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June 5, 2015
LONDON — Guns, gallstones, death masks and hangman's ropes are going on display in an exhibition drawn from one of Britain's most macabre, and least-seen, museums.
For more than a century, the Crime Museum inside London police headquarters has been open only to Scotland Yard staff and invited guests. Established in 1875 to help educate officers in the new field of scientific detection, it documents many of Britain's most notorious crimes, from the Jack the Ripper slayings to the Acid Bath Murders and the Great Train Robbery.
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