The Case Of The Magenta Blotting Pad

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 cases. These are the true stories. Research for Whitehall 1212 is finished by Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express.

The stories for Radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper. You will now hear from the man in charge of Scotland Yard's famous Black Museum, Chief Superintendent John Davidson. Good afternoon. This is not for a change of murder weapon, but through its use a murderer was brought to book.

It is normally a most innocuous article in Ozand and in its way useful. You don't recognize it, do you know? Of course it's a plumbing pair, regrettably magenta and color. digging up to hide a newspaper beneath it if one wishes to hide a newspaper. You find blaughters like this on desks in the writing rooms of smaller tales in Britain. And strangely

enough that is where Superintendent Edward Weston found this one. I shall ask Superintendent Weston to tell you about it. Edward. On the eve of the August Bank holiday weekend in 1931, July 31st to be precise since the holiday itself was to be Monday the third of August and I was planning to spend it at Stonehenge

on Salisbury Plain. I was notified that I was wanted for the investigation of a murder at Oxford. I sighed regretfully over the departed thoughts of Stonehenge and the friars he all said yes sir quite politely and was told I would hear shortly from a man in Oxford and put up the telephone. It immediately rang again. Superintendent Weston?