July 23, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Transmitted to our men and women overseas by shortwave and
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Petree Wine brings.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You Basil Rockborne and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures
of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took
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to Doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared
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with his old friend, that Master Detective Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Tonight, instead of joining the doctor at his home, we're
all meeting here at Camp.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Roberts in California, where the Doctor is going to tell
his story before a large audience of GI's And as usual,
I'm going to tell my story right now. It's about
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Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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and then take that Petrie Sherry.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Does that ever good?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
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now let's join Doctor Watson and get on.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
With that story. Good evening, Well doctor, your study seems
a little bitter than usual this week.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I felt it as tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure was
rather than an exciting one. The men here at Camp
Roberts might like me.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
To set collect for them in first I'm sure they
will doctor.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Which particular story of your selected Why would I fall
the string?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Which case of the murder in wex It concerns one
of the most sinister mass murderers whoever threatened the peace
of London.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
It's in the summer of nineteen.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Hundred and the set had been roped by a series
of gustly murders on Hampstead Heath. Hampstead Heath, Yes, Hampstead
He's that's a large rambling park in the suburbs of London.
Mister Bartell and noted as a rendezvous for young lovers.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It was here the the elusive murderer, knife in hand,
was wont to roam at nighttime searching for his prey.
All of his victims were young girls, and despite the
frantic efforts of the peace, each murder seemed to be
as dating as the one that preceded. Finally, of course,
as usual, scottland Yard came to Sherlock Holmes for help.
It seems almost like yesterday mister Bartell and.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
His speculus guards poot in our Baker.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Street rooms in boring home.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, it's true, you've got to help us. I don't
mind telling you over the yards at the end of
its rope. I sympathize with it was John, but I
don't see that as much that I can do.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
None of the police can handle the widespread, detailed work
necessary to this case.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The private detective is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Helpless, and as perhaps if you'd come to mister Holmes
the first placeless study, you might have helped you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But the murderer hasn't finished yet. There've been more kiddings.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
If we don't catch him, you mark my words, mister Oaks,
please help us.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Won't you before I commit myself a star. Give me
the exact chronology of events, will you. All my information
on the murders has been derived from the London newspapers,
notoriously inaccurate in matters of fact.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
I can give you all the particular sir. I've been
on the case right from the beginning. All the murders
have taken place.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
On Amsteady at night time, and all the victims of
the young women was the first one a girl by
the name of Oakley and Bethy Oakley. She was a
shop girl who worked at Derry and Tom's in Kensington
h Street.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Three weeks ago she was out on the east for
the young fellow by the name of Alfred Smith.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
For what he told me. It was a moonlight night
that night as they sat there out on the Bessie,
give us a kiss? How gone tell me this southing life? Slapie?
Come on, bess.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hello, Hello, he's coming towards us, blooming prowler here?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, what you want? Who caught your tast a car?
Bessie's got her life? No, you don't, you hit Mark bad?
Keep a wife from me, Keep a wife from me.
You and that's all I know. Inspector of Strawa. I
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never got a good look at him. He caught me
on the head, and when I come to there was
poor Bessie with her broke cut. Yeah, that's your story.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Don't kill him ahead all right, sergeant, you can book
it on suspicion of murder.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Thoughts. We shouldn't be walking on the heap. Didn't you
read about the murder here two days ago? It's a
fine thing.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
I take you out in the moonlight and you talk
of murders and talk about our Spilett Sally.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It seems to me we should talk about your wife.
My wife doesn't mean anything to me anymore, Varlett. If
I could get a divorce. There's someone behind that tree.
She's coming to me for your sern But you know
you don't get it.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Don't tell you any don't.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Inspector stro She's she's dead, poor girl, I know. But
a scandal can't bring her back. It is any way
to keep my name out of the papers.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
I ah, I'm afraid you'll have to take your chances,
said George. And sergeant Inspector, you can turn that boy
loose weed hell for questioning. The man who did this
is obviously the same killer on the paper. Going to
hear a lot more.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
From him, add Piper Empson rest for fifth.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Addition, Bunny, look here, miss, you can't go walk in
by yourself up on the eath.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It ain't safe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Thank you can't without that frightened, I want to be
by myself.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Well, I can't stop you by Laura, I suppose, but
you shouldn't do it. I don't know how to handle
it modern young things. And that's a fact, inspected AUSTRALI.
He must have killed in the moment you got out
of my sight.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So I searched the already heath, but I couldn't find
the murderer, but did startle him. He left his height
in the body.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Good Jackson. The body is not being identified yet. Ain't
no expect we'll print a photograph in all the papers.
We've got to find out who she is. Uh, mister Bishop,
is this the body of your missing daughter?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's rosy My Rose's speaking the strat the favor na
my hands on his murdering feet. I'll kill him. I'll
kill him with the bare hand. Where's the story, mister Roones.
Rose Bishop was the tenth and last girl murdered, which
was the first girl murdered and when she was alone
in astride.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Yes, sir, you found no clues where none had proved
anything when we checked on them, and he asked you
a question of too l astride anything you like?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Say've taken the obvious precautions, of course, How do you
mean so to.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
The heavy police guard on heath Why, yes, sir, he
had a hundred plain clothesmen walking there at night ever
since the second murder.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But he seems to slip through our fingers. I suppose
to also posted policemen dressed in women's.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Clothes, Yes, miss rooms, and we've had girls to walk
the eath in couples with our playing clothesmen.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But the murderer, it won't seem to rise to our bait,
the cunning.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Brut, Yes, he is rosson obviously, I'm morbid, madman, obsessed
by a hatred of love.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You'll be how to catch the stride. You mentioned clues
that amunted to nothing when you checked them. What were
these clues?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Well, footprints, a couple of cigarette butts dropped at the
scene of the crime.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thing that helped us.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
The only important clue was the knofe We founded the
body of Rose Bishop of the last girl murder got.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The experts of the yard examined him. Yes, sir, didn't
tell us a thing, though you have a knight with
you here. It is miss Lmees. I knew you wouldn't
trust us, you'd want to look at each yourself. Thank you, lestrade. Yeah,
mm hmm interesting. What is it?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Harm?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
This knife is a collector's item. It's at least one
hundred years old. I should say, NI keep us of
a night astrida. I should like to conduct a few
experiments my own.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Why, of course you can, sir, And.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You are going to take on the case home and.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Let us say that.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I'll take it under advisement. I'll do my best, less child,
I'll do my best.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Well. Thanks.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
If any further developments occur, communicating it months below, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
In the meanwhile, I'll smoke a few pipes on the problem.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
But I promise nothing, my dear fellow, I promise absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Three couple of.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Morning home, you're still peering through your microscope with that
knife for straw.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
True, chat, that's quite true. It must be a very
dull opinion. Why don't you go to bed? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Because I'm afraid I missed something confounded, Have you discovered me?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yes? I think so?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Oh what?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
The handle of this knife is corrogated on the underside.
I observed the slight diffusion in the markings and of
the peretrating eye of the microscope. I found a newte
deposit which had caused the diffusion. I have just analyzed
that deposit. It's wax, colored wax, colored wax. Well what
does that sit about by itself?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Very little?
Speaker 7 (09:45):
But when you can find it for the knife, it
definitely belongs to another century. It does suggest a certain
origin I got my dear.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Perhaps it came from the theater.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
An eighteenth century dagger could belong in a period play,
and the colored wax might easily be part of an
actor's maker excellent direction, wats oh thanks.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
However, my own theory would be that this dagger came
from a wax works exhibition.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Oh wrong again.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Putty is used in theatrical disguises, but I don't recall
the use of colored wex, whereas.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It is used in making wax and effiges, and of
course the dagger would belong as part of the costume.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
BERSI can idea below.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
It's a long chance, but I think in the morning
we'll make a tour of various London wax works exhibitions.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
If my deduction is.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
A postman, at least we'll have the pleasure of a
bustman's holiday. We can visit all our old friends who
died on the gallows, can tad o Jack, I'm a
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seminal ware.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
This is the fourth X Works exhibition.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That we've been the poor from the last.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
We failed to find any clues here at the X Museum.
We can return to Big Street.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, thank heaven, this is our last port of call.
I'm so dizzy from looking at waxworks that they begin
to human beings to me? Did you notice that I
asked directions from the wax policeman the entrance daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
How many people have been deceived in the same way
here we are? Levek doesn't believe in understatement?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Does he look look at that sign.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
The Chamber of.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Horrors coming and see the pateant of murder, all the
killers of history re enacting their famous crimes.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Well, it's Queen Watson. We should feel thoroughly at home.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Creepy and here is it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I've heard that mister Levec could pay one hundred pounds
anyone who will spend all night alone in the chamber
of horrors, as.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I've heard of that challenge too.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Are you thinking of accepting the best birds to spend
a night here for a thousand?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Very comprehensive collection of killers, aren't they? See Williams wain Wrights,
ah nationalist georgious.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
She was an attractive woman runching the stream a pair
of ankles a scene.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yes, but you wouldn't have liked her cooking Watson to
use the most lethal condiments of almost any woman in history.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, what is it over there?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was wondering when we'd come to twenty of your cases,
Doctor Grimsby Riolet and the murders took Moran, or the
case of the Speckle Band by Joe Holmes.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
The tabler's extraordinarialistic.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Isn't it here? And of a lot of old friends
of mine are represented here?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
She rather liked her a new acquaintance with the Ricolette
of the club Foot and his unpominable wife Ricoletti. I
don't remember him, oh, one of my earlier cases, old Philip,
I must tell you that story.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Sometimes I wish you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Would have off Holmes. Look that veiled figure over there,
read the packard in front of it, the Hampstead Heath murderer. Well,
how very interesting the face is coming with a black veil?
Is this pure showmans? If I wonder on, does Michell
le peck no more than Scotland yard and die?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
A good day to you? Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Metty you startle Missel.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Are you admiring my collection of murderers?
Speaker 11 (13:03):
Mister le bec yes, sir, and heaven say the distinction
of addressing mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is my name, This is my friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Doctor? I am greatly honored to meet your vote. What
do you think of my chamber of horror? It's very impressive.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
We're particularly interested in this veiled figure of the Hampstead
Heath murder.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Is a face behine beneath that veil.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'll let you in on a trade.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Secret, gentlemen. There are no recognizable features behind that veil.
This is purely for publicity purposes. The public always expects
to see the latest towers here, and I thought I
titilate there more bills by by having a mysterious figure
representing the killer. Of course, if he is captured, I
shall add his effergy to my collection. You think he
will be captured, then one can only speculate. He's a
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clever man, mister Hewn.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
By the way, mister de bec, does your offer of
one hundred pounds to anyone who will spend a night
in the Chamber of Horrors still a whole good?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yes? Are you thinking of accepting the bet, mister Helen? No,
but Dr Watson would like to. All right.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I don't recommend the experience, doctor, It's an ordeal. It
calls for nerves of steel. However, I shall be glad
to arrange. I haven't the slightest in turnary backing down now?
Of course you haven't, Overallo, What time will my friend
return to About eleven thirty tonight. I'll be waiting for
him at the meet Sanday, Come on, Button Holmes, are
till David vec today? Gentlemen, I shall be waiting for
you tonight, Doctor Holmes.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
What the places do you thinkeep doing? I have the
slightest intension of keeping that appointment tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, of course you haven't. I shall keep it disguised
as you you keep.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Heaven's sake, tell her what you're up to.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Hose you didn't even mention that missing Daggett vill bec no,
because he knows something about the murderer.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm convinced of it.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
As we were standing there talking to him, a breath
of hair from the open window blew back the corner
of the veil. I'll swear that there are clearly defined
features beneath it.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And so you're going back there tonight to find.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Out that's right.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Old color.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
The superstitious used to believe they could use a waxen
image to kill a man. Tonight, Watson, we shall prove
that a waxen image can be use to trap a killer.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Doctor Watson will continue his story in just a second.
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Speaker 5 (15:39):
Try them both.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
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So Sherlock Holmes decided to disguise himself as you and
spend a night in the Chamber of Horrors.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
To dinner. That night he began to fight to make yeah,
some try.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
To sit there in Vacer Street and watch home, slowly
turning into a very convincing replica of myself, and he did.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
We discussed, Watson, if I'm not back here by two o'clock,
you'd better come out to me.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
So then we can't wait outside of Fuller, just in
case it's in trouble.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Oh no, no, no, you'd attract attention. By the way,
do you recall the name of the last girl murdered
on the heath?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yes, Bishop Rose, the.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Only girl who was murdered when she was unescorted. The
body was identified by her at home. Levec is a
French name, and yet the gentleman had a decided lead
English accent. I should say that he adopted a foreign
name as being more suited to his professional What you're
driving it?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What's the connection between the Vec, the owner of the waxworks,
and the father of Rose.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Bishop the murdered girl.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Is the French word for Bishop frick Scott.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
You think that he knows who the murder isn't?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I know only one thing I miss see if it's
beneath that black veil. Now now that's my disguise.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Look exactly like David. How you manage about the voice?
We are will be two difficult men, will God under
tell what you say in your own case?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Old Chap, that's a handicapped and I stuff at my
years rubbish.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I'm personally until let me.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
See the bullseye lantern. Yes, once, and I think i'll
borrow your volter too. I probably won't need it but ten,
but once.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think it might be safer for me to go
on here homes out, do be careful. I have a lot, Chap,
don't body goodbye?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
And if I'm not back by two o'clock, you better
come to the waxworks and see what's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Doctor Watson, you don't mind if I search you? Of
course not.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
And no lampon pleas the moonlight will give you all
the illumination at tuney, dear me a.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Revolver in your pocket. I'm afraid I can't allow that.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Once before, a young man who unwisely accepted my bet
left bullet holes in some of my finest waxworks before
he finally went raving.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Men.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Don't be frightened, Dr Watson. Many of the waxwork murderers
here are all friends of yours. They will be good company.
I shall come and release you at eight in the morning.
I've steeled all the windows with string and wax. I
shall seal the door behind me.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
As I leave midnight the betty ar doctor, You still
wish to go through with it? Very well? Then I
shall leave you now. Good night, Dr Watson. What's that?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Who's there? Who?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Little smaller? And we spring it up the shadows? Who's
going with me?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
The window? Fick Scott's Watson? Now before it's time? Well,
he got the seeds in the strain.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
With him.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Hos Homes. You are right, I'm all right, be honey.
But it's just as well you're carrying the lantern and
they took mine with him.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Come on in.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There, we'll wand over a quad. I'm glad to see
you watching. But what made you decide to come here
at like you.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Left the start?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Take the Bay Street? He told her, there's another murder
on the heath, and a seven o'clock to night, another murderer.
I started wiring a about your homes. I had a
pumlition of impending danger and I.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Decided to come over here.
Speaker 12 (20:04):
You're you're not angry with me, of course, not, my
dear fellow. I'm going to be your company, and I
appreciate your concern. Have you looked under the veil of
the waxwork figure but the Hampstead Heath murder yet? Now
it's just about to your lantern, will be most useful.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Come on? What oh what have you been doing? Just
just doing nothing?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
As I wanted to give the impression that I was
here for the knights, and I also wanted to do
some serious thinking. I smoked too piped in the problem, Watson,
and I think I know the answer. Now I'm willing
to swear you'll know the face you see and I
lift the veil from the wax and dummy hates a
figure now a lantern, little high will, don't that's it?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I left the veil land Or to see good lord.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
It's waxwork figure for the VEC himself, precisely, Watson, An
I'm a paralleled example of the self detrail inherent in
criminal egotism that Beck.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Couldn't resist the homes. The waxwork is moving, It's got it.
It's a larst, gentlemen, which is more than either of
you will be in a few minutes. You re entered
this room by a secret doors. Both listened to Holmes.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And since you've displayed such a flattering interest in the
Hampsteon Heath murderer, I decided to remove the wax figure
and appeared in purse.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
We cut homes. You got a revolver?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh no, no, no, doctor, this isn't a revolver in
my pocket. What would the Hampstead Heath murderer want for
the revolver? This is a knight. I feel so much
booked home with a knife. Two of us sick, remember that,
and both unarmed. Which one of you met us wants today?
The lesson smart yets and the moon's fading. What a
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pity homes we over here by the epide at Macbeth.
I'm very thoughtful of you to provide him with a dagger. Effc.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I wouldn't want my dear homes. You can't escape me.
I can feel my way in the dark here. I
know every inch of this room. You're doomed, both of you.
Don't stuck them out, homes, You'll make.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
A target of yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Tell the bet I'm writing.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
This newspapers and make an excellent torch to step the
light of the nearest waxwork.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Now, don't burn my wax wor wax and I wouldn't
frame so plays brilliantly.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Very hard.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Will you tell them you're just drying my life work.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Homes are running wort, just pulling along the fat.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
The courtains are touching light. The whole paper bunder half.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I talk with you. I thought that's what smokes you up?
Quick watch that ever again?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
What that knife home?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Well, mister Romes, you've done it again. You solve the
case in a blaze of glory. Get the points a
blaze of gloryscad.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I guess fine, Thank you very much, marmalade.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Will you want some homes? Is that the morning paper
you brought with you the stone?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yes? Doctor, want me to read the advice.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
M steady murderer captured in fire that destroys bex work exhibition.
You know, mister Romes, you and doctor were lucky. You
went burnt to death. Never mind the chance he ran of.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Having your throat cut by that Romaniet.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Was watunate that the police and farman were on the
scene as quickly as they were, That they have the
strength of ten men.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Yes, the strength of a man's man.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
You'll never stand trial, of course, now, doctor, you'll end
up in an asylum.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
War he belongs, Miss Dones. What made you suspect levi.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
It you first came in to yourself, the strang you
and told me that all the murdered girls were accompanied
by men when they were attacked oliveon save one Rose Bishop. Therefore,
if the murderer was then hated of love, he had
to it be someone that close to Rose Bishop to
know that she was a suitable victim. That point alone,
which I was shocking. The Sloman observing should have told
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us to focus our attention on the father, mister Bishop.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
He yes, well, your theory was certainly right. Mister Robes,
you should have heard these ravings after the arrest. East
wore his daughter had been ruined, and so he'd killed.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
A tomsy work figure of the killer, the one with
a veil of rich face. The features underneath were those
of the levequ himself.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Weren't there.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm certain of it, old fellow.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
You see, he had two great prides, the first his
natural pride as a fine craftsman in wax, the second
his perverted pride as a prominent and successful murderer. These
two prides combined suggested to his praised mind, you make
a waxwork figure of himself and range it for the
other great killers of history.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But he was cunning enough to protect himself by placing
a veil over the price.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
My dear fellow.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
And when he saw us yesterday and we accepted the wager,
he undoubtedly became suspicious and removed the wax figure last
night and made his personal appearance as the murderer, with
every intention of killing us both.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yes, we were very lucky, old Chap.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
If you ask me, mister Elms, you've been very smart.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I quite agree to, sir. And I think you solve
the case brilliantly.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
No, no, no, no no, I've been very stuggish.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I solved by circumstance and melodrama what should have been
a purely intellectual problem. I'm not pleased with myself, John.
I hope that my name has not been used in
that newspaper.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A bot. No, it doesn't excellent. I want no credit
in this case.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Do you mean to say that you can let's couple
yard get the praise for catching him home?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Why not? That's very generous of you, mister Rosey. It'll
make us things a lot easier for me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Certainly? Well?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Holmes? A, I can't see why you reproach yourself because
my dear Watson, like the Hampsteadieth murderer, I too have
my pride as a craftsman.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
This case had a clearly defined pattern, and I was
unable to recognize it.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
If you should have occasional to chronicle this story, Watson,
and I suld prefer that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I I would like you to entitle it the education
of an idiot.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oh kamla Holmes, education of an idiot? That's absurd, I know.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
But if you do tell this story, it'll probably end
up as a strange case of the murderer in wax.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Doctor. That was sure as well story. You know, that's
the kind of story I like. Lots of actions.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Well, that's the kind of story I like to tell,
you know what's about tell.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Although our broadcasts were heard overseas every week through Armed
Forces Radio. This is one of the few occasions that
I've had the privilege of really telling my story directly
to the boys, and it's been a great pleasure for
me to be here at Cap Roberts Well.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That not only goes for you, but for me the doctor,
and for the Patrick family. There are no words to
describe how much our country owes our servicemen and to
all of you. The Patrie family wants to say, just
as every American wants to say, thanks for a swell job. Well,
doctor Watson, what story you're planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Next week?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Well, now, next week, mister Boutell, I'm going to tell
you one of the strangers.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Adventures that ever happened to Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It takes place in her in a monastery high in
the mountains of Tibet, and concerns itself with an avalanche,
an execution, and the murder.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Sherlock Holmes's adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's story. The Adventure of the Second Stain Music is
by Dean Foster. Mister Rathbourne appears through the courtesy of
Metro Boldin Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of
Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in the Sherlock
Holms series.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The Petry Wine Company.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again
next week, same time, same station. This is Harry Bartell's
in Good Night for the Petrie Family for a solid
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hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday night on
most of these same stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane,
followed immediately by Sherlock Hole.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Transmitted to our men and women overseas by shortwave and
through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Petree Wine brings.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You Basil Rockborne and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures
of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took
time to bring you good wine, invites you to listen
to Doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared
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with his old friend, that Master Detective Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Tonight, instead of joining the doctor at his home, we're
all meeting here at Camp.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Roberts in California, where the Doctor is going to tell
his story before a large audience of GI's And as usual,
I'm going to tell my story right now. It's about
Petrie California Sherry.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That Petrie Sherry is the best beginning a good meal
ever had. Before you sit down to dinner some evening soon,
just pour yourself a glass of Petrie. Look at that rich,
dark amber color, Just smell the fragrance of those wonderful grapes,
and then take that Petrie Sherry.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Does that ever good?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And say if you like your Chevy on the dry side,
you know, not sweet the just wait till you taste
Petree pale dry sherry. If some of the family like
regular sherry and some like pale dry, don't buy one,
buy two. It didn't go wrong so long as you
buy Petrie p e t R I Petrie Sherry. And
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now let's join Doctor Watson and get on.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
With that story. Good evening, Well doctor, your study seems
a little bitter than usual this week.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I felt it as tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure was
rather than an exciting one. The men here at Camp
Roberts might like me.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
To set collect for them in first I'm sure they
will doctor.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Which particular story of your selected Why would I fall
the string?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Which case of the murder in wex It concerns one
of the most sinister mass murderers whoever threatened the peace
of London.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
It's in the summer of nineteen.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Hundred and the set had been roped by a series
of gustly murders on Hampstead Heath. Hampstead Heath, Yes, Hampstead
He's that's a large rambling park in the suburbs of London.
Mister Bartell and noted as a rendezvous for young lovers.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It was here the the elusive murderer, knife in hand,
was wont to roam at nighttime searching for his prey.
All of his victims were young girls, and despite the
frantic efforts of the peace, each murder seemed to be
as dating as the one that preceded. Finally, of course,
as usual, scottland Yard came to Sherlock Holmes for help.
It seems almost like yesterday mister Bartell and.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
His speculus guards poot in our Baker.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Street rooms in boring home.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, it's true, you've got to help us. I don't
mind telling you over the yards at the end of
its rope. I sympathize with it was John, but I
don't see that as much that I can do.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
None of the police can handle the widespread, detailed work
necessary to this case.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The private detective is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Helpless, and as perhaps if you'd come to mister Holmes
the first placeless study, you might have helped you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But the murderer hasn't finished yet. There've been more kiddings.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
If we don't catch him, you mark my words, mister Oaks,
please help us.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Won't you before I commit myself a star. Give me
the exact chronology of events, will you. All my information
on the murders has been derived from the London newspapers,
notoriously inaccurate in matters of fact.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
I can give you all the particular sir. I've been
on the case right from the beginning. All the murders
have taken place.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
On Amsteady at night time, and all the victims of
the young women was the first one a girl by
the name of Oakley and Bethy Oakley. She was a
shop girl who worked at Derry and Tom's in Kensington
h Street.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Three weeks ago she was out on the east for
the young fellow by the name of Alfred Smith.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
For what he told me. It was a moonlight night
that night as they sat there out on the Bessie,
give us a kiss? How gone tell me this southing life? Slapie?
Come on, bess.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hello, Hello, he's coming towards us, blooming prowler here?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, what you want? Who caught your tast a car?
Bessie's got her life? No, you don't, you hit Mark bad?
Keep a wife from me, Keep a wife from me.
You and that's all I know. Inspector of Strawa. I
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never got a good look at him. He caught me
on the head, and when I come to there was
poor Bessie with her broke cut. Yeah, that's your story.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Don't kill him ahead all right, sergeant, you can book
it on suspicion of murder.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Thoughts. We shouldn't be walking on the heap. Didn't you
read about the murder here two days ago? It's a
fine thing.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
I take you out in the moonlight and you talk
of murders and talk about our Spilett Sally.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It seems to me we should talk about your wife.
My wife doesn't mean anything to me anymore, Varlett. If
I could get a divorce. There's someone behind that tree.
She's coming to me for your sern But you know
you don't get it.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Don't tell you any don't.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Inspector stro She's she's dead, poor girl, I know. But
a scandal can't bring her back. It is any way
to keep my name out of the papers.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
I ah, I'm afraid you'll have to take your chances,
said George. And sergeant Inspector, you can turn that boy
loose weed hell for questioning. The man who did this
is obviously the same killer on the paper. Going to
hear a lot more.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
From him, add Piper Empson rest for fifth.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Addition, Bunny, look here, miss, you can't go walk in
by yourself up on the eath.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It ain't safe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Thank you can't without that frightened, I want to be
by myself.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Well, I can't stop you by Laura, I suppose, but
you shouldn't do it. I don't know how to handle
it modern young things. And that's a fact, inspected AUSTRALI.
He must have killed in the moment you got out
of my sight.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So I searched the already heath, but I couldn't find
the murderer, but did startle him. He left his height
in the body.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Good Jackson. The body is not being identified yet. Ain't
no expect we'll print a photograph in all the papers.
We've got to find out who she is. Uh, mister Bishop,
is this the body of your missing daughter?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It's rosy My Rose's speaking the strat the favor na
my hands on his murdering feet. I'll kill him. I'll
kill him with the bare hand. Where's the story, mister Roones.
Rose Bishop was the tenth and last girl murdered, which
was the first girl murdered and when she was alone
in astride.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Yes, sir, you found no clues where none had proved
anything when we checked on them, and he asked you
a question of too l astride anything you like?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Say've taken the obvious precautions, of course, How do you
mean so to.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
The heavy police guard on heath Why, yes, sir, he
had a hundred plain clothesmen walking there at night ever
since the second murder.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But he seems to slip through our fingers. I suppose
to also posted policemen dressed in women's.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Clothes, Yes, miss rooms, and we've had girls to walk
the eath in couples with our playing clothesmen.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But the murderer, it won't seem to rise to our bait,
the cunning.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Brut, Yes, he is rosson obviously, I'm morbid, madman, obsessed
by a hatred of love.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You'll be how to catch the stride. You mentioned clues
that amunted to nothing when you checked them. What were
these clues?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Well, footprints, a couple of cigarette butts dropped at the
scene of the crime.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thing that helped us.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
The only important clue was the knofe We founded the
body of Rose Bishop of the last girl murder got.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The experts of the yard examined him. Yes, sir, didn't
tell us a thing, though you have a knight with
you here. It is miss Lmees. I knew you wouldn't
trust us, you'd want to look at each yourself. Thank you, lestrade. Yeah,
mm hmm interesting. What is it?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Harm?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
This knife is a collector's item. It's at least one
hundred years old. I should say, NI keep us of
a night astrida. I should like to conduct a few
experiments my own.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Why, of course you can, sir, And.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You are going to take on the case home and.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Let us say that.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I'll take it under advisement. I'll do my best, less child,
I'll do my best.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Well. Thanks.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
If any further developments occur, communicating it months below, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
In the meanwhile, I'll smoke a few pipes on the problem.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
But I promise nothing, my dear fellow, I promise absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Three couple of.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Morning home, you're still peering through your microscope with that
knife for straw.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
True, chat, that's quite true. It must be a very
dull opinion. Why don't you go to bed? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Because I'm afraid I missed something confounded, Have you discovered me?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yes? I think so?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Oh what?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
The handle of this knife is corrogated on the underside.
I observed the slight diffusion in the markings and of
the peretrating eye of the microscope. I found a newte
deposit which had caused the diffusion. I have just analyzed
that deposit. It's wax, colored wax, colored wax. Well what
does that sit about by itself?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Very little?
Speaker 7 (09:45):
But when you can find it for the knife, it
definitely belongs to another century. It does suggest a certain
origin I got my dear.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Perhaps it came from the theater.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
An eighteenth century dagger could belong in a period play,
and the colored wax might easily be part of an
actor's maker excellent direction, wats oh thanks.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
However, my own theory would be that this dagger came
from a wax works exhibition.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Oh wrong again.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Putty is used in theatrical disguises, but I don't recall
the use of colored wex, whereas.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It is used in making wax and effiges, and of
course the dagger would belong as part of the costume.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
BERSI can idea below.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
It's a long chance, but I think in the morning
we'll make a tour of various London wax works exhibitions.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
If my deduction is.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
A postman, at least we'll have the pleasure of a
bustman's holiday. We can visit all our old friends who
died on the gallows, can tad o Jack, I'm a
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seminal ware.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
This is the fourth X Works exhibition.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That we've been the poor from the last.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
We failed to find any clues here at the X Museum.
We can return to Big Street.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, thank heaven, this is our last port of call.
I'm so dizzy from looking at waxworks that they begin
to human beings to me? Did you notice that I
asked directions from the wax policeman the entrance daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
How many people have been deceived in the same way
here we are? Levek doesn't believe in understatement?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Does he look look at that sign.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
The Chamber of.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Horrors coming and see the pateant of murder, all the
killers of history re enacting their famous crimes.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Well, it's Queen Watson. We should feel thoroughly at home.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Creepy and here is it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I've heard that mister Levec could pay one hundred pounds
anyone who will spend all night alone in the chamber
of horrors, as.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I've heard of that challenge too.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Are you thinking of accepting the best birds to spend
a night here for a thousand?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Very comprehensive collection of killers, aren't they? See Williams wain Wrights,
ah nationalist georgious.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
She was an attractive woman runching the stream a pair
of ankles a scene.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yes, but you wouldn't have liked her cooking Watson to
use the most lethal condiments of almost any woman in history.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, what is it over there?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was wondering when we'd come to twenty of your cases,
Doctor Grimsby Riolet and the murders took Moran, or the
case of the Speckle Band by Joe Holmes.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
The tabler's extraordinarialistic.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Isn't it here? And of a lot of old friends
of mine are represented here?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
She rather liked her a new acquaintance with the Ricolette
of the club Foot and his unpominable wife Ricoletti. I
don't remember him, oh, one of my earlier cases, old Philip,
I must tell you that story.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Sometimes I wish you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Would have off Holmes. Look that veiled figure over there,
read the packard in front of it, the Hampstead Heath murderer. Well,
how very interesting the face is coming with a black veil?
Is this pure showmans? If I wonder on, does Michell
le peck no more than Scotland yard and die?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
A good day to you? Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Metty you startle Missel.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Are you admiring my collection of murderers?
Speaker 11 (13:03):
Mister le bec yes, sir, and heaven say the distinction
of addressing mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is my name, This is my friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Doctor? I am greatly honored to meet your vote. What
do you think of my chamber of horror? It's very impressive.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
We're particularly interested in this veiled figure of the Hampstead
Heath murder.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Is a face behine beneath that veil.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'll let you in on a trade.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Secret, gentlemen. There are no recognizable features behind that veil.
This is purely for publicity purposes. The public always expects
to see the latest towers here, and I thought I
titilate there more bills by by having a mysterious figure
representing the killer. Of course, if he is captured, I
shall add his effergy to my collection. You think he
will be captured, then one can only speculate. He's a
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clever man, mister Hewn.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
By the way, mister de bec, does your offer of
one hundred pounds to anyone who will spend a night
in the Chamber of Horrors still a whole good?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yes? Are you thinking of accepting the bet, mister Helen? No,
but Dr Watson would like to. All right.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I don't recommend the experience, doctor, It's an ordeal. It
calls for nerves of steel. However, I shall be glad
to arrange. I haven't the slightest in turnary backing down now?
Of course you haven't, Overallo, What time will my friend
return to About eleven thirty tonight. I'll be waiting for
him at the meet Sanday, Come on, Button Holmes, are
till David vec today? Gentlemen, I shall be waiting for
you tonight, Doctor Holmes.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
What the places do you thinkeep doing? I have the
slightest intension of keeping that appointment tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, of course you haven't. I shall keep it disguised
as you you keep.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Heaven's sake, tell her what you're up to.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Hose you didn't even mention that missing Daggett vill bec no,
because he knows something about the murderer.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm convinced of it.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
As we were standing there talking to him, a breath
of hair from the open window blew back the corner
of the veil. I'll swear that there are clearly defined
features beneath it.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And so you're going back there tonight to find.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Out that's right.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Old color.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
The superstitious used to believe they could use a waxen
image to kill a man. Tonight, Watson, we shall prove
that a waxen image can be use to trap a killer.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Doctor Watson will continue his story in just a second.
So I'm just going to remind you that there are
lots of ways to make good food taste better, but
the easiest way is to serve that food with a
good wine, a Petree wine. If you like a white
wine with chicken or with fish, you love that wonderful
Petrie California. So turned if you like a red wine,
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then rich Harty Petrie California Burgundy is your wine. But
if you don't know which you prefer, why not.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Try them both.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Petri Burgundy and Petrie so turned red and white. Don't
buy one by two, but always buy Petrie. Well doctor,
So Sherlock Holmes decided to disguise himself as you and
spend a night in the Chamber of Horrors.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
To dinner. That night he began to fight to make yeah,
some try.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
To sit there in Vacer Street and watch home, slowly
turning into a very convincing replica of myself, and he did.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
We discussed, Watson, if I'm not back here by two o'clock,
you'd better come out to me.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
So then we can't wait outside of Fuller, just in
case it's in trouble.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Oh no, no, no, you'd attract attention. By the way,
do you recall the name of the last girl murdered
on the heath?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yes, Bishop Rose, the.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Only girl who was murdered when she was unescorted. The
body was identified by her at home. Levec is a
French name, and yet the gentleman had a decided lead
English accent. I should say that he adopted a foreign
name as being more suited to his professional What you're
driving it?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What's the connection between the Vec, the owner of the waxworks,
and the father of Rose.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Bishop the murdered girl.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Is the French word for Bishop frick Scott.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
You think that he knows who the murder isn't?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I know only one thing I miss see if it's
beneath that black veil. Now now that's my disguise.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Look exactly like David. How you manage about the voice?
We are will be two difficult men, will God under
tell what you say in your own case?
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Old Chap, that's a handicapped and I stuff at my
years rubbish.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I'm personally until let me.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
See the bullseye lantern. Yes, once, and I think i'll
borrow your volter too. I probably won't need it but ten,
but once.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I think it might be safer for me to go
on here homes out, do be careful. I have a lot, Chap,
don't body goodbye?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
And if I'm not back by two o'clock, you better
come to the waxworks and see what's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Doctor Watson, you don't mind if I search you? Of
course not.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
And no lampon pleas the moonlight will give you all
the illumination at tuney, dear me a.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Revolver in your pocket. I'm afraid I can't allow that.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Once before, a young man who unwisely accepted my bet
left bullet holes in some of my finest waxworks before
he finally went raving.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Men.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Don't be frightened, Dr Watson. Many of the waxwork murderers
here are all friends of yours. They will be good company.
I shall come and release you at eight in the morning.
I've steeled all the windows with string and wax. I
shall seal the door behind me.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
As I leave midnight the betty ar doctor, You still
wish to go through with it? Very well? Then I
shall leave you now. Good night, Dr Watson. What's that?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Who's there? Who?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Little smaller? And we spring it up the shadows? Who's
going with me?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
The window? Fick Scott's Watson? Now before it's time? Well,
he got the seeds in the strain.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
With him.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Hos Homes. You are right, I'm all right, be honey.
But it's just as well you're carrying the lantern and
they took mine with him.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Come on in.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There, we'll wand over a quad. I'm glad to see
you watching. But what made you decide to come here
at like you.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Left the start?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Take the Bay Street? He told her, there's another murder
on the heath, and a seven o'clock to night, another murderer.
I started wiring a about your homes. I had a
pumlition of impending danger and I.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Decided to come over here.
Speaker 12 (20:04):
You're you're not angry with me, of course, not, my
dear fellow. I'm going to be your company, and I
appreciate your concern. Have you looked under the veil of
the waxwork figure but the Hampstead Heath murder yet? Now
it's just about to your lantern, will be most useful.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Come on? What oh what have you been doing? Just
just doing nothing?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
As I wanted to give the impression that I was
here for the knights, and I also wanted to do
some serious thinking. I smoked too piped in the problem, Watson,
and I think I know the answer. Now I'm willing
to swear you'll know the face you see and I
lift the veil from the wax and dummy hates a
figure now a lantern, little high will, don't that's it?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I left the veil land Or to see good lord.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
It's waxwork figure for the VEC himself, precisely, Watson, An
I'm a paralleled example of the self detrail inherent in
criminal egotism that Beck.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Couldn't resist the homes. The waxwork is moving, It's got it.
It's a larst, gentlemen, which is more than either of
you will be in a few minutes. You re entered
this room by a secret doors. Both listened to Holmes.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And since you've displayed such a flattering interest in the
Hampsteon Heath murderer, I decided to remove the wax figure
and appeared in purse.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
We cut homes. You got a revolver?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh no, no, no, doctor, this isn't a revolver in
my pocket. What would the Hampstead Heath murderer want for
the revolver? This is a knight. I feel so much
booked home with a knife. Two of us sick, remember that,
and both unarmed. Which one of you met us wants today?
The lesson smart yets and the moon's fading. What a
(21:33):
pity homes we over here by the epide at Macbeth.
I'm very thoughtful of you to provide him with a dagger. Effc.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I wouldn't want my dear homes. You can't escape me.
I can feel my way in the dark here. I
know every inch of this room. You're doomed, both of you.
Don't stuck them out, homes, You'll make.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
A target of yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Tell the bet I'm writing.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
This newspapers and make an excellent torch to step the
light of the nearest waxwork.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Now, don't burn my wax wor wax and I wouldn't
frame so plays brilliantly.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Very hard.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Will you tell them you're just drying my life work.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Homes are running wort, just pulling along the fat.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
The courtains are touching light. The whole paper bunder half.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I talk with you. I thought that's what smokes you up?
Quick watch that ever again?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
What that knife home?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Well, mister Romes, you've done it again. You solve the
case in a blaze of glory. Get the points a
blaze of gloryscad.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I guess fine, Thank you very much, marmalade.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Will you want some homes? Is that the morning paper
you brought with you the stone?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yes? Doctor, want me to read the advice.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
M steady murderer captured in fire that destroys bex work exhibition.
You know, mister Romes, you and doctor were lucky. You
went burnt to death. Never mind the chance he ran of.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Having your throat cut by that Romaniet.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Was watunate that the police and farman were on the
scene as quickly as they were, That they have the
strength of ten men.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Yes, the strength of a man's man.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
You'll never stand trial, of course, now, doctor, you'll end
up in an asylum.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
War he belongs, Miss Dones. What made you suspect levi.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
It you first came in to yourself, the strang you
and told me that all the murdered girls were accompanied
by men when they were attacked oliveon save one Rose Bishop. Therefore,
if the murderer was then hated of love, he had
to it be someone that close to Rose Bishop to
know that she was a suitable victim. That point alone,
which I was shocking. The Sloman observing should have told
(23:45):
us to focus our attention on the father, mister Bishop.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
He yes, well, your theory was certainly right. Mister Robes,
you should have heard these ravings after the arrest. East
wore his daughter had been ruined, and so he'd killed.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
A tomsy work figure of the killer, the one with
a veil of rich face. The features underneath were those
of the levequ himself.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Weren't there.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm certain of it, old fellow.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
You see, he had two great prides, the first his
natural pride as a fine craftsman in wax, the second
his perverted pride as a prominent and successful murderer. These
two prides combined suggested to his praised mind, you make
a waxwork figure of himself and range it for the
other great killers of history.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But he was cunning enough to protect himself by placing
a veil over the price.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
My dear fellow.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
And when he saw us yesterday and we accepted the wager,
he undoubtedly became suspicious and removed the wax figure last
night and made his personal appearance as the murderer, with
every intention of killing us both.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yes, we were very lucky, old Chap.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
If you ask me, mister Elms, you've been very smart.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I quite agree to, sir. And I think you solve
the case brilliantly.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
No, no, no, no no, I've been very stuggish.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I solved by circumstance and melodrama what should have been
a purely intellectual problem. I'm not pleased with myself, John.
I hope that my name has not been used in
that newspaper.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A bot. No, it doesn't excellent. I want no credit
in this case.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Do you mean to say that you can let's couple
yard get the praise for catching him home?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Why not? That's very generous of you, mister Rosey. It'll
make us things a lot easier for me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Certainly? Well?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Holmes? A, I can't see why you reproach yourself because
my dear Watson, like the Hampsteadieth murderer, I too have
my pride as a craftsman.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
This case had a clearly defined pattern, and I was
unable to recognize it.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
If you should have occasional to chronicle this story, Watson,
and I suld prefer that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I I would like you to entitle it the education
of an idiot.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oh kamla Holmes, education of an idiot? That's absurd, I know.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
But if you do tell this story, it'll probably end
up as a strange case of the murderer in wax.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Doctor. That was sure as well story. You know, that's
the kind of story I like. Lots of actions.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Well, that's the kind of story I like to tell,
you know what's about tell.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Although our broadcasts were heard overseas every week through Armed
Forces Radio. This is one of the few occasions that
I've had the privilege of really telling my story directly
to the boys, and it's been a great pleasure for
me to be here at Cap Roberts Well.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That not only goes for you, but for me the doctor,
and for the Patrick family. There are no words to
describe how much our country owes our servicemen and to
all of you. The Patrie family wants to say, just
as every American wants to say, thanks for a swell job. Well,
doctor Watson, what story you're planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Next week?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Well, now, next week, mister Boutell, I'm going to tell
you one of the strangers.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Adventures that ever happened to Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It takes place in her in a monastery high in
the mountains of Tibet, and concerns itself with an avalanche,
an execution, and the murder.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Sherlock Holmes's adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's story. The Adventure of the Second Stain Music is
by Dean Foster. Mister Rathbourne appears through the courtesy of
Metro Boldin Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of
Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in the Sherlock
Holms series.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The Petry Wine Company.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again
next week, same time, same station. This is Harry Bartell's
in Good Night for the Petrie Family for a solid
(28:08):
hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday night on
most of these same stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane,
followed immediately by Sherlock Hole.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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