In 1910 Scotland Yard exploited a new invention, the wireless telegraph, to capture the main suspect in a gruesome murder.
The discovery of the grisly remains of a human body buried in a doctor's cellar shocked London in 1910. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll recount the dramatic use of the recently invented wireless telegraph in capturing the main suspect in the crime.
We'll also hear a letter that Winston Churchill wrote to Winston Churchill and puzzle over why a sober man is denied a second beer.
