Murder of a Bloody Belgian

Fight 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 the participants have for obvious reasons been changed.

The stories are presented with a full cooperation of Scotland Yard. Research on Fight Hall 1212 comes from Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express. The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper.

Here is the man in charge of Scotland Yard's famous Black Museum, Chief Superintendent John Davidson, to brief you on case number 504 MR701. Good afternoon. All the exhibits I have charged out here at the Black Museum are not in themselves horrible or gruesome.

I admit that several of the exhibits in this case, number 504701, are so dreadful that will reserve them for the use and study of our own people exclusively. For Eastman, Arnold Torres, they're strong stomached loch.

But this one that I brought with me is not such a one. Look at it. It's a woman's earring. A pair couldn't have cost a great deal. Handmade, I think, by some village jeweler in France many years ago.

When you make out the design, crudely carved representation of a left hand holding a heart and what seems to be a flower. The other one of the pair was similar, I'm told, by those who have seen it, except that it was a right hand.

This is the only one left of a pair. Retired Chief Superintendent Cedric Pickard is a little older today than he was then. You said, Rick? I was a brand new inspector then, John. You still remember all the details of this case, though?