 to one to for the first time in its history Scotland yard open to the official files to bring you the true stories of some of its most celebrated cases research for white hall one to one to is prepared by Percy Hoskins chief crime reporter for the London Daily Express the stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper now you will hear from chief superintendent John Davidson custodian of the famous black museum of Scotland yard here is chief superintendent Davidson good afternoon we have here in the black museum just about every kind of exhibit you or nearly anyone else would imagine weapons that have been used in murders or frequent garments worn by murdered persons or the persons who murdered them blood stains even many things more gruesome but this exhibit is I believe genuinely unique do you recognize it you showed it's an inspector's bed an inspector of the CID a German bed it too was deeply involved in a murder case this band was once worn by inspector George a frame and here is former inspector frame himself who I think will tell you all about how it came to be here go ahead George yes my old bad let me hold it up second please John yes I was very proud of that bad ones I think I still am even though it's an exhibit here on the black museum now yes I think I'd been moderately successful as a police officer when Sir Lewis called me had I John of course well Sir Lewis asked me to come to his office on an important matter so of course I went a very impressive man Sir Lewis I can hear him yet something you are messed on there and there's been so much in the newspapers about it and all that we've got to get on it at once it's still the whole awesome ask me to assign a good man thank you sir there's nothing about you here we work that's what this will take work and common sense I'll do my best sir Lewis hope it'll be good enough I'll try I'll try sir yes dignity dignity is what we need competence and dignity and hard work what's the name frame sir George this case you're assigned to now down in South London no where it is well you'll see village named ward odd name ward I think I know village man's own son was killed I remember I remember my year old thought he'd been kidnapped who wasn't find him in the gun this morning murdered slashed him yes sir I don't think local conceivably travel never hit long the case for a week now an official scoundrel regular dog burry type I don't even want to stand but it's a cock full well sir no nothing newspapers printing all sorts of stories well Scotland jar this Scotland jar to sleep all that yes sir I've seen no stop badly the home office been on my neck settle this at once for Lewis must miss go on for Lewis get cracking for Lewis that's your job praying is that it gone settle it yes sir don't ask who this question get down there at once and get it settled now mind you know nonsense no friction with the local conceivably and no excuses well I was just well sir all right ward and loam show I'll be off at once and don't come back why are you standing there with that silly grin on your hello hello yes of course it's the lowest beating get through to the home office once and tell them that loam show matter will be settled at once got my best man on it now now go on go on go on what have your name is in the village of Ward I was conducted to Superintendent Ogre of the South loam show constabulary who was in charge of the case and not delighted at all at being summarily replaced by an inspector of the CID from Scotland yard he was quite eloquent about it I don't know what you think you're going to do your frame I expect to do my duty sir make an expense with your fine Scotland yard cooking man we have our duty to you know I'm sorry Mr. Ogre you may address me as Super Nintendo while you're about it too I'm sorry sir coming here fine London ways on me because I'm a man from the Sharers I'll expect proper respect or I'll expect proper respect I beg your pardon sir while you're in my belly with you to consider yourself no better than one of my constables to you're to be entirely under my orders you understand that I was under the impression sir that I'm under the orders of the home office I'll stand for no insubordination I'm not being insubordinate sir I'm merely telling you my orders we should make a fool of me isn't that the truth no sir oh is that a fact well what are you doing here what are you doing here the home office has instructed me to try to obtain a conviction in this case oh you're to obtain a conviction then I'm to try sir I suppose a London man knows more about it than we will live here then no sir I don't know anything about it yet all you know is that Scotland Yard says I failed Scotland Yard doesn't say that sir well there's been a lot of talk and I resent it I resent it I'm sorry sir would you mind telling me something about the case don't you know anything about it well very little sir oh much only that a child has been found dead sir murdered apparently have you any suspect sir that's none of your business I'm afraid it is well I don't think so I hope that doesn't mean that I'm not to get any help from you sir am I correct sir I'll give you what else we can what else I have to give you well go ahead sir what do you expect me to do solve this case for you and then that Scotland Yard take all the credit I heard about enough Scotland Yard needs no credit sir well but the case must be solved sir are you accusing me of inefficiency not accusing sir I'm sorry I've been sent down here by the home office do you think you're welcome here you haven't told me what's been accomplished so far sir look here now yes I've made a no risk today oh have you sir I most certainly have may I ask whom sir I arrested Elizabeth right well who is Elizabeth right the nurse made at Madden's house Madden oh that was the boy's name yes didn't you even know that much no sir I didn't I expect to know a great deal more by the time I get back to London and what about this woman sir uh Elizabeth right what they released her who did her magistrate oh and do you know what they said to me that the magistrate said they said I didn't have one scrap of evidence against her but you did of course sir well well sir I didn't have much oh she was visiting her sister when it happened where sir in her mother but you suspected her well what well a man's bones were with somebody oh and now they send me a stut and yard man I never have any look I'd just like to comment unfavorably on a member of my profession but and I shall not just seem to me though sorry I never in all my life saw such as in two days going about the village of Ward I discovered several facts one there had been two children in the Madden family the dead boy and a sister her name was Brydie Madden and she was the daughter of Madden's first wife who was dead the boy was by his second wife two several servants including the nursemaid who had been arrested sweet gentle shy girl by all reports three I learned that the father Jerry Madden was suspected by some of the villagers of having murdered his little son although no one advanced any reasons why they thought so fourth according to some of the schoolmates of Brydie Madden she was in considerable fear of her stepmother's uncontrollable temper fifthly that somebody unspecified would have to hang for the murder of the little boy the conclusion of which I was fully in agreement and sixthly that I was the most unpopular person in the village of Ward I was from London and the villagers were fervent adherents of the happily disappearing maxim here's a foreigner let's see the break at him I was not encouraged especially since superintendent ogre made no secret of his antipathy toward me a little discouraging I thought of returning to London but I remember Sir Lewis was there and stayed on I visited the Madden household mrs. Madden was confined in a nursing home at the edge of the village she had not recovered from the tragic death of her little son the daughter Brydie was at school she was the fright the mate whom our village policeman had arrested had gone back to her sister's home in Edinburgh I was received by Ellen Perry another servant who was not the happiest of mortals but who talked freely horrible sir just plain horrible it's all I can say oh little fella I suppose you have no ideas on the matter have you Ellen oh little love a duck no sir not I you never did suspect Elizabeth right I suppose oh that fool speak that way of the full girl Ellen I'm speaking of gum shoe ogle excuse me I mean a policeman indeed the great elf he couldn't detect a change in the weather that one couldn't know sir I don't suspect anybody oh lord knows I wish I did what about miss Brydie oh not miss Brydie sir oh I'm sorry I hope you don't think I mean I suspect miss Brydie Ellen I meant what does she think oh well I'm sure she doesn't suspect anybody sir not miss Brydie the poor child Ellen how do you and mrs madden get along the finest woman that I drew breath sir the finest dearest woman poor dear she's only got one tiny fork her temper her what sir her temper well I love a duck sir mrs madden thank god no temper that's what I was saying she lets everybody walk over her she's got no more temper than a mango word or well I was told she has a very violent temper oh not her sir someone's been pulling your leg oh excuse me sir well but why should no sir I've lived in this house ever since she married mrs madden and I've never seen her raise her voice even when she fell down the well and near grounded the well there sir must be mistaken then oh you are that sir a sweeter woman there drew breath sir poor woman well I'm sorry to have thought so I mean no sir temper me I not mrs madden sir well I'm sorry I'm going to tell her sir she'll die laughing oh no please please don't say anything to her about it Ellen please don't I'll keep your secret sir well thank you Ellen that's a good girl who told you that sir why why you know I really don't remember Ellen curious sir oh now who would yes sir temper oh blimey excuse me sir I went to call on superintendent ogle though it was near enough to high noon I found the gentleman still in bed and they know very good humor of being awakened what do you want now I wanted to ask you a question superintendent well I'll ask you sorry to wake you sir oh I'm awake now what do you want to go just add me my trousers there will yes thank you you're getting them on backwards sir I think other way around sir I think what do you want I was wondering whether you collected any tangible evidence at all sir tangible anything I could see no there wasn't anything nothing I can say important I have called you I have called you nothing at all sir give me my shirt thank you what did you find sir none of the very important socks to spend this please thank you what sir oh some rags rags then me my socks thank you look like a night down or something calling the beach nightgown sir that's what I said it looked like some stains or something on it paint I expect someone being using it to clean paint versus what color paint sir huh close me my shoes and even throw them you know sorry sir what color paint oh sort of dog what are you doing getting a man up in the middle of the night oh they're running in all no what do you do with the nightgown sure it was a nightgown sir look something like one what where is it now sir that's what I know hey I burned the nasty thing up oh no well it was partially burned when I found it a bit of trash or finished burning it up I finished burning it up then it's completely gone sir of course it is what did you expect I didn't expect anything sir I ran me my necktie will you I'm afraid I don't understand the man with even the rudiments of a police education who could consciously make such a stupid error who knows that good heavens there were reddish brown stains on the discarded garment if it was a garment in the very middle of a case of atrocious murder in which the victim had bled freely and he thought they were paint and the thing had been wantedly destroyed I found myself beginning to splutter as I walked down the lane towards the nursing home I found mrs madden the bereft mother now condition it was useless to attempt to talk with her just lay there and smile the vague kind of smile a man who identified himself as the proprietor of the nursing home dane to talk with me yes sir she's been like that all the time ever since they brought her here after the poor youngster was murdered she was such a happy woman now she's been quiet all the time never opened her mouth except to cry out for her baby sir nothing more well what would you expect her to do sir why I understood she has a very violent temper what violent temper no mistake himself you think so I've known this girl since she was in swarming clothes and she oh what you've got her mixed up with jerry madden's first wife well I don't know this girl wouldn't hurt her yes you're thinking about the first wife right his mother what about her right is the girl's named after her mother what about her why she had a very violent temper sir oh she did didn't you know sir that she died in the insane asylum no raving and screaming like a lunatic she was a lunatic sir and an idea crossed my mind as a matter of fact then not not pretending lies but after all you're a policeman you won't tell anybody she was a lunatic and so was her mother before her I didn't know the grandmother whitehall one two one two to which you're listening is compiled from actual case records of scottland yard this one is true as are all the others in the series only the names of the participants in the actual location are changed research on whitehall one two one two comes from the chief crime reporter of the london daily express percy huskens and the stories for radio are written and directed by willis cooper now let's go on with the story I pass superintendent ogle as I trudge down the road to the madden home and announce of my greeting I walked on and deep and thought presently arrived ellen perry was in the yard with a basket full of clothing for the family laundry afternoon ellen I said afternoon sir did you find out anything sir I went to the nursing home you were right apparently I told you so did you know the first mrs madden ellen Friday yes yes I remember her a credit woman that must be the one you were thinking of when you talked about mrs madden's temper sir yes yes I'm afraid you're right she died you know when brady was just a little girl yes I know well now will you excuse me sir while I get on with preparing the washing for tomorrow go on ellen and so I had time to think a moment alone I've done a good deal of thinking on the way from the nursing home but seeing the preparations for the morrow's wash day a nightgown I remember that possibly bloodstained nightgown I thought about the circumstances of the murder a little boy had been put to bed was found slashed to death in the morning ergo he had been murdered during the night right so far whoever had done it more than likely have splashed blood on his clothes her clothes there's only one person I suspect it's a sneaking unreadable kind of suspicion there wasn't anyone else to suspect the first brady from crazy the violent temper she died in me say in asylum her daughter had told a deliberate untruth about her mother an untruth that would have been immediately apparent to anyone but a stranger like myself brady must hate the stepmother the old story could she hate her enough to and falling thought thought of a girl getting up wearing her nightclothes taking one of her father's raisers and going them to the little boy's room her white nightgown I didn't want to think about it I tried not to think about it but ogre had said he found that nightgown with the stains on it that he thought were dogs of brownish red paint the nightgun had been partially burned as if someone had tried to destroy it horrible thought but ellen was coming back ellen I said yes sir a penny for your thoughts sir ellen how many nightgowns does miss brady have nightgowns sir yes why she she used to have three sir but now there's only two are you certain ellen ombry every week in the south since brady was a baby I think I ought to know what clothes she's got yes how long has this nightgown been missing a long time no sir no what it was the morning the little fella was with I remember I gathered up the clothes to be washed and all three nightgowns was there and brady met me on the stairway and she was crying and she asked me to get her a drink of water so I fit down the basket and went and got her one and then then I picked up the basket and went down stairs and when I took the things out of the basket there was only two nightgowns in it did you say anything to anyone I told miss brady and she said I must be mistaken and the the house was in such an uproar sir and but there was only two sir and there's only two now what do you suppose to become of it sir all the way down the lane sir now way back there bride all the way down the lane I was rehearsing in my mind what I would say to her and when we met her and I looked in her staring little beast's eyes I knew what to say hello ellen why what's the matter sir brady madden I'll rest you for the murder of your brother demon madden and I warn you that anything you say I took her to the magistrates to be heard from the windows of the billet school room will be sat I could see the townsfolk gathering angrily in the streets I suppose I was not too surprised when the presiding magistrate told me that I hadn't enough evidence that it was impossible at that moment to remander for trial they were far from convinced that the crown had a case but they assured me we will not close the case now because you have a very interesting theory but there's not enough evidence they said you wouldn't dare to act on such incomplete evidence at this time will not write it off as closed they told me if you find any additional evidence well we'll keep the case open and so I came away to London with superintendent ogle of the loam check and stability marching beside me to the train to protect me from the consequences of my foolishness he said pompously I could hear the villagers booze and catcalls from the train with the compartment window closed I've done my best but I can still see ogle standing there with upraised hand against the populace and bridey madden standing alone looking after me as if she'd like to murder me too I went to sir louis office when I arrived in London come in oh so you're back yes come here yes sir well I did my best sir louis and a fine monumental mess you made a feast well sir I told you to get the conviction I was sure I had one rubbish I'm sorry don't talk sorry to me my man you're a bigger fool that don't know sir that there's a big around 18,000 ever before Scotland garden home office has been made food I'm sorry customs have been asked in parliament sir what do you say to that I'm sorry sir I still think we can get a conviction I know I can turn up more evidence that gives us guilt you will turn up no more evidence why not sir because you've done enough to disgrace us all and I'll have no more of your blundering I demand your resignation inspector Fred so that's why I'm a green grocer today come and see me if you are needing anything in my line goodbye John goodbye inspector George friend didn't tell you the end of the story this all happened several years ago one year ago I was told that a miss bridey madden wished to see me she came in miss madden yes sir do you know me I've heard your name in ward in Loneshire several years ago yes yes and graduated from school now and lately I've fallen in love with a young man he's a clergyman an Anglican priest a man of God yes we were to be married yeah but my conscience why don't you say yes you say yes to everything I know nothing about your conscience young woman I told my secret I told my fiance everything yes I wanted to confess about a man of God the man I was going to marry what did the man of God say he told me to come to the police with my confession I murdered my brother and so we took her back to the magistrates of her confession which he freely made she'd never been tried the case was still in abeyance so bridey madden was at last brought to trial she was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged sentence was out of a change to life imprisonment and justice was done but George Framers told Greengrocer he handles an excellent line of Brussels sprouts this is the badge he used to wear paired today on Whitehall 1212 Lester Fletcher as inspector Frames others in the order of their appearance were Harvey Hayes Carl Harbord Guy Spall Patricia Courtley Evan Thomas and Bula Garrick Lionel Rico speaking Whitehall 1212 is written and directed by Willis Cooper many of us are now enjoying a happy Labor Day weekend but we should always keep in mind that these long weekend holidays are often tragic times for some of us who start out galey to enjoy them more than 1300 american families will lose one or more of their loved ones in accidents on the highways because someone was reckless and careless while driving