Case of the Unidentified Woman

Whitehall 1212 For the first time in history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the true stories of some of its most important in baffling cases. Research on Whitehall 1212 is by Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter for the London Daily Express. The stories for radio are written

and directed by Willis Cooper. The voice you will now hear is that of Chief Superintendent John Davidson who is in charge of Scotland Yard's famous Black Museum. I'm sure I don't know whether a woman's stockings come in pairs.

That is shaped separately for right and left foot, as shoes are. And I fear I shall never know, or remember if I do. However I do know that this one was for the right leg.

And I remember further that its father was described as dream dust. Why? I'm sure I don't know. Looks a sort of a light khaki to me. Now this pattern is not woven into the nylon or whatever it is that women's stockings are made of.

Let's lay the stocking out flat here so you can see what it is. There, you recognize it? That's right. It's an impression made in greasy mud of a tire, a motorcar tire. Now the people who first saw it were quite justified in believing that the young woman who was wearing the stopping had been struck and killed by a motor car. She was struck,

but the motor car didn't kill her. I asked Chief Inspector Patrick Bull here to tell you all about it. Now Mr. Bull, if you please. About midnight on the 15th of August 1948, leading fireman Horace Bertram Adler of Kingston fire brigade, was driving alone on Somerset Road Wimbledon on his way home from the meeting