Case of Mrs Minerva Bannamon

Whitehall 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 only the 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 is from Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express. The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper.

Now you will hear the voice of Chief Superintendent John Davidson, Curator of Scotland Yard's famous black museum. Chief Superintendent Davidson will brief you on Scotland Yard case number 604MR804. Good afternoon. Here in the black museum at Scotland Yard, which is neither black nor is it a museum, are kept on file articles of various sorts which have in one way or another been connected with

cases of criminal investigation that our people have worked on. We keep these articles not for their morbid interests as weapons that have committed murder nor because they have been merely involved in various crimes of violence but as exemplars of methods and means commission.

What has puzzled us on some long forgotten crime may one day be of assistance to us in solving a number? Now, this is a typical example. Though you may not recognize it at once, I can tell you that it's what is left of the handle to a woman's purse, her handbag.

It's made of a kind of plastic material similar to that of which artificial teeth are sometimes made. survived an attempted destruction under most extraordinary conditions and was recognizable as the property of a particular person. Now here is Superintendent George Freeman of the CID who was in charge of the case in which it was involved number 604MR 804