The Case of Nora Brady

For the first time in its history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the true stories of some of its most celebrated and baffling cases. These are the true stories. Research for Whitehall 1212 comes from Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express.

The stories for a radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper. Now you are to hear the voice of the man in charge of Scotland Yard's famous Black Museum, Chief Superintendent John Davidson. The things we have on display in the Black Museum are minementos of crime.

Murder is the most frequent category. Here among the knives are guns, the bloodsons among the vials of poisons and the ropes and cords that have served as murder weapons. It's this incongruous object. I'm sure you know what it is.

The ace is a shoe, the kind known in Britain as a Wellington boot. and boots. It's an old-fashioned thing invented by the Duke of Wellington himself. You've seen Wellington boots before. The tragic thing about this one is it's small size. It was worn by a ten-year-old child. Here's a chief inspector John Mackey Marsh of the CID who will tell you

about Scotland Yardcase number 3431198. This is the story of a person who was twice tried for the same murder. In fact, I think this is the only instance of that in the whole history of British jurisprudence.

I'll tell you more about it. On the afternoon of the 5th December 1937, in Newark in Nottinghamshire, a little 10-year-old child left a school room for a home a short distance away. That was the last time she was ever seen alive, except by a few persons who did not recognize her.