Case of the Strange Bonfire

Whitehall 1212. For the first time in its history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the true story of some of its most baffling cases.

Researchers from Percy, Hoskins of the London Daily Express. Whitehall 1212 is written and directed by Willis Cooper. Now the voice of Chief Superintendent John Davidson, the caretaker of Scotland Yard's famous Black Museum. Good afternoon.

I have here from our file number 198920, a rusted lock complete with handle. Once it was brightly nickel-plated, both handsome and utilitarian, now its beauty has been completely destroyed by the effects of a very hot fire, and its usefulness is ended by the fact that it is locked. Some of its parts are infused by the heat which it endured. It's part of the

right-hand door of a motor car, the door next to the driver's seat. It was locked before the fire. I should like you to meet Chief Inspector Albert G. Clark, who is known as All Clark's The 5th of November, 1605, was the day set by a certain guy Fox to touch off a number of

barrels of gunpowder he had secreted in the vaults under the Houses of Parliament, thereby blowing the members of the Auguste body complete with King James I through the roof. Unfortunately for Mr. Fox and happily for the monarch, a Lord Monteagle learned about the Enterprise and flung Master Fox into a dungeon from which he emerged only to be hanged.

Thus, the principle form of celebration of Guy Fox Day on the 5th of November is the kindling of cheerful bonfires in which effigies of Guy Fox and other gentry are burned to the accompaniment of hilarious noises.