Information Room, New Scotland Yard, London

Apr. 17 Hot On The Electric Track. Shades of Sherlock Holmes, this is the Information Room of Scotland Yard, or, to give the headquarters of British crime detection its new correct name and address, New Scotland Yard, London, SW1. The Yard's Information Room is its nerve center with the latest in radio and electronic systems, much of it exported to other countries law enforcement agencies, connecting it with police forces throughout Britain and the world. And detection by electricity is not new to the Yard'. Over 50 years ago in 1910, it apprehended its first criminal by the then infant radio. He was Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, escaping with his typist, Ethel Le Neve, to Canada after poisoning his wife

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