Case of the Black Gladstone Bag

Right Hall 1212. For the first time in history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the authentic true stories of some of its most baffling cases. These are the true stories.

The plain, unfundly names of the participants have for obvious reasons been changed. The stories are presented with a full cooperation of Scotland Yard. Research on Whitehall 1212 comes from Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express.

Stories for Radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper. Chief Superintendent John Davidson will brief you on this case. Number 381-397. Good afternoon. This Gladstone bag is one of my exhibits in the Black Museum back there.

Fabrically ordinary Black Gladstone bag vintage I should say 1920. Now it doesn't unlock any longer. The lock has been fought. That can be open. As you can guess for yourself what those stains are. You see they're both on the lining of the bag and on this tennis racket cover which has been in the bag since Easter weekend of 1924. And now if you please hear

this Inspector Rafe Sylvester who I think would tell you how this bag came into our possession here at Scotland Yards Black Museum. I could supply the answer quite simply and quickly, sir. Yeah, I know that by now boy.

The owner had no further use for it. The owner had no further use for anything, sir, except the services of pure point, the hangman. Robert Emmett Dignon worked very hard at being a hail fellow well-met.

He was a dapper man, a persuasive talker and thus an excellent salesman, despite the fact that he was only five feet two inches tall. Dignon's wife Olivia, who worked as a automaton operator at a salary of three pounds a week, entertained certain suspicions of her husband due largely to his undeniable attraction for