August 14, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bruce and the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family,
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Invite you to spend the next half.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hour listening to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure
he shared with his old friend, the world famous detective
Sherlock Holmes. As for me, I'd like to leave you
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Speaker 2 (01:24):
See for yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And now for the weekly visit with our good friend
and host, doctor Watson. Tonight we find him on the
stage of the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Good evening, Doctor, Good evening, mister bouto.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
If you've bought a victory bond, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I have, Doctor.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Now, what's the recipe for tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Well, to see, take equal parts of beautiful English country
stars and black mil and mix them and a dash
of romance, a sprinking of day season well with the
usual theatrical condiments, and you have the Case of the
Accidental Murders.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Sounds like a tasty dish. How did the story begin?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Docting on a beautiful summer day?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
In eighteen hundred and ninety five, Holmes had just concluded
his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Puska,
an inquiry which was carried out at the express desire
of his fullness, the Pope, and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
In consequence the great Man felt for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rest in the heart of warwicks Show would be a
pleasant change after our rather strenuous adventures in Italy. And so,
mister Bartel, we went to Stratford on Avon, the home
of Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Huh, quite right, my boy. As a matter of fact,
that was the reason that decided us to go there.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Holmes was a great lover of the drama, you know,
and at the time my story begins, the Shakespearean.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Festival was in full swing. For the first week my life,
there was calm and peaceful.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
During the daytime, we visited the local pieces of interest,
such as Anne Hathaway's cottage and Shakespeare's birthplace.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And the evening found us at the theater.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It was on a Tuesday, I remember, during our second
week's stay, It's a trouble again.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Holmes and I had gone for a walk through the
nearby forest of Avon.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He was in unusually good spirits that morning, and there
was a distant, distinct, I mean twinkle.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
In his eye as he as he said, once I
begin to wish that I were a man of wealth,
and what makes you say that homes the beauty of
this place? All fellow, I'm perfectly certain, like the happy
in retirement here, pressing to think that in a week
or two, the solid necessity of making money able to
demand my return to Baker Street.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
In the world of criminals, I must say that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
An environment like this, it is a little hard to
think of crime.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
How does the old saying go, where every prospect pleases
an only.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Man is vile? Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But Shakespeare puts it even better.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I know what he said.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I'm sure you remember the speech, and as you like it.
We saw the productions nights ago.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't remember the speak. How did it go?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In this setting? It's very remarkably opposite?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Aren't these woods more free from field than the envious
court here?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Feel we but the penalty of Adams the season's difference,
don't you remember? Sweet?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly
and venomous, wears a precious jewel in his head.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And this our life exempt from public.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Haunt finds tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks,
sermons and sums, and good in everything.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I would not change it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
My soul. You read that much from the follow on
the stage of that.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Don't tell me I adopted the wrong professional barson. Oh,
dear me, wait a minute. Far seems to end here.
Nothing the dense trees ahead of us.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
There's another path over there. I think it leads down
to the river.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Then let's follow it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The great Scott that was up Ah, homes homes you hurt?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yes, I think I am. Bullet hit my shoulder. I
think it's only grazed it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, get off your cut quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Let's have a lot on your scratch. First.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Let's find out where it was fired from. I heard
the third of the thought of a bullet in the
tree behind me. Yes, here we are, give me a penknife.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Follow?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Thanks. Do you suppose that that shot was deliberate?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, I can't imagine someone mistaking me for a rabbit Watson.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
And by the way, little a curious echoed at the
shot right, don't know whether you've noticed it. Uh huh.
Here's the bullet let. Me see, I was tending there.
A line from this bullet hole in the trees the
spot where I was standing would indicate that the shot
was fired from that custer of trees of the bear.
Come on, Watson, let's see what a search discloses.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I wish you'd let me look at that shoulder before
you start galloping all over the countryside homes.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You're bleeding quite profuse.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Plenty of time to look at it. When we hello.
Look over there a man and.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Woman running towards us across the clarry.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, and carrying guns.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Hees.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
It looks as if it was an extent after anyone
hurt here, sir, my friend was hitting the shoulder, gets
a dad wound, a scratch, Madam, I I hope, but
I put the blood on your coat. Well, just how
did this, well, this accident happened their? Well, we were
we were out rabbit shooting. I was teaching my wife
to use a rifle.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
I saw a rabbit scurry across the carring. I raised
the rifle and fired. It seemed to me, Jeffrey, that
as I did so, you joked my arm.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
I'm afraid I did, Alice.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I was going to fire too, But as I raised
my rifle, I jotd your elbow and send you a
shot wild. I can't tell you how sorry I am, sir.
Here here's my card. Of course, we'll take care of
any expenses that may be introl.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Nothing to do is to find out how much damage
has been done. You'd better take your coat off or fallow.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I I don't know the guy care.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Oh he's badly hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, it's just but oh the man sainted.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
This is beadful. I have a horse and trap down
the road and give you a hand with him, whim.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I must get him to hospital is as fast as possible, Holmes, Holmes,
are you feeling any better?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Has the nurse gone?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, yes, yes, he's bringing the house surgeon and the
man and his wife down.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
In the hospital waiting. I found out their name. It's
it's Markham.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Then we're alone.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yes, yes, yes, so fall In that case, I can
stop behaving as if I were a death's door.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Holmes, you mean that you you share that collapsed yours?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
What little video whichat my shoulders confabed it painful?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I assure you I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But what made you pretend to faint?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I recognize this missus Markham, and I think you recognize me.
It's important to assume I'm out of action.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
For a while.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Oh, missus, Well, missus Malcolm is in reality the notorious
Missus Dangerfield. You remember the danger Colo case danger great God, Yes,
she was tried for the murder of her husband by poisoning, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yes, she was all along.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
She was acquitted when the jury decided she was an
habitual arsenic addict who happened to take an accidental overdose.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Didn't you have some connection?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
It was I who tracked down the sale of the
arsenic she claim to have bought for cosmetic purposes. Well,
if you asked me that shot at you is no excellent?
Of course it wasn't. I'm certain that I was recognized.
And in case her record is a bad one. Prior
to her husband's death, there was an episode in which
her uncle was killed in a shooting accident on a
grassmoor in Scotland.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And uncle who left her a large fortune on his death.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And I suppose Missus Dangerfield was a member of the
shooting party when the accident.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Heaven, yes she was. And she's something of a fem fetalbo.
I must planned my actions very cautiously. I'm up against
a dangerous opponent.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Well, you have to stay in the hospital until your
wounds being examined.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
And dressed as allow, and while the local staff are
taking care of that, I want you to shadow the
marcom stick close to them, an fellow, make them believe
that I'm going to be kept here for some days.
Find out as much as you can, and then report
to me.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Right. I'll do my best, Hike.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It's off the kind of humors as Markham to insist
on having me back to your house for.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Lunch, my dear doctor Watson, after injuring the famous mister Holmes.
It's the least I could do, of course, it is,
y dear. Will you bring us some sherry day to
day off?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know? Really well?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Ellis there's anyone else coming to lunch?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Only Dennis Bromney?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh Lord that Fellows used to live here. Hell go
and get the.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Sherriff sit down, won't you?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Doctor Watson?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
You you say that you think mister Holmes will be
in the hospital for some day.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I'm afraid so. The wold wasn't serious. He lost quite
a bit of blood.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
I feel perfectly dreadful about it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You mustn't blame yourself too much, madam.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It was an accident, yes, but I might easily have
killed him.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well you haven't, and that's all that matters. H Did
you say that Dennis Romney was coming to lunch? Is
that the actor fellow from the Memorial Theater?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Have you seen him on the stage, Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Several times. Holmes and I have been going to the
festival regular since we came down here.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
A fine actor, isn't he a shame they're getting such
poor power. Imagine I'm letting that pricefl dads of grand
play handle at last night while they's only played laoties.
Hennis is three times a better actor. He's coaching me
and acting. Oh yes, he thinks that I may be
able to get small part here next season. I've always
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had a great edge to go on the stage, but
no one's ever encouraged me before. Oh here's Jeffrey.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
This show is rather special. Doctor. Here is de la Frontier.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Only a few bottles left.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's very nice of us.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Let it not be Dennis. I've got let him in.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We might just might as well have a drink. Your
final will help making this actor fellow more tolerable.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I take it, mister Markham, that you're not an admirer
of mister Dennis Romney.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He's always quoting Shakespeare and behaving generally as if he
were another irving.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
He's got Alice completely fooled.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I want to introduce you to doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
How do you doing, mister Romney, how do you do? Sir?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Hello, Jeffrey, Thanks, that would be very nice. Are you
a disciple of the theater, doctor Watson?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, hardly a the sile servant. I have been attending
the festival during the last week. I enjoyed your performances
at the men Stiff says.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh you, mad doctor. Here's a sherry Dennis.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Don't protty Jeffrey, and please with another. The Dennis is
our guest.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
It's all right, Alice. I know that Jeffries bark is
a good deal worse than his bike.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And what play are you peering in tonight, mister Romney?
Speaker 9 (11:47):
King Lear, I shall once again portray the thankless role
of the King of France.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
An incredibly bad actor.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Battle Grant has a multitude of passions to tatters, and
his rendition of Lear, oh horrible, horrible, most honorable.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I thought he's cannon was atrocious last night.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
And it wasn't it When he came to his final line,
the rest is silence was as much as I could
do to prevent charing.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I felt rather the same way when you were killed
in the Jeweled.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
And it's Jeffy, you're being intolerably rude. Why don't you
take doctor Watson upstairs and show him your butterfly collection.
There at least you'll know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Interested in butterflies, doctor, I have quite a rare collection.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Really, I like you very much.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I think we just got time before lunch.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Try and bring yourself down with a few better nanos.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Jeffrey dear, I'm really quite an easy going man, doctor,
But the arrogance that fellow Rodney infuriator, I.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Must say it does seem have rather a good opinion
of him. So don't don't.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Put too much weight on that balcony rail. It's absolutely
full of wormholes. Part of the attraction we know old house.
My wife tells me that I regard it as confoundedly dangerous.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
And this is my little museum.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
In these cases, I think you'll find some of the
finest specimens of lepid docter you've ever seen. It's my hobby,
and I may say that with the exception of the
natural History Museum.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
If you'll find a final collection.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It must have taken you years to collect them.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Murders, many years, many disappointments, and a great deal of patience.
Look at this fellow, he is my priest specimen. A
North American monarcy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
North American mark, beautiful view.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
And this is an admiral, and it is a perfect
bee hawk moth. And here's an emperor. Ever see more
exquisite markings.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Never tell me, mister Markham, when you capture the butterfly,
how do you pull it without marking.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It in any way with poison? Oh? What poison?
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Cyanide?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Not arsenic? Are you?
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Let me say syni dot.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
That's the only reason I mentioned it isn't a friend
of mine collected by the flies once, and I'm certain
that he always used arsenic to kill him.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Don't you keep talking abouarsenic. You're trying to hint at something.
My dear fly is just curious at all. He is right,
we're too curious. Perhaps there's the luncheon gong. Let's go downstairs,
sum And I didn't mean to offend you, of course
you didn't, But my nerves are a little on edge today.
There must be that accident to your friend. That's upsetting.
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I really must get that balcony rail mended.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Sh What is it, sir?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
My wife, young Robbie look mean duch. Listen, darling, why
won't you understand?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Doctor, they say that listeners never hear good of themselves.
You know, sometimes I wonder if my wife wouldn't let
me out of the way.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
And let's go down to lunch, Shelby.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And so Holmes, that's the story up to now, really
interesting one to Watson. So you think that missus Markham
is planning to kill her husband name Well, it's obvious.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
She's in love with the actor Forll Dennis Romney. Her
husband's in the way.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And if she doesn't want to use poison.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
This time as a perfect setting for murder in that
crumbling balustrade on the landing, one push when.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He wasn't looking would be the end of him, and no.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
One could prove that you did a charming household. And
mister Markham became very evasive, you say, when he wasn't arsenic.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, I said it to Liberty, of course, to see
how he'd react if you ask me. He knows that
his wife has asked to clars he was trying to
protect her.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
If exerted your charms sufficiently were arranged to see them again,
I'd try, Well, this is matterfa I have there.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Taking a picnic key in going voting on the air
from this afternoon, They aspittagem.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Of course I agreed. We'll just rush back here to
the hospital to talk to you first.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You've got splended it. What'sn't sprended there?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But I've been so busy to tell you what I've
found out that I haven't asked you about you.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And I feel my final flo what does the house
surgeon discovered? And then the interesting fact? Look in the
drawer beside my bed, will you.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Great Scott it it's a.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Bullet, a bullet that the house surgeon removed from my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But we found a bullet in the tree also.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Precisely therefore two bullets were fired.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But good lord, that mean it means old chapter.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
We have a dangerous task ahead of this, not to
solve a murder, but to prevent one.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
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wine is always good wine. And now, doctor Watson, what
happened next? We left you at Sherlock Holmes bedside in
the hospital. Did the picnic with mister and missus Markham
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prove an exciting one?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
No? No, it was rather thunpleasant. As a matter of fact.
The three of them kept scrubbing all the time, and
just as we were coming home, something unforeseen occurred. Mister
Markham fell into the river.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We'll pardon the old question, doctor, But did he fall
or was he pushed?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
It's hard for me to say. I had my back
to him when he fell.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Of course, we fished him out and rattled him back
home in the trap as fast as we could. He
changed his clothes at once, and as we scround the
file a little later, I could see if he caught
a kill. In fact, I recommended that you go to
bed and stare. Miss Markham agreed.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Will yes, dear, I do wish you followed Doctor Watson
to drive and go to bed.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
For the fifth time, Alice, I will not go to bed.
I'm perfectly all right. No, it's not thanks to you
and Dennis.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What do you mean by that? From Mark? Jeffrey, you know.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Perfectly well what I mean. It wasn't an accident that
I fell in the river. Just now.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
One of you two pushed me when I was struggling
with the pump hoole in the long read.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Jeffy, your topic uppish am.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I you were in the boat.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Dr Watson didn't juice what happened?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
No, I didn't say my back returned to you when
you fell in.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Well, then we'll call it an accident, an accident that
happened by a curious coincident, just where the river is
deepest in the reeds, sittest.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Jeffrey, I don't like your tone.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
You can accuse me of anything you like, but when
you start suggesting that I don't like the way I
talk to my wife.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
I suggested you don't come to my house and don't get.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
A scarf a'ntilly, doctor Watson, I I must apologize for
my husband's behavior. I don't know what to come over.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I quite understand what I wish I did.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
I don't mind yelling at me, but he's being so
abominably rude to you, Alice.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
The last couple of weeks, it's been getting worse than
ever I know.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Ever since we had that argument about the insurance policies,
he's been unbearable.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Insurance.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Yes, doctor, we took out quite large policies on each
other's lives recently.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You didn't tell me that, Alice.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Well, it was his idea, and yet when the insurance
then came here, you would have thought I was forcing
him into taking out the policy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Insurance, great, Scott, are you what?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Doctor?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Nothing sounds as if you don't approve of insurance.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh, it's not that rum there, and it's just that
I can denby.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I wasn't expecting anyone answer the door, Dennis.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Will you as if Jeffer has already done so?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Alice, we have a visitor Holmes.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You shouldn't be up if you think missus Mackhalm.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Hello Watson I'm delighted to see you, mister Holmes, so
I under it stood to me, your friend, that you
would be in the hospital for several days.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Constitution of an ox and the obstinacy of a mule,
two characteristics of mine, have combined in making possible an
early departure from the hospital.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
How do you do, mister Rodney, I think I've seen
you the theater? My name Michelle. Come, how do you do?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So? You say?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
The supper?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I hope if it's not inconvenient, missus Markham.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Of course it.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Isn't, I'll go in and arrange for it.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Upon my soul homes. I'm glad to see you, and.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Are you all?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Let's take a stroll on the telet showing it's on
the warm inside this evening.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
You can go out through the French windows.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh thank you, Miss Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh are you quite sure? Joe well enough to go
walking about.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
As I am?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Miss Tommy Watson? What the latest developments are in the meantime,
I myself have not been idle?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yes? What's in?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I think our stage is said that I have a
feeling that I make a tribute to a rather dramatic
mass deck curtain.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
A delightful meal, Missus Markham, thank.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
You, doctor, mister Holmes. You're not eating very much.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
My appetite is de lightful, Jady is the mental fencing
that we have indulged in during the meal has been
somewhat disturbing.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I don't understand you.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh, come now, madam. I know that you were once
Missus Gingerfield, and you know that I know it. Why
I keep up the pretense any longer?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Very well, mister Holmes, but we needn't converse in lower voices.
I'm sure that you told doctor Watson whatever there is
to know, and perhaps more.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I admire your courage, Madam Jeffrey Dennis.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I want you to listen to this. Missus Shellick. Holmes
knows that I was once Missus Dangerfield. He's apparently under
the impression that this is a dark secret of mine.
Mister Holmes, Jeffrey knew and loved me before I ever
married mister Dangerfield.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of course I did, Holmes.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
He stood by me during the horrible trial after my
first husband's death, and I told Dennis about the whole
miserable business months ago. So I really don't see that
you've uncovered any great secrets yet.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Missus Malcolm. But I have a feeling that it's only
a matter of moments.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
So you haven't got any secrets from Tennessee though.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Eh, no need to shot, Jeffrey.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I don't need for Dennis to be in my house.
Get out, Romney and stay out.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
This business between you and Alice has.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Gone far enough.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'll go when Alice tells me to.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Well, if you won't go, and I'm not going to
sit here, I'm I'm going upstairs or shaking like.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
A leaf stair. You've got a fever, and don't you
think you'd better go to bed?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Now?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Need your own business, Believe missus Marcum, I really think
you should persuade your husband to go upstairs and lie down.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Don't wear in his homes. I know how to handle him.
I'll take him up. Put an armor on my shoulder. Jeffrey,
come along.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We should follow them homes.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
They have to pass that crumbling banister on the landing
with him in that stage, she might try to be suggestion.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Not just come and watch both of you. You can
observe them both from me. Put them stairs here.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You're on the Mandy, she's on the outside. Look look, look, look,
hor comes tumble against her.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
He's pushed against the railings. Look out, Alice, are you
all right?
Speaker 8 (23:13):
And yet we try to push me through the railings.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It isn't, sir. The three of us were watching it
from below, but.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
For railing held I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I can explain that, Watson.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
This afternoon, while.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
You were all at your picnic, I came here with
a local carpenter. You had informed your fellow that it
was the maid's day off, and I took the liberty
of reinforcing that decaying would work the places you think
you've been up to home, preventing murders her and finding
the true solution to the danger bill case.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Do you mean me to hear the true solution?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Surely it's obvious to you, missus Markham.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
We have told us that your present husband led you
before you married as to dangerfield. Was he who accidentally
killed your uncle so that you might inherit a fortune.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It was he who accidentally gave.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Your first husband an overnesse of arsenic arkednik that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
He obtained for the purpose of destroying Butterfly.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Who's here?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You tried to send you to your death for pushing
you through those railings and all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Missus Markham, I thought that you was the potential you
fellows who got hold of the wrong end of the sick.
All I've been trying to do is to seal the
fact that my wife was a murderous shift.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How can you see that and not too with him?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Miss Talkers?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
All very dramatic, miss happens. But I wonder how you're
going to be able to do wants. Mister Romney and
I were testified to the attempt that you've just made
on Missus Markham's life.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Listen, what about the tempt on your life?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Holmes opposite, it was Markham who fired at you in
the woods, but my wife.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Was already admitted firing the shot.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Woos Her.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But two shots were fired.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
The one that your wife fired we founded the tree.
The one that you fired was extracted from my shoulder
in the hospital, and.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
The two shots were fired simultaneously.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
You remember, Watson that I commented at the time on
a curious echo, and Missus Markham told us that her
arm was jilted as she pulled the trigger.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That was when the other rifle was fired.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Mister Markham didn't want me on the scene when he
staged his latest accident, and so he tried to kill me.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
What kind of the devil if I been living with all.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
These years, I think I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Welcome, kill your wife up and leave him to the
love courts, mister Romney. British justice may be slow, as
indeed was in the danger Field case, but in the
long run it you're sure we'll find that out. Mister
Markham on the gallows? Well tell me, doctor, did.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Mister Markham finally end on the gallery?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
She did, And it might interest you to know that
missus Markham and Dennis Romney were married.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
A nice chairpan and a fine act to that boy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Maybe that's what I should have been, an actor to
be or not to be? That is the question? Is
no in the mind to suffer? What's the matter? Doctor?
Don't you like it?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Word's beautiful, but the delivery of them not good?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Huh? Not good?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Okay, I'd rather talk about pattere wine anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Now there's something to really talk about.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Petrie wine, a wine with generations of wine making behind it.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The Petrie family started making Petrie wine generations ago, way
back in the eighteen hundreds, so they've had the time
to develop the art of wine making, and they've been
able to hand down that art from father to son,
from father to son. Yes, the Petrie family really knows
how to turn pluscious sun ripe and California grapes into clear, fragrant,
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delicious wine.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
In those letters P. E. T. R.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I on the bottle are the personal assurance of the
Petrie family that every drop of Petrie wine is good wine.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's got to be.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Because don't forget Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story are you going
to tell us next week?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's your next week, mister about him.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I'm going to tell you an exciting adventure Holmes and
I head in North Africa. It begins at the headquarters
of the Foreign Legion and ends with a strange death
in the cafe of a thousand size. I call the
story Murder in the Casper.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Sherlock Holmes's adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in the Miaster.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Adventure of Black Peter Music, is by Dean Fosterling. Mister
Rathborne appears through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and
mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they
are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri
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Wine Company of San Francisco, California invite you to tune
in again next week, same time, same station. This is
Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family. This
program originated in the Paramount Theater in Hollywood from an.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Audience of Victory bonbuyer.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
This is the mutual Broadcasting System
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be
transmitted to our men and women overseas by short wave
and through the world wide facilities of the Armed Forces
Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Petree Wine brings you Lass a lat Bone and Nigel.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bruce and the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family,
the family that took time to bring you good wine.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Invite you to spend the next half.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hour listening to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure
he shared with his old friend, the world famous detective
Sherlock Holmes. As for me, I'd like to leave you
with one fraud, namely, the best way to begin a
good meal is to start it off with a glass
of Petrie California's sherry while you're waiting for dinner to
be ready. Just sit back, take it easy, and sip
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some of that wonderful Petrie sherry.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Now there's a wine. Pull that Petree Sherry.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
To the light and look at the rich amber color.
Smells good too, doesn't it, And just wait for that sip.
What a flavory, no, kidd And you'll find that Petrie
sherry can turn the usual before dinner low into a
real event. Petrie sherry is the best beginning a good
meal ever had. Try it and say if you like
is sherry dry? You know, not sweet? Just ask for
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Petrie California pale dry sherry. But no matter how you
like it, you're sure to like it if the label
says Petrie.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
See for yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And now for the weekly visit with our good friend
and host, doctor Watson. Tonight we find him on the
stage of the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Good evening, Doctor, Good evening, mister bouto.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
If you've bought a victory bond, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I have, Doctor.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Now, what's the recipe for tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Well, to see, take equal parts of beautiful English country
stars and black mil and mix them and a dash
of romance, a sprinking of day season well with the
usual theatrical condiments, and you have the Case of the
Accidental Murders.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Sounds like a tasty dish. How did the story begin?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Docting on a beautiful summer day?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
In eighteen hundred and ninety five, Holmes had just concluded
his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Puska,
an inquiry which was carried out at the express desire
of his fullness, the Pope, and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
In consequence the great Man felt for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rest in the heart of warwicks Show would be a
pleasant change after our rather strenuous adventures in Italy. And so,
mister Bartel, we went to Stratford on Avon, the home
of Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Huh, quite right, my boy. As a matter of fact,
that was the reason that decided us to go there.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Holmes was a great lover of the drama, you know,
and at the time my story begins, the Shakespearean.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Festival was in full swing. For the first week my life,
there was calm and peaceful.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
During the daytime, we visited the local pieces of interest,
such as Anne Hathaway's cottage and Shakespeare's birthplace.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And the evening found us at the theater.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It was on a Tuesday, I remember, during our second
week's stay, It's a trouble again.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Holmes and I had gone for a walk through the
nearby forest of Avon.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He was in unusually good spirits that morning, and there
was a distant, distinct, I mean twinkle.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
In his eye as he as he said, once I
begin to wish that I were a man of wealth,
and what makes you say that homes the beauty of
this place? All fellow, I'm perfectly certain, like the happy
in retirement here, pressing to think that in a week
or two, the solid necessity of making money able to
demand my return to Baker Street.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
In the world of criminals, I must say that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
An environment like this, it is a little hard to
think of crime.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
How does the old saying go, where every prospect pleases
an only.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Man is vile? Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But Shakespeare puts it even better.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I know what he said.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I'm sure you remember the speech, and as you like it.
We saw the productions nights ago.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't remember the speak. How did it go?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In this setting? It's very remarkably opposite?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Aren't these woods more free from field than the envious
court here?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Feel we but the penalty of Adams the season's difference,
don't you remember? Sweet?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly
and venomous, wears a precious jewel in his head.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And this our life exempt from public.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Haunt finds tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks,
sermons and sums, and good in everything.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I would not change it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
My soul. You read that much from the follow on
the stage of that.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Don't tell me I adopted the wrong professional barson. Oh,
dear me, wait a minute. Far seems to end here.
Nothing the dense trees ahead of us.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
There's another path over there. I think it leads down
to the river.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Then let's follow it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The great Scott that was up Ah, homes homes you hurt?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yes, I think I am. Bullet hit my shoulder. I
think it's only grazed it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, get off your cut quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Let's have a lot on your scratch. First.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Let's find out where it was fired from. I heard
the third of the thought of a bullet in the
tree behind me. Yes, here we are, give me a penknife.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Follow?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Thanks. Do you suppose that that shot was deliberate?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, I can't imagine someone mistaking me for a rabbit Watson.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
And by the way, little a curious echoed at the
shot right, don't know whether you've noticed it. Uh huh.
Here's the bullet let. Me see, I was tending there.
A line from this bullet hole in the trees the
spot where I was standing would indicate that the shot
was fired from that custer of trees of the bear.
Come on, Watson, let's see what a search discloses.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I wish you'd let me look at that shoulder before
you start galloping all over the countryside homes.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You're bleeding quite profuse.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Plenty of time to look at it. When we hello.
Look over there a man and.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Woman running towards us across the clarry.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, and carrying guns.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Hees.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
It looks as if it was an extent after anyone
hurt here, sir, my friend was hitting the shoulder, gets
a dad wound, a scratch, Madam, I I hope, but
I put the blood on your coat. Well, just how
did this, well, this accident happened their? Well, we were
we were out rabbit shooting. I was teaching my wife
to use a rifle.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
I saw a rabbit scurry across the carring. I raised
the rifle and fired. It seemed to me, Jeffrey, that
as I did so, you joked my arm.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
I'm afraid I did, Alice.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I was going to fire too, But as I raised
my rifle, I jotd your elbow and send you a
shot wild. I can't tell you how sorry I am, sir.
Here here's my card. Of course, we'll take care of
any expenses that may be introl.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Nothing to do is to find out how much damage
has been done. You'd better take your coat off or fallow.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I I don't know the guy care.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Oh he's badly hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, it's just but oh the man sainted.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
This is beadful. I have a horse and trap down
the road and give you a hand with him, whim.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I must get him to hospital is as fast as possible, Holmes, Holmes,
are you feeling any better?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Has the nurse gone?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, yes, yes, he's bringing the house surgeon and the
man and his wife down.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
In the hospital waiting. I found out their name. It's
it's Markham.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Then we're alone.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yes, yes, yes, so fall In that case, I can
stop behaving as if I were a death's door.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Holmes, you mean that you you share that collapsed yours?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
What little video whichat my shoulders confabed it painful?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I assure you I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But what made you pretend to faint?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I recognize this missus Markham, and I think you recognize me.
It's important to assume I'm out of action.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
For a while.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Oh, missus, Well, missus Malcolm is in reality the notorious
Missus Dangerfield. You remember the danger Colo case danger great God, Yes,
she was tried for the murder of her husband by poisoning, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yes, she was all along.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
She was acquitted when the jury decided she was an
habitual arsenic addict who happened to take an accidental overdose.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Didn't you have some connection?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
It was I who tracked down the sale of the
arsenic she claim to have bought for cosmetic purposes. Well,
if you asked me that shot at you is no excellent?
Of course it wasn't. I'm certain that I was recognized.
And in case her record is a bad one. Prior
to her husband's death, there was an episode in which
her uncle was killed in a shooting accident on a
grassmoor in Scotland.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And uncle who left her a large fortune on his death.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And I suppose Missus Dangerfield was a member of the
shooting party when the accident.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Heaven, yes she was. And she's something of a fem fetalbo.
I must planned my actions very cautiously. I'm up against
a dangerous opponent.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Well, you have to stay in the hospital until your
wounds being examined.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
And dressed as allow, and while the local staff are
taking care of that, I want you to shadow the
marcom stick close to them, an fellow, make them believe
that I'm going to be kept here for some days.
Find out as much as you can, and then report
to me.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Right. I'll do my best, Hike.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It's off the kind of humors as Markham to insist
on having me back to your house for.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Lunch, my dear doctor Watson, after injuring the famous mister Holmes.
It's the least I could do, of course, it is,
y dear. Will you bring us some sherry day to
day off?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know? Really well?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Ellis there's anyone else coming to lunch?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Only Dennis Bromney?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh Lord that Fellows used to live here. Hell go
and get the.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Sherriff sit down, won't you?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Doctor Watson?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
You you say that you think mister Holmes will be
in the hospital for some day.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I'm afraid so. The wold wasn't serious. He lost quite
a bit of blood.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
I feel perfectly dreadful about it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You mustn't blame yourself too much, madam.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It was an accident, yes, but I might easily have
killed him.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well you haven't, and that's all that matters. H Did
you say that Dennis Romney was coming to lunch? Is
that the actor fellow from the Memorial Theater?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Have you seen him on the stage, Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Several times. Holmes and I have been going to the
festival regular since we came down here.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
A fine actor, isn't he a shame they're getting such
poor power. Imagine I'm letting that pricefl dads of grand
play handle at last night while they's only played laoties.
Hennis is three times a better actor. He's coaching me
and acting. Oh yes, he thinks that I may be
able to get small part here next season. I've always
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had a great edge to go on the stage, but
no one's ever encouraged me before. Oh here's Jeffrey.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
This show is rather special. Doctor. Here is de la Frontier.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Only a few bottles left.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's very nice of us.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Let it not be Dennis. I've got let him in.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We might just might as well have a drink. Your
final will help making this actor fellow more tolerable.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I take it, mister Markham, that you're not an admirer
of mister Dennis Romney.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He's always quoting Shakespeare and behaving generally as if he
were another irving.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
He's got Alice completely fooled.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I want to introduce you to doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
How do you doing, mister Romney, how do you do? Sir?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Hello, Jeffrey, Thanks, that would be very nice. Are you
a disciple of the theater, doctor Watson?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, hardly a the sile servant. I have been attending
the festival during the last week. I enjoyed your performances
at the men Stiff says.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh you, mad doctor. Here's a sherry Dennis.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Don't protty Jeffrey, and please with another. The Dennis is
our guest.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
It's all right, Alice. I know that Jeffries bark is
a good deal worse than his bike.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And what play are you peering in tonight, mister Romney?
Speaker 9 (11:47):
King Lear, I shall once again portray the thankless role
of the King of France.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
An incredibly bad actor.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Battle Grant has a multitude of passions to tatters, and
his rendition of Lear, oh horrible, horrible, most honorable.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I thought he's cannon was atrocious last night.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
And it wasn't it When he came to his final line,
the rest is silence was as much as I could
do to prevent charing.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I felt rather the same way when you were killed
in the Jeweled.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
And it's Jeffy, you're being intolerably rude. Why don't you
take doctor Watson upstairs and show him your butterfly collection.
There at least you'll know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Interested in butterflies, doctor, I have quite a rare collection.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Really, I like you very much.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I think we just got time before lunch.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Try and bring yourself down with a few better nanos.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Jeffrey dear, I'm really quite an easy going man, doctor,
But the arrogance that fellow Rodney infuriator, I.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Must say it does seem have rather a good opinion
of him. So don't don't.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Put too much weight on that balcony rail. It's absolutely
full of wormholes. Part of the attraction we know old house.
My wife tells me that I regard it as confoundedly dangerous.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
And this is my little museum.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
In these cases, I think you'll find some of the
finest specimens of lepid docter you've ever seen. It's my hobby,
and I may say that with the exception of the
natural History Museum.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
If you'll find a final collection.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It must have taken you years to collect them.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Murders, many years, many disappointments, and a great deal of patience.
Look at this fellow, he is my priest specimen. A
North American monarcy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
North American mark, beautiful view.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
And this is an admiral, and it is a perfect
bee hawk moth. And here's an emperor. Ever see more
exquisite markings.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Never tell me, mister Markham, when you capture the butterfly,
how do you pull it without marking.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It in any way with poison? Oh? What poison?
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Cyanide?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Not arsenic? Are you?
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Let me say syni dot.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
That's the only reason I mentioned it isn't a friend
of mine collected by the flies once, and I'm certain
that he always used arsenic to kill him.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Don't you keep talking abouarsenic. You're trying to hint at something.
My dear fly is just curious at all. He is right,
we're too curious. Perhaps there's the luncheon gong. Let's go downstairs,
sum And I didn't mean to offend you, of course
you didn't, But my nerves are a little on edge today.
There must be that accident to your friend. That's upsetting.
(14:29):
I really must get that balcony rail mended.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Sh What is it, sir?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
My wife, young Robbie look mean duch. Listen, darling, why
won't you understand?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Doctor, they say that listeners never hear good of themselves.
You know, sometimes I wonder if my wife wouldn't let
me out of the way.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
And let's go down to lunch, Shelby.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And so Holmes, that's the story up to now, really
interesting one to Watson. So you think that missus Markham
is planning to kill her husband name Well, it's obvious.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
She's in love with the actor Forll Dennis Romney. Her
husband's in the way.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And if she doesn't want to use poison.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
This time as a perfect setting for murder in that
crumbling balustrade on the landing, one push when.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He wasn't looking would be the end of him, and no.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
One could prove that you did a charming household. And
mister Markham became very evasive, you say, when he wasn't arsenic.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, I said it to Liberty, of course, to see
how he'd react if you ask me. He knows that
his wife has asked to clars he was trying to
protect her.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
If exerted your charms sufficiently were arranged to see them again,
I'd try, Well, this is matterfa I have there.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Taking a picnic key in going voting on the air
from this afternoon, They aspittagem.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Of course I agreed. We'll just rush back here to
the hospital to talk to you first.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You've got splended it. What'sn't sprended there?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But I've been so busy to tell you what I've
found out that I haven't asked you about you.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And I feel my final flo what does the house
surgeon discovered? And then the interesting fact? Look in the
drawer beside my bed, will you.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Great Scott it it's a.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Bullet, a bullet that the house surgeon removed from my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But we found a bullet in the tree also.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Precisely therefore two bullets were fired.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But good lord, that mean it means old chapter.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
We have a dangerous task ahead of this, not to
solve a murder, but to prevent one.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's unusual story in
just a moment. Meanwhile, I'd like to remind you that
good cooking becomes wonderful cooking. If you serve your good
food with a wine. If you like a red wine,
say with meat or any meat dish, try Petrie California Burgundy.
If white wine's your favorite, then you'll love Petrie California so.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Turned it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
But Burgundy or so Turn, which for you prefer, It's
just bound to be good if you see the letters
P E, T R I on the bottle, because Petree
wine is always good wine. And now, doctor Watson, what
happened next? We left you at Sherlock Holmes bedside in
the hospital. Did the picnic with mister and missus Markham
(17:32):
prove an exciting one?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
No? No, it was rather thunpleasant. As a matter of fact.
The three of them kept scrubbing all the time, and
just as we were coming home, something unforeseen occurred. Mister
Markham fell into the river.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We'll pardon the old question, doctor, But did he fall
or was he pushed?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
It's hard for me to say. I had my back
to him when he fell.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Of course, we fished him out and rattled him back
home in the trap as fast as we could. He
changed his clothes at once, and as we scround the
file a little later, I could see if he caught
a kill. In fact, I recommended that you go to
bed and stare. Miss Markham agreed.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Will yes, dear, I do wish you followed Doctor Watson
to drive and go to bed.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
For the fifth time, Alice, I will not go to bed.
I'm perfectly all right. No, it's not thanks to you
and Dennis.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What do you mean by that? From Mark? Jeffrey, you know.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Perfectly well what I mean. It wasn't an accident that
I fell in the river. Just now.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
One of you two pushed me when I was struggling
with the pump hoole in the long read.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Jeffy, your topic uppish am.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I you were in the boat.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Dr Watson didn't juice what happened?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
No, I didn't say my back returned to you when
you fell in.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Well, then we'll call it an accident, an accident that
happened by a curious coincident, just where the river is
deepest in the reeds, sittest.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Jeffrey, I don't like your tone.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
You can accuse me of anything you like, but when
you start suggesting that I don't like the way I
talk to my wife.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
I suggested you don't come to my house and don't get.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
A scarf a'ntilly, doctor Watson, I I must apologize for
my husband's behavior. I don't know what to come over.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I quite understand what I wish I did.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
I don't mind yelling at me, but he's being so
abominably rude to you, Alice.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
The last couple of weeks, it's been getting worse than
ever I know.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Ever since we had that argument about the insurance policies,
he's been unbearable.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Insurance.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Yes, doctor, we took out quite large policies on each
other's lives recently.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You didn't tell me that, Alice.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Well, it was his idea, and yet when the insurance
then came here, you would have thought I was forcing
him into taking out the policy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Insurance, great, Scott, are you what?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Doctor?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Nothing sounds as if you don't approve of insurance.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Sir.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh, it's not that rum there, and it's just that
I can denby.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I wasn't expecting anyone answer the door, Dennis.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Will you as if Jeffer has already done so?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Alice, we have a visitor Holmes.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You shouldn't be up if you think missus Mackhalm.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Hello Watson I'm delighted to see you, mister Holmes, so
I under it stood to me, your friend, that you
would be in the hospital for several days.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Constitution of an ox and the obstinacy of a mule,
two characteristics of mine, have combined in making possible an
early departure from the hospital.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
How do you do, mister Rodney, I think I've seen
you the theater? My name Michelle. Come, how do you do?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So? You say?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
The supper?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I hope if it's not inconvenient, missus Markham.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Of course it.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Isn't, I'll go in and arrange for it.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Upon my soul homes. I'm glad to see you, and.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Are you all?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Let's take a stroll on the telet showing it's on
the warm inside this evening.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
You can go out through the French windows.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh thank you, Miss Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh are you quite sure? Joe well enough to go
walking about.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
As I am?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Miss Tommy Watson? What the latest developments are in the meantime,
I myself have not been idle?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yes? What's in?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I think our stage is said that I have a
feeling that I make a tribute to a rather dramatic
mass deck curtain.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
A delightful meal, Missus Markham, thank.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
You, doctor, mister Holmes. You're not eating very much.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
My appetite is de lightful, Jady is the mental fencing
that we have indulged in during the meal has been
somewhat disturbing.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I don't understand you.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh, come now, madam. I know that you were once
Missus Gingerfield, and you know that I know it. Why
I keep up the pretense any longer?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Very well, mister Holmes, but we needn't converse in lower voices.
I'm sure that you told doctor Watson whatever there is
to know, and perhaps more.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I admire your courage, Madam Jeffrey Dennis.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I want you to listen to this. Missus Shellick. Holmes
knows that I was once Missus Dangerfield. He's apparently under
the impression that this is a dark secret of mine.
Mister Holmes, Jeffrey knew and loved me before I ever
married mister Dangerfield.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of course I did, Holmes.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
He stood by me during the horrible trial after my
first husband's death, and I told Dennis about the whole
miserable business months ago. So I really don't see that
you've uncovered any great secrets yet.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Missus Malcolm. But I have a feeling that it's only
a matter of moments.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
So you haven't got any secrets from Tennessee though.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Eh, no need to shot, Jeffrey.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I don't need for Dennis to be in my house.
Get out, Romney and stay out.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
This business between you and Alice has.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Gone far enough.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'll go when Alice tells me to.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Well, if you won't go, and I'm not going to
sit here, I'm I'm going upstairs or shaking like.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
A leaf stair. You've got a fever, and don't you
think you'd better go to bed?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Now?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Need your own business, Believe missus Marcum, I really think
you should persuade your husband to go upstairs and lie down.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Don't wear in his homes. I know how to handle him.
I'll take him up. Put an armor on my shoulder. Jeffrey,
come along.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We should follow them homes.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
They have to pass that crumbling banister on the landing
with him in that stage, she might try to be suggestion.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Not just come and watch both of you. You can
observe them both from me. Put them stairs here.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You're on the Mandy, she's on the outside. Look look, look, look,
hor comes tumble against her.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
He's pushed against the railings. Look out, Alice, are you
all right?
Speaker 8 (23:13):
And yet we try to push me through the railings.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It isn't, sir. The three of us were watching it
from below, but.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
For railing held I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I can explain that, Watson.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
This afternoon, while.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
You were all at your picnic, I came here with
a local carpenter. You had informed your fellow that it
was the maid's day off, and I took the liberty
of reinforcing that decaying would work the places you think
you've been up to home, preventing murders her and finding
the true solution to the danger bill case.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Do you mean me to hear the true solution?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Surely it's obvious to you, missus Markham.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
We have told us that your present husband led you
before you married as to dangerfield. Was he who accidentally
killed your uncle so that you might inherit a fortune.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It was he who accidentally gave.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Your first husband an overnesse of arsenic arkednik that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
He obtained for the purpose of destroying Butterfly.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Who's here?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You tried to send you to your death for pushing
you through those railings and all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Missus Markham, I thought that you was the potential you
fellows who got hold of the wrong end of the sick.
All I've been trying to do is to seal the
fact that my wife was a murderous shift.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How can you see that and not too with him?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Miss Talkers?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
All very dramatic, miss happens. But I wonder how you're
going to be able to do wants. Mister Romney and
I were testified to the attempt that you've just made
on Missus Markham's life.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Listen, what about the tempt on your life?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Holmes opposite, it was Markham who fired at you in
the woods, but my wife.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Was already admitted firing the shot.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Woos Her.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But two shots were fired.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
The one that your wife fired we founded the tree.
The one that you fired was extracted from my shoulder
in the hospital, and.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
The two shots were fired simultaneously.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
You remember, Watson that I commented at the time on
a curious echo, and Missus Markham told us that her
arm was jilted as she pulled the trigger.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That was when the other rifle was fired.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Mister Markham didn't want me on the scene when he
staged his latest accident, and so he tried to kill me.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
What kind of the devil if I been living with all.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
These years, I think I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Welcome, kill your wife up and leave him to the
love courts, mister Romney. British justice may be slow, as
indeed was in the danger Field case, but in the
long run it you're sure we'll find that out. Mister
Markham on the gallows? Well tell me, doctor, did.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Mister Markham finally end on the gallery?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
She did, And it might interest you to know that
missus Markham and Dennis Romney were married.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
A nice chairpan and a fine act to that boy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Maybe that's what I should have been, an actor to
be or not to be? That is the question? Is
no in the mind to suffer? What's the matter? Doctor?
Don't you like it?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Word's beautiful, but the delivery of them not good?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Huh? Not good?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Okay, I'd rather talk about pattere wine anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Now there's something to really talk about.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Petrie wine, a wine with generations of wine making behind it.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The Petrie family started making Petrie wine generations ago, way
back in the eighteen hundreds, so they've had the time
to develop the art of wine making, and they've been
able to hand down that art from father to son,
from father to son. Yes, the Petrie family really knows
how to turn pluscious sun ripe and California grapes into clear, fragrant,
(26:23):
delicious wine.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
In those letters P. E. T. R.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I on the bottle are the personal assurance of the
Petrie family that every drop of Petrie wine is good wine.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's got to be.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Because don't forget Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story are you going
to tell us next week?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's your next week, mister about him.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I'm going to tell you an exciting adventure Holmes and
I head in North Africa. It begins at the headquarters
of the Foreign Legion and ends with a strange death
in the cafe of a thousand size. I call the
story Murder in the Casper.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Sherlock Holmes's adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in the Miaster.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Adventure of Black Peter Music, is by Dean Fosterling. Mister
Rathborne appears through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and
mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they
are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri
(27:58):
Wine Company of San Francisco, California invite you to tune
in again next week, same time, same station. This is
Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family. This
program originated in the Paramount Theater in Hollywood from an.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Audience of Victory bonbuyer.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
This is the mutual Broadcasting System
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