August 3, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And now let's visit our good friend and host, doctor Watson.
Good evening, Doctor.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Good evening, was about to tell drop your usual chair
MIxS of home.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
How about it lost the ship.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Be very nice already for tonight's storry.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Doctor, Yes, my boy, here's your shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
My story begins on a June nineteen, eighteen hundred and
eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
My wife and i've quite evening at home.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I remember was just about the hour that a man
gives his first yawn and glances at the clock, when
the tranquility of the scene was broken by the discordant
janging of our front door bell.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
An emergency call for you, I suppose, Doctor's not exactly,
mister Bartow.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It turned out to be a certain missus Iso Whitney,
an old friend of my wife's who'd come to.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Us in trouble. Her husband, she told us, had been.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Missing for forty eight hours, and knowing him to be
the victim of the shocking habit of taking opium. She
was convinced that he was lying drugged and stupefied in
some foul den amid the London waterfronts.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And I suppose you went out to try to find him, Yes,
mister Bartel.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I did.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
She told me that our husband had mentioned frequenting a
place called the Bar of Gold in Upper Swan Lane,
so naturally that's where I began my search. I quickly
located it, and after ordering my cab to Wight, I
entered the place.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A strange sight met my eyes. Through the smoke.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Ridden, gloomed I could catch a glimpse of bodies lying
in strange fantastic poses as they smoked the pipes of death.
Most of the unhappy creatures lay silently, but some muttered
to themselves, and others talked together in strange, low monotonous voices,
their conversation coming in gushes and then trailing off into silence,
each mumbling his own thoughts and paying we got attention or.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Heed to the words of his neighbor.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
As I entered, an attendant hurried up to me with
an opium pipe and a supply of the drug, and beckoned.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Me to an hibber master, may lie here I haven't.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Come to stay here, my good man. I'm looking for
a friend, mister Isa Whitney.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No one by that name here.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm going to search this place just the same. Please
not to wake trouble man.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What's it's that you watsn't Whitney?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Thank heavens, I've foundamer. For What time is it? It's
nearly eleven of what day? What day? Friday, June the nineteenth,
Good lord, I thought it was Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It is Wednesday. Your time to confused me? H, I
tell you it's Friday. Your wife has been waiting two
days for you, boxed up in your dates. I've only
been here a few hours. Three pipes four pipes of
good How many I go home with you?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'll get your hair.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I have a cab waiting. I must do some money.
Will you settle up for me? Here? Wait here for me?
Stop pulling at my steave, My kid, fellow, who are
you and what do you want?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
A word in your ear?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Please? Very well? What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Give rid of your friend and join me outside?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hose What on earth are you doing here instead? Be
a cab waiting?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes, and please use it to send you of the
futtal friend hormone, and if you feel up to it,
I should also recommend that you send a note for
the cabman telling your wife that you have thrown in
your lot with me. I'd be exceedingly glad to having
to go talk with you. Yes, of course, I've splendid
then consumed your business. Yellow chap on me to outside
in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We're a PHYSI it's it's nearly is that your house
as what's it's me? You're disguise as one, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Never recognized you if you haven't spoke to me just
now asposed a good friend. Yes, yes, good, let's start
walking out a horse and trap waiting for.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Me in the next street.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
What on earth were you doing in the bar of
gold home trying to get news of a missing man? You, simon,
I'm in the midst of a very remarkable inquiry, and
I'd hoped to get a clue from the incocurre.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And gramblings of those poor devils back there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ah, there's the horse and trap under the street lamp
on the corner. You'll come with me, But says, of course,
if I can be in any use I trust a
comrade is always abuse my room at the Cedars has
two businesses Cedars.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, that's mister.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
North Saint Clair's house and our present destination. It's near
Lee in Kent, about seven months in a year. I'm
using it as a headquarters while I conduct my quarries.
Amian mister owns.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Everything all right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, thank you, John, I get in Watson. I shan't
need you anymore from that. John, here I acount for you.
Look out for me tomorrow about eleven my charms rams
could not gentlemen, can I jot track.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Go well homes? If we have a seven mile drive ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Of us, perhaps you tell me about the case that
you're working on with pleasure old chat.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But first take the range for a few minutes, will you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I want to remove my makeup and take off my
wig and be comfortable. Now. After that, I'll tell you
why we are headed to the Kintish Preside at this hour.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Of the night.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What's me? You have a grand gift of silence makes
you indelicable as a companion.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We've driven four miles and you haven't dotted a word.
Need homes.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I've been dying to question you, but I could see
that you will preoccupy and I shall reward you with
a clear.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And concise statement.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
My problem.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Mister Nevil Saint Claire, aged thirty seven, the father of
two children and an affectionate husband, is missing. He left
his house the Cedars near Lee, our present destination, last.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Monday, four days ago.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, now, why should an affectionate husband of a happy
father disappear.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In any money trouble?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I think not? His entire debts for a moment amount
to eighty eight pounds, while he has two hundred and
twenty pounds standing to his credit. That the Capital and
Country's Bank, who is the light person to see him
on Monday? And his wife's But let me tell you
the story. He left his house for London rather earlier
than usual. He was a businessman, and yes he has
an interest in several companies in London, but his wife doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Exactly what he does.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But to continue, he left for London saying that he
would bring his boy home a box of toy bricks. Now,
but the middest chance he's received a telegram shortly after
his departure saying that a parssful of considerable value was
waiting for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping
Company and the dames.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Should require their officers in Fresno's Street, I'd know by
them tonight, Jackie.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
In Fresno's Street branches out of Upper Swandon Lane where
the Bar of Gold is city.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ah, now I'm beginning to unders he had gone.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm gone, and missus Saint Clair took a train for London,
and at exactly four point thirty five on Monday last
found herself.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Walking past the Bar of Gold.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Secondly, she heard a cry, and looking up, was horrified
to see her husband affecking to her from a second
story window which prisoners.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
He there his own free will use first, and deftly,
he was a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face,
which he described as being terribly agitated. He waved his
hand to out frantically, and then vanished from the window
so suddenly that it seemed to her that he had
been dragged back by some irresistible force from behind. One
singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that
although he wore the coat he had for London, and
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he wore neither collar nor time, what did you do?
Rushed down the steps into the Bar of Gold and
attempts to go up the staircase leading to the second floor.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I suppose that oriental fellow that I tonight stopped.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Her exactly indact, he pushed her out of the door
and swammed it out for her. She rushed down the lane,
and a few moments later was lucky enough to meet
a sergeant.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And too constable come back with her to the bar
of gold. Course, yes, I went with her to the.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Room in which no one Saint Clair at last been seen.
Of course there was no sign of him. In fact,
on the whole floor there was no one to be
found except a hideous depond beggar who seemed to live there.
And what missus Thankclaif told me, it appears that the
sergeant conducted the examination quite philogy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You saw your asthma's up this window, Missus Sinclair. I'm
positive sided. And Alesca swears no one's been upstairs this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's probably lying. Let's see what this crippled fellowest to
say for himself.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Here you what do you want with me?
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I you heard what this lady said. Did you see
her rasband go in this room a few minutes ago?
I didn't see nobody, and I've been here all the afternoon, you, Lila, Yes,
and you swear that no one's been in this room
for the last few hours. Yes, I do, missus Sinclair.
I know that you think you saw your husband.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But don't you.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Suppose stop on the table, just a wooden boxman, But
I know what's insided there.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
See wants a lot of a lot of wooden bricks
like kids playing my husband.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
To London today is basically to buy the brath Son.
You can't believe me, now, tug.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Don't think I can, Mam.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'll take another look around. Where does this door lead
to my bedroom?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You won't find.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Nothing in there, and we'll look just the same. Hello,
bloodstains on this window, Ledge, fresh bloodstains.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
How do you account for that? Well, I don't know
nothing about it. And the window overlooks the river, just
where the water's good and deep. Too nice place to
tip a body out there?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Conning?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You ain't done nothing?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
You've got bloodstains on your right sleeve. What a you
gotta say about there? I cut my fingers, see, and
then I went and open the window. Letter, That's how
the blood got there.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You think I was born yesterday? Let's have a look
in his chest and bars.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Hello, Hello, those clothes are these?
Speaker 6 (10:52):
There are trousers, socks, shoes, et, everything except the coat, Eh,
missus Sinclair?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Will you come in here?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Pre mom?
Speaker 8 (11:00):
What have your problem charged?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
These?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Close?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There? Your husband's mom?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
What's happened to him?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Sargeant?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm afraid he's met with foul plaimer.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And this man knows what knownely he won't talk. I
don't know nothing. I'll tell you, don't you well, I
arrest you in the name of the Lord, and.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I warn you that anything to side. And so Watson
the Sargant arrested this crippled beggar.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm not surprised. What have they been able to find
out about him? Surprisingly before? His name is Hugh Boone,
and he's.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
A professional beggar, quite as successful when I gather his
pathetic appearance.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Attracts great sympathy.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
There's a shock of orange chair and a pale face
that is disfigured by a horrible scar which has twisted
the outer edge of his upper lip.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He was the last man to see them, some turl lion.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So it would seem the Alaska downstairs has been class
examined relentlessly, but he swears that he has no knowledge.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Of the crimes there have been in any furtive.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yes, and either have the ebbing tide gave a fresh clue?
You means and curs body was washed out.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, his coat.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
With every pocket stuffed with pennies and hapenies four hundred
and twenty one pennies and two hundred and seventy haypenies
to be exact.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
There's no wonder that it had not been swept away
by the tide. But a human body it was a
different matter.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yes, there's a strong eddy between the house and the wall.
It seems likely that the weighted coat had remained when
the stripped body had been carried away into the river.
The other clothes were found in the room. Why would
the body be dressed in a coat? Low? We can
only summarize old chat. But supposing that this man Boom
I trust Nevil sent Claire through the window and into
the river, what would he.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Do then try and dispose of the telltal garment?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, that would be logical, wouldn't it. He would seize
the coat and be in the act of throwing it
out of the window when it would occur to him
that it would float and not sick, so he loaded
the pockets with coins to make it. Sinfe quite so,
But he has little time for he has heard this
couple downstairs. When to Saint Calare tried to cross her
way up, he only succeeded in getting as far as
throwing the coat out.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
When the police arrived on the scene. No, it seems
perfectly feasible.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, I thought there was a working hypothesis anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Neville Sinclaire disappeared on Monday, and if we still don't
know what but he was doing in the opium.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Down what happened? Too many words?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Or where he is now?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
One hum boom that beg over the crusted lip had
to do with his disappearance. Ah, here we are that destination.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh a light burnie. Missus Sinclair must be waiting up.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
For he asked, poor woman, I hate to return here
with no news of her husband. But she's been brave, Watson,
extremely brave. We must do everything we can to comfort her.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Doctor Watson, I'm so grateful that you were able to
come down and help your friend.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I only hope that I can be of some help. Missus.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I say that you have no good news for me
to whom I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
No, thanks heaven to death.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Mister Holmes, tell me honestly, do you think that Never
is still alive?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Bank, No, thankly? And then I don't you think he's murdered?
Well I don't say that, but perhaps you? And on
what day?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Did he meet his death?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
On Monday?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Then the happiness the home? You can explain how I
received a letter from him today?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who where is the let? Madam? Yeah, let me see it.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
This is very crude writing on the envelope. Surely it's
not your husband's hand. The writing in the letter is
there's letter contained an enclosure?
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Yes, there was a ring signal.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
What does the letter say? Home?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
There is do not be frightened, all will come. Well
there is a huge error which it takes some little
time to rectify, a waiting patience. And it's signed Neville
written in pension the fly leaf of a notebook, no
water mark. Posted today in graves End by a man
of the dirt.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It's come.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The flat has been dumbed. If I'm not mistaken by
a man who has been.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Chewing to back.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
My husband must be alive, mister Hilmes, This might be
a clever forgery of this office put us off the track.
The signet ring, yes, it may have been taken from
him for handwriting, and then the post.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Mark might have been written on Monday and only posted today.
I won't be discarded where I have no wish to
discourage you. I'm just trying to be practical. If your
husband is alive and able to write letters, why should
he remain away from you.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I can't admit he made no special remarks before.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Leaving on Monday phone Nune, except to say that he was.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Going to buy the wooden blocks. When you saw him
at the bar of Golden Swandham Lane, was the window open, yes,
then he might have called you. He might, as I
understand it, he gave an inarticulate cry, a call for
help God.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Yes, he waved his hands, but it might have.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Been a cry of surprise. Astonishment of the unexpected sight
of you. Might have caused him to throw up his hands,
I suppose. And you thought that he was pulled back
from the window.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Because he disappeared so abruptly. He might have.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I can't think why one last question? Your husband error
shown signs of taking Oakum Why no.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Never, mister Holmes. I'm certain the idea would have revolted him.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Thank you, Missus Sinclair. As were the principal points I
wanted to be clear on. And now what's my suggest
we retire for the night. We may have a busy
day ahead of us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I hope you both sleep well.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Good Night, mister Holmes, Dr Watson.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Good night, miss keep up your courage. Good night, Missus Sinclair.
We miscook for the best out right, though I should
not venture to say that danger is over. You'll hear
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the rest of Dr Watson's story in just a second.
So I'm just going to remind you that when you
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if you prefer your sherry dry, you know, not sweet,
ask for Petree paled By sherry. They're both fine wines.
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And if you don't know which you'd prefer, don't buy one,
buy two, buy them both and try them both. And
remember this. Petre sherry is the perfect all round, all
occasion wine. It's good before dinner, after dinner, at cocktail time,
and any time. Just be sure you'll get Petrie pet
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Tree sherry well, doctor Watson, you and the great Sherlock
Holmes certainly deserved a good night's rest. Did you get it?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I did, mister Boto, But Holmes made no attempt to sleep.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
As soon as we retired upstairs, he donned the blue
silk dressing gown and then wandered about the room, collecting
pillows from his bed, cushions from the sofa in the armchairs.
With these he construct the sort of Eastern divan, and
which pursed himself cross legged, with an ounce of shagged
tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front
of him.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He was all set for a session of thinking.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I guess yeah, my boy.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
In the dim light to the lamp, I saw him
sitting there, an old bra pipe clenched in his teeth,
his eyes fixed vacant, clear on the corner of the ceiling,
the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless. So
he sat as I dropped off to sleep, And so
he sat when I wakened in the morning to find
the summer sun shining into the room. The pipe was
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still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and
the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but
nothing remained of the heap.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Of shag which I had seen on the night. Watson,
Wake Watson, who in twenty minutes past four homes.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
World Chap.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I had to think. I couldn't allow my brain the
luxury of sleeping you game from morning drive.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, i'll get risk quiet.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
A man's stirring yet, but I know where the stable
boy sleeps. I have a horse and trap up no
time at all. Oh where you going prison to visit?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Boon the man with a twisted lip?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Homes you. You're unusually excited work. What's I want to
test a little theory? I think what's in that?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You are not standing in the presence of one of
the most affluent fools in Europe. I deserve to be
kicked from here to Channing Cross. But I think I
have the key to the affair. Oh is it in
the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You're joking home?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
No, I've just been then removed it to my coat pocket.
Now haven get dressed, old Chap, and we'll drive up
to the prison and see whether my key fits the lock. Oh,
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good morning, mister Elms, Doctor Watson. You're a couple of
early birds, and no mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here's constable.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're searching for the proverbial worm who's on duty, respector
Brad Street, Sir, Oh, oh, here he is now.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Good morning byd Street. Oh, mister Elms, good morning, doctor,
Good morning in Spigtor. What can I do for you? Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He called about hu Boone, the beggar man who his
chat was being concerned in the disappearance of mister.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Neble Saint Clair.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have him here?
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Oh, yes, mister Olmes, he's in the cells. I'll take
you to him. Follow me, will you, gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Thank you? What kind of a prisoners he?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Oh, he hasn't given us any trouble. He's a dirty devil.
It's as much as we can do to make him
wash his ends. His face is as black as tickers.
He has an aversion to washing, has he? Yeah, yes,
mister Olmes. Well and see his case has been settled.
Tolive a regular prison barth. And when you see him,
I think you'll agree with.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Me that he needs it. And then we are.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Eh, this is hisself. He's still asleep.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Lord, what a fulfill possibly looking for her?
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Yes, he's a beauty, isn't he? What doing mister Romes,
please inspect her well he he certainly needs a wash.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yes, I had an idea that he might.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
That's why I brought the sponge along in my Oh,
so that was the key that you found in the bathroom.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
You're if any one, mister Olmes, And no mistake. Why
didn't you bring a sponge along for I'll show you.
Is there any water in the cell and the jug
on the table?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I set the sponge in the water so and then
applied to the prisoner's face, so.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Which Scott has competious three shades lighter underneath it, and
the Scott is liples disappeared.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh you do I turn this mapple bread hair? I
think we mind it's a wig.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Let me introduce you to mister Neville, Saint Clair a.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Brie in the County of Kent.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Good lord, mister Elmes is the missing man, all right,
I recognize him from the photographs.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
All right, I'm never since here. What am I charged
with with making away with?
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Mister Neverles say, oh no, you you can't be charged
with that as we make a case of attempted suicide
of it.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Well, since I'm the missing man and it's obvious that
no crime has been committed, and therefore I'm illegally detained.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No crime, but a very great error has been committed.
You would have done better to a trust, did your wife?
It wasn't known in my wife.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It was the children.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I couldn't beare to have them know that their father
was a common beggar. Now you've exposed me, What could
I do? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
If you leave it a code of law of traillless
matter up so you can hardly avoid newspaper publisher. But
if you're perfectly honest with us now, I'm sure the inspector, mister.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Holmes won't be too hard on you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, mister Saint Clair Inspector Bradstreet will. I'm sure I
make notes on the information that you give us and
submit them to the proper authorities. But now, sir, your
story please? Why have you been posing as Hugh Boone,
a crippled girl with a twisted lip? Well, it's simple
enough story. Some years ago I was a newspaper reporter.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
One day my editor wanted an article on begging in
the London metropolis.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I suppose you thought the best way to get your effects, guys,
yourself is as bigger.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Yes, I've been an action in my use in It
wasn't hard for me to adopt a convincing disguise.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
But that was the point where all my trouble started.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
On that first day I sat him the life London streets,
I found, to my amazement that I received no less
than twenty six shillings and.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Four pounds as much as your weakness salary is a reporter.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
And imagine, yes, mister Holmes, well you can imagine how
hard it was to settle down to arduous work a
two pounds a week when I knew that I could
earn as much in a couple of days by sneering
my face with paint, laying my cap on the ground,
and sitting still.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Only one man knew my secret Alaska at the bar
of Golden Upper Swanderblane. Eh, yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Every morning I had emerged from there dressed as a beggar,
and in the evenings i'd return and transform myself into
a well dressed man about town. The fellow was well
paid for his rooms, and I knew that my secret
was safe in his position.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
When you got married, you couldn't bring yourself to confide
in your wife. I supposon, No, I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
My wife knew that I had a business in the city.
She little knew what when you saw your wife from
the window last Monday, you quickly changed back into the
character the beggar.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
I supposed, yes, mister Holmes, and then waited my coaton
threw it into the river. Well, I I don't think
there's anything else I need explain.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Is that a one point the signet ring that you
sent your wife, Well, I knew that she'd be wedding,
so I gave it to the Alaska at a moment
when no constable was watching me, together with a hastily
scribbled note.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That note only reached her last night, mister Sinclair, last night,
poor Catherine, What a dreadful week you must have spent.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
The police have been watching that Alaska. He probably found
it difficult to post the letter for you without being spotted.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yes, I would surmise he gave it to a sailor.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Customer is to post a sailor who chewed tobacco and
had a dirty thumb. Yes, I think all the ends
are tied off, Benika. Now one last question is to Sinclair,
have you never been prosecuted for begging many times, but
what was a fine to me? It's got to stop
here and now, missus Sinclair, if the ash this thing up,
there must be no more of you boom the beggar.
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I swear it, and you must.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Tell your wife for two than one. If you've done
that a long time ago, you'd have saved both of yourselves.
Are very great deal of miseries.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
I shall tell her everything. Well, mister Jlmes, were very
much obliged to you. If havn't cleared this matter up,
I will find you.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
While you reached your results though well, in this case,
my good inspector, I reached them by sitting upon fine
pillows and consuming an ounce of shag tobacco. I only
wish that all my problems might be solved. So comfortable, doctor,
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that was some story. Imagine arresting a man for committing
a murder and then finding out that he's the fellow
who's supposed to be dead. You said it. By being
a detective sure has its surprises. Nothing like that ever
happens to me.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh come, come, come, come, come.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
One would beleeve to hear you talk that you need
any uneventful life.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
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doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes adventure? Are you planning
to tell us next week?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Who I'll see next week? Next week?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Mister bark till, I'm going to tell you a weird
story of violence and of sudden death that's struck without warning.
I call it The Strange Adventure.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
The Aneasy Easy.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Chair Tonight Sherlock Holmes Adventure was adapted by Dennis Green
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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And now let's visit our good friend and host, doctor Watson.
Good evening, Doctor.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Good evening, was about to tell drop your usual chair
MIxS of home.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
How about it lost the ship.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Be very nice already for tonight's storry.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Doctor, Yes, my boy, here's your shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
My story begins on a June nineteen, eighteen hundred and
eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
My wife and i've quite evening at home.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I remember was just about the hour that a man
gives his first yawn and glances at the clock, when
the tranquility of the scene was broken by the discordant
janging of our front door bell.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
An emergency call for you, I suppose, Doctor's not exactly,
mister Bartow.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It turned out to be a certain missus Iso Whitney,
an old friend of my wife's who'd come to.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Us in trouble. Her husband, she told us, had been.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Missing for forty eight hours, and knowing him to be
the victim of the shocking habit of taking opium. She
was convinced that he was lying drugged and stupefied in
some foul den amid the London waterfronts.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And I suppose you went out to try to find him, Yes,
mister Bartel.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I did.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
She told me that our husband had mentioned frequenting a
place called the Bar of Gold in Upper Swan Lane,
so naturally that's where I began my search. I quickly
located it, and after ordering my cab to Wight, I
entered the place.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A strange sight met my eyes. Through the smoke.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Ridden, gloomed I could catch a glimpse of bodies lying
in strange fantastic poses as they smoked the pipes of death.
Most of the unhappy creatures lay silently, but some muttered
to themselves, and others talked together in strange, low monotonous voices,
their conversation coming in gushes and then trailing off into silence,
each mumbling his own thoughts and paying we got attention or.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Heed to the words of his neighbor.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
As I entered, an attendant hurried up to me with
an opium pipe and a supply of the drug, and beckoned.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Me to an hibber master, may lie here I haven't.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Come to stay here, my good man. I'm looking for
a friend, mister Isa Whitney.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No one by that name here.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm going to search this place just the same. Please
not to wake trouble man.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What's it's that you watsn't Whitney?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Thank heavens, I've foundamer. For What time is it? It's
nearly eleven of what day? What day? Friday, June the nineteenth,
Good lord, I thought it was Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It is Wednesday. Your time to confused me? H, I
tell you it's Friday. Your wife has been waiting two
days for you, boxed up in your dates. I've only
been here a few hours. Three pipes four pipes of
good How many I go home with you?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'll get your hair.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I have a cab waiting. I must do some money.
Will you settle up for me? Here? Wait here for me?
Stop pulling at my steave, My kid, fellow, who are
you and what do you want?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
A word in your ear?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Please? Very well? What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Give rid of your friend and join me outside?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hose What on earth are you doing here instead? Be
a cab waiting?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes, and please use it to send you of the
futtal friend hormone, and if you feel up to it,
I should also recommend that you send a note for
the cabman telling your wife that you have thrown in
your lot with me. I'd be exceedingly glad to having
to go talk with you. Yes, of course, I've splendid
then consumed your business. Yellow chap on me to outside
in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We're a PHYSI it's it's nearly is that your house
as what's it's me? You're disguise as one, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Never recognized you if you haven't spoke to me just
now asposed a good friend. Yes, yes, good, let's start
walking out a horse and trap waiting for.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Me in the next street.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
What on earth were you doing in the bar of
gold home trying to get news of a missing man? You, simon,
I'm in the midst of a very remarkable inquiry, and
I'd hoped to get a clue from the incocurre.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And gramblings of those poor devils back there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ah, there's the horse and trap under the street lamp
on the corner. You'll come with me, But says, of course,
if I can be in any use I trust a
comrade is always abuse my room at the Cedars has
two businesses Cedars.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, that's mister.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
North Saint Clair's house and our present destination. It's near
Lee in Kent, about seven months in a year. I'm
using it as a headquarters while I conduct my quarries.
Amian mister owns.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Everything all right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, thank you, John, I get in Watson. I shan't
need you anymore from that. John, here I acount for you.
Look out for me tomorrow about eleven my charms rams
could not gentlemen, can I jot track.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Go well homes? If we have a seven mile drive ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Of us, perhaps you tell me about the case that
you're working on with pleasure old chat.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But first take the range for a few minutes, will you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I want to remove my makeup and take off my
wig and be comfortable. Now. After that, I'll tell you
why we are headed to the Kintish Preside at this hour.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Of the night.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What's me? You have a grand gift of silence makes
you indelicable as a companion.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We've driven four miles and you haven't dotted a word.
Need homes.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I've been dying to question you, but I could see
that you will preoccupy and I shall reward you with
a clear.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And concise statement.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
My problem.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Mister Nevil Saint Claire, aged thirty seven, the father of
two children and an affectionate husband, is missing. He left
his house the Cedars near Lee, our present destination, last.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Monday, four days ago.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, now, why should an affectionate husband of a happy
father disappear.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In any money trouble?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I think not? His entire debts for a moment amount
to eighty eight pounds, while he has two hundred and
twenty pounds standing to his credit. That the Capital and
Country's Bank, who is the light person to see him
on Monday? And his wife's But let me tell you
the story. He left his house for London rather earlier
than usual. He was a businessman, and yes he has
an interest in several companies in London, but his wife doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Exactly what he does.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But to continue, he left for London saying that he
would bring his boy home a box of toy bricks. Now,
but the middest chance he's received a telegram shortly after
his departure saying that a parssful of considerable value was
waiting for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping
Company and the dames.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Should require their officers in Fresno's Street, I'd know by
them tonight, Jackie.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
In Fresno's Street branches out of Upper Swandon Lane where
the Bar of Gold is city.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ah, now I'm beginning to unders he had gone.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm gone, and missus Saint Clair took a train for London,
and at exactly four point thirty five on Monday last
found herself.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Walking past the Bar of Gold.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Secondly, she heard a cry, and looking up, was horrified
to see her husband affecking to her from a second
story window which prisoners.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
He there his own free will use first, and deftly,
he was a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face,
which he described as being terribly agitated. He waved his
hand to out frantically, and then vanished from the window
so suddenly that it seemed to her that he had
been dragged back by some irresistible force from behind. One
singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that
although he wore the coat he had for London, and
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he wore neither collar nor time, what did you do?
Rushed down the steps into the Bar of Gold and
attempts to go up the staircase leading to the second floor.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I suppose that oriental fellow that I tonight stopped.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Her exactly indact, he pushed her out of the door
and swammed it out for her. She rushed down the lane,
and a few moments later was lucky enough to meet
a sergeant.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And too constable come back with her to the bar
of gold. Course, yes, I went with her to the.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Room in which no one Saint Clair at last been seen.
Of course there was no sign of him. In fact,
on the whole floor there was no one to be
found except a hideous depond beggar who seemed to live there.
And what missus Thankclaif told me, it appears that the
sergeant conducted the examination quite philogy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You saw your asthma's up this window, Missus Sinclair. I'm
positive sided. And Alesca swears no one's been upstairs this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's probably lying. Let's see what this crippled fellowest to
say for himself.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Here you what do you want with me?
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I you heard what this lady said. Did you see
her rasband go in this room a few minutes ago?
I didn't see nobody, and I've been here all the afternoon, you, Lila, Yes,
and you swear that no one's been in this room
for the last few hours. Yes, I do, missus Sinclair.
I know that you think you saw your husband.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But don't you.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Suppose stop on the table, just a wooden boxman, But
I know what's insided there.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
See wants a lot of a lot of wooden bricks
like kids playing my husband.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
To London today is basically to buy the brath Son.
You can't believe me, now, tug.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Don't think I can, Mam.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'll take another look around. Where does this door lead
to my bedroom?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You won't find.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Nothing in there, and we'll look just the same. Hello,
bloodstains on this window, Ledge, fresh bloodstains.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
How do you account for that? Well, I don't know
nothing about it. And the window overlooks the river, just
where the water's good and deep. Too nice place to
tip a body out there?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Conning?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You ain't done nothing?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
You've got bloodstains on your right sleeve. What a you
gotta say about there? I cut my fingers, see, and
then I went and open the window. Letter, That's how
the blood got there.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You think I was born yesterday? Let's have a look
in his chest and bars.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Hello, Hello, those clothes are these?
Speaker 6 (10:52):
There are trousers, socks, shoes, et, everything except the coat, Eh,
missus Sinclair?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Will you come in here?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Pre mom?
Speaker 8 (11:00):
What have your problem charged?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
These?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Close?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There? Your husband's mom?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
What's happened to him?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Sargeant?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm afraid he's met with foul plaimer.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And this man knows what knownely he won't talk. I
don't know nothing. I'll tell you, don't you well, I
arrest you in the name of the Lord, and.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I warn you that anything to side. And so Watson
the Sargant arrested this crippled beggar.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm not surprised. What have they been able to find
out about him? Surprisingly before? His name is Hugh Boone,
and he's.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
A professional beggar, quite as successful when I gather his
pathetic appearance.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Attracts great sympathy.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
There's a shock of orange chair and a pale face
that is disfigured by a horrible scar which has twisted
the outer edge of his upper lip.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He was the last man to see them, some turl lion.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So it would seem the Alaska downstairs has been class
examined relentlessly, but he swears that he has no knowledge.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Of the crimes there have been in any furtive.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yes, and either have the ebbing tide gave a fresh clue?
You means and curs body was washed out.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, his coat.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
With every pocket stuffed with pennies and hapenies four hundred
and twenty one pennies and two hundred and seventy haypenies
to be exact.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
There's no wonder that it had not been swept away
by the tide. But a human body it was a
different matter.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yes, there's a strong eddy between the house and the wall.
It seems likely that the weighted coat had remained when
the stripped body had been carried away into the river.
The other clothes were found in the room. Why would
the body be dressed in a coat? Low? We can
only summarize old chat. But supposing that this man Boom
I trust Nevil sent Claire through the window and into
the river, what would he.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Do then try and dispose of the telltal garment?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, that would be logical, wouldn't it. He would seize
the coat and be in the act of throwing it
out of the window when it would occur to him
that it would float and not sick, so he loaded
the pockets with coins to make it. Sinfe quite so,
But he has little time for he has heard this
couple downstairs. When to Saint Calare tried to cross her
way up, he only succeeded in getting as far as
throwing the coat out.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
When the police arrived on the scene. No, it seems
perfectly feasible.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, I thought there was a working hypothesis anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Neville Sinclaire disappeared on Monday, and if we still don't
know what but he was doing in the opium.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Down what happened? Too many words?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Or where he is now?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
One hum boom that beg over the crusted lip had
to do with his disappearance. Ah, here we are that destination.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh a light burnie. Missus Sinclair must be waiting up.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
For he asked, poor woman, I hate to return here
with no news of her husband. But she's been brave, Watson,
extremely brave. We must do everything we can to comfort her.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Doctor Watson, I'm so grateful that you were able to
come down and help your friend.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I only hope that I can be of some help. Missus.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I say that you have no good news for me
to whom I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
No, thanks heaven to death.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Mister Holmes, tell me honestly, do you think that Never
is still alive?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Bank, No, thankly? And then I don't you think he's murdered?
Well I don't say that, but perhaps you? And on
what day?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Did he meet his death?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
On Monday?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Then the happiness the home? You can explain how I
received a letter from him today?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who where is the let? Madam? Yeah, let me see it.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
This is very crude writing on the envelope. Surely it's
not your husband's hand. The writing in the letter is
there's letter contained an enclosure?
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Yes, there was a ring signal.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
What does the letter say? Home?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
There is do not be frightened, all will come. Well
there is a huge error which it takes some little
time to rectify, a waiting patience. And it's signed Neville
written in pension the fly leaf of a notebook, no
water mark. Posted today in graves End by a man
of the dirt.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It's come.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The flat has been dumbed. If I'm not mistaken by
a man who has been.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Chewing to back.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
My husband must be alive, mister Hilmes, This might be
a clever forgery of this office put us off the track.
The signet ring, yes, it may have been taken from
him for handwriting, and then the post.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Mark might have been written on Monday and only posted today.
I won't be discarded where I have no wish to
discourage you. I'm just trying to be practical. If your
husband is alive and able to write letters, why should
he remain away from you.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I can't admit he made no special remarks before.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Leaving on Monday phone Nune, except to say that he was.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Going to buy the wooden blocks. When you saw him
at the bar of Golden Swandham Lane, was the window open, yes,
then he might have called you. He might, as I
understand it, he gave an inarticulate cry, a call for
help God.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Yes, he waved his hands, but it might have.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Been a cry of surprise. Astonishment of the unexpected sight
of you. Might have caused him to throw up his hands,
I suppose. And you thought that he was pulled back
from the window.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Because he disappeared so abruptly. He might have.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I can't think why one last question? Your husband error
shown signs of taking Oakum Why no.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Never, mister Holmes. I'm certain the idea would have revolted him.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Thank you, Missus Sinclair. As were the principal points I
wanted to be clear on. And now what's my suggest
we retire for the night. We may have a busy
day ahead of us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I hope you both sleep well.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Good Night, mister Holmes, Dr Watson.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Good night, miss keep up your courage. Good night, Missus Sinclair.
We miscook for the best out right, though I should
not venture to say that danger is over. You'll hear
(16:42):
the rest of Dr Watson's story in just a second.
So I'm just going to remind you that when you
by Patrick California sherry, you have a choice of two
kinds of sherry. You can choose Patrie regular sherry, or
if you prefer your sherry dry, you know, not sweet,
ask for Petree paled By sherry. They're both fine wines.
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And if you don't know which you'd prefer, don't buy one,
buy two, buy them both and try them both. And
remember this. Petre sherry is the perfect all round, all
occasion wine. It's good before dinner, after dinner, at cocktail time,
and any time. Just be sure you'll get Petrie pet
(17:23):
Tree sherry well, doctor Watson, you and the great Sherlock
Holmes certainly deserved a good night's rest. Did you get it?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I did, mister Boto, But Holmes made no attempt to sleep.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
As soon as we retired upstairs, he donned the blue
silk dressing gown and then wandered about the room, collecting
pillows from his bed, cushions from the sofa in the armchairs.
With these he construct the sort of Eastern divan, and
which pursed himself cross legged, with an ounce of shagged
tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front
of him.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He was all set for a session of thinking.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I guess yeah, my boy.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
In the dim light to the lamp, I saw him
sitting there, an old bra pipe clenched in his teeth,
his eyes fixed vacant, clear on the corner of the ceiling,
the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless. So
he sat as I dropped off to sleep, And so
he sat when I wakened in the morning to find
the summer sun shining into the room. The pipe was
(18:14):
still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and
the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but
nothing remained of the heap.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Of shag which I had seen on the night. Watson,
Wake Watson, who in twenty minutes past four homes.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
World Chap.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I had to think. I couldn't allow my brain the
luxury of sleeping you game from morning drive.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, i'll get risk quiet.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
A man's stirring yet, but I know where the stable
boy sleeps. I have a horse and trap up no
time at all. Oh where you going prison to visit?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Boon the man with a twisted lip?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Homes you. You're unusually excited work. What's I want to
test a little theory? I think what's in that?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You are not standing in the presence of one of
the most affluent fools in Europe. I deserve to be
kicked from here to Channing Cross. But I think I
have the key to the affair. Oh is it in
the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You're joking home?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
No, I've just been then removed it to my coat pocket.
Now haven get dressed, old Chap, and we'll drive up
to the prison and see whether my key fits the lock. Oh,
(19:38):
good morning, mister Elms, Doctor Watson. You're a couple of
early birds, and no mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here's constable.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're searching for the proverbial worm who's on duty, respector
Brad Street, Sir, Oh, oh, here he is now.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Good morning byd Street. Oh, mister Elms, good morning, doctor,
Good morning in Spigtor. What can I do for you? Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He called about hu Boone, the beggar man who his
chat was being concerned in the disappearance of mister.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Neble Saint Clair.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have him here?
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Oh, yes, mister Olmes, he's in the cells. I'll take
you to him. Follow me, will you, gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Thank you? What kind of a prisoners he?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Oh, he hasn't given us any trouble. He's a dirty devil.
It's as much as we can do to make him
wash his ends. His face is as black as tickers.
He has an aversion to washing, has he? Yeah, yes,
mister Olmes. Well and see his case has been settled.
Tolive a regular prison barth. And when you see him,
I think you'll agree with.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Me that he needs it. And then we are.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Eh, this is hisself. He's still asleep.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Lord, what a fulfill possibly looking for her?
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Yes, he's a beauty, isn't he? What doing mister Romes,
please inspect her well he he certainly needs a wash.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yes, I had an idea that he might.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
That's why I brought the sponge along in my Oh,
so that was the key that you found in the bathroom.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
You're if any one, mister Olmes, And no mistake. Why
didn't you bring a sponge along for I'll show you.
Is there any water in the cell and the jug
on the table?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I set the sponge in the water so and then
applied to the prisoner's face, so.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Which Scott has competious three shades lighter underneath it, and
the Scott is liples disappeared.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh you do I turn this mapple bread hair? I
think we mind it's a wig.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Let me introduce you to mister Neville, Saint Clair a.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Brie in the County of Kent.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Good lord, mister Elmes is the missing man, all right,
I recognize him from the photographs.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
All right, I'm never since here. What am I charged
with with making away with?
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Mister Neverles say, oh no, you you can't be charged
with that as we make a case of attempted suicide
of it.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Well, since I'm the missing man and it's obvious that
no crime has been committed, and therefore I'm illegally detained.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No crime, but a very great error has been committed.
You would have done better to a trust, did your wife?
It wasn't known in my wife.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It was the children.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I couldn't beare to have them know that their father
was a common beggar. Now you've exposed me, What could
I do? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
If you leave it a code of law of traillless
matter up so you can hardly avoid newspaper publisher. But
if you're perfectly honest with us now, I'm sure the inspector, mister.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Holmes won't be too hard on you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, mister Saint Clair Inspector Bradstreet will. I'm sure I
make notes on the information that you give us and
submit them to the proper authorities. But now, sir, your
story please? Why have you been posing as Hugh Boone,
a crippled girl with a twisted lip? Well, it's simple
enough story. Some years ago I was a newspaper reporter.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
One day my editor wanted an article on begging in
the London metropolis.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I suppose you thought the best way to get your effects, guys,
yourself is as bigger.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Yes, I've been an action in my use in It
wasn't hard for me to adopt a convincing disguise.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
But that was the point where all my trouble started.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
On that first day I sat him the life London streets,
I found, to my amazement that I received no less
than twenty six shillings and.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Four pounds as much as your weakness salary is a reporter.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
And imagine, yes, mister Holmes, well you can imagine how
hard it was to settle down to arduous work a
two pounds a week when I knew that I could
earn as much in a couple of days by sneering
my face with paint, laying my cap on the ground,
and sitting still.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Only one man knew my secret Alaska at the bar
of Golden Upper Swanderblane. Eh, yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Every morning I had emerged from there dressed as a beggar,
and in the evenings i'd return and transform myself into
a well dressed man about town. The fellow was well
paid for his rooms, and I knew that my secret
was safe in his position.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
When you got married, you couldn't bring yourself to confide
in your wife. I supposon, No, I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
My wife knew that I had a business in the city.
She little knew what when you saw your wife from
the window last Monday, you quickly changed back into the
character the beggar.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
I supposed, yes, mister Holmes, and then waited my coaton
threw it into the river. Well, I I don't think
there's anything else I need explain.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Is that a one point the signet ring that you
sent your wife, Well, I knew that she'd be wedding,
so I gave it to the Alaska at a moment
when no constable was watching me, together with a hastily
scribbled note.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That note only reached her last night, mister Sinclair, last night,
poor Catherine, What a dreadful week you must have spent.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
The police have been watching that Alaska. He probably found
it difficult to post the letter for you without being spotted.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yes, I would surmise he gave it to a sailor.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Customer is to post a sailor who chewed tobacco and
had a dirty thumb. Yes, I think all the ends
are tied off, Benika. Now one last question is to Sinclair,
have you never been prosecuted for begging many times, but
what was a fine to me? It's got to stop
here and now, missus Sinclair, if the ash this thing up,
there must be no more of you boom the beggar.
(24:57):
I swear it, and you must.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Tell your wife for two than one. If you've done
that a long time ago, you'd have saved both of yourselves.
Are very great deal of miseries.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
I shall tell her everything. Well, mister Jlmes, were very
much obliged to you. If havn't cleared this matter up,
I will find you.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
While you reached your results though well, in this case,
my good inspector, I reached them by sitting upon fine
pillows and consuming an ounce of shag tobacco. I only
wish that all my problems might be solved. So comfortable, doctor,
(25:41):
that was some story. Imagine arresting a man for committing
a murder and then finding out that he's the fellow
who's supposed to be dead. You said it. By being
a detective sure has its surprises. Nothing like that ever
happens to me.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh come, come, come, come, come.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
One would beleeve to hear you talk that you need
any uneventful life.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh but I do, doctor, I do why I never
get any surprises. Look, I tell our friends that Petrie
wine is always good wine, and what happens, Oh, what
does happen? Everybody agrees as good wine? That's that well,
it just got to be. After all, the Petrie family
has been making wine for generations. Wine making is their heritage,
(26:23):
a heritage passed on down from father to son, from
father to son, from generation to generation. The Petrie family
knows full well the art of turning luscious, sun ripened
grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. And because the making of
Petrie wine is a family affair, you can be sure
that the name Petrie on a bottle of wine really
(26:45):
stands for something. It's your assurance that every drop of
wine in that bottle is good wine. No matter what
type wine you prefer, you'll never go wrong with a
Petrie wine because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes adventure? Are you planning
to tell us next week?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Who I'll see next week? Next week?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Mister bark till, I'm going to tell you a weird
story of violence and of sudden death that's struck without warning.
I call it The Strange Adventure.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
The Aneasy Easy.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Chair Tonight Sherlock Holmes Adventure was adapted by Dennis Green
(27:49):
and Anthony Boucher from the Conan Doyle story A Man
with a Fisted Lip. Music is by Dean Fosterling. Mister
Rathburne appears through the courtesy of Metropolan Mayor, and mister
Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures by they and
all starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The pettere Wine
(28:12):
Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in
again next week, same time, same station. Sherlock Holmes comes
to you from our Hollywood studios. This is Harry Bartel
saying good night for the Petrie found
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