November 29, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, Radio Mystery Theater presents Coming Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.
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Everyone knows that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started in life
as a doctor, not a writer. But how many of
us know what type of medicine he specialized in or
where his real medical offices were located? For your information,
Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle opened his office at two Devonshire Place,
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near Harley Street in eighteen ninety one. He was an
eye specialist. While he waited for the patients that never came,
he created the unforgettable characters of Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. Watson,
you know, my method is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But the cigars.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Once having located the tree behind which the killer stood,
it was child's play to find a cigar stump where
he had talked its birth. The end had not been
in his mouth, therefore he used a holder. The tip
had been cut, not bitten off, but the cut wasn't
a clean one, hence the penknife.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh so you've drawn a net around his man from
which he cannot escape. How do you do it?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Elementary, my dear Watson, our mystery drama The Bascomb Pool
mystery was based on the Sherlock Holmes classic and adapted
especially for the Mystery theater by Murray Burnett, his stars
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Kevin mc carthy. It is sponsored in part by am
Allergy Relief Medicine and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with that one. It's a singular facts that we
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know more of Sherlock Holmes than we do of his creator,
Sir Arthur Conandoyle. Of course, we all know he was
a doctor and that he believed in spiritualism, but most
of us are unaware that he was also a whaler, athlete, speculator, historian, dramatist,
war correspondent, and ever and always the champion of the underdog,
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as is so well illustrated in the mystery which follows.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
One morning, when my wife and I were seated at breakfast,
the maid brought in the telegram. I slid it open,
read it to marry, Have you a few days to spare?
Have just been wired for from the west of England
in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Should appreciate your coming
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with me, leave Paddington by the eleven fifteen.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, darling, you'll need some time, and so I shall
help you pat I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
At all sure that I should go, but I have
a fairly long list of patients and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I will handle those for you. I think the change
will do you good. And you know how interested you
are in all of Sherlock Holmes's cases.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I should be an ingrate if I weren't. I met
you through one of them.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now you've finished our coffee, while I go and get
you packed.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And so within a very few minutes I was in
a cab rattling away to Paddington Station. After paying the cab,
he I spotted the tall, gaunt figure of Homes pacing
up and down the platform. He saw me. His face
lighted up with one of his real smiles, and he.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Said, very good of you to come once enough. It
makes a considerable difference to me having someone with me
on whom I can thoroughly rely. If you will keep
the two corner seats, I'll get the tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We had the compartment to ourselves the batch of newspapers
Homes have brought along with him. As we settled down
for the journey, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Asked, have you heard anything about the case?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I haven't seen the paper for some day just.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
As well, the London Fairs hasn't had very complete accounts,
and that's why I brought these these local papers along.
I've already read through them, and I gather it's one
of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult. Well,
it isn't that paradoxical, of course, and profoundly true. Singularity
is almost indelliably a clue. The more commonplace of crime,
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the more difficult it is to bring home. In this instant, however,
the police seem to have established a very serious case
against the son of the murdered man. It is a murder, then,
according to our old friend Lestrade, it's not only murder,
but he has the guilty man under lock and key.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What brings you to it, then can appeal for.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Help from a young lady and a feeling that all
isn't as simple as it seems on the surface. I
know Lestrade's theory of crime, and I shall either confirm
or destroy it by means which he refuses to employ.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Who refuses or is unable.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
To nonsense, my dear Watson, anyone with eyes can use
my methods to take the first example to hand. I
very clearly perceive that in your bedroom the window is
on the right hand side.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
By but herbs. You've never visited us. How on earth would.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
My dear doctor. I know the military neatness which characterizes you.
You shave every morning, and in this lovely spring you
shave by sunlight. But since your saving is less and
less complete as we get farther back on the left side,
and it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the
angle of the jar, it's obvious that that side is
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less illuminated than the other.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Hurt you never cease to amaze.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Behold, that's only an elementary example of observation and inference,
my dear chap. Now I suggest that you devote your
time to these newspaper accounts and see if you can
reach the same conclusions as I have on my word
as rooms, I do believe you've got a real streak
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of the romantic in your make up. Why do you
say that that's time, oh, for wasting your time and
coming all the way down here in answer to the
pleas of a mose shuck maiden. It's your opinion that
I'm wasting my time. If you'll allow me to recount
the facts, I think you'll agree. Delighted your Headlstrant. Just
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use these notes to keep me on the track. On
Monday last mister McCarthy left his farm in Athalie about
three in the afternoon and walked down to Bascombe Pool,
a distance of a lot quarter of a mile. He
never came back alive, and he's a fact I must concede.
You also have to concede that we have two witnesses
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who saw him on his way, and one of them,
William Crowder, a gamekeeper in the employee for mister Turner,
saw McCarthy's son following him with a gun over his arm.
That was all in the paper. Oh there's more. A
girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who's the daughter of the
lodge keeper of the Boscom Fairly estate, was in the
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woods near the pool picking flowers. While she was there,
she saw the elder McCarthy and his son James, in
the midst of a violent quarrel. She even testifies that
she saw the sun raise his hand as if to
strike his father. It's so frightened her that she ran
away and told her mother about it when she reached home,
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to pity you didn't stay and see what happened. Come now,
mister own who are pretty sure of what happened. I mean,
MacCarthy died of injuries to the head inflicted by some
blunt weapon which might very well have been the butt
of the gun, and the son's rifle was found near
the body deserves You'll have to admit that many men
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have been hanged on far as evidence. So they have,
and many men have been wrongfully hanged.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
True, but if ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal,
he does so in Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing.
But I must confess, however, that the case looked succeedingly
grave against the young man, and it's possible that he
may be gives.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You come in, mister Sherlock Holmes. I'm Susan Hanna. I
want to thank you for coming, and I've driven down
here to the Inn to welcome you and help you
in any way I can to prove that James is innocent.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, I sincerely hope we may clear the young man,
Miss Turner. You may rely on me to do all
I can.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I know that James didn't do it. I know it,
and I want you to know it before you start
working on the case.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
My dear young lady, A loyalty to James McCarthy. Does
you credit? But I know nothing before I complete my investigations. First,
may I see your father?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
If I call tomorrow, I'm afraid the doctor won't allow it.
The doctor, yes, father has been ailing for some years,
but this has broken him down completely. Doctor Willow says
that his nervous system is completely shattered.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Hmm. Then your father and the elder McCarthy were close friends. Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yes, indeed, mister McCarthy was the only man alive who
had known Dad in the.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Old days in Victoria.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Ah Aha, at the gold mines where the papers say
your father made his fortune.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Thank you, miss Turner.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But is that all? I've read of your other cases?
And I had my carriageway to take you to the scene.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I shall certainly want to go there at some time,
Miss Turner, But the barometer holds steady. I don't understand,
my dear young lady. You must allow me to pursue
my inquiries as I think best.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh, I will, I will.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I know you've read the evidence in the paper. You
must have discussed the case with the inspector. Do you
see some flaw? Don't you think that he's innocent.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I think that that is very probable.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
There now, Inspector, you heard mister Holmes gives me hope.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Ah well, now I'm afraid, miss Turner that my colleague
may have been a little lasty informing his conclusions.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
With a final brilliant smile of thanks, our young lady
swept to the door and left.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh Holmes, I'm ashamed of you. Why should you raise
her hopes when you're bound and disappointer. I'm not a sentimentalist,
but I call it downright, crew, I think less drunk,
and I see my way to clearing James McCarthy. Have
you in order to see him in prison?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Would?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then we still have armful time to take a train
to Hefford and see him tonight. We can go, of course,
but in my opinion it's a waste of time. I
don't know whether or not you've been informed of the
the remark he made when the local constable informed him
that he was under arrest. What he said, I'm not
surprised to hear it. It's no more than either.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The good Lord homes. That's a confession.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Not at all, doctor, not at all. That was later
followed by a protestation of innocence with all the other
evidence reserves. Don't you consider that a most suspicious remark?
On the contrary, lestid, it's the brightest aspect of the case,
pointing to his Every one of the great detectives of
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fiction can be compared to magicians in their love of mystification,
But with Holmes there's a large difference. Many of the
others loved to mystify simply for the sake of mystification,
whereas Holmes refused to divulge his thoughts until he checked
to be sure that there was no other possible interpretation.
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We'll be back shortly with that too. A little earlier
I mentioned that Sherlock Holmes was the champion of the underdog,
and I suspect that this was an added factor in
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the endless popularity of a Conan Doyle's creation. Now we
have Holmes rushing off to the west of England to
save a man not only suspected of murdering his father,
but sitting in Herford Prison waiting to be tried for
that crime.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
When we entered James McCarthy's so I could understand Miss
Susan Turner's feelings for the young man, for he was
indeed handsome, with a frank cope and countenance that cried
out for belief. But I remembered other criminals were handsome
faces and ristened avidly as Holmes began to question him
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after we were introduced.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I understand, mister McCarthy, that you're an only child. That's
right now. I believe you testified before the coroner's jury
that you had been away from home for three days
and returned only on the day your father was killed.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
So I did.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Where were you for those.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Three days in Bristol?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You have business there, Watson.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Bristol has absolutely nothing to do with my case, and
once again i'll say no more about it very well.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Now, when you returned, did you see your father?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
No, it wasn't home. I was upstairs in my room
when I saw him drive his strap into the yard,
get out and walk very rapidly out of the art.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Sure you're showing which direction he was going.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
It's all down in the records of the Coroner's jewelry.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I've read him. I'd still like to hear it in
your words.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Very well. This is the way it was. I'll try
to let you hear what I said exactly as I
said it.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And now, mister McCarthy, you say you weren't aware in
which direction your father was going when he left the yard, right,
you'd been away for three days. Did it not occur
to you to seek out your father and tell him
you were back? Or were you on bad term?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Oh? We got along all right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You don't deny it quartly with him at the pool? No,
you must have followed him there, did you not.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I told you I had no idea where he was heading.
I took my gun and set off for the rabbit
warren and the games keeper saw me, as he said,
But I wasn't following my father. I had no idea
he was in front of me.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Hey, yeah, just so?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And how then did you meet at the pool?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
I was about fifty yards from the pool, on my
way towards the warren when I heard a cry of hooray,
which was a usual signal between my father and myself.
I turned and went to the pool, and my father
was surprised to see me. He thought I was still
in Bristol. He asked me, rather roughly, what was I
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doing there?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You said you were on good terms with your father?
Did you not find the attitude you describe rather strange
when you returned.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
From a three day absence.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Those who knew my father will back me up when
I say he was a cold and four bidding man
of a violent temper.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But you're his son.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
We had a disagreement of long standing, indeed about what
I'd rather not say. I've already told you about my
father's temper. That's why I left him to avoid blows.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And how long were you gone before you claim you
heard this hideous outcry?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I don't exactly know how long, but I couldn't have
been more than one hundred and fifty yards away. And
then I ran back found my father lying on the
ground for this head, terribly injured. I dropped my gun,
told him in my arms, but he died almost instantly.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Did your father say anything before he died?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
He mumbled a few words, but all I could understand
was something about a rat.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
A rat? What did you take that to me?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Nothing? I thought he was delirious.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I understan I.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Said that to cry Kui. It was a common signal
between you and your father.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It was well. Can you explain then.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
That he used it before he saw you, and indeed
before he even knew you'd return from Bristol.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I can't understand that myself.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
When you returned and presumably found your father fatally injured,
did you see anything which looked strange or suspicious.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
There's only a vague impression in my mind of something
lying on the ground to the left of me, so
I tried to help my father there.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Can you be more specific?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I'll try, but you must understand it was only an impression.
I think it was a coat of some sort, gray perhaps,
or a plaid.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But how is it that none.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Of the officers examining the scene mentioned this thing.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
When I rose from my father, I looked around for it,
but it was gone.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Do you mean it disappeared before you went for help. Yes,
And you don't have any idea what it.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Was, No, just a feeling that something was there. How
far from the body about a dozen yards, and how
far from the edge of the wood about the sand.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Well, then if there was something there, it must have
been removed while you were within a dozen.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yards of it.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Yes, but with my back towards it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That will conclude your examination. I will address the jury
about arriving into verdict.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Of course, I suspected pretty much what the verdict would
be after the coroner's charge, so there wasn't any shock
when they came back and said I should be held
on a murder.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Charge James McCarthy, and we're on our way back to
the inn by train. Sherlock Holmes was in high spirits,
although for the life of me I could see nothing
in what we just heard which pointed to the innocence
of young James McCarthy. Lestrade, of course said, as much.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
As we rode along perfect I see by your expression,
mister Olmes, that you're down to the deductions and inference
zon And for me I find it hard enough to
tackle facts without chasing after theories. Very well, inspector, here's
a fact for you to ponder. We all agree that
McCarthy's senior met his death at the hands of a
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blunt instrument, do we not call it's also a fact
that young McCarty's rifle was examined and found to be
free of blood, hair or any signs that had been
used as a weapon. Isn't that so? Absolutely? And you
don't find it at all strange.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's in the heat of a violent.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Quarrel, the sun lays down on the rifle that he
has in his hand and searches for a rock or
some other suitable weapon with which to strike his father.
Oh well, I believe that will come out when he
confesses it.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He'll all be explained.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
My dear less drad you'll be sorry disappointed if you
pin your hopes upon a confession. First because the young man,
although not very bright, isn't the type to confess. And secondly,
because he can't confess to a crime. He didn't come
in home, come now homes. The coroner's jury came in
with the charge not because of me, but because the
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coroner very correctly pointed to the discrepancies in his story
about the father having signaled to him before seeing him,
and his strange account about his father's dying words, and
his refusal to give the details of the quarrel with
his Both you and the coroner don't blink an eye
at young McCarthy's ability to come up with a fantastic
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tale about his father strange dying words and popping a
rat and mysterious disappearance of some kind of garment where
you do have a way of looking at things with romes.
But if you don't mind my saying, so they're kind
of wrong side up, like the way you took his
saying when he was arrested that it was no more
than he deserved as a sign of his innocence. Most certainly, Lestrade,
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had he appeared surprised when he was arrested or loudly
proclaimed his innocence, I should have looked upon it as
highly suspicious, and they I are why. But however innocent
he might be, cannot be such an absolute imbecile as
not to see that circumstances look very black against him.
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His honest acceptance of this, plus his undoubted self reproach
for his quarrel with his father, bring out the words
it's no more than I deserve.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Miss Trade left us to write a report to the ard.
Holmes insisted that we visit Susan Turner. Accordingly, we drove
to Boscombe Hall, a large house located in the center
of the considerable holdings of mister John Turner.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's Turner. Do you have any idea what caused the
quarrel between James and his father on the day he
was killed.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You've seen James, how is he? Did you tell him?
I believed in his innocence.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
He didn't need to be told. He seems in as
good experience as one could expect. But you haven't answered
my question.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I know. I'm just trying to think whether James would
want me to tell you, since I am involved in it,
and that's the reason he wouldn't tell the coloner.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now, Miss Turner, this is no time for conceding things
that might well be vital to the investigation.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh, you're right, of course, it's no time to hide anything.
James and his father had many disagreements about me. Mister
McCarthy was very anxious that there should be a marriage
between us.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And you're telling me James objected.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Mister Holmes, James and I have always loved each other
as brother and sister. But of course he's young and
he just didn't prepare to undertake marriage just yet. And
I'm sure there were many quarrels between them over this.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And your father did he favor such a marriage?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
No, he was adverse to it. Also, No one but
mister McCarthy was in favor of it at this time.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Did your father ever give you any reason for his objecting?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
As I've told you, mister Holmes, my father hasn't been
well for some time, and I would never think of
discussing anything with him that I felt might cause him distress.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Her dinner that night at the Inn, Holmes was thoughtful
and less buoyant than he'd been earlier in the day
Lestrade joined us at coffee, I.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Miss Helms, have you come up with any fancied deductions
and inference there? As a matter of fact restaurant? I
have only a few interesting questions. Perhaps you can help
me with one of them. Well, glad to do what
I can. Can you tell me the relationship between mister
Turner and the senior McCarthy were. Of course, they were
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the best of friends. He even gave McCarthy Katholic farm
rent free. They went to the races together, indeed, and furthermore,
this business has had a very bad effect on him.
You know, he's in his sixties and hasn't been in
good health for some time. But now it's said that
because of this his life is really in danger. It
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must have been a great blow to him. Well, does
that help you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
At all home?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
In so far as it poses two other interesting questions?
The answer is yes. Well, then perhaps I can answer
those for you also, not unless you happen to have
a map of Australia and know exactly what young James
McCarthy was doing in Bristol for three days. The city
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of Bristol is noted for its extensive port facilities, its
leadership and engineering, and the fan vaulted ceiling of the
famed Church of Saint Mary Ratcliffe. But I doubt if
it was for any of these, if young James McCarthy
spent three days there. We'll find the answer to that
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together with Sherlock Holmes, when I return with Act three.
I'm not in the travel business, but I was struck
with the notion that perhaps England will find it profitable
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to offer a Sherlock Holmes tour, one that would include
visits not only to his famous headquarters at Baker Street,
but would include visits to all of the places where
he and doctor Watson worked that particular brand of detection. Now,
if we can imagine ourselves on one of these tours,
then we'd find ourselves in the west of England at
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a pool in the Busca Valley, the site of a murder.
Tell me, Lestrade, what did you go into the pool for?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I was fishing about with a rake looking for some
whipon or other. But how on earth did you know
that I have no time? Footprints can be easily read
on this marshy ground, and that left foot of yours,
with its inward twists, is all over the place. Oh,
of course, Now I understand why you said you'd wait
until today to examine the scene of the crime. Because
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of the barometer. Eh, the glass was steady. You knew
it wouldn't rain and the tracks would still be upon
my wordless drade. You're actually employing the science of deduction. Congratulations. Now, Watson,
would you be kind enough to let me have your waterproof?
Of course, I warn you, I'm going to place it
on the ground to lie upon it so that I
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can get a better view of these very interesting prints.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's yours, Worford.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Let's see. These are young McCarty's feet, and here twice
he was walking, and here once he ran swiftly. The
soles are deeply marked and the heels barely visible. That
would bear out his story He ran when he saw
his father on the ground. Now hear the elder McCarty's
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feet pacing up and down. He seems to have been impatient.
Then what's this what's this? Aha, the butt end of
the gun? As the son stood listening, And what have
we here? Other prints square quite unusual boots, they come,
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they go, they come again. Of course that was for
cloak or the coat that the son mentioned in his testimony.
Now where did they come from?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Or?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now come along owns. There are a great number of
footprints here. Some of them may well have been made
by local police or even side seers. I cannot accept
your inferences and deductions as facts. That is your privilege disstrade. Now,
if you'll excuse me, I go to search for more
concrete evidence that may change your mind. Oh and where
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do you expect to find that? Under the trees? That
line is pooled and on a map of Australia.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
When Holmes rejoined me, he was cradling a large stone
in the cook of his elbow. I saw him trying
to suppress a smile of triumph as he did me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
He said, I believe the time is now right for
another visit to young James McCarty.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I hope you're bringing me good news, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
If you consider the fact that I believe you're story
to be absolutely true in every detail, good then I
am the bearer of good news.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That's marvelous.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Marvelous.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
When can I hope to be released?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Ah, that's another matter. My knowing that you're innocent is
one thing. Proving it to the authorities is quite another. Now,
Miss Turner has told us about your father's wish that
you and she should marry, and I think it's imperative
that you tell me now the reason for your check
to Bristol.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
That has nothing to do with the killing of my father.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Possibly not, but it has everything to do with my
being able to free you.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Then I'll have to take my chances.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It must be something of which you're bitterly ashamed.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Look, mister Holmes, I'm not ashamed. Anyone can make a mistake.
I made one, but it's over now and I'm not
going to say anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Because of Miss Turner.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Keep her out of it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Do you really think she can be if.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
I have anything say about it, she will be, you.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Found as if you really care for her.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I love her? Do you understand I love her? And
that's why.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You refuse to marry her.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I was already married, but.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Of course your father didn't know.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
No one knew.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
The young lady lives in Bristol.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
She's a barmaid. I was younger, and somehow we ended
up married.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And now you say you're not. I believe you used
the word was.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I received a letter from her the day after I
was arrested. It seems I never was married. She'd had
a husband, a sailor, and now that I was accused
of murder, she let me know that she wanted nothing
to do with me.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And you're afraid to tell Miss Turner.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
If she knew, she'd never consider marrying a fool like me.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm sure you're mistaken. But now that I know the
facts of the matter, perhaps it won't have to be
brought out in court. Come watching. We must have a
chat with restaurant. This may interest you. Restaurant, it is
the murder weapon. This stone, really I see no marks?
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M Garann, Why then do you describe it as the
murder weapon. The grasp was growing hundred it It had
lain in that place only a few days. It corresponds
with the injuries. There is no sign of any other
weapon I see, And perhaps then you can describe the murder. Certainly.
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He's a tall man, left handed, limped with the right leg,
wears thick soled, shooting boots in a gray cloak, smokes
Indian cigars, uses a cigar holder, and carries a blunt
pen knife in his pocket. There are several other indications,
but these should be enough to point us to the murder.
Will point you perhaps, but we still have to deal
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with a very odd headed British jewelry. Doesn't it strike
you as curious that McCarthy, living rent free at Turner's expense,
and thus under great obligation to Turner, should seem so
certain that a marriage between miss Turner and his son
would be appropriate. It might have if I had seen
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the young lady. I mean, she said over he's in
love with that boy. Then if this isn't enough to
move you in the proper direction, there's nothing more I
can do. Watson, look up the timetables and tell me
the next train to London what you're going back to town?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Leaving the case.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Unfinished, My dear lestrade, you have your man and cannot
be moved. And as for me, the case is quite complete.
There are still some unanswered question not for me. I've
described the murderer to you, but too easy? Can you
put a name to him? Surely it shouldn't be too
difficult to find out. I've discharged my duty. The rest
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is up to you.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
After the stard left, hose lit a pipe. Well, I
could see from his expression that he was troubled.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Look here, Watson, I am in a bit of a dilemma.
See how you've done or you could not quite? I
believe I can name the murderer.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, surely then the dilemma is solved. All you have
to do is come in.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Oh, mister Holmes, I'm so glad you're still here. I
can't believe what I heard about your going back to
London is true.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I'm afraid it is. Miss Turner, come in and close
the door.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Inspecualist Drod said, you were convinced that James.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Is innocent, patients, Miss Turner patience. In considering this case,
there were two points that struck me instantly. One was
that his father should cry KOI before seeing him.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's who, according to his story, heard.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I've already told you, my dear fellow. I choose to
believe in the second, the father's singular dying reference to
a rat. I say that if we presume both to
be true, we come up with some strong presumptions. The
father thought his son was in Bristol. The KOI was
meant for someone else. That is a distinctly Australian signal. Therefore,
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I deduce that the person McCarthy expected to meet at
Boscom Pooh was someone who had been in Australia.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
And the reference to the rat.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
This is a map of the colony of Victoria, the
one I told you I wired for last night. Now
I placed my hand over part of this map, and
what do you read, Watson?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
A rat?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
And now when I raised my hand, who Bellarat? Quite
so that was what the elder McCarthy was trying to
tell his son. The name of the murderer, so and
so a ballarature. The possession of a gray garment was
a third point, bringing us to a definite conception. We
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are looking for a person from Australia, from Ballarat with
a gray cloak. A stounded holder. You applaud my performance
before I finished. We can further deduce that this person
is one who is native to this district. Because the
pool can only be approached by the farm or by
the estate, or a stranger would well hardly wander without
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being certain to attract attention. Ah, I have other evidence,
but at all points in the same direction, the direction
of a left handed man with a limb who smokes
Indian cigar.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
But you told the dread he used a cigar holder.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He does. The cigar stump I found clearly showed that
the end had not been in his mouth, therefore he
used a holder, and the tip had not been bitn off.
But the cut was not a clean one, so that
the duction is clear that he must have used a
blunt penknife.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I don't want to hear any more. Mister Holmes and
doctor Watson. You must forgive me, but I cannot say
I have.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
A good lord. I never expected you to be here, Susan.
Mister Horge, your note.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Said I apologized, but there was no way of avoiding
this issue.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well, I suppose not, and I assure you I would
have spoken before now if it weren't for Susan, She's father.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I don't think you should say any more.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's too late, my dear.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I have a great deal more to say, and it's
best now that you hear it all.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It cannot be arrested. I will not have him arrested.
I sent for you, mister Holmes, and that I can
send you away.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
There may be no arrest, but homes we are not
police officials, Watson. I came here at Miss Turner's request.
As she says, however, an innocent man must not be
allowed to suffer. I have had diabetes for years, and
my doctor says now that it's only a question of
a month or two before.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I before I die.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
That I tell you, no one knew the true character
of that dead man. He was a devil incarnate and
his grip has been upon me these past twenty years.
It stems from Australia.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yes, back in the early sixties, I went, it was
chaire to make my fortune. I've failed that. My diggings
fell among bad companions. Oh, I was.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Soft, gudded and victors. I took to the bush and
became in thought nothing better than the highwaymen.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
There were six of us and we had a wild, free.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Live black Jack of Belleret was the name I went under,
and we'll still remember now there as the Ballarette Gang.
And then one day we heard of a gold convoy
coming from Bellaret to Melbourne. The Escorps troopers outnumbered us,
but as.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I said, we were reckless. All right, Quiet let's go
get out. Whoa old hat?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
His teddy driver courry by, But I climb up and
get him to help me unload the gold cord. Driver,
you'd neither help us unhold this gold, or I'll put
a pullet through your brain. We got away with the gold,
but the driver of that coach was the same McCarthy.
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I wish i'd shut an end, but I gave it
no thought.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
And how many years later did he find you?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Summon Evan? Or so I suppose it was a punishment
God laid on me, despite the fact that I turn
over a new leaf and tried to make up for
my past. I gone to London about an investment when
I met him in Reach Street with.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Hardly a coat to his back or a boot to
his foot. But he'd been tracking you.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
But he must have been because he knew I didn't
live in London. It touched me in the arm, and
I'll never forget his words. And here we are, Jack,
He said, we'll be as good as a family to you.
There's two of us, me and my son, and you
can have the keeping office if.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
You don't well.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
England's a fine, law abiding country, and there's always a
policeman nearby, and.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
So you've been supporting him ever since. Whatever he wanted
to got without question, land, money, houses, And then he
went too far. He wanted his son to marry Susan.
But the boy seems a nice enough land though I
had no objection, Sir James. But as you know, high
and I don't have long to live.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
And he grinningly told me it was only his just
do that he should step into the whole property at
Susan's father in I drew the mine of that. So
we were we were to meet at the pool for
a final talk.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
And why after all these years did it end violently?
Because he threatened to tell Susan And suddenly I saw red.
I stooped, I picked up a stone and I struck
him down. His cries brought back his son that I
had gained the cover of the wood, although I was
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forced to go back for my cloak.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
There, mister Holmes, that's that's the true story. Alexander Turner
guide this than a month after he'd given us his
confession in the air at Heraphon, with Holmes feeding young
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McCarthy's counsul ammunisue with which to shoot down the case
for the prosecution, and with the young man revealing the
reason for his Bristol visit, he won an acquittal. That
very night, Holmes and I sat before a fire in
a bigger street flat, watching Turner's confession turned to cinders
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in the Kraickling flames.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
My dear Watson, don't threat too much about my not
being able to take credit for solving the bask and
Pool mystery. How the devil did you lie? I'm sure
that after the passage of time you'll write it in
those memoirs you're working on. And don't forget to point
out that the one person everyone tried to protect, Susan Turner,
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knew the whole story, while James McCarthy was spared the
knowledge that his father was a blackmailer and his father
in law a murderer. Sherlock Holmes wants remarked that art
the blood is liable to take the strangest forms, and
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Holmes creator Conan Doyle proved it by permitting the stolet
doctor Watson to become mischievous about the stories that were
supposedly too delicate to open to the public. And here
Doyle let Watson's imagination run wild as he mentions the
fact that he could never never tell us the story
of the Politician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant, the
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mischievously intriguing title that there ever was one. I'll be
back shortly. When I mentioned that we could never read
any of the unrecorded adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I neglected
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to tell you that Doyle's son and famed mystery story
writer John Dixon Carr, did collaborate on a volume which
included some of them. They were interesting, but, as the
authors themselves would be the first to admit, lacked the
master's touch that made a Conan Doyle and his Sherlock
Holmes world famous, but they never dared to tackle the
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story of the Politician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant.
Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Court Benson, Patricia Elliott, Ian
Martin and Dennis Coch. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our
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next tale, A world I made all by myself.
Speaker 7 (43:42):
Smith's world.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
That's sight.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
It's a small planel created out of an artificial cosmos.
Right now, It's heat intensities almost great enough to shatter
the retaining glass, so we'll have to start the cooling process.
Speaker 7 (44:00):
He tugged at the switch in the panel, but I
could see at once. But something was wrong.
Speaker 8 (44:04):
Huh huh, snut moving there, refrigeration switches jam, something's wrong.
Speaker 7 (44:09):
I think a strange mud brown sphere in the cabinet
was still growing in size, and now it began to
glow with its own heat. Get out of here, Get
everyone out of a building, Luke. Suddenly Smith seemed like
nothing more than a frightened child. I told him that
we were alone in the building, and he pleaded with
me to leave while he wrestled with the dials and
switches in an attempt to stop the terrible process that
was taking place.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Slip out of here, Luke, there isn't much time.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
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Speaker 1 (44:40):
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Everyone knows that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started in life
as a doctor, not a writer. But how many of
us know what type of medicine he specialized in or
where his real medical offices were located? For your information,
Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle opened his office at two Devonshire Place,
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near Harley Street in eighteen ninety one. He was an
eye specialist. While he waited for the patients that never came,
he created the unforgettable characters of Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. Watson,
you know, my method is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But the cigars.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Once having located the tree behind which the killer stood,
it was child's play to find a cigar stump where
he had talked its birth. The end had not been
in his mouth, therefore he used a holder. The tip
had been cut, not bitten off, but the cut wasn't
a clean one, hence the penknife.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh so you've drawn a net around his man from
which he cannot escape. How do you do it?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Elementary, my dear Watson, our mystery drama The Bascomb Pool
mystery was based on the Sherlock Holmes classic and adapted
especially for the Mystery theater by Murray Burnett, his stars
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Kevin mc carthy. It is sponsored in part by am
Allergy Relief Medicine and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with that one. It's a singular facts that we
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know more of Sherlock Holmes than we do of his creator,
Sir Arthur Conandoyle. Of course, we all know he was
a doctor and that he believed in spiritualism, but most
of us are unaware that he was also a whaler, athlete, speculator, historian, dramatist,
war correspondent, and ever and always the champion of the underdog,
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as is so well illustrated in the mystery which follows.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
One morning, when my wife and I were seated at breakfast,
the maid brought in the telegram. I slid it open,
read it to marry, Have you a few days to spare?
Have just been wired for from the west of England
in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Should appreciate your coming
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with me, leave Paddington by the eleven fifteen.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, darling, you'll need some time, and so I shall
help you pat I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
At all sure that I should go, but I have
a fairly long list of patients and.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I will handle those for you. I think the change
will do you good. And you know how interested you
are in all of Sherlock Holmes's cases.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I should be an ingrate if I weren't. I met
you through one of them.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Now you've finished our coffee, while I go and get
you packed.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And so within a very few minutes I was in
a cab rattling away to Paddington Station. After paying the cab,
he I spotted the tall, gaunt figure of Homes pacing
up and down the platform. He saw me. His face
lighted up with one of his real smiles, and he.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Said, very good of you to come once enough. It
makes a considerable difference to me having someone with me
on whom I can thoroughly rely. If you will keep
the two corner seats, I'll get the tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We had the compartment to ourselves the batch of newspapers
Homes have brought along with him. As we settled down
for the journey, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Asked, have you heard anything about the case?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I haven't seen the paper for some day just.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
As well, the London Fairs hasn't had very complete accounts,
and that's why I brought these these local papers along.
I've already read through them, and I gather it's one
of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult. Well,
it isn't that paradoxical, of course, and profoundly true. Singularity
is almost indelliably a clue. The more commonplace of crime,
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the more difficult it is to bring home. In this instant, however,
the police seem to have established a very serious case
against the son of the murdered man. It is a murder, then,
according to our old friend Lestrade, it's not only murder,
but he has the guilty man under lock and key.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What brings you to it, then can appeal for.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Help from a young lady and a feeling that all
isn't as simple as it seems on the surface. I
know Lestrade's theory of crime, and I shall either confirm
or destroy it by means which he refuses to employ.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Who refuses or is unable.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
To nonsense, my dear Watson, anyone with eyes can use
my methods to take the first example to hand. I
very clearly perceive that in your bedroom the window is
on the right hand side.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
By but herbs. You've never visited us. How on earth would.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
My dear doctor. I know the military neatness which characterizes you.
You shave every morning, and in this lovely spring you
shave by sunlight. But since your saving is less and
less complete as we get farther back on the left side,
and it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the
angle of the jar, it's obvious that that side is
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less illuminated than the other.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Hurt you never cease to amaze.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Behold, that's only an elementary example of observation and inference,
my dear chap. Now I suggest that you devote your
time to these newspaper accounts and see if you can
reach the same conclusions as I have on my word
as rooms, I do believe you've got a real streak
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of the romantic in your make up. Why do you
say that that's time, oh, for wasting your time and
coming all the way down here in answer to the
pleas of a mose shuck maiden. It's your opinion that
I'm wasting my time. If you'll allow me to recount
the facts, I think you'll agree. Delighted your Headlstrant. Just
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use these notes to keep me on the track. On
Monday last mister McCarthy left his farm in Athalie about
three in the afternoon and walked down to Bascombe Pool,
a distance of a lot quarter of a mile. He
never came back alive, and he's a fact I must concede.
You also have to concede that we have two witnesses
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who saw him on his way, and one of them,
William Crowder, a gamekeeper in the employee for mister Turner,
saw McCarthy's son following him with a gun over his arm.
That was all in the paper. Oh there's more. A
girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who's the daughter of the
lodge keeper of the Boscom Fairly estate, was in the
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woods near the pool picking flowers. While she was there,
she saw the elder McCarthy and his son James, in
the midst of a violent quarrel. She even testifies that
she saw the sun raise his hand as if to
strike his father. It's so frightened her that she ran
away and told her mother about it when she reached home,
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to pity you didn't stay and see what happened. Come now,
mister own who are pretty sure of what happened. I mean,
MacCarthy died of injuries to the head inflicted by some
blunt weapon which might very well have been the butt
of the gun, and the son's rifle was found near
the body deserves You'll have to admit that many men
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have been hanged on far as evidence. So they have,
and many men have been wrongfully hanged.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
True, but if ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal,
he does so in Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing.
But I must confess, however, that the case looked succeedingly
grave against the young man, and it's possible that he
may be gives.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You come in, mister Sherlock Holmes. I'm Susan Hanna. I
want to thank you for coming, and I've driven down
here to the Inn to welcome you and help you
in any way I can to prove that James is innocent.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, I sincerely hope we may clear the young man,
Miss Turner. You may rely on me to do all
I can.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I know that James didn't do it. I know it,
and I want you to know it before you start
working on the case.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
My dear young lady, A loyalty to James McCarthy. Does
you credit? But I know nothing before I complete my investigations. First,
may I see your father?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
If I call tomorrow, I'm afraid the doctor won't allow it.
The doctor, yes, father has been ailing for some years,
but this has broken him down completely. Doctor Willow says
that his nervous system is completely shattered.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Hmm. Then your father and the elder McCarthy were close friends. Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yes, indeed, mister McCarthy was the only man alive who
had known Dad in the.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Old days in Victoria.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Ah Aha, at the gold mines where the papers say
your father made his fortune.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Thank you, miss Turner.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But is that all? I've read of your other cases?
And I had my carriageway to take you to the scene.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I shall certainly want to go there at some time,
Miss Turner, But the barometer holds steady. I don't understand,
my dear young lady. You must allow me to pursue
my inquiries as I think best.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh, I will, I will.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I know you've read the evidence in the paper. You
must have discussed the case with the inspector. Do you
see some flaw? Don't you think that he's innocent.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I think that that is very probable.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
There now, Inspector, you heard mister Holmes gives me hope.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Ah well, now I'm afraid, miss Turner that my colleague
may have been a little lasty informing his conclusions.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
With a final brilliant smile of thanks, our young lady
swept to the door and left.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh Holmes, I'm ashamed of you. Why should you raise
her hopes when you're bound and disappointer. I'm not a sentimentalist,
but I call it downright, crew, I think less drunk,
and I see my way to clearing James McCarthy. Have
you in order to see him in prison?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Would?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then we still have armful time to take a train
to Hefford and see him tonight. We can go, of course,
but in my opinion it's a waste of time. I
don't know whether or not you've been informed of the
the remark he made when the local constable informed him
that he was under arrest. What he said, I'm not
surprised to hear it. It's no more than either.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The good Lord homes. That's a confession.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Not at all, doctor, not at all. That was later
followed by a protestation of innocence with all the other
evidence reserves. Don't you consider that a most suspicious remark?
On the contrary, lestid, it's the brightest aspect of the case,
pointing to his Every one of the great detectives of
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fiction can be compared to magicians in their love of mystification,
But with Holmes there's a large difference. Many of the
others loved to mystify simply for the sake of mystification,
whereas Holmes refused to divulge his thoughts until he checked
to be sure that there was no other possible interpretation.
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We'll be back shortly with that too. A little earlier
I mentioned that Sherlock Holmes was the champion of the underdog,
and I suspect that this was an added factor in
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the endless popularity of a Conan Doyle's creation. Now we
have Holmes rushing off to the west of England to
save a man not only suspected of murdering his father,
but sitting in Herford Prison waiting to be tried for
that crime.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
When we entered James McCarthy's so I could understand Miss
Susan Turner's feelings for the young man, for he was
indeed handsome, with a frank cope and countenance that cried
out for belief. But I remembered other criminals were handsome
faces and ristened avidly as Holmes began to question him
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after we were introduced.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I understand, mister McCarthy, that you're an only child. That's
right now. I believe you testified before the coroner's jury
that you had been away from home for three days
and returned only on the day your father was killed.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
So I did.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Where were you for those.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Three days in Bristol?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You have business there, Watson.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Bristol has absolutely nothing to do with my case, and
once again i'll say no more about it very well.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Now, when you returned, did you see your father?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
No, it wasn't home. I was upstairs in my room
when I saw him drive his strap into the yard,
get out and walk very rapidly out of the art.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Sure you're showing which direction he was going.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
It's all down in the records of the Coroner's jewelry.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I've read him. I'd still like to hear it in
your words.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Very well. This is the way it was. I'll try
to let you hear what I said exactly as I
said it.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And now, mister McCarthy, you say you weren't aware in
which direction your father was going when he left the yard, right,
you'd been away for three days. Did it not occur
to you to seek out your father and tell him
you were back? Or were you on bad term?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Oh? We got along all right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You don't deny it quartly with him at the pool? No,
you must have followed him there, did you not.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I told you I had no idea where he was heading.
I took my gun and set off for the rabbit
warren and the games keeper saw me, as he said,
But I wasn't following my father. I had no idea
he was in front of me.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Hey, yeah, just so?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And how then did you meet at the pool?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
I was about fifty yards from the pool, on my
way towards the warren when I heard a cry of hooray,
which was a usual signal between my father and myself.
I turned and went to the pool, and my father
was surprised to see me. He thought I was still
in Bristol. He asked me, rather roughly, what was I
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doing there?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You said you were on good terms with your father?
Did you not find the attitude you describe rather strange
when you returned.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
From a three day absence.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Those who knew my father will back me up when
I say he was a cold and four bidding man
of a violent temper.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But you're his son.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
We had a disagreement of long standing, indeed about what
I'd rather not say. I've already told you about my
father's temper. That's why I left him to avoid blows.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And how long were you gone before you claim you
heard this hideous outcry?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I don't exactly know how long, but I couldn't have
been more than one hundred and fifty yards away. And
then I ran back found my father lying on the
ground for this head, terribly injured. I dropped my gun,
told him in my arms, but he died almost instantly.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Did your father say anything before he died?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
He mumbled a few words, but all I could understand
was something about a rat.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
A rat? What did you take that to me?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Nothing? I thought he was delirious.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I understan I.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Said that to cry Kui. It was a common signal
between you and your father.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It was well. Can you explain then.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
That he used it before he saw you, and indeed
before he even knew you'd return from Bristol.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I can't understand that myself.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
When you returned and presumably found your father fatally injured,
did you see anything which looked strange or suspicious.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
There's only a vague impression in my mind of something
lying on the ground to the left of me, so
I tried to help my father there.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Can you be more specific?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I'll try, but you must understand it was only an impression.
I think it was a coat of some sort, gray perhaps,
or a plaid.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But how is it that none.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Of the officers examining the scene mentioned this thing.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
When I rose from my father, I looked around for it,
but it was gone.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Do you mean it disappeared before you went for help. Yes,
And you don't have any idea what it.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Was, No, just a feeling that something was there. How
far from the body about a dozen yards, and how
far from the edge of the wood about the sand.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Well, then if there was something there, it must have
been removed while you were within a dozen.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yards of it.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Yes, but with my back towards it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That will conclude your examination. I will address the jury
about arriving into verdict.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Of course, I suspected pretty much what the verdict would
be after the coroner's charge, so there wasn't any shock
when they came back and said I should be held
on a murder.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Charge James McCarthy, and we're on our way back to
the inn by train. Sherlock Holmes was in high spirits,
although for the life of me I could see nothing
in what we just heard which pointed to the innocence
of young James McCarthy. Lestrade, of course said, as much.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
As we rode along perfect I see by your expression,
mister Olmes, that you're down to the deductions and inference
zon And for me I find it hard enough to
tackle facts without chasing after theories. Very well, inspector, here's
a fact for you to ponder. We all agree that
McCarthy's senior met his death at the hands of a
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blunt instrument, do we not call it's also a fact
that young McCarty's rifle was examined and found to be
free of blood, hair or any signs that had been
used as a weapon. Isn't that so? Absolutely? And you
don't find it at all strange.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's in the heat of a violent.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Quarrel, the sun lays down on the rifle that he
has in his hand and searches for a rock or
some other suitable weapon with which to strike his father.
Oh well, I believe that will come out when he
confesses it.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He'll all be explained.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
My dear less drad you'll be sorry disappointed if you
pin your hopes upon a confession. First because the young man,
although not very bright, isn't the type to confess. And secondly,
because he can't confess to a crime. He didn't come
in home, come now homes. The coroner's jury came in
with the charge not because of me, but because the
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coroner very correctly pointed to the discrepancies in his story
about the father having signaled to him before seeing him,
and his strange account about his father's dying words, and
his refusal to give the details of the quarrel with
his Both you and the coroner don't blink an eye
at young McCarthy's ability to come up with a fantastic
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tale about his father strange dying words and popping a
rat and mysterious disappearance of some kind of garment where
you do have a way of looking at things with romes.
But if you don't mind my saying, so they're kind
of wrong side up, like the way you took his
saying when he was arrested that it was no more
than he deserved as a sign of his innocence. Most certainly, Lestrade,
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had he appeared surprised when he was arrested or loudly
proclaimed his innocence, I should have looked upon it as
highly suspicious, and they I are why. But however innocent
he might be, cannot be such an absolute imbecile as
not to see that circumstances look very black against him.
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His honest acceptance of this, plus his undoubted self reproach
for his quarrel with his father, bring out the words
it's no more than I deserve.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Miss Trade left us to write a report to the ard.
Holmes insisted that we visit Susan Turner. Accordingly, we drove
to Boscombe Hall, a large house located in the center
of the considerable holdings of mister John Turner.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's Turner. Do you have any idea what caused the
quarrel between James and his father on the day he
was killed.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You've seen James, how is he? Did you tell him?
I believed in his innocence.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
He didn't need to be told. He seems in as
good experience as one could expect. But you haven't answered
my question.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I know. I'm just trying to think whether James would
want me to tell you, since I am involved in it,
and that's the reason he wouldn't tell the coloner.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now, Miss Turner, this is no time for conceding things
that might well be vital to the investigation.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh, you're right, of course, it's no time to hide anything.
James and his father had many disagreements about me. Mister
McCarthy was very anxious that there should be a marriage
between us.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And you're telling me James objected.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Mister Holmes, James and I have always loved each other
as brother and sister. But of course he's young and
he just didn't prepare to undertake marriage just yet. And
I'm sure there were many quarrels between them over this.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And your father did he favor such a marriage?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
No, he was adverse to it. Also, No one but
mister McCarthy was in favor of it at this time.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Did your father ever give you any reason for his objecting?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
As I've told you, mister Holmes, my father hasn't been
well for some time, and I would never think of
discussing anything with him that I felt might cause him distress.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Her dinner that night at the Inn, Holmes was thoughtful
and less buoyant than he'd been earlier in the day
Lestrade joined us at coffee, I.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Miss Helms, have you come up with any fancied deductions
and inference there? As a matter of fact restaurant? I
have only a few interesting questions. Perhaps you can help
me with one of them. Well, glad to do what
I can. Can you tell me the relationship between mister
Turner and the senior McCarthy were. Of course, they were
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the best of friends. He even gave McCarthy Katholic farm
rent free. They went to the races together, indeed, and furthermore,
this business has had a very bad effect on him.
You know, he's in his sixties and hasn't been in
good health for some time. But now it's said that
because of this his life is really in danger. It
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must have been a great blow to him. Well, does
that help you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
At all home?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
In so far as it poses two other interesting questions?
The answer is yes. Well, then perhaps I can answer
those for you also, not unless you happen to have
a map of Australia and know exactly what young James
McCarthy was doing in Bristol for three days. The city
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of Bristol is noted for its extensive port facilities, its
leadership and engineering, and the fan vaulted ceiling of the
famed Church of Saint Mary Ratcliffe. But I doubt if
it was for any of these, if young James McCarthy
spent three days there. We'll find the answer to that
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together with Sherlock Holmes, when I return with Act three.
I'm not in the travel business, but I was struck
with the notion that perhaps England will find it profitable
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to offer a Sherlock Holmes tour, one that would include
visits not only to his famous headquarters at Baker Street,
but would include visits to all of the places where
he and doctor Watson worked that particular brand of detection. Now,
if we can imagine ourselves on one of these tours,
then we'd find ourselves in the west of England at
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a pool in the Busca Valley, the site of a murder.
Tell me, Lestrade, what did you go into the pool for?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I was fishing about with a rake looking for some
whipon or other. But how on earth did you know
that I have no time? Footprints can be easily read
on this marshy ground, and that left foot of yours,
with its inward twists, is all over the place. Oh,
of course, Now I understand why you said you'd wait
until today to examine the scene of the crime. Because
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of the barometer. Eh, the glass was steady. You knew
it wouldn't rain and the tracks would still be upon
my wordless drade. You're actually employing the science of deduction. Congratulations. Now, Watson,
would you be kind enough to let me have your waterproof?
Of course, I warn you, I'm going to place it
on the ground to lie upon it so that I
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can get a better view of these very interesting prints.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's yours, Worford.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Let's see. These are young McCarty's feet, and here twice
he was walking, and here once he ran swiftly. The
soles are deeply marked and the heels barely visible. That
would bear out his story He ran when he saw
his father on the ground. Now hear the elder McCarty's
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feet pacing up and down. He seems to have been impatient.
Then what's this what's this? Aha, the butt end of
the gun? As the son stood listening, And what have
we here? Other prints square quite unusual boots, they come,
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they go, they come again. Of course that was for
cloak or the coat that the son mentioned in his testimony.
Now where did they come from?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Or?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now come along owns. There are a great number of
footprints here. Some of them may well have been made
by local police or even side seers. I cannot accept
your inferences and deductions as facts. That is your privilege disstrade. Now,
if you'll excuse me, I go to search for more
concrete evidence that may change your mind. Oh and where
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do you expect to find that? Under the trees? That
line is pooled and on a map of Australia.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
When Holmes rejoined me, he was cradling a large stone
in the cook of his elbow. I saw him trying
to suppress a smile of triumph as he did me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
He said, I believe the time is now right for
another visit to young James McCarty.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I hope you're bringing me good news, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
If you consider the fact that I believe you're story
to be absolutely true in every detail, good then I
am the bearer of good news.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That's marvelous.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Marvelous.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
When can I hope to be released?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Ah, that's another matter. My knowing that you're innocent is
one thing. Proving it to the authorities is quite another. Now,
Miss Turner has told us about your father's wish that
you and she should marry, and I think it's imperative
that you tell me now the reason for your check
to Bristol.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
That has nothing to do with the killing of my father.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Possibly not, but it has everything to do with my
being able to free you.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Then I'll have to take my chances.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It must be something of which you're bitterly ashamed.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Look, mister Holmes, I'm not ashamed. Anyone can make a mistake.
I made one, but it's over now and I'm not
going to say anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Because of Miss Turner.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Keep her out of it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Do you really think she can be if.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
I have anything say about it, she will be, you.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Found as if you really care for her.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I love her? Do you understand I love her? And
that's why.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You refuse to marry her.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I was already married, but.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Of course your father didn't know.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
No one knew.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
The young lady lives in Bristol.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
She's a barmaid. I was younger, and somehow we ended
up married.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And now you say you're not. I believe you used
the word was.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I received a letter from her the day after I
was arrested. It seems I never was married. She'd had
a husband, a sailor, and now that I was accused
of murder, she let me know that she wanted nothing
to do with me.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And you're afraid to tell Miss Turner.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
If she knew, she'd never consider marrying a fool like me.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm sure you're mistaken. But now that I know the
facts of the matter, perhaps it won't have to be
brought out in court. Come watching. We must have a
chat with restaurant. This may interest you. Restaurant, it is
the murder weapon. This stone, really I see no marks?
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M Garann, Why then do you describe it as the
murder weapon. The grasp was growing hundred it It had
lain in that place only a few days. It corresponds
with the injuries. There is no sign of any other
weapon I see, And perhaps then you can describe the murder. Certainly.
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He's a tall man, left handed, limped with the right leg,
wears thick soled, shooting boots in a gray cloak, smokes
Indian cigars, uses a cigar holder, and carries a blunt
pen knife in his pocket. There are several other indications,
but these should be enough to point us to the murder.
Will point you perhaps, but we still have to deal
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with a very odd headed British jewelry. Doesn't it strike
you as curious that McCarthy, living rent free at Turner's expense,
and thus under great obligation to Turner, should seem so
certain that a marriage between miss Turner and his son
would be appropriate. It might have if I had seen
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the young lady. I mean, she said over he's in
love with that boy. Then if this isn't enough to
move you in the proper direction, there's nothing more I
can do. Watson, look up the timetables and tell me
the next train to London what you're going back to town?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Leaving the case.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Unfinished, My dear lestrade, you have your man and cannot
be moved. And as for me, the case is quite complete.
There are still some unanswered question not for me. I've
described the murderer to you, but too easy? Can you
put a name to him? Surely it shouldn't be too
difficult to find out. I've discharged my duty. The rest
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is up to you.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
After the stard left, hose lit a pipe. Well, I
could see from his expression that he was troubled.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Look here, Watson, I am in a bit of a dilemma.
See how you've done or you could not quite? I
believe I can name the murderer.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, surely then the dilemma is solved. All you have
to do is come in.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Oh, mister Holmes, I'm so glad you're still here. I
can't believe what I heard about your going back to
London is true.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I'm afraid it is. Miss Turner, come in and close
the door.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Inspecualist Drod said, you were convinced that James.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Is innocent, patients, Miss Turner patience. In considering this case,
there were two points that struck me instantly. One was
that his father should cry KOI before seeing him.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's who, according to his story, heard.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I've already told you, my dear fellow. I choose to
believe in the second, the father's singular dying reference to
a rat. I say that if we presume both to
be true, we come up with some strong presumptions. The
father thought his son was in Bristol. The KOI was
meant for someone else. That is a distinctly Australian signal. Therefore,
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I deduce that the person McCarthy expected to meet at
Boscom Pooh was someone who had been in Australia.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
And the reference to the rat.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
This is a map of the colony of Victoria, the
one I told you I wired for last night. Now
I placed my hand over part of this map, and
what do you read, Watson?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
A rat?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
And now when I raised my hand, who Bellarat? Quite
so that was what the elder McCarthy was trying to
tell his son. The name of the murderer, so and
so a ballarature. The possession of a gray garment was
a third point, bringing us to a definite conception. We
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are looking for a person from Australia, from Ballarat with
a gray cloak. A stounded holder. You applaud my performance
before I finished. We can further deduce that this person
is one who is native to this district. Because the
pool can only be approached by the farm or by
the estate, or a stranger would well hardly wander without
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being certain to attract attention. Ah, I have other evidence,
but at all points in the same direction, the direction
of a left handed man with a limb who smokes
Indian cigar.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
But you told the dread he used a cigar holder.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He does. The cigar stump I found clearly showed that
the end had not been in his mouth, therefore he
used a holder, and the tip had not been bitn off.
But the cut was not a clean one, so that
the duction is clear that he must have used a
blunt penknife.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I don't want to hear any more. Mister Holmes and
doctor Watson. You must forgive me, but I cannot say
I have.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
A good lord. I never expected you to be here, Susan.
Mister Horge, your note.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Said I apologized, but there was no way of avoiding
this issue.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well, I suppose not, and I assure you I would
have spoken before now if it weren't for Susan, She's father.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I don't think you should say any more.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's too late, my dear.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I have a great deal more to say, and it's
best now that you hear it all.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It cannot be arrested. I will not have him arrested.
I sent for you, mister Holmes, and that I can
send you away.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
There may be no arrest, but homes we are not
police officials, Watson. I came here at Miss Turner's request.
As she says, however, an innocent man must not be
allowed to suffer. I have had diabetes for years, and
my doctor says now that it's only a question of
a month or two before.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I before I die.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
That I tell you, no one knew the true character
of that dead man. He was a devil incarnate and
his grip has been upon me these past twenty years.
It stems from Australia.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yes, back in the early sixties, I went, it was
chaire to make my fortune. I've failed that. My diggings
fell among bad companions. Oh, I was.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Soft, gudded and victors. I took to the bush and
became in thought nothing better than the highwaymen.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
There were six of us and we had a wild, free.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Live black Jack of Belleret was the name I went under,
and we'll still remember now there as the Ballarette Gang.
And then one day we heard of a gold convoy
coming from Bellaret to Melbourne. The Escorps troopers outnumbered us,
but as.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I said, we were reckless. All right, Quiet let's go
get out. Whoa old hat?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
His teddy driver courry by, But I climb up and
get him to help me unload the gold cord. Driver,
you'd neither help us unhold this gold, or I'll put
a pullet through your brain. We got away with the gold,
but the driver of that coach was the same McCarthy.
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I wish i'd shut an end, but I gave it
no thought.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
And how many years later did he find you?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Summon Evan? Or so I suppose it was a punishment
God laid on me, despite the fact that I turn
over a new leaf and tried to make up for
my past. I gone to London about an investment when
I met him in Reach Street with.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Hardly a coat to his back or a boot to
his foot. But he'd been tracking you.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
But he must have been because he knew I didn't
live in London. It touched me in the arm, and
I'll never forget his words. And here we are, Jack,
He said, we'll be as good as a family to you.
There's two of us, me and my son, and you
can have the keeping office if.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
You don't well.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
England's a fine, law abiding country, and there's always a
policeman nearby, and.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
So you've been supporting him ever since. Whatever he wanted
to got without question, land, money, houses, And then he
went too far. He wanted his son to marry Susan.
But the boy seems a nice enough land though I
had no objection, Sir James. But as you know, high
and I don't have long to live.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
And he grinningly told me it was only his just
do that he should step into the whole property at
Susan's father in I drew the mine of that. So
we were we were to meet at the pool for
a final talk.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
And why after all these years did it end violently?
Because he threatened to tell Susan And suddenly I saw red.
I stooped, I picked up a stone and I struck
him down. His cries brought back his son that I
had gained the cover of the wood, although I was
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forced to go back for my cloak.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
There, mister Holmes, that's that's the true story. Alexander Turner
guide this than a month after he'd given us his
confession in the air at Heraphon, with Holmes feeding young
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McCarthy's counsul ammunisue with which to shoot down the case
for the prosecution, and with the young man revealing the
reason for his Bristol visit, he won an acquittal. That
very night, Holmes and I sat before a fire in
a bigger street flat, watching Turner's confession turned to cinders
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in the Kraickling flames.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
My dear Watson, don't threat too much about my not
being able to take credit for solving the bask and
Pool mystery. How the devil did you lie? I'm sure
that after the passage of time you'll write it in
those memoirs you're working on. And don't forget to point
out that the one person everyone tried to protect, Susan Turner,
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knew the whole story, while James McCarthy was spared the
knowledge that his father was a blackmailer and his father
in law a murderer. Sherlock Holmes wants remarked that art
the blood is liable to take the strangest forms, and
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Holmes creator Conan Doyle proved it by permitting the stolet
doctor Watson to become mischievous about the stories that were
supposedly too delicate to open to the public. And here
Doyle let Watson's imagination run wild as he mentions the
fact that he could never never tell us the story
of the Politician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant, the
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mischievously intriguing title that there ever was one. I'll be
back shortly. When I mentioned that we could never read
any of the unrecorded adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I neglected
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to tell you that Doyle's son and famed mystery story
writer John Dixon Carr, did collaborate on a volume which
included some of them. They were interesting, but, as the
authors themselves would be the first to admit, lacked the
master's touch that made a Conan Doyle and his Sherlock
Holmes world famous, but they never dared to tackle the
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story of the Politician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant.
Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Court Benson, Patricia Elliott, Ian
Martin and Dennis Coch. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our
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next tale, A world I made all by myself.
Speaker 7 (43:42):
Smith's world.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
That's sight.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
It's a small planel created out of an artificial cosmos.
Right now, It's heat intensities almost great enough to shatter
the retaining glass, so we'll have to start the cooling process.
Speaker 7 (44:00):
He tugged at the switch in the panel, but I
could see at once. But something was wrong.
Speaker 8 (44:04):
Huh huh, snut moving there, refrigeration switches jam, something's wrong.
Speaker 7 (44:09):
I think a strange mud brown sphere in the cabinet
was still growing in size, and now it began to
glow with its own heat. Get out of here, Get
everyone out of a building, Luke. Suddenly Smith seemed like
nothing more than a frightened child. I told him that
we were alone in the building, and he pleaded with
me to leave while he wrestled with the dials and
switches in an attempt to stop the terrible process that
was taking place.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Slip out of here, Luke, there isn't much time.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by True Value
Hardware Stores and Bilick Motor Division.
Speaker 8 (44:40):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,
(45:10):
Bye by
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