November 30, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and host, doctor Watson is waiting, so let's go and
join him.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good at good evenings.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He download you do seem very chipper tonight tonight, Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But they've been in disgrace most of the days.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh well, they've been up to after the Seals again.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh my boy. This time it was chickens. They got
into my neighbor's coop and had a delightful time. Fortunately
there were no casualties. But I'm afraid that my my
good neighbor policy has suffered a slight diplomatic strain. But
you've come here to listen to Sherlock Holmes's adventures, not
those of my dogs. So throw up your usual chair,
make yourself comfortable, and I'll get on with it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Tonight's story last week got to you told us it
was a case in which Sherlock Holmes found the solution
without ever meeting any of the suspect. That's quite correct, mister,
about home, as remarkable as an exhibition of long distance
detection as I ever recall.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But HUD's the story of yourself, my boy. It's in
the autumn of nineteen hundred and three and Sherlock Holmes
was about to retire to his v farm on the
Sussex Downs. I must confess, mister Bouto, that my heart
was heavy during those last few weeks we spent at
Bega Street. I thought of the countleous adventures that we'd
shared together. I remember those many evenings of quietship and companionship,
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a far blazing away in the heart, as Homes laid
back in the shadows, playing his beloved violin. And then,
mister Bartel, I saw what happened. There'd be a violent
jangle on our doorbell, and some wretched soul in misery
would be standing before us and pouring out his troubles.
Suddenly the violin would be discarded, and Holmes, a dreamer,
would become Holmes, the man of action. Come, what's in
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the games afoot? He'd say, And in a few moments
later we'd be rattling off in a cab through the
foggy gas at London streets.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yes, doctor, I can imagine it was pretty hard for
you to leave Baker Street.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It was, mister Boutel. However, as it transpired, there was
one more adventure awaiting us before we left. A few
days before the actual move, I persuaded Holmes to take
an afternoon off from miss packing and accompany me on
a visit to the laboratory of an old friend of mine,
a Professor Jean Boulin. He was an eminent French scientist
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engaged in very important work at the London University. But
by the way, this was at a period, mister Bartelwyn
radium was something extremely new and extremely rare. The university
had just acquired a minute but invaluable portion of the element,
and Professor Buhlin was in charge of the research connected
with it. I can remember the picture so well as
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Homestead and Abarte talking with Keen interest side.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Quite amazing.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I think that this tiny leaden vessel contains one of
the most precious substances in the world.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Yes, mister Holmes, they have a great deal to thank
Madame Couri for this new element may force us entirely
to advise our concepts of all physical structure.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Your research is a great responsibility.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Of Bulain, it is Watson.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I must be less that I wish the authorities here
would give me a free hand. I will see such
infinite possibilities in the use, particularly the medical use of radium,
But my conservative superior seemed to regard it only as
a toy as scientist curiosity. The major experiments according as
first exactly, I've given no opportunity to do anything that's
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in the east radical.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
How can re search you ever get anywhere along those lines?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
It is a great misfortune, Holmes, that you've determined to
attire to your bee farm this project. We could use
such an analytical mind as yours.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How many assistants do you have working with your buller? Three?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
But none of them are very inspired. I'm afraid my
best assistant is a man in Barker. He's a little
arm the conservative eye too, but he is extremely adroit.
The other two a young man called Taylor and the
girl Gladys Hughes. They mean well, but coach, I fear
is the only word to describe them. Where you like,
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I was just amused to observe that in describing my assistance,
I chanced to be literal as well as figurative. It's
odd that random symbolism can sometimes would never mind that
you would.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Like to see that.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
To the laboratory, Yes, I have some extraordinarily interesting photographic
traits that they called the emanations of radium.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They'll be here.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think you will find them most fascinating.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Baker Street, particularly when our rooms are full of packing cases,
seems rather grab after the scientific stimulations of Professor Bulland's laboratory.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Jaff. Yes, you seem grab even if we hadn't been
the same. I feel frightful, depressed. I just don't know
what I'm going to do with our fliers.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
To the young man Watson and a susceptible one, you'll
marry again, No I won't. You will old Chap, and
you'll end up by being glad that your old roommate,
your difficult, rather unsociable old roommate, is living in retirement
on the Sussex down rubbish.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I shan't feel any of the kind in any case.
I don't think you'll be able to stay in retirement
for long. Your mind is much to a left to
be satisfied by being a sort of midwife to a
bunch of beastly beam.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Dear what I feel it will never eat honey again.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, you can laugh, Homes, but I could see how
excited you were when but suggested that you might help
him with his radium experiments.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Leffering suggestion, I must have fit my dear Bella just
the same. Mat Oh, who the devil's at?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
From the urgency of the tag on the bill pool,
I'd say that it was a class You.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Don't hit him off pretty long, chap.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yes, I'll do my best, or I want.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
An explain that I'm no longer in practice.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Two late homes, he's first passed. Missus Hudson, here comes
rushing up the stairs.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I can't found it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I beg your pardon, sir. No, I am not sure, and.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You must be mister Holmes. That is my name, sir,
But may I ask what it? Can't see your rather
world written entrance, my huskeeper, Missus Hudson, I haven't had
time to consider it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
My sister Gladys Hughes has vanished, vanished into thin air.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You've got to find it for me, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'll pay you any fee name, but you've got to find.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Mister Hughes I'm extremely sorry that your sister has vanished,
but I'm afraid that I can do nothing to help you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm retiring, I'm giving up my practice. If you want
help me, I'll go to someone who will. That's exactly
what I mean, Sir.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I suggest that you go to the police, or if
you insist on a private investigator, I can strongly recommend
mister Martin Hewitt's. Yes, his address is thirty nine point Street,
night screech, good day to you, and good Dame's Hugh.
And it's like ninety ten is concerned that his manners
a great deal to be designed.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Homes Homes Joannie Hughes his missing sister, that was the
name of one of Professor Buller's assistants.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Will hurt, true fellow, but it's probably only a coincidence.
Both Christian and surnames are extremely common ones.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
All Right, I have a feeling that it may not
be a kind of book.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Come now, my dear fellow, don't you try him embroil
me in a fresh adventure. I'd retired, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Leaving for Sussex in a few days. And if any
more plans come.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Runching at my door, Bill, I shall ignore them, But
mister Holmes have got to help me. My son, Jeffrey
Barker has appeared.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm highness is Barker, but I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I am homes. Jeffrey Barker was the name of Professor
Buller's chief assistant.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Watson, please believe me when I say that I'm not
being bageled further. And this is Taylor. I'm sorry, but
I can't help you with mister Holmes.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's my husband. He's disappeared.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
We've only been married three months and now it's terrible.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
But I've been so worried it wasn't he started to
work on that strange new radium with Professor jen b Worms.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You can't pretend it's coincidence. An alonga Ganni's shoes, Jeffrey
Barker and now Taylor, the three assistants.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Of Professor Buller. I know it, Watson, Missus Taylor. The
moving van will be hit tomorrow, Tick to take my
things to Sussex.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I shall follow them immediately. I have retired, madam. Do
you understand that retired?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
There's another telegram for arms for.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The fourth today? Why wi Scottland, godie me along to put.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
A strange business. Three people engaged in the search of
this new element radium all disappeared within forty years. Scotland
Yard needs your help.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Let them earn their salaries. They watching and I've helped
them for the last time. Well let's see how they've
catched their latest diffusion. Oh, this isn't from Scotland Yard,
it's from my brother. My craft, my craft, what's you gotta.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Say, isn't the.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Now Professor Bullan has disappeared, Great Scott and the radium
with him. Surely the pattern is obvious. Sholock radium must
be found. Could solve the problem for you, But I'm
too lazy. Consider what a flashy case for you to
retire on regards my craft?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Ah, the old devil os this is shocky.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
My old friend Buller has.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Dispersed watching, and now my brother asks me to investigate.
Hmmm the pressure becomes irresistible. Very well, I bow to patent,
postponed my retirement for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Good man, you know you'll you will never really retire.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yes, my Croft says, there's an obvious pattern in this case.
Our first step of goss.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Will be to interview all the doctors who preat patients
without charge you are.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Surely they're obvious.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, it isn't all obvious to hear. I don't know
why you always leave me in the dark. Well what
makes you love he left in the dark. It's just
like the old times in their homes. Come on or follow,
let's go the games are what doctor McDonald? This is
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mister Sherlock Holmes. Mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm very glad to meet you, and are you doctor McDonald?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I swear that I've never been as many doctors offices
I have. That mister Holmes is in search of some
information haves doctor you you can help him.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What do you want to know, mister Holme?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Whether you have any charity?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Patients with skin eruptions or growth of any kind, I
mean patience, but have not kept their appointments recently.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Perhaps now let.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Me see wait wait, yes, I do old missus Pendle.
She had a very bad taste of lupus.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Gip you for a treatment here, yes, and I've seen
nothing of her splendid Can you give me her address?
Or stepped and it's in my book here.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I hope this isn't a false trial.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Homes and explored the cedar chap.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Here we are Missus penty thirty six Elm Gardens Flap'm.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Missus Pendall thirty six Olm Gardens flap'am. Thank you Artur.
I'm greatly obliged to you. Getting restless, Watson, Yes, I.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Am a little. We've been waiting outside Missus Pendall's house
over law. Why don't we knocking the door? She says,
Oh no, no, no, my chap we mustn't fight, man.
I hope that she's going to lead us to our quarry.
You see some doors opening, A woman's coming out.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
This is Missus Pendall, beyond doubt with that bandage on
the upper part of her face.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Hello, she's turning down the street. We're going to follow her.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
As Actually, let's give us a let's give us touch.
We don't want her to suppot us.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well while we're waiting, perps, you care? What are two
points for me? I'm still very much in the dark.
The pleasure well one of the things that I under
We've given her enough of a staff. Let's follow very well.
But look here you asked me what I didn't understand.
Two things puzzle me? What did Micoff mean by the
pattern of the case, why are we following a poor
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Sico lady through the London street.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'll ask answer the first question, and I think the
answer to the second robe was.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Of the parent.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
The pattern of the case is clear.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Professor bu Land his three assistants of Danish together with
the radium, but their disappearances were not simultaneous. Had they
been so, it would have been a transparent case of theft.
But with the disappearances gradual rather than simultaneous, the emphasis
has been subtly shifted.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, I can see that, Holmes, but what do you
suppose at the back of the whole business can't be
a simple case of theft. Radium is enormous available, but
it'd be hard stuff to sell again.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Not to an unscrupulous criminel of the knowledge of medicine. Watson.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
My own theory, and I admit at the moment that
it's pulier theory, is that Professor Bulan was worried because
he was so hampered in his research. You remember that
he stressed his great faith in the medical values of
the new element radium.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, yes, yes he did.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
It's more than possible that he places the rights of
science above the rights of property.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
That he's determined that he and his group.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Will carry on their indariable research unhampered by the conservative
restraints of the university.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I see what you made, Hums, But how does Missus Pendall,
the poor woman that we're following into the picture.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Because one of the chief lines of radium research on
the continent so far has been with her sort of trouble.
Professor Bullan's obvious move, if my theory is correct, would
be to contact povertystri contatients, promise them relief, induce them
to abandon their treatments, and submit to him.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
By Joius Holmes, that seems perfectly logical. In yet I
can't believe that Bullin.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Would be Missus Pendleton has reached her destination. She's turned
on the driveway.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yes, she's walking up to what looks like it an deserted.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Warrior chap, and they're out of our sight.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
She's opened the door without knocking. She's gone in.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I'll wait here for a month or two, then we'll
follow her. I have a feeling that her old friend,
Professor Buhla is not far away.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Wall Since you're probably right, but I hope we can
do something to protect him from the consequences of what
he's done. It might easily mean the finish of a
brilliant career.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Everything I power, But you know as well as I do.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Look, look, look, look, sus Pett's coming out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Okay, yes, which is in trouble? Come on, missus Pendle,
what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't know how you know my name or will
you please?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
But he asked me what's wrong?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
They tell me to come here to this address and
I'll find a doctor rudelt my face that comes here.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And what do I find? What did you find, madam?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
A corpse, sir, That's.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
What I find, A dead man lying there in a
great pool of his own blood.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
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Speaker 2 (16:39):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, doctor Watson, So following the tracks of all, missus
Pendall led you to a corpse.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes, of course, Sherlock Holmes and I went at once
into the broken down warehouse to examine the scene of
the treasuredy slumped over a desk in a dark and
chevy room, afflicting candle giving him a carb Liking to
the scene, there's the body of a man. I think
I knew it's identity even before Holmes turned to me,
he said, that's a bull, all right, Watson murdered the cause, Yes,
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but examine him yourself, will you? Yes, there's no doubt
about it. This wound couldn't have been self inflicted. The
right oracle of the heart has has been pierced.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm gonna go estimate death took place not more than
a couple of hours ago, I should say on how
to reconstruct the killing. The murderer came up from behind
Boulan as he sat here, Krypton armor out his throat. Yes,
see the finger marks on the right hand side of
the neck here, and then stabbed him in the chest,
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then withd the weapon and disappeared, leaving.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
No traces confounded. The dusty rumor is an ideal place
for according footprints, but I have a dozen different prints here,
including Missus Pendall's hello, here's the princess smaller woman show.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
We must be out of Gannet hughes his assistant out.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
But that really proves nothing except that she was here
with him, the fact that you were convinced of anyway.
The question is, come on, let's go outside and talk
to missus pendleer again. What a shocking way to die,
and what a great loss to science. I suppose the
murderer must have stolen the radium. We found no trace
of it in there.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And doubted that the profession of the radium as the
motive for the murderer. Missus Pendall, poor, I'm a friend.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Soir, madam, I knew it.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
I never should have come here, I never should have left,
doctor McDonald.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Missus Pendall, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
I can't be answering no question, sir. I don't know
nothing about how the poor soul got his self murdered.
What would the poor woman like me know about? No, no, no,
my good woman, my friend isn't suggesting it. Told do
you know anything about the murder?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Then?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Who told you to come to this address today?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Missus Pendall a young lady, now I shall. She was too.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
She met me coming out to Dr McDonald's yesterday and
told me that if I come here today, i'd find.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
A doctor who could kill me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That was obviously in the hues homes. I believe that
you're theory was right.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Come on, Missus Beendle. We'll escart you to the nearest
police station where you can't report the murder.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yes, sir, and then Mudson, we must come attract the
radian that perhaps is more important than any life.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How are we going to do that? We haven't a
clue to go on.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Remember, the Professor Bullan's three assistants are still missing. We
must go to the homes of each of them and
see what can be found out. Excus you must realize
by now that your sister's disappearance is part of something
vastly more significant than you think. I must ask you,
and that my sister didn't disappear. What do you mean
so you came to us and said that you had
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or it was all a mistake. Gentlemen, she came back today.
She had just been down to the seaside for a
short rest and she forgotten to let me know. I'm
sorry to have bothered you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
May I see your sister at once please, I'm sorry,
mister Holmes, but she's out just now.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I don't know where she's gone or what time shall
be back.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
This is Baker. I've come to you about your son's disappearance.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I'm afraid that isn't My son didn't disappear, as Holmes,
it was all misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He came home today. Well, maybe speak to him, please, missus.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Barker, I'm afraid that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Do you think he does, Miss Taylor, I want to
talk to you about your husband's disappearance.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
That he came home this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
At first I was so suspicious, but when he explained, well,
but I'm sure you know how it is in the
first few months of marriage.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Those can't funk it, Watson, We're no near other solutions.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I meanwhile, here we are back in Veaker Street. The
fans of the moving there has taken all your things off, Pussics.
Perhaps you should give up the case.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Holmes and follow them as my career and I'm not
a failure. No no, no, no, my dear fellow, I
shall not leave London until this problem is solved.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
The TiSER sit down looks to me as if it
may prove a lengthy weight.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I've rarely felt more frustrated ones All three vanished technicians
home safely with plausible stories or at least plausible alibis,
and poor Bullah murdered.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The radium stolen must makes no sense to me. It
must make sense.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Padam was well enough to find in the beginning, just
the question of finding the right key. In a way,
it's clear enough what's happened. One of the three assistants,
placing the financial value of radium above its value to science,
murdered Bullin to obtain the prize. The other two, fearing
that they're complicitly in the original Partwood, involved them as
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accomplices in murder, ran home in estavished an Araba.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
The murderer did the same thing. For it's obvious one
of the three must be the killer and the thief.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yes, the question is which one of the three is
the culprit.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
If poor Buller were al if you could help us,
my dear Chap.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
If Boulan were alive, there would be no murderer. Let's see,
let's see, let's see. Boulan gave us a few bare
ef facts about his three assistants. I wonder, But of course,
what's more? I have the answer?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The case is sold. What do you mean, Holmes, that
cannot be solved if I haven't done enough investigation. If
it comes to that you haven't even seen any of
your three suspect.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Isn't necessary?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You know? Did it? Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Wat's and soho?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But we know nothing to set them apart from each
other except that one of them is a girl. You
know more than that, my dear fellow, think hard wha
Boulan told us that Jeffrey Barker was an excellent technician,
while the other two were somewhat true.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We know even more than that.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's why I know what home.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I sha'n't even need to stay in London and follow
the case through to its logical conclusion.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
A telegram to Micraft and another to Scotland. The answer
to take care of it, Yes, and I can be
in Sussex before the moving ban.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
After all, you mean you're going now before the case
is sold? It is solved, my dear fellow, wal it
remains be done. There's some purely routine work. What's the time, splendid?
If we have, you can catch the three forty five
Express from Waterloo. Yes, I was counting on you spending
a few days down there with me, old Chap. I
hope you can spare the time. I should hate to
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make so flastic a change without my good old friend.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What's up my side? Oh? Good god? Delighted? But but what,
my dear boy, the case of the disappearing scientists. Wait
until we.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Get the plastic, shall we? As soon as I get
an answer to my telegrams, I'll explain the whole thing
to you. And now let's show we. I train leaves
in forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
What he wants? Some facial but.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Peaceful down here?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Isn't it extremely? The moments? I find it rather nerve wrecking?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh why you know?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I want you open that telegram and tell me if
you're a solution to the Buller cases? Was the correct
one ever?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Manage?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Jeff?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
See mm hmm, it's micraft listen, heerd Ofer arrested and
Radium recovered. Well done, Sherlock, though you took longer than
I expected regards micraft.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Reflations, Holmes, and now perhaps you'll condescended to tell me
I solved.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Don't be angry with me, old jab I only wanted
to make sure that my solution was correct.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You remember the the nature of the fatal wound on
Bulan's body.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Close in stabbed to the right oracle of the heart
from behind, proving that the murderer was clearly right handed.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh what does that signify? Almost everybody's right handed?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
No, no, not in this case.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
If you recall, Professor Bulan said that Jeffrey Barker was
adroit while his other two assistants were goose. Then he
laughed because he said his fuck is true, both literally
and figurative.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And still don't see what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh, think of the origin of the word adroit abdoir.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Why is the.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
French word for right and ghost is the word for left,
meaning the two ghost assistants were left handed, and therefore
only the ad right, the right handed Baker, could have
inflicted the fatal wound.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I see it now, homes fin. You know, if you
remember that mark of bullans at the time we found
his body, you could have solved the case much soon after.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And when my old friend Watson points out that my
memory is failing and my mind's sluggish, then I know
that my retirement has been postponed for.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Far too long.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well so, so Horns really went through with this idea
of becoming a bee is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Of course, of course it became one of his favorite hobbies.
Do you know anything about the raising of bees? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Nothing at all. The only connection I've ever had with
bees was very remote once I had the hives.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Don't you heard it?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh no, no, no, mister bun Oh yes, doctor Watson.
But seriously, I do know one thing about bees. Even
when you're all about them, you're apt to get stunned.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So I'll make my hobby Petrie wine. You know you
can't miss when you buy Petrie wine because Petrie wine
is always good wine. The Petrie family has been making
fine wine for generations. In fact, they started way back
in the eighteen hundreds, and they've handed on down from
father to son, from father to son. The knowledge and
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experience absolutely essential to the making of truly fine wine.
And since the making of Petrie wine is a family affair,
you can be sure that the name Petrie means something
on a bottle of wine. Those letters P E, t
R I are more than a trademark. They're the personal
assurance of the Petrie family that every drop of Petrie
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wine is good wine. So when you buy wine of
any type, you can put your faith in the Petree
label because Petree took time to bring you good wine. Well,
Doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holm story are you going
to tell us now?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Next week, mister Boucherla, I'm going to tell you about
one of the weirdest adventures that Hopes and I ever had.
It concerns a haunted chapel in the wilds of Cornwall,
strange organ music that played at midnight, and the headless
ghost of a murdered.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Monk to Sherlock Holm's adventure was written by Dennis Green
and Anthony Boucher and were suggested by an incident in
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story. The Reigate puzzle music is
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by Dean Posterling. Mister Rathburn appears with the courtesy of
Metro Goldwin and mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures,
where they and our starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.
The Petree Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you
to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
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Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studios. This
is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petree family.
Pet Tree Wine brings you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's a rock phone, and Nigel Bruce.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And few 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 with his old friend, that master Detective
Sherlock Holmes. And I'd like to ask you a short,
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simple question. Have you ever tried a glass of sherry
before dinner? If you haven't, you'll never know what you're
missing till you do. And make that sherry Petrie California sherry,
because Petree sherry is the best beginning a good meal
ever had. Just hold a glass of Petrie sherry to
the light.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Look at its.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Wonderful clear amber colored. Now, just get a whiff of
that aroma bouquet the experts call it. I'm telling you,
you can just smell those big luscious grapes. Now, best
of all, Petrie sherry, Sip it, Sip it slowly so
you don't miss one single drop of this truly delicious wine. Yes,
without a doubt, Petrie sherry is good wine. And incidentally,
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Petrie makes two kinds of sherry, regular sherry and Petree
Pale Dry. Both are fine, And if you're not sure
which fight like best, do what I do. Don't buy one,
buy two, try them both, and serve them proudly, because
the name Petrie is the loudest name in the history
of American wines. And now I'm sure our good friend
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and host, doctor Watson is waiting, so let's go and
join him.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good at good evenings.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He download you do seem very chipper tonight tonight, Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But they've been in disgrace most of the days.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh well, they've been up to after the Seals again.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh my boy. This time it was chickens. They got
into my neighbor's coop and had a delightful time. Fortunately
there were no casualties. But I'm afraid that my my
good neighbor policy has suffered a slight diplomatic strain. But
you've come here to listen to Sherlock Holmes's adventures, not
those of my dogs. So throw up your usual chair,
make yourself comfortable, and I'll get on with it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Tonight's story last week got to you told us it
was a case in which Sherlock Holmes found the solution
without ever meeting any of the suspect. That's quite correct, mister,
about home, as remarkable as an exhibition of long distance
detection as I ever recall.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But HUD's the story of yourself, my boy. It's in
the autumn of nineteen hundred and three and Sherlock Holmes
was about to retire to his v farm on the
Sussex Downs. I must confess, mister Bouto, that my heart
was heavy during those last few weeks we spent at
Bega Street. I thought of the countleous adventures that we'd
shared together. I remember those many evenings of quietship and companionship,
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a far blazing away in the heart, as Homes laid
back in the shadows, playing his beloved violin. And then,
mister Bartel, I saw what happened. There'd be a violent
jangle on our doorbell, and some wretched soul in misery
would be standing before us and pouring out his troubles.
Suddenly the violin would be discarded, and Holmes, a dreamer,
would become Holmes, the man of action. Come, what's in
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the games afoot? He'd say, And in a few moments
later we'd be rattling off in a cab through the
foggy gas at London streets.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yes, doctor, I can imagine it was pretty hard for
you to leave Baker Street.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It was, mister Boutel. However, as it transpired, there was
one more adventure awaiting us before we left. A few
days before the actual move, I persuaded Holmes to take
an afternoon off from miss packing and accompany me on
a visit to the laboratory of an old friend of mine,
a Professor Jean Boulin. He was an eminent French scientist
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engaged in very important work at the London University. But
by the way, this was at a period, mister Bartelwyn
radium was something extremely new and extremely rare. The university
had just acquired a minute but invaluable portion of the element,
and Professor Buhlin was in charge of the research connected
with it. I can remember the picture so well as
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Homestead and Abarte talking with Keen interest side.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Quite amazing.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I think that this tiny leaden vessel contains one of
the most precious substances in the world.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Yes, mister Holmes, they have a great deal to thank
Madame Couri for this new element may force us entirely
to advise our concepts of all physical structure.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Your research is a great responsibility.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Of Bulain, it is Watson.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I must be less that I wish the authorities here
would give me a free hand. I will see such
infinite possibilities in the use, particularly the medical use of radium,
But my conservative superior seemed to regard it only as
a toy as scientist curiosity. The major experiments according as
first exactly, I've given no opportunity to do anything that's
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in the east radical.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
How can re search you ever get anywhere along those lines?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
It is a great misfortune, Holmes, that you've determined to
attire to your bee farm this project. We could use
such an analytical mind as yours.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How many assistants do you have working with your buller? Three?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
But none of them are very inspired. I'm afraid my
best assistant is a man in Barker. He's a little
arm the conservative eye too, but he is extremely adroit.
The other two a young man called Taylor and the
girl Gladys Hughes. They mean well, but coach, I fear
is the only word to describe them. Where you like,
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I was just amused to observe that in describing my assistance,
I chanced to be literal as well as figurative. It's
odd that random symbolism can sometimes would never mind that
you would.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Like to see that.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
To the laboratory, Yes, I have some extraordinarily interesting photographic
traits that they called the emanations of radium.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They'll be here.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think you will find them most fascinating.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Baker Street, particularly when our rooms are full of packing cases,
seems rather grab after the scientific stimulations of Professor Bulland's laboratory.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Jaff. Yes, you seem grab even if we hadn't been
the same. I feel frightful, depressed. I just don't know
what I'm going to do with our fliers.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
To the young man Watson and a susceptible one, you'll
marry again, No I won't. You will old Chap, and
you'll end up by being glad that your old roommate,
your difficult, rather unsociable old roommate, is living in retirement
on the Sussex down rubbish.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I shan't feel any of the kind in any case.
I don't think you'll be able to stay in retirement
for long. Your mind is much to a left to
be satisfied by being a sort of midwife to a
bunch of beastly beam.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Dear what I feel it will never eat honey again.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, you can laugh, Homes, but I could see how
excited you were when but suggested that you might help
him with his radium experiments.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Leffering suggestion, I must have fit my dear Bella just
the same. Mat Oh, who the devil's at?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
From the urgency of the tag on the bill pool,
I'd say that it was a class You.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Don't hit him off pretty long, chap.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yes, I'll do my best, or I want.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
An explain that I'm no longer in practice.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Two late homes, he's first passed. Missus Hudson, here comes
rushing up the stairs.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I can't found it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I beg your pardon, sir. No, I am not sure, and.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You must be mister Holmes. That is my name, sir,
But may I ask what it? Can't see your rather
world written entrance, my huskeeper, Missus Hudson, I haven't had
time to consider it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
My sister Gladys Hughes has vanished, vanished into thin air.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You've got to find it for me, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'll pay you any fee name, but you've got to find.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Mister Hughes I'm extremely sorry that your sister has vanished,
but I'm afraid that I can do nothing to help you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm retiring, I'm giving up my practice. If you want
help me, I'll go to someone who will. That's exactly
what I mean, Sir.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I suggest that you go to the police, or if
you insist on a private investigator, I can strongly recommend
mister Martin Hewitt's. Yes, his address is thirty nine point Street,
night screech, good day to you, and good Dame's Hugh.
And it's like ninety ten is concerned that his manners
a great deal to be designed.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Homes Homes Joannie Hughes his missing sister, that was the
name of one of Professor Buller's assistants.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Will hurt, true fellow, but it's probably only a coincidence.
Both Christian and surnames are extremely common ones.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
All Right, I have a feeling that it may not
be a kind of book.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Come now, my dear fellow, don't you try him embroil
me in a fresh adventure. I'd retired, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Leaving for Sussex in a few days. And if any
more plans come.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Runching at my door, Bill, I shall ignore them, But
mister Holmes have got to help me. My son, Jeffrey
Barker has appeared.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm highness is Barker, but I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I am homes. Jeffrey Barker was the name of Professor
Buller's chief assistant.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Watson, please believe me when I say that I'm not
being bageled further. And this is Taylor. I'm sorry, but
I can't help you with mister Holmes.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's my husband. He's disappeared.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
We've only been married three months and now it's terrible.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
But I've been so worried it wasn't he started to
work on that strange new radium with Professor jen b Worms.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You can't pretend it's coincidence. An alonga Ganni's shoes, Jeffrey
Barker and now Taylor, the three assistants.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Of Professor Buller. I know it, Watson, Missus Taylor. The
moving van will be hit tomorrow, Tick to take my
things to Sussex.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I shall follow them immediately. I have retired, madam. Do
you understand that retired?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
There's another telegram for arms for.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The fourth today? Why wi Scottland, godie me along to put.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
A strange business. Three people engaged in the search of
this new element radium all disappeared within forty years. Scotland
Yard needs your help.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Let them earn their salaries. They watching and I've helped
them for the last time. Well let's see how they've
catched their latest diffusion. Oh, this isn't from Scotland Yard,
it's from my brother. My craft, my craft, what's you gotta.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Say, isn't the.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Now Professor Bullan has disappeared, Great Scott and the radium
with him. Surely the pattern is obvious. Sholock radium must
be found. Could solve the problem for you, But I'm
too lazy. Consider what a flashy case for you to
retire on regards my craft?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Ah, the old devil os this is shocky.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
My old friend Buller has.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Dispersed watching, and now my brother asks me to investigate.
Hmmm the pressure becomes irresistible. Very well, I bow to patent,
postponed my retirement for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Good man, you know you'll you will never really retire.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yes, my Croft says, there's an obvious pattern in this case.
Our first step of goss.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Will be to interview all the doctors who preat patients
without charge you are.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Surely they're obvious.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, it isn't all obvious to hear. I don't know
why you always leave me in the dark. Well what
makes you love he left in the dark. It's just
like the old times in their homes. Come on or follow,
let's go the games are what doctor McDonald? This is
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mister Sherlock Holmes. Mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm very glad to meet you, and are you doctor McDonald?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I swear that I've never been as many doctors offices
I have. That mister Holmes is in search of some
information haves doctor you you can help him.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What do you want to know, mister Holme?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Whether you have any charity?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Patients with skin eruptions or growth of any kind, I
mean patience, but have not kept their appointments recently.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Perhaps now let.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Me see wait wait, yes, I do old missus Pendle.
She had a very bad taste of lupus.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Gip you for a treatment here, yes, and I've seen
nothing of her splendid Can you give me her address?
Or stepped and it's in my book here.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I hope this isn't a false trial.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Homes and explored the cedar chap.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Here we are Missus penty thirty six Elm Gardens Flap'm.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Missus Pendall thirty six Olm Gardens flap'am. Thank you Artur.
I'm greatly obliged to you. Getting restless, Watson, Yes, I.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Am a little. We've been waiting outside Missus Pendall's house
over law. Why don't we knocking the door? She says,
Oh no, no, no, my chap we mustn't fight, man.
I hope that she's going to lead us to our quarry.
You see some doors opening, A woman's coming out.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
This is Missus Pendall, beyond doubt with that bandage on
the upper part of her face.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Hello, she's turning down the street. We're going to follow her.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
As Actually, let's give us a let's give us touch.
We don't want her to suppot us.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well while we're waiting, perps, you care? What are two
points for me? I'm still very much in the dark.
The pleasure well one of the things that I under
We've given her enough of a staff. Let's follow very well.
But look here you asked me what I didn't understand.
Two things puzzle me? What did Micoff mean by the
pattern of the case, why are we following a poor
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Sico lady through the London street.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'll ask answer the first question, and I think the
answer to the second robe was.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Of the parent.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
The pattern of the case is clear.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Professor bu Land his three assistants of Danish together with
the radium, but their disappearances were not simultaneous. Had they
been so, it would have been a transparent case of theft.
But with the disappearances gradual rather than simultaneous, the emphasis
has been subtly shifted.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, I can see that, Holmes, but what do you
suppose at the back of the whole business can't be
a simple case of theft. Radium is enormous available, but
it'd be hard stuff to sell again.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Not to an unscrupulous criminel of the knowledge of medicine. Watson.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
My own theory, and I admit at the moment that
it's pulier theory, is that Professor Bulan was worried because
he was so hampered in his research. You remember that
he stressed his great faith in the medical values of
the new element radium.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, yes, yes he did.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
It's more than possible that he places the rights of
science above the rights of property.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
That he's determined that he and his group.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Will carry on their indariable research unhampered by the conservative
restraints of the university.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I see what you made, Hums, But how does Missus Pendall,
the poor woman that we're following into the picture.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Because one of the chief lines of radium research on
the continent so far has been with her sort of trouble.
Professor Bullan's obvious move, if my theory is correct, would
be to contact povertystri contatients, promise them relief, induce them
to abandon their treatments, and submit to him.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
By Joius Holmes, that seems perfectly logical. In yet I
can't believe that Bullin.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Would be Missus Pendleton has reached her destination. She's turned
on the driveway.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yes, she's walking up to what looks like it an deserted.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Warrior chap, and they're out of our sight.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
She's opened the door without knocking. She's gone in.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I'll wait here for a month or two, then we'll
follow her. I have a feeling that her old friend,
Professor Buhla is not far away.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Wall Since you're probably right, but I hope we can
do something to protect him from the consequences of what
he's done. It might easily mean the finish of a
brilliant career.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Everything I power, But you know as well as I do.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Look, look, look, look, sus Pett's coming out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Okay, yes, which is in trouble? Come on, missus Pendle,
what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't know how you know my name or will
you please?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
But he asked me what's wrong?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
They tell me to come here to this address and
I'll find a doctor rudelt my face that comes here.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And what do I find? What did you find, madam?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
A corpse, sir, That's.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
What I find, A dead man lying there in a
great pool of his own blood.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
a second. So I'm just going to remind you that
there's one wine which everyone likes and which is good
on any occasion, Petrie California Sherry. You want to swell
wine to serve before dinner, the perfect answer is Petrie Sherry.
If you want a wine that's delicious after dinner or
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later in the evening when you're just talking things over
with your friends again, you want Petrie Sherry. And if
you want a wonderful wine, to serve at cocktail time. Naturally,
you want Petrie sherry. Cherry is a wine that's good
at any time, and Petrie, well, Petrie is the wine
that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, doctor Watson, So following the tracks of all, missus
Pendall led you to a corpse.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes, of course, Sherlock Holmes and I went at once
into the broken down warehouse to examine the scene of
the treasuredy slumped over a desk in a dark and
chevy room, afflicting candle giving him a carb Liking to
the scene, there's the body of a man. I think
I knew it's identity even before Holmes turned to me,
he said, that's a bull, all right, Watson murdered the cause, Yes,
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but examine him yourself, will you? Yes, there's no doubt
about it. This wound couldn't have been self inflicted. The
right oracle of the heart has has been pierced.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm gonna go estimate death took place not more than
a couple of hours ago, I should say on how
to reconstruct the killing. The murderer came up from behind
Boulan as he sat here, Krypton armor out his throat. Yes,
see the finger marks on the right hand side of
the neck here, and then stabbed him in the chest,
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then withd the weapon and disappeared, leaving.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
No traces confounded. The dusty rumor is an ideal place
for according footprints, but I have a dozen different prints here,
including Missus Pendall's hello, here's the princess smaller woman show.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
We must be out of Gannet hughes his assistant out.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
But that really proves nothing except that she was here
with him, the fact that you were convinced of anyway.
The question is, come on, let's go outside and talk
to missus pendleer again. What a shocking way to die,
and what a great loss to science. I suppose the
murderer must have stolen the radium. We found no trace
of it in there.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And doubted that the profession of the radium as the
motive for the murderer. Missus Pendall, poor, I'm a friend.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Soir, madam, I knew it.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
I never should have come here, I never should have left,
doctor McDonald.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Missus Pendall, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
I can't be answering no question, sir. I don't know
nothing about how the poor soul got his self murdered.
What would the poor woman like me know about? No, no, no,
my good woman, my friend isn't suggesting it. Told do
you know anything about the murder?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Then?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Who told you to come to this address today?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Missus Pendall a young lady, now I shall. She was too.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
She met me coming out to Dr McDonald's yesterday and
told me that if I come here today, i'd find.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
A doctor who could kill me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That was obviously in the hues homes. I believe that
you're theory was right.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Come on, Missus Beendle. We'll escart you to the nearest
police station where you can't report the murder.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yes, sir, and then Mudson, we must come attract the
radian that perhaps is more important than any life.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How are we going to do that? We haven't a
clue to go on.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Remember, the Professor Bullan's three assistants are still missing. We
must go to the homes of each of them and
see what can be found out. Excus you must realize
by now that your sister's disappearance is part of something
vastly more significant than you think. I must ask you,
and that my sister didn't disappear. What do you mean
so you came to us and said that you had
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or it was all a mistake. Gentlemen, she came back today.
She had just been down to the seaside for a
short rest and she forgotten to let me know. I'm
sorry to have bothered you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
May I see your sister at once please, I'm sorry,
mister Holmes, but she's out just now.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I don't know where she's gone or what time shall
be back.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
This is Baker. I've come to you about your son's disappearance.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I'm afraid that isn't My son didn't disappear, as Holmes,
it was all misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He came home today. Well, maybe speak to him, please, missus.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Barker, I'm afraid that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Do you think he does, Miss Taylor, I want to
talk to you about your husband's disappearance.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
That he came home this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
At first I was so suspicious, but when he explained, well,
but I'm sure you know how it is in the
first few months of marriage.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Those can't funk it, Watson, We're no near other solutions.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I meanwhile, here we are back in Veaker Street. The
fans of the moving there has taken all your things off, Pussics.
Perhaps you should give up the case.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Holmes and follow them as my career and I'm not
a failure. No no, no, no, my dear fellow, I
shall not leave London until this problem is solved.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
The TiSER sit down looks to me as if it
may prove a lengthy weight.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I've rarely felt more frustrated ones All three vanished technicians
home safely with plausible stories or at least plausible alibis,
and poor Bullah murdered.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The radium stolen must makes no sense to me. It
must make sense.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Padam was well enough to find in the beginning, just
the question of finding the right key. In a way,
it's clear enough what's happened. One of the three assistants,
placing the financial value of radium above its value to science,
murdered Bullin to obtain the prize. The other two, fearing
that they're complicitly in the original Partwood, involved them as
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accomplices in murder, ran home in estavished an Araba.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
The murderer did the same thing. For it's obvious one
of the three must be the killer and the thief.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yes, the question is which one of the three is
the culprit.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
If poor Buller were al if you could help us,
my dear Chap.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
If Boulan were alive, there would be no murderer. Let's see,
let's see, let's see. Boulan gave us a few bare
ef facts about his three assistants. I wonder, But of course,
what's more? I have the answer?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The case is sold. What do you mean, Holmes, that
cannot be solved if I haven't done enough investigation. If
it comes to that you haven't even seen any of
your three suspect.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Isn't necessary?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You know? Did it? Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Wat's and soho?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But we know nothing to set them apart from each
other except that one of them is a girl. You
know more than that, my dear fellow, think hard wha
Boulan told us that Jeffrey Barker was an excellent technician,
while the other two were somewhat true.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We know even more than that.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's why I know what home.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I sha'n't even need to stay in London and follow
the case through to its logical conclusion.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
A telegram to Micraft and another to Scotland. The answer
to take care of it, Yes, and I can be
in Sussex before the moving ban.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
After all, you mean you're going now before the case
is sold? It is solved, my dear fellow, wal it
remains be done. There's some purely routine work. What's the time, splendid?
If we have, you can catch the three forty five
Express from Waterloo. Yes, I was counting on you spending
a few days down there with me, old Chap. I
hope you can spare the time. I should hate to
(23:16):
make so flastic a change without my good old friend.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What's up my side? Oh? Good god? Delighted? But but what,
my dear boy, the case of the disappearing scientists. Wait
until we.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Get the plastic, shall we? As soon as I get
an answer to my telegrams, I'll explain the whole thing
to you. And now let's show we. I train leaves
in forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
What he wants? Some facial but.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Peaceful down here?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Isn't it extremely? The moments? I find it rather nerve wrecking?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh why you know?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I want you open that telegram and tell me if
you're a solution to the Buller cases? Was the correct
one ever?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Manage?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Jeff?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
See mm hmm, it's micraft listen, heerd Ofer arrested and
Radium recovered. Well done, Sherlock, though you took longer than
I expected regards micraft.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Reflations, Holmes, and now perhaps you'll condescended to tell me
I solved.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Don't be angry with me, old jab I only wanted
to make sure that my solution was correct.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You remember the the nature of the fatal wound on
Bulan's body.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Close in stabbed to the right oracle of the heart
from behind, proving that the murderer was clearly right handed.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh what does that signify? Almost everybody's right handed?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
No, no, not in this case.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
If you recall, Professor Bulan said that Jeffrey Barker was
adroit while his other two assistants were goose. Then he
laughed because he said his fuck is true, both literally
and figurative.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And still don't see what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh, think of the origin of the word adroit abdoir.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Why is the.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
French word for right and ghost is the word for left,
meaning the two ghost assistants were left handed, and therefore
only the ad right, the right handed Baker, could have
inflicted the fatal wound.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I see it now, homes fin. You know, if you
remember that mark of bullans at the time we found
his body, you could have solved the case much soon after.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
And when my old friend Watson points out that my
memory is failing and my mind's sluggish, then I know
that my retirement has been postponed for.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Far too long.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well so, so Horns really went through with this idea
of becoming a bee is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Of course, of course it became one of his favorite hobbies.
Do you know anything about the raising of bees? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Nothing at all. The only connection I've ever had with
bees was very remote once I had the hives.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Don't you heard it?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh no, no, no, mister bun Oh yes, doctor Watson.
But seriously, I do know one thing about bees. Even
when you're all about them, you're apt to get stunned.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So I'll make my hobby Petrie wine. You know you
can't miss when you buy Petrie wine because Petrie wine
is always good wine. The Petrie family has been making
fine wine for generations. In fact, they started way back
in the eighteen hundreds, and they've handed on down from
father to son, from father to son. The knowledge and
(26:38):
experience absolutely essential to the making of truly fine wine.
And since the making of Petrie wine is a family affair,
you can be sure that the name Petrie means something
on a bottle of wine. Those letters P E, t
R I are more than a trademark. They're the personal
assurance of the Petrie family that every drop of Petrie
(26:59):
wine is good wine. So when you buy wine of
any type, you can put your faith in the Petree
label because Petree took time to bring you good wine. Well,
Doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holm story are you going
to tell us now?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Next week, mister Boucherla, I'm going to tell you about
one of the weirdest adventures that Hopes and I ever had.
It concerns a haunted chapel in the wilds of Cornwall,
strange organ music that played at midnight, and the headless
ghost of a murdered.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Monk to Sherlock Holm's adventure was written by Dennis Green
and Anthony Boucher and were suggested by an incident in
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story. The Reigate puzzle music is
(27:55):
by Dean Posterling. Mister Rathburn appears with the courtesy of
Metro Goldwin and mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures,
where they and our starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.
The Petree Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you
to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
(28:18):
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studios. This
is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petree family.
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