Whitehall 1212 · March 16, 1952 · 29 min · 4,036 words
The transcript of “Case of Thomas Applebee”, an episode of Whitehall 1212 first broadcast March 16, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Whitehall 1212 plays Whitehall 1212 free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Whitewall 1212. which I sincerely hope you're not,
a visit to the Black Museum here will most certainly, I believe, serve as a deterrent. Here we have a large collection of murder weapons from the simplest of the most ingenious, and most of them have been used effectively.
Now here's a night still stained with a murdered man's dried blood. You know, the user of that night was hanged. And here's a revolver bullet from a man's brain. The man who fired that shot was Hae.
And the one time was there, sir, this tiny fire, which at the time contained poison, thought to murder her husband. The hangman entered her career, too. And this carton does matter here. The wail of that one, who had tripped to the execution shed for the unorthodox use of it, must murder as a court.
and they die more ignominiously than their victims. And here in the Black Museum lie the instruments that encompass two deaths, the victims and the matter of their own. This innocent tool wants fell into evil hands.
It's all that remains. Our chief inspector Nigel Lawring knows a great deal about this case, number 330220. The old heathens used to believe that their gods were ones who inspired mortals to murder. This god has the bloodiest murder record of them all. Who was that nice of a mask, the god of war? No, no, John. His name is Cupid. He
was the god of love. When Thomas Abecat Appleby married Alma Virginia Farnestock in Canada, he was 70 years old. Alma Virginia was 39. They had both been married before. Her first husband was dead and Thomas Appleby had divorced his first wife to marry the attractive middle-aged widow. The affair had been a nine-day scandal in their Canadian
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