February 9, 2025 • 29 mins
Solve crimes with the great detective in "Sherlock Holmes Short Stories." Featuring classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, this podcast brings you the brilliant deductions and thrilling adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the world of Holmes, these timeless mysteries will keep you captivated.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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with his good friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes. And
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I'd like to tell you about my favorite time of day.
It's just before dinner, you know, when the family's all
sitting around in the living room and wonderful things are
cooking in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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wonderful Petrie sherry.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What a flavor.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
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the heart of sunripe grapes. And if you like your
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Speaker 1 (01:08):
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Speaker 2 (01:13):
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the Petrie family that Petree Sherry is truly good wine.
And now it's time to keep the weekly appointment with
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our good friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
How are you deceading? Doctor? I never felt better. Thank you,
mister Botel. Drow up your usual churn, make.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yourself comfortable, thank you. I see you've had the old
ten dispatch box out again. I suppose you've been going
through your notes on tonight's new share lock owns advantage.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, I think you will find it as pretty little
problem as we ever encountered. Story began at eighteen hundred
and eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That it is year for us, my boy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It was the same year that Home solved the case
of the Amateur Mellican Society who held their meetings in
a luxuriously furnished vault below a furniture warehouse.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh, I remember that story, Darkling.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And wasn't eighty seven the year you both escaped from
death in the paradal chamber?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It was?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Indeed, you've got a very good memory, Misberto. The story
I'm going to tell you tonight topped off this unusually
exciting year. It was late in October and the equinoxial
gales had set in with exceptional violence. All day, the
wind had howled, and the rain had beaten against the
windows of our Baker Street lodgings. Finally, it was midnight.
As far as I remember, the storm grew higher and louder,
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and the wind in the chimney sobbed like a child. Suddenly,
much to our surprise, the doorbell jangled, and a few
months later, our midnight visitor.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Stood before us. He was a man of about forty five,
and as he looked about him anxiously on the glare
of the lamp.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I could see that his face was pale, and that
his eyes heavy, like those of a man who was
weighed down with some great anxiety.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And when he spoke, his urn was businesslike and almost aggressive.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I've come to you for advice, mister Holmes, that's easily obtained,
and help that is not always so easy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It helps the gentlemen off this coat, But he wasn't
you let me hang it up for you? Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I heard of you, mister Holmes, from Major Pendergast Toyert.
He said that you could solve anything. I'm ready said
too much, that you've never been beaten. I've been beaten
four times, serves, three times by men and once by
a woman.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's the person.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
You sit down and introduce yourself. My friend's name is Watson,
Dr Watson.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
How do you lose her? How do you do? Doctor?
My name is Lovelace, Edmund Lovelace.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And what brings you to me at this hour of
the night? Mister Lovelace, I'm in terrible trouble.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Mister Holmes, you don't know anything about me, but if
you'll accept my case, you can save four lives.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I wouldn't say that I know nothing about ucer, though
It's true that I know little beyond the somewhat obvious
fact that well you are single, that you keep a
dog but not a man servant, and that you are
much preoccupied the goverasiness, which I take to be some
form of insurance.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh come, come, come now, what is this well i've met?
I'll wage to let my friends right, though, isn't he
mister Lovelace?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Perfectly?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
But I'll be hanged if I can see how he knows.
It's a practical application of logic, sir. The briefcase that
you carry it might at first indicate a barrister or
some other professional man. But your brusque business business like
manna contracts that suggestion.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
An insurance broke up who must visit.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Clients at odd hours is the likeliest man to combine
that manner with a briefcase of midnight that the wife
and the man servant, and the fact that I'm preoccupied
with my business. Your couplings don't match, sir, They each
is from a different pair. That would suggest preoccupation. And
it's a mistake that neither a wife nor a man
servant would have allowed to passe.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How about the dog? I can't see.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I shall let you punder on that matter, while mister
Lovelace tells.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Us is probably mister Holmes, are you interested in preventing
a murder as in solving one?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Naturally? I am mister Lovelace's even more so. But please
tell me you're sorry.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I live with four cousins of mine in an old
houst in Camberwell. My grandfather left the house and a
sizeable fortune to the five of us on condition that
we lived together.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And maintained the family unity.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It probably won't surprise you to know that we've grown
to get pretty much on each other's nerves.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What happens if one of you dies, mister Lovelace, his.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Share is divided among the others.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
The wonder to me is there that not that a
murder may take place, but that it has not happened
one ago.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Who's responsible for the administration of the estate. My cousin Gerald.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
He's much older than the rest of us, and he's
a thoroughly unpleasant, cantankerous man. He gets an extra share
in the estate as administrator, and in consequence he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Work we feel, of course, but he.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Lives all of us and we're continually quarreling with him
about it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Sounds like a jolly asshole is going to be trouble,
mister Holmes, I know it.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Gerald hates us and he's jealous of our share in
the estate.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Who spoke of preventing murder just now?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yet I can see that you've selected your cousin Gerald
as the potential murderer.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Am I right? Yes you are.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
But don't think it's personal prejudice that makes me suspect him.
I have good reason for doing so.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
What reason? This evening?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Just before dinner, I can jerrold off with his top
coat and went to hang it up for him. As
I did so, I heard a strange pallid clink in
one of his pockets. I slipped my hand inside it
and found a hypodermic syringe and a small pile of liquid.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I opened the pile and smelled it. Gentlemen, it reeked
of bitter almond. Mister Sila, Eh, what did you do?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I thought of destroying it, but I realized that would
put him on his guard, so I replaced it in
his pocket. Of course, I warned the others, and we
decided that I had come to you. I had a
most important client tonight. Who I'd have been here earlier?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He is?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It seems odd that you didn't come directed to mister
Helms as soon you'd made a discovery mister Lovelace. After all,
if a potential murderers walking about with a pocket full
of silent, I should have thought that it itself was
more importand business.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Well, I yes, I I course, if I seem so
to you, doctor, that's the most interesting stick you carriser me.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I exactly it, of course, h thank god.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Now I see how you deduced that mister Lovelace had
a dog homes marks of the dog's teeth.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Of the stick.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, my dear Bussi, but these marks under scrutiny give
us more specific information.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
He's a large dog.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You've had him for some years, mister Lovelace, and he's
now old and feeble.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, you're perfectly.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Right, But I'll be hindy if I can see how
you can tell that from looking at a walking stick.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
This stick is covered with teeth marks. Therefore it has
been carried many times by the dog. Now it's done
the heaviest stick, so only a large dog could have
carried it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And the teeth marks also indicate a large jaw.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The older marks are deep sunk loqure, the fresh ones
where the wood is not yet dark, and a shallow Yes,
it's obvious that the jaws are losing their spring.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Let's put a cover of you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
But I don't see what it has to do with
the case of hand.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Neither do I homes I must confess now.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Surely it tells us that your story, mister Lovelace, may
bear or less terrifying implication than you think. On the
other hand, it's implication may be even more terrifying. Oh,
it's late at night. I feel that any feather delay
in this matter would be extremely dangerous. I suggest to
get a cab and I'm jahus in Campbewell at once.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Alice, Randolph and Dad, you're still up.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I was able to persuade mister Shellakurks and Dr Watson
to come back with me.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Gentlemen, this is my cousin, Alice Harley. How do you do?
How do you do? Miss Harley? How do you do?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And my cousin Randolph Lovely. I told him about the
whole business, Randolph, so we can all speak perfectly freely.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Let's begin by sitting down, shall we. Randolf and I
had just finished a little cold supper. We've been to
the theater tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Well, mister Holmes, I suppose Edmund told you about finding
the hypodermic sperience and the cyanide in Gerald's coat pocket. Yes, indeed,
may I ask where your cousin Gerald Lovelace is now.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
We left the house at seven, but I imagine Gerald went
upstairs at eight as usual, didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He on the stroke of eight? Alice.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
He's very fixed in his habits, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
He goes up to his room every night at eight.
There he needs or works on his accounts and.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Eventually goes to bed any time between ten and one, for.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He might still be up.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I should like to speak to him a little later
in the meanwhile, may I ask you, two young people,
tell me, quite honestly your feelings about your cousin Gerald, and.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You might as well be Frank. I've kept nothing back.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
All right, ran Off and I hate him fast of all.
We're sure he's jealous of our shares in the estate.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then we Alice and I want to get married.
Mister Holmes and Gerald won't hear of it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
But you're your.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Cousins, aren't you?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Only second cousins, Doctor Watson. Gerald is dreadfully conventional. He's
threatened us that if we do get married, he'll go
to court until they have our shares in the estate annulled.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
And from the way the will is worded, I wouldn't
be surprised he could do it. So you can see
why we have no great love for him, why we're
afraid of him.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
He turns an extremely unfilled persons to you.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You mentioned there were five cousins in the house. Three
of you were here. Mister Gerald's lovelace is upstairs. Who
and where is the fifth cousin. The fifth cousin is
my brother Skilly. He's something of a tragic Fred.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You see.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Gilly is twenty, but he he never developed mentally beyond
the age of eight.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He had a bad fall in the hunting field when
he was a kid. He's been like this ever since.
I'm sorry to hear that, sir, but he's the.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Dearest, most gentle boy you've ever met, and.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Incidentally, the one person in this house who doesn't hate Gerald.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And poor Fellow doesn't understand the conditions of the world
last monson.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
No, but if he did, I don't think it'd make
any difference. I swear Gilly loves every living thing, especially Gladstone.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Gladstone is the name of his dog, his dog. Yes,
the dog may be the key to this whole matter.
Dog What makes you say that home?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
When a man brings a quick and painless poison home
to ourself, containing an old and feeble dog, it's more
than possible that he has obtained that poison quite legitimately,
to give the dog a merciful death, to kill Gladstone.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh no, after all, Alice, dear, he is old and
almost blind.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
With mister Holmes, if you think Gerald brought home the
poison to put Gladstone out of the way. When I
admit it sounds perfectly logical. What made you to say
come here tonight?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Because I dare not even guess what you may have
done by including the thought of murder in this situation?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And where is your brother, Gilly in his room upstairs asleep?
I wonder if we might go up to him. I
like to talk, if you don't mind. And after that
I I want a few words with your cousin, Gerald Lovelace.
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He's asleep, stole with a dog in his arm. M
I'm gonna play. We'll have to awaken him, Killy, Killy,
that's all right. I'm not going to help him. Gilly. Hm?
Who is it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Hello, Alice? Who are these men? They've come to take
Gladstone away?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No, Gillouis We have not, Gilly. We've just come to
admire him. No, brother's been telling us what a fine
dog he is. Huh, that's different. He isn't he beautiful?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I I just had such a wonderful dream about him,
Such a wonderful dream.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
What was it, Billy? Hmm? Well he was all young again.
It's just a puppy.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
He was chasing a rabbit across a cliff top and
and I was running with him. Oh, Glaston looked so beautiful,
didn't you, old boy? Of course you did. And and
you know, the rabbit went down a hole, and Gladston
went down after him, and I went down after Gladstone,
and all had tea with the rabbits. Huh, so funny.
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He all had little green hats on, hats with feathers.
I wanted Glaston to try one on, but you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So sleepy. Come on, Gladston, let's go back to the
tea party.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Okay, his world may be a great gil more pleasant
than ours, Watson. That's what I'd like to thank mister Holmes.
Now it's act him for a few words for their
cousin Gerald. His runs at the end of this corridor.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm afraid Gilly wasn't much help to you, mister Harman
on the country, young lady. He told me exactly what
I wanted to know.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Here we on.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
This is Gerald from there's no light under the door.
He must have gone to sleep, and I'm afraid we
must waken him too. Hm must sleeper, but he isn't.
He's a remarkably LifeWise.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I'm on twin track a match with the jat mandles
at the head of his dead doctor Watson, while he's
lying on the outside of his bed. He must be.
There's blood on the pillow. Great Scot Holmes, the back
of his car smashed him. He's murdered. Oh horrible, yes, Watson,
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the blows on his head, looking on the table by his.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Bed, hypodermic syringe and a broken file, Yes, a broken file.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Wreaking a bitter almonds for a devil.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Well, I won't pretend I like him, but what a
ghastly way to done.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
All they that take the sword shall perish.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
With the sword, so the scripture say, mister Lovelace. There
is suspicion that the killing has brought murder to pass. Well,
it's too late to prevent it. Job now is to
find the killer and see that he's brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Doctor Watson will tell you the rest of his story
in just a few seconds, just time enough for me
to tell you that if there's one wine it's perfect
for any occasion, it's Patrie, California's sherry. With a bottle
of that rich and the colored Patrie sherry on hand.
You can make that time before dinner a main event.
And Patrick Sherry is the perfect answer to the question
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of what to serve when company comes. Serve Patrie Scharry
alone and let its full wonderful flavor speak for itself,
or served Patrick Cherry with or deerbs or party sandwiches.
And remember you can serve Patrie Scharry, probably because Patrie
is the proudest name in the history of American wine. Well,
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doctor Watson, so you found Gerald Lovelace dead in one
of the bedrooms of the house in Camberwell, what did
you do?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Send for the police? Not at once?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Sherlock Holmes persuaded the remainder of the household to give
him the opportunity of examining the scene of the crime
carefully before the police was sent for. And so a
few minutes before one o'clock that October night, Holmes and
I stood alone in the room of death.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know, Holmes, I think you should have sent for
the police right away.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
And in case of fact this Watson, I prefer to
be my own police. And I have spun the web.
They may take the flies, but not before What are
the results if you are medically examination old Chap.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It's exactly Hugh reconstructed at homes. He was first beating
on the head with that poker lying on the floor.
Then he had the full file of sylide injected into
his left wrist.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Can you estimate the time of death to accurately?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, His room's confinedly hot. He might have died any
time from one to five hours ago.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yes, it's now one o'clock, and we know that he
was alive at eight statemand Lovelace saw him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Leave for his room at that hour. Ye, if he
was telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
One thing we do know for a fact is that
this man was murdered and the exact moment he was
going to bed.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
He's wearing his nightgown and nightcap. But his bed has
not been slept in.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And is it possible the murder might have killed him
shortly after eight and then dressed him in his nightclothes.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Confuses no matter, Chap.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
He will notice that the hypodemic needl passed to the
sleeve of his night shirt.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Here.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Also the nightcap is crushed in bloodstained from the blows
of the poker.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No devil g Lovelace had prepared for bed. Yes, pot
a glass of water on the night table and the
per book.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
What yes, signs of a prosperous and meticulous man, fine
gold watch and in excellent condition. Ah, there's the answer, Watson.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What do you mean? There's the answer, Watson.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I just wound this watch one turn and then it
was fully wound. That provides us with the time schedule
for arm there. Come on, we'll send a servain for
the police, and while they're on the way, if you'll
call everyone together. I should like to put a few
more questions to this family.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Before the police arrive.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I should like to carry your statements again very carefully,
if you don't mind, mister Edmund Lovelace, what with your
exact movements tonight?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I left here shortly before ten, from ten o'clock until
the time I came to baker'street.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
House with my clan. His name and address is.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Derek Waterlow in nine on snow squares off Kensick.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Thank you making note of these willy Watsons. You, miss Harley,
and you, mister Randolph.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Lovelace, went to the theater together.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Can any independent witness testify as to your movements?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yes, mister Holmes, we went with friends the grant Moresby.
They live at the Clarendon Hotel of charing Crosson.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What time did you leave this house? Well, it was
about a quarter to eight, wasn't it allus? Yes?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
And after the play we went to the Cafe Rore
else for a little refreshment with our friends, and then
came back here.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
I see.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And what time did you arrive back at this house?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Just a few minutes before midnight? I remember the grandfather
clock in the hall striking just as we went into
the drawing. And your brother Gilly, sir, I hate to
waken him again.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Have you any idea of his movements? Tight? Well, he
never goes out after darkness.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Mors But I spoke to the cook as we came
in tonight. She says that he played cards with her
until just after ten o'clock.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
He was fast asleep when I looked in on him
shortly after midnight.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Thank you you've made a note of all these facts, Watson.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Here's I got them all down. Good. Then let's be
o way to Baker Street.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
But the police, mister Holmes said, on the way, I know,
please give them my regards. Will you apologize for my
informality and tell them that I had the answer to
this matter, probably in a little over twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Homes Here, it is well after midnight. You haven't done
a thing on the camera world case.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No, but you have, old Chap.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You've checked on all the time out of eyes and
found them valid.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I'm much obliged to and special. The Start was here tonight,
you know, and he made some pretty costic remarks. I
can tell you.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Oh didn't you inform him that I'll have the answer
to the problem for fore many hours past?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Here's but you know the star he wanted action. He's
gonna have it. The watch is still running. Another thing.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
What will the Start say when he finds that you
took the dead man's work?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I have no idea. Oh did you take it anywhere?
He sound sleepy, Old Chap. I'm confron. Why don't you
go to bed?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Continue my vigil with my pipe? The Watch of the
dead Man? What's up? What's wake up? Five o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Up?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The watch has just stopped. I'm about to rewind it.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
What are you rewinding it for? Homes You waited over
twenty four hours with unworm?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
When I know how it turns, it takes to wind
it fully, I shall have the answer to the whole business.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Ten eleven. You're being confinedly mysterious as usual.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Fourteen fourteen turns and the watch is fully wound. Get
your clothes on, old chap.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Where are we going on this?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
The house in Camberwell, now I know who murdered Gerald's lovelace, mister.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Edmonds, that lace. I'm glad to let us in.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Please take us up to your young cousin's room at once, Billy,
what do.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
You want to?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Please take us up to him? Of course? But what
brings you hear it this hour of the morning. Terms
knows who's murdered your cousin.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I'm served to hear it more than the police seems.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You know, they were here half the night class examining us.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Here we are. I don't bother to knock, Billy, Billy,
I'm awake.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We heard you coming up the stairs, didn't we, Glaston,
it's the same man again.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You're not going to take Gladston away, are you? Please?
Don't take him away. We're not going to touch him.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Oh all right then, oh Gilly, Yes, you really love
that dog, don't you.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Of course I do more than anything or anybody. I
believe you.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Would even kill a man who tried to hurt Gladston,
wouldn't Joe, Oh, yes, sir, I won't get it, No,
great shotter, Gilly. I don't think you really kill a man.
I don't think you could.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Hah, couldn't die though? How would you kill him? I'd
hit him first. I'd take a poker and hit him
on the head so he couldn't fight back. And then
I'd take the lasty needle.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
He told me he was going to stick in Glaston and.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
And and I'd fill it full of that water he
showed me, and I'd stick it in him. That's what
I do. Then he'd be dead and he couldn't hurt
my Glaston anymore.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Not ever, Let's leave him, shall we? Good Bye Gilly
Pu's dreams.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Good Bye, sir, little Glaster. You satisfied, sir? Yes, poor Guinea,
there's no doubt about it, canna be.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
No one had described the murder to him, and yet
he's just given an exact description.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's method. What will happened to him? They they won't try.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It, No, no, no, no, little pressure in the right places,
and you'll be released to a private nursing home.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'll do everything I can. Mister Lovelace, thank you, mister Helms,
thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, Holmes, now that we're back in Vaker Streets and
the whole pressing case is finished with, perhaps you'll tell
me how you.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Knew that Billy had committed them.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
The time schedules all alarm. You checked the alibis the
other cousins and found them satisfactory. That meant that Alice
Harley and Randolph Lovelace could have committed the crime only
at midnight, Edmund on late before ten, Gilly, only around eleven.
You said that the time of death could have been
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at any of those hours.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yes, I did, so how did you pin it down
to eleven? The watch gave me the specific cancer.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
When I picked it up, I am thinking, I'm thinkingly wound.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It made one turn, was then fully wound. Now when
does the stotic of precise.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Man like Gerald Lovelace wind his watch just He's going
to be exactly ol Collum, so that it was obvious
that he was killed precisely one watch stem turn before
I wound his watch.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Now I'm beginning to see daylight at Holmes. So you
let the watch run down.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
That's what I did. It took twenty eight hours, from
one o'clock the night before last until five this morning. Now,
how many turns did it take to rewind it? Fourteen,
wasn't That's right? Therefore one turn of the watch stem
equal two hours, proving that Gerald Lovelace had been murdered
two hours before one o'clock at eleven pm.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
When Gilly was the only one who could have done it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You know, Holmes, I still find it hard to believe
that boy was capable.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Of such a ghastly crime. He seems so gentle old.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Years years, except when his beloved dog's life was at stake.
Probably out of some mistaken notion of kindness, General Lovelace
warn the boy of his intentions regarding the dog.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's a sad business. What's in a sad business? I
hate to think of that boy as spending the rest
of his life in a mental health I have one
prayer for his future. What's that home? The dog Babston
can't live very long.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I prayed Gilly does not long outlive him.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That was a remarkable bit of deduction on the part
of mister Holm. Yes, extremely cover wasn't. Of course, I
may say, so I was some small help? Was so
small help? Why?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Doctor, you practically solve the case by yourself. But doctor,
you did check all the alibis, didn't you. Yes, I
checked where each suspect was at very time, as you
checked time. And what's more important than time?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
WHOA why? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Time is even vitally important when it comes to wine.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I was wondering how you going to bring that in?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And one thing we do know, Petrie took time to
bring you good wine, so nobody can miss with Petri wine.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
It's just gotta be good.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You know, you can't be in the wine business as
long as the Petrie family without really learning all about
the fine art of making wine. And don't forget the
Petrie family has been making fine wine since way back
in the eighteen hundreds, so naturally they've been able to
hand on down from father to son, from father to son,
the result of generations of experience at turning luscious sun
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ripe and grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. No matter what
type of wine you prefer, you'll like it more if
it's a Petree wine, because Petree took time to bring
you good wine. Well, doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story.
Do you plan to tell us next world on next week?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Mister about chall, I'm going to tell you a most
unusual adventure the terms and I had when we were
tending a performance at the Upper House in Rome. Concerns
the famous singer lost her voice, an understudy who was
nearly lynched, and a murder that baffles the police. I
call it the Adventure of the Terrifying Cats.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Well that's the story we've got to hear. Thank you,
mister Bartel.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And before you go, I want to talk to our
friends about their war bonds. You know, during the war,
the best investment we could find was a United States
war bond, and for my money, there's still a great investment.
They're called United States savings bonds now, and only the
name is changed. Savings bonds are sold in the same
denominations and give you all the same advantages, and you
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can buy savings bonds at the same places at your
bank or your postuff store through the payroll savings plans.
So invest all you can in United States savings bonds
because you cannot.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Find a better or a safer investment. To night.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Sherlock Holmes adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in the Sir.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Arthur Conan Doyle story. The Five Orange.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Pits music is by Dean Fosterling. Mister Rathbone appears through
the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor and mister Bruce through
the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring
in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri Wine Company of
San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again next week,
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Basil raft Bone and Nigel Bruce and the new Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took
time to bring you good wine. Invite you to listen
to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared
with his good friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes. And
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I'd like to tell you about my favorite time of day.
It's just before dinner, you know, when the family's all
sitting around in the living room and wonderful things are
cooking in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Ah, that's for me, and that's the time for a
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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That Petrie sherry is the perfect before dinner wine. Just
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:55):
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the heart of sunripe grapes. And if you like your
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Speaker 1 (01:08):
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Speaker 2 (01:13):
R I on the label are the personal assurance of
the Petrie family that Petree Sherry is truly good wine.
And now it's time to keep the weekly appointment with
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our good friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
How are you deceading? Doctor? I never felt better. Thank you,
mister Botel. Drow up your usual churn, make.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yourself comfortable, thank you. I see you've had the old
ten dispatch box out again. I suppose you've been going
through your notes on tonight's new share lock owns advantage.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, I think you will find it as pretty little
problem as we ever encountered. Story began at eighteen hundred
and eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That it is year for us, my boy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It was the same year that Home solved the case
of the Amateur Mellican Society who held their meetings in
a luxuriously furnished vault below a furniture warehouse.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh, I remember that story, Darkling.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And wasn't eighty seven the year you both escaped from
death in the paradal chamber?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It was?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Indeed, you've got a very good memory, Misberto. The story
I'm going to tell you tonight topped off this unusually
exciting year. It was late in October and the equinoxial
gales had set in with exceptional violence. All day, the
wind had howled, and the rain had beaten against the
windows of our Baker Street lodgings. Finally, it was midnight.
As far as I remember, the storm grew higher and louder,
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and the wind in the chimney sobbed like a child. Suddenly,
much to our surprise, the doorbell jangled, and a few
months later, our midnight visitor.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Stood before us. He was a man of about forty five,
and as he looked about him anxiously on the glare
of the lamp.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I could see that his face was pale, and that
his eyes heavy, like those of a man who was
weighed down with some great anxiety.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And when he spoke, his urn was businesslike and almost aggressive.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I've come to you for advice, mister Holmes, that's easily obtained,
and help that is not always so easy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It helps the gentlemen off this coat, But he wasn't
you let me hang it up for you? Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I heard of you, mister Holmes, from Major Pendergast Toyert.
He said that you could solve anything. I'm ready said
too much, that you've never been beaten. I've been beaten
four times, serves, three times by men and once by
a woman.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's the person.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
You sit down and introduce yourself. My friend's name is Watson,
Dr Watson.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
How do you lose her? How do you do? Doctor?
My name is Lovelace, Edmund Lovelace.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And what brings you to me at this hour of
the night? Mister Lovelace, I'm in terrible trouble.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Mister Holmes, you don't know anything about me, but if
you'll accept my case, you can save four lives.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I wouldn't say that I know nothing about ucer, though
It's true that I know little beyond the somewhat obvious
fact that well you are single, that you keep a
dog but not a man servant, and that you are
much preoccupied the goverasiness, which I take to be some
form of insurance.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh come, come, come now, what is this well i've met?
I'll wage to let my friends right, though, isn't he
mister Lovelace?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Perfectly?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
But I'll be hanged if I can see how he knows.
It's a practical application of logic, sir. The briefcase that
you carry it might at first indicate a barrister or
some other professional man. But your brusque business business like
manna contracts that suggestion.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
An insurance broke up who must visit.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Clients at odd hours is the likeliest man to combine
that manner with a briefcase of midnight that the wife
and the man servant, and the fact that I'm preoccupied
with my business. Your couplings don't match, sir, They each
is from a different pair. That would suggest preoccupation. And
it's a mistake that neither a wife nor a man
servant would have allowed to passe.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How about the dog? I can't see.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I shall let you punder on that matter, while mister
Lovelace tells.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Us is probably mister Holmes, are you interested in preventing
a murder as in solving one?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Naturally? I am mister Lovelace's even more so. But please
tell me you're sorry.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I live with four cousins of mine in an old
houst in Camberwell. My grandfather left the house and a
sizeable fortune to the five of us on condition that
we lived together.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And maintained the family unity.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It probably won't surprise you to know that we've grown
to get pretty much on each other's nerves.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What happens if one of you dies, mister Lovelace, his.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Share is divided among the others.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
The wonder to me is there that not that a
murder may take place, but that it has not happened
one ago.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Who's responsible for the administration of the estate. My cousin Gerald.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
He's much older than the rest of us, and he's
a thoroughly unpleasant, cantankerous man. He gets an extra share
in the estate as administrator, and in consequence he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Work we feel, of course, but he.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Lives all of us and we're continually quarreling with him
about it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Sounds like a jolly asshole is going to be trouble,
mister Holmes, I know it.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Gerald hates us and he's jealous of our share in
the estate.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Who spoke of preventing murder just now?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yet I can see that you've selected your cousin Gerald
as the potential murderer.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Am I right? Yes you are.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
But don't think it's personal prejudice that makes me suspect him.
I have good reason for doing so.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
What reason? This evening?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Just before dinner, I can jerrold off with his top
coat and went to hang it up for him. As
I did so, I heard a strange pallid clink in
one of his pockets. I slipped my hand inside it
and found a hypodermic syringe and a small pile of liquid.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I opened the pile and smelled it. Gentlemen, it reeked
of bitter almond. Mister Sila, Eh, what did you do?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I thought of destroying it, but I realized that would
put him on his guard, so I replaced it in
his pocket. Of course, I warned the others, and we
decided that I had come to you. I had a
most important client tonight. Who I'd have been here earlier?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He is?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It seems odd that you didn't come directed to mister
Helms as soon you'd made a discovery mister Lovelace. After all,
if a potential murderers walking about with a pocket full
of silent, I should have thought that it itself was
more importand business.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Well, I yes, I I course, if I seem so
to you, doctor, that's the most interesting stick you carriser me.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I exactly it, of course, h thank god.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Now I see how you deduced that mister Lovelace had
a dog homes marks of the dog's teeth.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Of the stick.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, my dear Bussi, but these marks under scrutiny give
us more specific information.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
He's a large dog.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You've had him for some years, mister Lovelace, and he's
now old and feeble.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, you're perfectly.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Right, But I'll be hindy if I can see how
you can tell that from looking at a walking stick.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
This stick is covered with teeth marks. Therefore it has
been carried many times by the dog. Now it's done
the heaviest stick, so only a large dog could have
carried it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And the teeth marks also indicate a large jaw.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The older marks are deep sunk loqure, the fresh ones
where the wood is not yet dark, and a shallow Yes,
it's obvious that the jaws are losing their spring.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Let's put a cover of you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
But I don't see what it has to do with
the case of hand.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Neither do I homes I must confess now.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Surely it tells us that your story, mister Lovelace, may
bear or less terrifying implication than you think. On the
other hand, it's implication may be even more terrifying. Oh,
it's late at night. I feel that any feather delay
in this matter would be extremely dangerous. I suggest to
get a cab and I'm jahus in Campbewell at once.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Alice, Randolph and Dad, you're still up.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I was able to persuade mister Shellakurks and Dr Watson
to come back with me.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Gentlemen, this is my cousin, Alice Harley. How do you do?
How do you do? Miss Harley? How do you do?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And my cousin Randolph Lovely. I told him about the
whole business, Randolph, so we can all speak perfectly freely.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Let's begin by sitting down, shall we. Randolf and I
had just finished a little cold supper. We've been to
the theater tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Well, mister Holmes, I suppose Edmund told you about finding
the hypodermic sperience and the cyanide in Gerald's coat pocket. Yes, indeed,
may I ask where your cousin Gerald Lovelace is now.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
We left the house at seven, but I imagine Gerald went
upstairs at eight as usual, didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He on the stroke of eight? Alice.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
He's very fixed in his habits, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
He goes up to his room every night at eight.
There he needs or works on his accounts and.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Eventually goes to bed any time between ten and one, for.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He might still be up.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I should like to speak to him a little later
in the meanwhile, may I ask you, two young people,
tell me, quite honestly your feelings about your cousin Gerald, and.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You might as well be Frank. I've kept nothing back.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
All right, ran Off and I hate him fast of all.
We're sure he's jealous of our shares in the estate.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then we Alice and I want to get married.
Mister Holmes and Gerald won't hear of it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
But you're your.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Cousins, aren't you?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Only second cousins, Doctor Watson. Gerald is dreadfully conventional. He's
threatened us that if we do get married, he'll go
to court until they have our shares in the estate annulled.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
And from the way the will is worded, I wouldn't
be surprised he could do it. So you can see
why we have no great love for him, why we're
afraid of him.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
He turns an extremely unfilled persons to you.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You mentioned there were five cousins in the house. Three
of you were here. Mister Gerald's lovelace is upstairs. Who
and where is the fifth cousin. The fifth cousin is
my brother Skilly. He's something of a tragic Fred.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You see.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Gilly is twenty, but he he never developed mentally beyond
the age of eight.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He had a bad fall in the hunting field when
he was a kid. He's been like this ever since.
I'm sorry to hear that, sir, but he's the.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Dearest, most gentle boy you've ever met, and.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Incidentally, the one person in this house who doesn't hate Gerald.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And poor Fellow doesn't understand the conditions of the world
last monson.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
No, but if he did, I don't think it'd make
any difference. I swear Gilly loves every living thing, especially Gladstone.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Gladstone is the name of his dog, his dog. Yes,
the dog may be the key to this whole matter.
Dog What makes you say that home?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
When a man brings a quick and painless poison home
to ourself, containing an old and feeble dog, it's more
than possible that he has obtained that poison quite legitimately,
to give the dog a merciful death, to kill Gladstone.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh no, after all, Alice, dear, he is old and
almost blind.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
With mister Holmes, if you think Gerald brought home the
poison to put Gladstone out of the way. When I
admit it sounds perfectly logical. What made you to say
come here tonight?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Because I dare not even guess what you may have
done by including the thought of murder in this situation?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And where is your brother, Gilly in his room upstairs asleep?
I wonder if we might go up to him. I
like to talk, if you don't mind. And after that
I I want a few words with your cousin, Gerald Lovelace.
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He's asleep, stole with a dog in his arm. M
I'm gonna play. We'll have to awaken him, Killy, Killy,
that's all right. I'm not going to help him. Gilly. Hm?
Who is it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Hello, Alice? Who are these men? They've come to take
Gladstone away?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No, Gillouis We have not, Gilly. We've just come to
admire him. No, brother's been telling us what a fine
dog he is. Huh, that's different. He isn't he beautiful?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I I just had such a wonderful dream about him,
Such a wonderful dream.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
What was it, Billy? Hmm? Well he was all young again.
It's just a puppy.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
He was chasing a rabbit across a cliff top and
and I was running with him. Oh, Glaston looked so beautiful,
didn't you, old boy? Of course you did. And and
you know, the rabbit went down a hole, and Gladston
went down after him, and I went down after Gladstone,
and all had tea with the rabbits. Huh, so funny.
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He all had little green hats on, hats with feathers.
I wanted Glaston to try one on, but you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So sleepy. Come on, Gladston, let's go back to the
tea party.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Okay, his world may be a great gil more pleasant
than ours, Watson. That's what I'd like to thank mister Holmes.
Now it's act him for a few words for their
cousin Gerald. His runs at the end of this corridor.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm afraid Gilly wasn't much help to you, mister Harman
on the country, young lady. He told me exactly what
I wanted to know.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Here we on.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
This is Gerald from there's no light under the door.
He must have gone to sleep, and I'm afraid we
must waken him too. Hm must sleeper, but he isn't.
He's a remarkably LifeWise.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I'm on twin track a match with the jat mandles
at the head of his dead doctor Watson, while he's
lying on the outside of his bed. He must be.
There's blood on the pillow. Great Scot Holmes, the back
of his car smashed him. He's murdered. Oh horrible, yes, Watson,
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the blows on his head, looking on the table by his.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Bed, hypodermic syringe and a broken file, Yes, a broken file.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Wreaking a bitter almonds for a devil.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Well, I won't pretend I like him, but what a
ghastly way to done.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
All they that take the sword shall perish.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
With the sword, so the scripture say, mister Lovelace. There
is suspicion that the killing has brought murder to pass. Well,
it's too late to prevent it. Job now is to
find the killer and see that he's brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Doctor Watson will tell you the rest of his story
in just a few seconds, just time enough for me
to tell you that if there's one wine it's perfect
for any occasion, it's Patrie, California's sherry. With a bottle
of that rich and the colored Patrie sherry on hand.
You can make that time before dinner a main event.
And Patrick Sherry is the perfect answer to the question
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of what to serve when company comes. Serve Patrie Scharry
alone and let its full wonderful flavor speak for itself,
or served Patrick Cherry with or deerbs or party sandwiches.
And remember you can serve Patrie Scharry, probably because Patrie
is the proudest name in the history of American wine. Well,
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doctor Watson, so you found Gerald Lovelace dead in one
of the bedrooms of the house in Camberwell, what did
you do?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Send for the police? Not at once?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Sherlock Holmes persuaded the remainder of the household to give
him the opportunity of examining the scene of the crime
carefully before the police was sent for. And so a
few minutes before one o'clock that October night, Holmes and
I stood alone in the room of death.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know, Holmes, I think you should have sent for
the police right away.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
And in case of fact this Watson, I prefer to
be my own police. And I have spun the web.
They may take the flies, but not before What are
the results if you are medically examination old Chap.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It's exactly Hugh reconstructed at homes. He was first beating
on the head with that poker lying on the floor.
Then he had the full file of sylide injected into
his left wrist.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Can you estimate the time of death to accurately?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, His room's confinedly hot. He might have died any
time from one to five hours ago.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yes, it's now one o'clock, and we know that he
was alive at eight statemand Lovelace saw him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Leave for his room at that hour. Ye, if he
was telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
One thing we do know for a fact is that
this man was murdered and the exact moment he was
going to bed.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
He's wearing his nightgown and nightcap. But his bed has
not been slept in.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And is it possible the murder might have killed him
shortly after eight and then dressed him in his nightclothes.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Confuses no matter, Chap.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
He will notice that the hypodemic needl passed to the
sleeve of his night shirt.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Here.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Also the nightcap is crushed in bloodstained from the blows
of the poker.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No devil g Lovelace had prepared for bed. Yes, pot
a glass of water on the night table and the
per book.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
What yes, signs of a prosperous and meticulous man, fine
gold watch and in excellent condition. Ah, there's the answer, Watson.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What do you mean? There's the answer, Watson.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I just wound this watch one turn and then it
was fully wound. That provides us with the time schedule
for arm there. Come on, we'll send a servain for
the police, and while they're on the way, if you'll
call everyone together. I should like to put a few
more questions to this family.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Before the police arrive.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I should like to carry your statements again very carefully,
if you don't mind, mister Edmund Lovelace, what with your
exact movements tonight?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I left here shortly before ten, from ten o'clock until
the time I came to baker'street.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
House with my clan. His name and address is.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Derek Waterlow in nine on snow squares off Kensick.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Thank you making note of these willy Watsons. You, miss Harley,
and you, mister Randolph.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Lovelace, went to the theater together.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Can any independent witness testify as to your movements?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yes, mister Holmes, we went with friends the grant Moresby.
They live at the Clarendon Hotel of charing Crosson.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What time did you leave this house? Well, it was
about a quarter to eight, wasn't it allus? Yes?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
And after the play we went to the Cafe Rore
else for a little refreshment with our friends, and then
came back here.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
I see.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And what time did you arrive back at this house?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Just a few minutes before midnight? I remember the grandfather
clock in the hall striking just as we went into
the drawing. And your brother Gilly, sir, I hate to
waken him again.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Have you any idea of his movements? Tight? Well, he
never goes out after darkness.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Mors But I spoke to the cook as we came
in tonight. She says that he played cards with her
until just after ten o'clock.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
He was fast asleep when I looked in on him
shortly after midnight.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Thank you you've made a note of all these facts, Watson.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Here's I got them all down. Good. Then let's be
o way to Baker Street.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
But the police, mister Holmes said, on the way, I know,
please give them my regards. Will you apologize for my
informality and tell them that I had the answer to
this matter, probably in a little over twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Homes Here, it is well after midnight. You haven't done
a thing on the camera world case.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No, but you have, old Chap.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You've checked on all the time out of eyes and
found them valid.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I'm much obliged to and special. The Start was here tonight,
you know, and he made some pretty costic remarks. I
can tell you.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Oh didn't you inform him that I'll have the answer
to the problem for fore many hours past?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Here's but you know the star he wanted action. He's
gonna have it. The watch is still running. Another thing.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
What will the Start say when he finds that you
took the dead man's work?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I have no idea. Oh did you take it anywhere?
He sound sleepy, Old Chap. I'm confron. Why don't you
go to bed?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Continue my vigil with my pipe? The Watch of the
dead Man? What's up? What's wake up? Five o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Up?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The watch has just stopped. I'm about to rewind it.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
What are you rewinding it for? Homes You waited over
twenty four hours with unworm?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
When I know how it turns, it takes to wind
it fully, I shall have the answer to the whole business.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Ten eleven. You're being confinedly mysterious as usual.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Fourteen fourteen turns and the watch is fully wound. Get
your clothes on, old chap.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Where are we going on this?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
The house in Camberwell, now I know who murdered Gerald's lovelace, mister.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Edmonds, that lace. I'm glad to let us in.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Please take us up to your young cousin's room at once, Billy,
what do.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
You want to?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Please take us up to him? Of course? But what
brings you hear it this hour of the morning. Terms
knows who's murdered your cousin.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I'm served to hear it more than the police seems.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You know, they were here half the night class examining us.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Here we are. I don't bother to knock, Billy, Billy,
I'm awake.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We heard you coming up the stairs, didn't we, Glaston,
it's the same man again.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You're not going to take Gladston away, are you? Please?
Don't take him away. We're not going to touch him.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Oh all right then, oh Gilly, Yes, you really love
that dog, don't you.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Of course I do more than anything or anybody. I
believe you.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Would even kill a man who tried to hurt Gladston,
wouldn't Joe, Oh, yes, sir, I won't get it, No,
great shotter, Gilly. I don't think you really kill a man.
I don't think you could.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Hah, couldn't die though? How would you kill him? I'd
hit him first. I'd take a poker and hit him
on the head so he couldn't fight back. And then
I'd take the lasty needle.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
He told me he was going to stick in Glaston and.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
And and I'd fill it full of that water he
showed me, and I'd stick it in him. That's what
I do. Then he'd be dead and he couldn't hurt
my Glaston anymore.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Not ever, Let's leave him, shall we? Good Bye Gilly
Pu's dreams.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Good Bye, sir, little Glaster. You satisfied, sir? Yes, poor Guinea,
there's no doubt about it, canna be.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
No one had described the murder to him, and yet
he's just given an exact description.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's method. What will happened to him? They they won't try.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It, No, no, no, no, little pressure in the right places,
and you'll be released to a private nursing home.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'll do everything I can. Mister Lovelace, thank you, mister Helms,
thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, Holmes, now that we're back in Vaker Streets and
the whole pressing case is finished with, perhaps you'll tell
me how you.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Knew that Billy had committed them.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
The time schedules all alarm. You checked the alibis the
other cousins and found them satisfactory. That meant that Alice
Harley and Randolph Lovelace could have committed the crime only
at midnight, Edmund on late before ten, Gilly, only around eleven.
You said that the time of death could have been
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at any of those hours.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yes, I did, so how did you pin it down
to eleven? The watch gave me the specific cancer.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
When I picked it up, I am thinking, I'm thinkingly wound.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It made one turn, was then fully wound. Now when
does the stotic of precise.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Man like Gerald Lovelace wind his watch just He's going
to be exactly ol Collum, so that it was obvious
that he was killed precisely one watch stem turn before
I wound his watch.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Now I'm beginning to see daylight at Holmes. So you
let the watch run down.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
That's what I did. It took twenty eight hours, from
one o'clock the night before last until five this morning. Now,
how many turns did it take to rewind it? Fourteen,
wasn't That's right? Therefore one turn of the watch stem
equal two hours, proving that Gerald Lovelace had been murdered
two hours before one o'clock at eleven pm.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
When Gilly was the only one who could have done it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You know, Holmes, I still find it hard to believe
that boy was capable.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Of such a ghastly crime. He seems so gentle old.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Years years, except when his beloved dog's life was at stake.
Probably out of some mistaken notion of kindness, General Lovelace
warn the boy of his intentions regarding the dog.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's a sad business. What's in a sad business? I
hate to think of that boy as spending the rest
of his life in a mental health I have one
prayer for his future. What's that home? The dog Babston
can't live very long.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I prayed Gilly does not long outlive him.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That was a remarkable bit of deduction on the part
of mister Holm. Yes, extremely cover wasn't. Of course, I
may say, so I was some small help? Was so
small help? Why?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Doctor, you practically solve the case by yourself. But doctor,
you did check all the alibis, didn't you. Yes, I
checked where each suspect was at very time, as you
checked time. And what's more important than time?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
WHOA why? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Time is even vitally important when it comes to wine.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I was wondering how you going to bring that in?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And one thing we do know, Petrie took time to
bring you good wine, so nobody can miss with Petri wine.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
It's just gotta be good.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You know, you can't be in the wine business as
long as the Petrie family without really learning all about
the fine art of making wine. And don't forget the
Petrie family has been making fine wine since way back
in the eighteen hundreds, so naturally they've been able to
hand on down from father to son, from father to son,
the result of generations of experience at turning luscious sun
(26:33):
ripe and grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. No matter what
type of wine you prefer, you'll like it more if
it's a Petree wine, because Petree took time to bring
you good wine. Well, doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story.
Do you plan to tell us next world on next week?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Mister about chall, I'm going to tell you a most
unusual adventure the terms and I had when we were
tending a performance at the Upper House in Rome. Concerns
the famous singer lost her voice, an understudy who was
nearly lynched, and a murder that baffles the police. I
call it the Adventure of the Terrifying Cats.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Well that's the story we've got to hear. Thank you,
mister Bartel.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And before you go, I want to talk to our
friends about their war bonds. You know, during the war,
the best investment we could find was a United States
war bond, and for my money, there's still a great investment.
They're called United States savings bonds now, and only the
name is changed. Savings bonds are sold in the same
denominations and give you all the same advantages, and you
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can buy savings bonds at the same places at your
bank or your postuff store through the payroll savings plans.
So invest all you can in United States savings bonds
because you cannot.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Find a better or a safer investment. To night.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Sherlock Holmes adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in the Sir.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Arthur Conan Doyle story. The Five Orange.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Pits music is by Dean Fosterling. Mister Rathbone appears through
the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor and mister Bruce through
the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring
in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri Wine Company of
San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again next week,
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same time, same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to you from
our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying good night
for the Petrie family. Listen every Monday on most of
these same stations eight o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately
by Sherlock Holmes. This is the mutual Broadcasting System.
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