The Case of Air Cadet Gordon

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 crimes.

These are the true names of the participants, have the obvious reasons been changed. The stories are presented for the full cooperation of Scotland Yard. Research on Whitehall 1212 is prepared by Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express.

The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper. This is the story of Scotland Yard File number 202-124. Here is Chief Superintendent John Davidson to brief you. These two rooms constitute the famous Black Museum of Scotland Yard, in which I preserve many of the objects which were of importance in solving of crimes which have confronted

us. The exhibits in here range from lethal weapons to the most innocent of hearing items. They're all classified and filed most carefully so that they'll be available for study. We find them quite useful. A blood stain that lets Scotland Yard men to the discovery of a murderer in 1930 may be of great assistance in solving a similar crime in 1952.

Here, I show you a plain mirror. Like 202-124, a plain, guilt-trained mirror, its frame badly tarnished. Just such a mirror as you might find hanging in a hundred cheap flats in London's West End, but with one small difference.

This smart fingerprint here in the lower left-hand corner, just there above the frame. mirror had looked on murder. This is the murder of his fingerprint. Oh, now here is Superintendent Charles Brett in the Scotland Yard. He's the man who solved this case 202124. I had the assistance though, John, of Marjorie Ashley, remember? Why wasn't Marjorie Ashley the