THE BLACK MUSEUM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 July 1927, Page 8

THE BLACK MUSEUM

A .FASCINATING COLLECTION

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, 9th June,

It is a pity the public are not admitted to London’s most fascinating human art collection. This is beyond question the famous Black Museum of police relics at New Scotland Yard. It would be a far more attractive “draw” than even Madame Tussaud’s, for Scotland Yard's gallery of murderers’ death masks, including the notorious one that has mysteriously grown whiskers since it was taken, the ropes that hanged them, and their grim accoutrement fai exceeds the gruesome thrill of even the Chamber of Horrors. A feature of the Black Museum that has its interest is the vast ■ assortment of police clues. We hear a lot about “clues,” hut here they are in bulk, and many of them still awaiting the arrest of their particular criminal. Amongst' them is a cast of the teeth marks on a half-eaten apple found in Harriet Buswell’s room in Coram-street. A doctor was ; arrested on suspicion of murdering her, but escaped because his teeth did not fit the apple bites. Harriet Buswell was murdered on Christmas Eve, 1872, but that clue still remains only a clue.