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00:23Good evening.
00:26Tonight, I'm going to tell you another strange and unusual story of the unexplainable from
00:33behind the veil.
00:36Ever since man was first able to think, he has tried to find reasons for those happenings
00:42that he has been unable to explain.
00:46Yet even today, with the knowledge of our universe which we have amassed, despite the
00:51myths that we have exploded, there are still areas about which we know nothing.
00:57The world beyond our understanding, the world behind the veil.
01:06Our story tonight concerns the dark and violent circumstances surrounding one of the most famous
01:14criminals in history.
01:17George Durst was a normal citizen of his time, a man completely average in all respects.
01:25All respects but one.
01:28I knew it.
01:29Tucked away down at the bottom of the page.
01:32Mr. Walter Durst will give the last of his lectures on clairvoyance tonight at the Cumberland Hall.
01:36What?
01:38The advertisement, so discreet it's practically invisible.
01:42I thought it was quite tasteful.
01:44I wish you would let me deal with that side of the business, you have no head for publicity.
01:49I had such an odd dream last night.
01:52Not black horses again, I couldn't stand another funeral.
01:55It was most frightening.
01:56I wish I knew what it meant.
01:58Good heavens, they've discovered petroleum in Cheshire.
02:02Judith, please listen to me.
02:04Walter, I'm sorry I didn't realize you were so upset.
02:07Last night, Judith, do you really believe I somehow have an ability to see into the future?
02:14For good heavens, dear, we know you do.
02:16I mean, some people are left-handed, others have perfect pitch, and you have-
02:21It's happened before, hasn't it?
02:22Time after time.
02:24The fire in the hotel at Bournemouth.
02:26The deteriorate epidemic.
02:27Walter, what is it?
02:28Judith, last night I saw murder done.
02:35Why must it happen to me?
02:36Why not for someone who understands these things?
02:40I don't want it.
02:42No, Walter, don't be so foolish.
02:44We have to make a living, dear, and I'm not sure that you'll be very good at anything else.
02:49I was so frightened last night.
02:52Then why didn't you wake me?
02:53You were so sound asleep, I didn't like to.
02:58Just after I went to sleep, a most odd feeling, as though something were trying to get inside my head,
03:05something pushing and probing, and then an odd sound like nothing I'd ever heard before.
03:12And then the picture.
03:14Misty at first.
03:15The buildings all blurred.
03:17And then, all at once, it came quite clear.
03:21I was walking along a darkened alley in the east end.
03:25There was no sound.
03:27I could hear nothing but my own breathing.
03:30I wanted to save the woman, and at the same time I knew I couldn't stand to see what was
03:35happening.
03:45Suddenly, I found myself outside some horrible drinking house.
03:50I remember hearing the ticking of a clock.
03:53I knew it was important to see the time.
03:56My body floated as though it were no more than mist, and the light at the corner of the lane
04:01seemed to draw me to it.
04:03I felt as if something were guiding me, begging me to look up at the street sign.
04:10Buxrow.
04:11I saw it quite clearly, and yet I'd never even heard of the place before.
04:18I wish I knew what it all meant.
04:21Darling, why should it mean anything?
04:23It's probably just an ordinary old nightmare after all that lobster you had last night.
04:27No, no, no, there was such purpose to it, almost as though I'd been made to see it for some
04:32reason.
04:32In the early hours of this morning, Timothy Durrant, a car driver, was returning to his lodgings in Whitechapel,
04:39when he saw what he thought was a tarpaulin lying in the gutter.
04:43He crossed the road for a closer look, only to discover that it was a woman lying there.
04:47A light at match revealed that her throat had been cut.
04:51The body has been identified as that of Mary Nichols, 42, a woman of unfortunate reputation,
04:57had last been seen alive but very drunk just before 2.30.
05:03The police surgeon has stated that in addition to the throat wounds which caused death,
05:08the body had been almost completely...
05:10Does it say where it happened?
05:13Yes.
05:15The body was found in Buck's Row.
05:19The doctor also stated that in his opinion the crime had been committed by somebody
05:23with a considerable knowledge of surgery.
05:26Yes, the surgeon's knife, the scalpel.
05:28Moreover, it was the same person who brutally murdered Martha Turner three weeks ago on the night of August the
05:337th.
05:34An inquest is being held.
05:35All the details.
05:40Walter, you've got to go to the police.
05:41The police?
05:42There can't be any motive for killing these terrible women so the man is probably mad.
05:46Don't you see there may be more murders?
05:48More dreams.
05:49Walter, think what it would mean if you could go to the police and tell them exactly when and where
05:53the next killing would be.
05:54No, I won't have any part of it. It has nothing to do with me.
05:58Walter, that is a disgraceful attitude.
06:00Seeing of justice done isn't merely the business of the police.
06:03It's the responsibility of every member of the community.
06:06Why, it might mean the saving of countless young lives.
06:09Oh, they were hardly young.
06:11Walter, it is your duty to go to the police.
06:14All right.
06:15I suppose you're right.
06:17As usual.
06:19And darling, think of the publicity.
06:29Yes, sir.
06:30Oh, good morning.
06:31I want to see something about the Whitechapel murders.
06:33On what connection?
06:34Well, it's rather a personal matter.
06:37I'd prefer to see whoever's in charge of the case.
06:39Right, your name, sir.
06:43Clairvoyant.
06:44Yes.
06:45You're new, aren't you?
06:47I beg your pardon?
06:47You haven't been in before.
06:48No.
06:49Oh.
06:50Well, Inspector McWilliams is in charge of the case.
06:52I'll tell him you're here.
06:53Let's see if you don't mind waiting a while.
06:59I mean, all those people have...
07:00A lot of money, sir.
07:01Brought them all out today.
07:03Gypsy Jim, one-armed Nell, and the old lady with the crystal ball.
07:06She can tell us the identity of Jack the Ripper for a mere 50 pounds.
07:09Jack the Ripper?
07:10Well, that's what the newspapers have tagged him.
07:12Oh, we have them all, sir.
07:13Especially on a case like this.
07:14But, Constable, I assure you I didn't come here because of any reward.
07:17Last night in a dream I saw the exact circumstances of the Bucksrow murder.
07:21Several hours before it occurred.
07:23The time, the place, everything.
07:25Now, sir, you look a nice, sensible sort of gent.
07:28You know, the wife had the same trouble.
07:31Wake me up in the middle of the night she would just to tell me about these here dreams,
07:35so I got her some stuff called slumber pills.
07:38Only a cheap medicine, you know, but efficacious.
07:40Very efficacious.
07:42Never had any more trouble with her since.
07:43Thank you, Constable.
07:44I assure you you'll have no more trouble with me either.
07:46Good morning.
07:48Emily, don't lag behind.
07:50I wish to see someone about Jack the Ripper.
07:52My little girl has some information I know will prove invaluable.
07:55Have a seat.
07:55It happened yesterday afternoon during my usual Tuesday sales.
07:59Emily was in rapport with Leate, her little Aztec friend,
08:03when suddenly there was a swirl of orange ectoplasm.
08:07A ghastly grinning face appeared.
08:10Charlatans!
08:11Charlatans!
08:15The city of millions, once teeming with life after dark,
08:19now becomes silent and deserted with the setting of the sun.
08:23Children are off the streets with the beginning of nightfall.
08:27Women go nowhere unless accompanied by their men.
08:30Doors are locked.
08:31Windows boarded up.
08:32London becomes a city of panicky individuals.
08:35No man trusting his neighbour or friend.
08:39Newspapers demand, in their boldest type,
08:42the apprehension of this mad killer.
08:45The rewards mount.
08:46Every available police officer is on duty.
08:50Groups of men, self-appointed vigilante committees,
08:53hunt through dark streets and back alleys.
08:57But to no avail.
09:00The man they seek might well have been a ghost.
09:05красота
09:24gjithed
09:26скаж
09:42Judith!
09:44Judith!
09:46Judith!
09:48What?
09:50Look!
09:52Look at my hand!
09:53Look!
09:55It happened again.
09:57Quite suddenly.
09:58I saw the body.
10:00He cut an ear off.
10:01It was lying in the gutter. I picked it up.
10:03You see the blood still on my hand.
10:05No, I won't wipe it off.
10:07They can see it at Scotland Yard.
10:08It's a manifestation. They'll have to believe me.
10:11Walter, it's your blood.
10:13You must have rubbed your nails into the palm.
10:15No.
10:17I saw it.
10:18There was a red flower in her dress.
10:23And she had a bunch of grapes.
10:26She was still clutching the bunch of grapes.
10:30My dear, you must eat something before you go.
10:33Go? Where?
10:35No, no, no. Not the police.
10:38They'd only laugh at me again.
10:40Then we'll have our dinner and they can laugh at both of us if they want to.
10:43I'm coming with you this time.
10:51First, please. Thank you.
10:53Two pennies. Yes, madam.
10:55First, please.
10:56I think I've got some pennies.
10:58Change at Oxford Circus and take...
11:01What?
11:03He's here. I can feel it.
11:05Somewhere quite near.
11:07What are you talking about?
11:09Jack the Ripper.
11:11He's here on this bus.
11:17Where?
11:23I don't know.
11:24I can feel the vibrations.
11:26It's the same man. The man in the dream.
11:28Regent Spock.
11:29Walter, are you certain?
11:30Of course.
11:31Then we must do something. Try to find him.
11:33It's vanishing. It's fading away.
11:35Regent Spock.
11:36Walter, quickly.
11:37More intrusion.
11:43No, Judith. It's madness. It's too dangerous.
11:45There. Going into the park.
11:53Walter, don't stop me. Which way did he go?
11:56I don't know. I can't feel it anymore.
11:57Well, try. Concentrate. You must.
11:59It's no use. He's gone. It just isn't there.
12:01He's so close.
12:02Well, I'm sorry. I couldn't help it.
12:03Besides, it would have been madness.
12:04Now, I think we ought to go and tell the police.
12:06Tell them what?
12:07Why, the...
12:08Jack the Ripper's in the park.
12:09They might close the gates.
12:10Walter, sometimes I despair of you.
12:13Come on. We're going to Scotland Yard.
12:21Oh, I didn't expect to see you here again, sir.
12:23I want to see Inspector McGilliam, isn't it?
12:25He's busy.
12:26We're trying to find someone called Jack the Ripper.
12:28Perhaps you've read about it.
12:29But, Constable, I...
12:30Walter, Walter, let me.
12:32Constable, today is the 30th September.
12:35It is.
12:35But it may be remembered as the day that Jack the Ripper
12:37committed his fourth murder.
12:39That is, if you just stand there and do nothing to prevent it.
12:42Ma'am, I had my orders, that's all.
12:44But please, you must let me see the Inspector now.
12:46This afternoon, I had a vision of a murder
12:48that I know is going to take place tonight.
12:51You must understand, we can stop it,
12:53otherwise the blood will be on my hands as much as I...
12:54Walter, Walter.
12:57So a woman will be found dead tomorrow,
12:59with her ear severed from the head.
13:02What did you say?
13:04I saw it in the dream.
13:06The ear was lying beside her in the gutter.
13:10Constable.
13:11This way, ma'am.
13:13I'm Inspector McGilliam.
13:15What's all this about a dream?
13:18My name is Walter Durst.
13:20I'm a professional clairvoyant.
13:22Perhaps my card will...
13:26What did you dream?
13:28Well, I imagined I was walking along a lane in the East End.
13:32There was a woman.
13:33Her throat had been cut.
13:35And the ear was lying beside her in the gutter.
13:37It's not the first time, you see.
13:39The night that Mary Nichols was killed,
13:40I saw it just as it happened.
13:42The time, the place...
13:44When did you send the note?
13:45What?
13:46The note you received this morning.
13:47Oh, I haven't sent any note.
13:49I have been here before.
13:50The constable will tell you.
13:51I'd like to specify your handwriting.
13:52Sit down, Mr. Durst, will you?
13:54All right.
13:54I don't see what my handwriting has got to do with it.
13:56Please write.
13:58Well, what shall I write?
13:59Just three words.
14:01Dear old boss.
14:04Dear old boss.
14:06I wish you'd explain.
14:07Mr. Durst, you didn't by any chance dream the location of this murder?
14:10No, not this time, but I'm sure...
14:12What do you mean not this time?
14:13Well, I told you.
14:14The other dream.
14:15The night that Mary Nichols was killed.
14:16But you didn't write to us last time.
14:18I don't know what you're talking about.
14:25You must believe me, Inspector.
14:26I told you that I saw it.
14:28No one knew of this letter except the men in my office
14:31and the man who wrote the letter.
14:34Did you write this letter?
14:35No, I didn't write it.
14:36I didn't.
14:37Judith!
14:37Judith!
14:38Judith!
14:39You will be kept in custody until we can make further investigations in the morning.
14:42Please let me go.
14:43Don't you see what you're doing?
14:43That's enough.
14:44That's enough.
14:44Come on.
14:44But the woman, I saw what he did to her.
14:46You couldn't tell it was a human face.
14:48You could save her.
14:49Perhaps I have.
14:50Please.
14:51Please let me help you.
14:54Bye, Counselor.
14:57Well then, God help you.
15:05What time is it?
15:06Are you still awake?
15:07The time, please.
15:08They took my watch away.
15:08Oh, I don't know.
15:09It's a bit after one.
15:11You'd better get some shut-eye.
15:12Not this night.
15:13Tell Inspector McWilliam to have a good night's rest.
15:15Tomorrow he may not sleep quite so easily.
15:40Tomorrow he may not sleep quite so easily.
15:53Oh, God forgive them.
15:57Forgive them.
15:59Forgive them.
16:18so it happened and it was in your power to save that life two lives two women murdered within an
16:26hour one in a yard at the back of burners street the other in an archway off mitre square both
16:32of
16:32them hacked to pieces you were right in every detail every man available was on duty in the
16:40East End last night and every suspect we had was under lock and key it's impossible yet it happened
16:49it's impossible but you knew how that's a question I've been asking myself all my life inspector
16:58perhaps the answer will come later I trust sir that you will accept my apologies what happened
17:06last night inspector I owe you my supreme gratitude this was no imprisonment it was a release until
17:13last night I've been afraid of this gift I have a shame because I was not quite normal my wife
17:20had
17:20to have my courage and my convictions for me now I know this power was given to me for a
17:25purpose
17:25respect must be paid to it and to me I wish to heaven I believed you last night should you
17:32dream
17:32again of course I shall act immediately we can act now Walter last night no this was no dream but
17:38I
17:38can find Jack the Ripper probably tonight this time I shan't even ask how every policeman in London is at
17:44your disposal and that won't be necessary shall we meet at my house at seven o'clock at seven
18:02quarter of the sea yeah I can do這是 o'clock at seven o'clock at seven o'clock at seven
18:03yeah kind of
18:03time to leave the fickle
18:34And this is where the Ripper lives.
18:44G.R. Williton, FRCS.
18:46Do we not?
18:47I don't know. I don't think we can wait for him at this late hour.
18:50This is where he lives.
18:52It's incredible. A large house in Howard Street, FRCS.
18:55Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
18:59Inspector, there's a dog lying at the foot of the stairs.
19:01There seems to be a light on, sir.
19:08Hagan.
19:10Hagan.
19:12Come on.
19:12Yes, what is it?
19:18We are from Scotland Yard. I'd like to speak to Mr. Williton.
19:22Who is it?
19:25Mrs. Williton?
19:26Yes.
19:27I'm Chief Inspector McWilliam, Mr. Durst.
19:29I'm sorry to disturb you so late.
19:31But we should like to ask you a few questions.
19:33I must ask you to leave.
19:34It is very late.
19:35Mrs. Williton, this concerns the Whitechapel murders.
19:38It would be very easy for me to get a search warrant.
19:43The police.
19:44Mr. Williton?
19:46No.
19:47My name is Hatherley.
19:48I am Mrs. Williton's doctor.
19:50May I ask the reason for this visit?
19:51I would like to see Mr. Williton.
19:53That's impossible.
19:54Will you come into the library, gentlemen?
20:01All right, constable.
20:11The funeral is tomorrow.
20:16I'm sorry, Mrs. Williton.
20:19When did this happen, doctor?
20:21Cerebral hemorrhage late yesterday afternoon.
20:23You can understand why Mrs. Williton is very distressed.
20:28I should like to see inside.
20:31Inspector, this is outrageous.
20:32I insist you take your mail and leave this house instantly.
20:35Did you sign the death certificate, doctor?
20:37I did.
20:38May I see it, please?
20:39It's not here.
20:40It's at my surgery.
20:43Why did you come here?
20:44We have reason to believe that your husband knew something about the Whitechapel murders.
20:48Why?
20:49I am not at liberty to say.
20:51You think he's Jack the Ripper?
20:53Mrs. Williton, I'm here to ask questions, not make accusations.
20:56This is a strange...
20:57Did you notice anything unusual about your husband's behavior these last few weeks?
21:01Mr. Williton has been...
21:02I'm talking to Mrs. Williton.
21:05Will you please answer my question?
21:07You know, don't you?
21:10You know.
21:11Myra.
21:14Of course they know.
21:16Don't be such a fool.
21:18Why else would they have come here?
21:21They followed him.
21:23They saw the blood.
21:25Blood?
21:26Mrs. Williton is hysterical.
21:27Do you understand?
21:28What blood?
21:30He was wearing his new coat tails, wasn't he?
21:34I was standing on the stairs when he came in.
21:38The blood.
21:40All over his white waistcoat.
21:42May I beg you.
21:43It doesn't matter now.
21:46I don't want the secret any longer.
21:49Why didn't you tell the police?
21:53He was my husband.
21:56I loved him very much once.
22:00He was so gentle then.
22:03Seems quite a long time ago when he had to give up the practice.
22:08It was terrible seeing the change in him.
22:13I wonder what made him do those things.
22:17One day I heard Pagan screaming down here in the library.
22:21He wasn't allowed in here at all.
22:24When I came in.
22:26He was sitting just over there.
22:29Biting at his paw.
22:32There was a hat pin.
22:35Right through it.
22:37He used to love the dog so much too.
22:42And there were the bats.
22:45You know that he paid boys off the street to catch bats for him.
22:50They'd bring them in a bag to the back door.
22:53I saw once what he did with them.
22:57He dipped them in paraffin and lit them.
23:01So that he could see the poor burning things go flapping round his head.
23:06And he'd clap his hands and laugh like a child.
23:11Then at night he began to go out.
23:25So, the funeral is tomorrow.
23:28Yes, to all intents and purposes.
23:30The obituary notice has appeared in the Times
23:32and a few relatives have been invited to a simple service in the morning.
23:35Where is he, Doctor?
23:41A certificate of insanity.
23:43Yes, Willowden was sent this morning to an insane asylum
23:45outside Edinburgh.
23:46May I keep this?
23:48You will find it registered and in order.
23:50You realize what this means?
23:51Yes, yes, yes, of course.
23:52Yes, once certified and committed to an institution,
23:54a person is beyond the jurisdiction of the courts.
23:57Not even the law can touch Willowden now.
24:00Well, there's nothing more we can do.
24:02No, it's better.
24:03We should never know.
24:04And now, if you'll excuse us, Inspector,
24:06there's been an agonizing ordeal from Mrs. Willowden
24:08and she has to rise early in the morning for the funeral.
24:13Inspector,
24:14is it a terrible thing to hope?
24:17There will be more murders in Whitechapel.
24:23Dr. Willowden was beyond the reach of English law.
24:27His guilt or innocence could never be proved.
24:30But strangely enough,
24:32the slaughter in Whitechapel ended that night.
24:35Jack the Ripper never claimed another victim.
24:39But what of Walter Durst?
24:41How does one explain his gift of precognition,
24:45his ability to foretell the future?
24:47How could he foresee in such detail the victims and the circumstances surrounding their deaths?
24:55He'd never seen any of the women involved.
24:58He'd never even been to the places where they met their death.
25:01And most of all,
25:02how was he able to lead the police to a man he did not even know existed?
25:08There is no explanation known to us.
25:11But this we do know.
25:13On that night,
25:15over 70 years ago,
25:17ended a reign of terror
25:19unlike any known before
25:20or since.
25:25Please join me again
25:26for another journey into the world
25:28of the unexplainable
25:30which lies
25:31behind the veil.
25:33Good night.
25:35Good night.
26:04Good night.
26:06Good night.
26:10Good night.
26:17Good night.
26:18Good night.
26:18Good night.