroplane.