Murder of Mr Street

Wait-haw one two one two for the first time in its history Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the true stories of some of its most baffling cases Research for Whitehall one two one two comes from Percy Hoskins chief prime reporter of the London Daily Express

The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper This is chief inspector John Davidson who was in charge of Scotland Yard's famous black museum Good afternoon Can you imagine mistaking this exhibit here for a revolver or a pistol or in fact for a gun of any kind?

Here, have a look at it. I dropped it. If it had landed on my great toe where that cab horse trod on it in December 1907, well, thank goodness it didn't. Now, I shouldn't think that anyone in this right mind could possibly mistake this for anything, but what it obviously is a hammer.

Yet a large number of persons, some of them policemen, were at one time quite certain that it was a gun. Now I hung it up here on the wall in the year 1929, the same year that Pierre Poynthe Hängmann did as much for the man who used it.

Now this is Chief Inspector Reginald Porter who will tell you how it happened. Reginald? The morning of 11th January 1929, I was handed a telegram which had been sent the night before from Southampton. One thing was obvious to me at once, that Mr. McCormick had very little instruction on the art of eliminating unnecessary words in his telegrams. A good CID detective

Sergeant could have told the story in 20 fewer words, although I agree not so elegantly. In Southampton, a smart young detective sergeant smelling of pears soap and a good grade of hair oil has caught him into the scene of the discovery.