August 6, 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 (00:12):
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Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes
is portrayed by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by Alfred Shirley,
and the dramatizations are by Edith Meser. And so tonight
we make our way through a cold November rain to
the cheerful, firelit study of our old friend, doctor John Watson.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Mister Harris, I'm surprised and delighted to hear you mention.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My given name.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Everyone of course knows that Holmes's fair's name is Sherlock,
but to most people, and just Dr Watson, to hear
them talk him, I think I'd never been christened.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But to draw up your chair to the fire feels
good to get him out of the web.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Doctor, only as Sherlock Holmes's adventure could lure me out
on a night like this.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's exactly what I used to say the old Baker
Street days.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Mister Harris, Yes, it brings to mind.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A case that looked like a neat little murder.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
In tought knelt Park two leats.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It turned out if Holmes, the incurable skeptic, hadn't happened
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Speaker 3 (02:55):
And now doctor Watson to get back to the neat
little murder in tough note park right this met.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
In fact, Holmes and I just missed being eyewitnesses to
the shooting. It was a night when the century was
very young, a night's very much like tonight, rain with
a bit of mist mixed in for good measure.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Holmes and I were.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Taking a slight constitutional.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You mean you went walking on a night like this
for pleasure, doctor, which you were.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Out walking, mister Harris to relieve the tension. It had
been raining for four days from Monday to Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I doubt whether it ceased for a moment when.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
For the fourth time, after pushing my chair back from
the breakfast table, I saw the heavy brown swell condensing
in oily drops on the window panes.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I was ready to jump out of my skin. I
can't say I'll blame you.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Holmes nerves were, if possible, in worse shape than mine.
He paced around our Lamplets sitting room like a caged animal,
cursing under his breath in a fever of suppressed energy. Finally,
as evening drew in, he proclaimed he was going out
for exercise.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
If we had to swim in the gutters.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We donned caps and ulsters, and after sat amount of
acrimonious discussion, I persuaded Holmes into his overshoes and buffler.
For half an hour, we stood the streets in silence.
Little by little, our nerves relaxed.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And our pace slackened.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
By the time we started across Tutnell Park Homes was
feeling almost aible.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Nothing of interest in today's papers.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I suppose Watson.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
The only news of the revolution, the possible war and
an impending change of government commonplace.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Maria Watson. Yes, the London criminals. Certainly a dull fellow.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The thief or murderer could roam London on a night
like this as the tiger does his jungle, unseen to
be punches, and there never the donated his victims.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, there have been a few petty thefts.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Headed theft, thick pockets and handkerchief snatches. The state you
set for something somber, sinister, Violet.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, I do wish you wouldn't run on like that, homes,
at least until we reach the other side of the park.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's it's uncommonly dark in here tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, I was wondering if you've noticed that, Monson, there
should be a street.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Lamp along here somewhere, either of the lamplight has neglected
to light it or.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Flow. Here's a lamp post. This glass scattered on a pavement.
The light's been put out. Watson, you heard that it
sounded like someone shooting.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Let's be accurate.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Once and there were two gunshots. The second I think
was particular homes homes.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Here comes a woman. She's running along the path. She's terrified.
Here someone only, madam, Can I be of assistance? I'm
sureock closed, you're just the man I need.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's murder well ahead, there said an open circular space
with a fountain.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And a you head all around.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I was walking towards it when I saw men rise
up out of the bushes.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He shot at.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Someone sitting on a bench in front of the fountain.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Disappeared in which direction. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Oh, please please see if the men sered, I'll get
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'll be right this.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It won't be necess to say, my friend here is
a medical man. And judging by your Captain Cape, you're
not unacquainted with the medical profession yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
No, matron, miss and thank Christ and firmly excellent.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Come with us. We may need your assistance.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That shouldn't someone go for the police.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Mustn't let the murder get away.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
My dear missus, Missus Sydney, My dear missus Sydney.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
The first thing is to ascertain if it really is
murder we're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, the first thing is, Holmes, if you'll pardon my
saying so, is to save the victim's life if we.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Can and hear Watson for once, I agree with you.
Come on tell me so. I'm sure hideous Watson on the.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Ground beside the bench, hoes that's a Messes, so I
can have a note at him.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Good Lord, it's Superintendent Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
He's been shot. Yes, I'm afraid it's serious. Metro.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Oh you I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Have them get me to them them. He's right, you'd
have to operate. Howry missus Sidney, tell him to send
the ambulance and a stretcher.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What so rather, what happened?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
What have they done to you?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Where were you? I waited, came quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
As I could.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
They wouldn't let me off to No, No, never mind that,
go get help.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Tell them to ring the ambula.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Oh no, no, I want to stay with him.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
What good would juve?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Just a probation. I'm the one he needs now the
love of hidden.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Some one go.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We've got to get the bullet.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Out of him. He's beating in tall. No. Please, I
think she's a nurse. What does she know?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What does she know about anything?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What's many more wounds beside the one of my neck?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Please? Scott? No, that's enough, isn't it? But there were
two shots.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We heard two shots, Watson, don't bother me now, Holmes, consciously,
I'm busy.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
He was sitting on the bench.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
The bullet entered from the front. The shot was fired
from this direction.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
That's right, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The men came out of the bushes from over there.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
He took two steps, and then I saw the flames
spirt out a little bone.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But once or twice. Well, I don't well that is once.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I'm sure it was only once.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
It was so shortly. Oh, George McGowan, I thought it
is in the dark over there, in handing me all afternoon.
Thought i'd shaken him off.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But I wouldn't have kept the appointment with Nellie.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
You know I was in danger minute I saw his
cap come out of the bush.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Did he say anything? Did he threatened?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You didn't see anything?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Just shot me. What did his face look like as.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
He came towards him?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Leave him alone?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Can't you leave him alone? That's sir, don't try to talk.
Heave your thing. Here comes Cam to thank him for that.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It won't be long now, been here as closest we could,
with the past as much too narrow. Never mind the
excuse is nelle bring the stretcher.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Over here, Yes, right down, George.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's right boys now, easy, easy, and take the shoulders
and the head.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Oh I brought a lantern.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You keep away from him.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Already, Ron carry him to the ambulance.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Careful, keep at his stiff.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh he's hit, you fool. You've got his head lower
than his.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Watson when you finished operating, we sure have saved me
the bullet.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I'm not interested in adding to your grizzlys souvenir.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'm not asking for a subre what'sn't I'm demanding evidence.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Be sure I get that bullet.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
So my fault. I shouldn't have said I'd meet him
here tonight. I knew Old George it's Betton, doctor Jeffers
when he was released today.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Who is old George, miss Nellie And what did he
have against the superintendent?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Nothing, really, George McGown is just a tragic old man
who drank too much and couldn't get on with his family.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
His daughter stood it as.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Long as she could, and then she had him committed.
I see.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The first few days were pretty bad. He had DT's,
you know, and he kept yelling for his revolver to
protect himself. Fortunately doctor Jeffers had taken the gun away
from him when Old George arrived. That's when he first
took a dislike to doctor Jeffers, and even after he
was better, he went on hating him.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Is doctor Jeffers generally disliked? Oh no, he's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
That is well, I suppose it is stritch, But you
have to be if you're in charge of a place
to hit.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Sim pancas you wouldn't buy any chance be prenjudiced.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well, I perhaps I am said this.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's a secret.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
But well, doctor Jeffers and I are engaged to be married.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yes, I gathered as much. Tell me, miss Narame. Does
anyone else suspect this attachment?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Oh no, no, I'm sure no one does. Doctor Jefferson's
most particular, none of the other nurses should find out.
He said it would be bad for hospital discipline.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I see.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Tell me what did doctor Jeffers do with mister mc
gowan's revolver when he took it away from him?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Oh, he'd put it in the safe. That's what they
always do with the patient's valuables when they arrive. They're
handed back, of course, when the patient is discharged.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You say, George McGowan was discharged today, Yes, sir, at
ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Did doctor Jeffards return his revolver?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
No, sir, that was what they had to wrong about
that an old George's cap.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Hey, hey, yeah, I've been waiting this ha hoo for
me discharge.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Well here it is, George.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And how many times do I have to tell you
to take that cap off when you're in the house.
I'm wearing a buy because I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Very well then, but see you go straight home. No
dropping in at any pub on the way, mind you.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Eh, well, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Tell you yet to come a pack a pistol?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Don't you think you're better off without it?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Who's to be the judge on that?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I brought it with me from Grasky.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Well, you're not going to get it if you're going
to stand here arguing take off that dirty cat.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It's no dirty cat has my fine Scotch bonnet.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Here's the mcgard canton it is.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I've kept it on in the presence I've better men
than you'll be that will do.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
George.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I'm not allowed to talk to the superintendent like that.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Oh matron here and your nurses maybe daft over this doctor,
but he better look out for old George.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I'll get even with mister Superintendent Jeffers.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
He was the last thing at all.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I begged doctor Jeffers to be careful, but he just laughs.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
He said if the doctor was going to worry about
all the patients that took a dislike to him, he'd
better give up medicine. Do you think they'll be able
to save his life, Doctor Jeffers.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I mean, fortunately, my dear doctor Watson is a much
better surgeon than he is a detective.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Your friend is in good hand.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Doctor Watson. Why then, then you must be the great
mister Sherlock comes.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Hadn't you guessed?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No, I suppose I was so upsets.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And then the light here is so dim tonight? Oh
I can rarely see?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Is that peak cap of yours?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yes, doctor Jeffers says it would mister McGowan that shot him.
But I suspect all he saw and this light was
a Scottish bonnet. I rather imagine that was why the
street lamp was extinguished.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Of course, Old George hoped to get away without being
recognized at all.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I wonder what are you looking for, mister Holts. Confound
this rain that's drowned my match.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You'll try another here, I'll hold my cape all it?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Thanks? Yes, that's better.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
No footprints on this gravel, confounded, Yes, shadow here we
are just as I expected, right here on the ground
under the yew head. A trifle waterlo but still recognizable.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Why that's all George's care.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He must have lost it in the excitement. And look
here on the grass, mister Holmes, there's his revolver too.
Don't touch it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Whatever you do, don't touch it. Don't want any unnecessary fingerprints.
I'll handle it with my muffler. Good thing, Watson, bullet
be into wearing. It comes in useful after all, although
what fingerprints we have are probably badly smeared. The gun
has recently been discharged. Yes, only one chamber has been emptied. Interesting,
very interesting, And.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Mister Holmes, doctor Jeffers, is only one move quit right?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Two shots were fired. However, I heard them myself, but
I don't understand. I'm not sure I do either. That
is not entirely that. I have a few rather definite
suspicions which I shall endeavor to confirm.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
How will you do that, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
By means of some experiments with this revolver and with
a bullet. Doctor Watson is even now removing from the
neighborhood of your fiances jugular vain. Yes, suppose you get
along to St.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Pancras infirmity.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm counting on you to procure me some rather important information.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Anything I could do, mister Holst, anything at all.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You could look through the files and get me mister
mc gowan's home address. I think a visit to his
daughter is indicated. Let's see seventeen berbery mules seventeen years
here we asked lapidated little villa, Ah will what do
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you want, miss McGowan? I presume I wonder if I
might speak to.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Your father for a moment.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You needn't be afraid I've come to harm him. In fact,
I think it will let me talk to him now
before the authorities arrived. Sure two later, owns, you'll not
be playing ducks and drakes for the law this time. Well, well,
if it isn't the strad the super snooper of Scotland Yard,
you can laugh, mister Strllock Holmes, but this is one
time you don't need your assistance.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I am here to arrest George Beggaron for the murder
of Superintendent.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Jeffers of Saint Pancras Infirmary.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You mean to say he's dead, No, but from what
the matron tells me, he will be before morning. So
I've come to arrest his murderer.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Don't you think you may be underrating both doctor Watson
and myself. Also the Superintendent may pull through and it's
just possible McGowan is not the man who shot him.
Oh no, Superintendent Jeffers Finn, the matron says, you found
McGowan's cap and revolver a Webley sixth seminder on the
scene of the crime. What's more, I've got the bullet
they took out of Jeffers's neck. Possibly, but what makes
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you think the bullet was fired from that particular it's.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
The right size and cannibal. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Furthermore, the young nurse tells me you made off with
the gun and the cat.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I thank you to end him over.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So sorry, but I can't you know, not until I've
conducted a few rather important experiments. So obstructing the law,
that's what it is. You've overstepped yourself this time, Earns
and door mistake. I'll have a warrant sworn out for
your first thing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Aren't you forgetting the real purpose of your visit here?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What's that? The apprehending of your so called murderer, mister
George mcgonne.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't need you to remind me of the duty now, then,
miss tell your father I want to see it.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He need you will your.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Cant, But why not because it didn't come home? And
if you had a set your bond with you go
and look for him, lay and drunk in some powers
and wheelhouse. Who will be in taxes for I'd like
to know why didn't they keep him in the hospital
till it was cured me?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And why don't you smile?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Hell? Explain your own business.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Either bother you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
It seems miss McGown has put us both.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
In the same class. Congratulations, Miss claud you've been promoted.
You go to Blazes and another thing. You bring that
cap and that revolver down of the DD first thing
in the morning, Elves, and I'll see you put behind bars.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You've made your little out to make them lestrade now
and make mine.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You bring that bullet Bay took out of doctor Jeffer's
neck around the two twenty one B Baker Street before
midnight tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But I'll make you a laughing stock of London. Oh
that's bluff.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Your bluff possibly became astrode. I'll stake my reputation that
that bullet was not fired from mc gowan's gun. You
can bring a warrant with the bullet if I'm wrong.
You can arrest me for trying to conceal evidence. Pretty
sure of yourself, arch, All right, it's a deal. I'll
bring the warrant and dead us through, all.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Right, George, because the taar you can come out from
behind the rain barrel. Thank you, sir. Will your beef
no ting me in? Don't mention it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh, just one thing, tell me the truth, George. Did
you shoot Superintendent Jeffers to night in Tufno Park?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So help me, sir. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I followed him all afternoon, but it was that wet
and Aurora had to stop in and again for a
wee trap, and pretty soon I was in a bit
of a fog, as you might say, So I don't rightly.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Remember what happened. When I come to, I was lying
in the with my.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Bonnet gun, my hand here covered with blood.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Hey, it could be me in blood, Sir.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I've got a nasty cut over my left eye.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Let's hope it is your own blood, George. If it's not,
you should both then end up in jail.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh what in the name of commons? Since do you
think you're doing shooting? That's obvious?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I may say it was obvious the moment I turned
the corner of Merrybone Road. What's the idea of target
practice this hour of the night. This is not target practice, Watson.
You'll notice I'm shooting into a large.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Cylinder filled with cotton wool.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's a little experiment whereby I hope to convince inspect
to Lestrade that Baker Street is more satient than Scotland Yard.
Oh that, if I'm not mistaken, is the minion of
the law in person.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'll go down bother Watson. I told missus Hudson we
were expecting a midnight caller. She let him in. Yes,
twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Come in, Lestrade, come in your prompts itself. Well, Holmes
have brought the bullet and the handcase. Fair enough, now here,
take this chairy o by the microscope. I'll turn the
lamp up a little higher. Now, then if you'll give
Dr Watson the bullet he extracted from doctor Jeffer's neck
and allow him to place it under the lens.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
All right, but no, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Really.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
By the way, Dr Watson, now is the victim? Did
you pull him through? And I'm dead?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Someone is interested. I left doctor Jeffer's rest in quiety.
Thank you Holmes never thought to inquire.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
My dear Watson, I have every confidence in your medical ability. No,
what I'm really curious of, but as a pattern of
the marks on this bullet upon me what I've focused
the lens.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes, let's see I thought so.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I thought, so he may know what you're talking about,
Dr Watson.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But I'm completely in the dark.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
How about you, I Confesslesstard, I am quite frequently in
your predicament.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But it's all so childishly simple. This bullet could not
possibly have been.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Fired from George McGowan's revolver. The bore patterns are entirely different.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh what's he raving about here?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Look in the microscope while I explain in words of
one syllable, I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Notice the pattern of lines, falls and scratches on that bullet.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Fix them well in your mind? All right, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
A few years ago, Less jard I persuaded Scotland Yard
to take up the science of fingerprinting. Fingerprints are now
recognized the one sure method of identification. No two sets
of fingerprints can possibly be alike. Grass it, I'd like
to introduce you to the science of ballistics. Oh, what's
that every gun that's capable of firing a bullet leaves
on that bullet a pattern of its a pattern that's
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as individual as a man's fingerprints and as incapable of duplication. Now, Watson,
if you'll dig one of the bullets fired from mister
mc gowan's weblay out of that cotton wool.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
All right, we'll have a look at it under the microscope.
Here you are, homes the strad You've memorized the pattern made.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
By the killer's revolver on the bullet. Now have a
look at this one fired from Old George's gun.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's Scott, all right, they're different, different is night and day. Therefore,
the webley did not fire the.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Shot that was supposed to kill the superintendent, and MacGowan
is not the potential killer. But look here, Hoe, you
just had a look at the second bullet yourself. What
made you so sure earlier this evening that McGowan wasn't guilty?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
For one thing? The stage was too carefully set.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Why was the street lamp extinguished so Jeffers couldn't really
recognize the person who wore.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Mc gowan's cap.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Why were both the cap and the revolver left at
the scene of the crime to incriminate Old George. Fortunate
to be him mc gowan was the one person who
couldn't possibly have fired the webley because it was carefully
locked in the hospital safe.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But who could have taken it from the safe.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Almost any of the offices of the hospital stop. I
imagine that I can find out which one by paying
a return visit to the hospital to strod whoever fired
that shot will be quite chagrined to learn it wasn't fatal.
I rather suspect a sicken attempt will be made unlock
to Jeffer's life have very near future.
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Jacket and overcoat. Watson in which wing of the hospital
they put doctor Jeffers. He's on the ground floor over there,
to the left, where the light is burning good. The
window's partly open.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You shall be able to stand behind those bushes and
see him without being observed.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Come along the stride.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I'm common.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Quiet you two.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Here we are.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We can see over the sill. Nurses a back turn.
She won't notice. Everything seems to be quiet enough. Jeff
has just moved his hand. He's coming out of the ether.
I imagine, color looks good. Quiet, the doors opening. It's
the matron. She's coming in with the glass of something
in her hand. I've brought him to morn greatness. Why
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don't you go at your supper now? Says the kettle
boiling in the pantry. I'll sit with him for a while, nurse.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He's leaving.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Is a matron smoothing out the covers. Robert, Robert, can
you hear me? He's opening his eyes.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You are going to live, Robert. They saved you.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I thought to death, I wish the one that found you,
that went for me.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You'd have bled to day.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You were a fool to throw me over for that young.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Nurse Matron, life is like that, couldn't help it. We
love each other, going to be married.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Sorry, don't worry about it. What is to be is
to be here.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Drink this to make you feel better.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Jeffers, don't set that lass. What you're doing here?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
He came back to provential making a second attempt on
doctor Japper's life, and to find out why you made
the first?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
What's in helpless trade over the sill before he strangled
his health.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yes, Matron, you've just given us the strongest motive that
exists for murder.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Jealousy. You'll think you're smart. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
You can't prove anything.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You'll never find my fingerplasts.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
On any revolver, and you'll never find the revolver. Mister
Lestrade here knows you can't convict anyone without proof.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think the contents of that glass will prove you
tried to murder doctor Jeffers. Take the glass away from
a Lestrad quick before.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Good Lord shall drank it. Holmes, I drank it herself.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Oh there's nothing Homes or I could do, mister Harris.
That glass contained a very lethal dose of classic acid.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
She was dead inside of two minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Good Lord, tell me, doctor Watson, when did Chili calms
first suspect the matron.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Of trying to kill doctor Jeffers almost at once, or perhaps.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I should say from the moment we entered the circle
of u hedge that surrounded the fountain.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You may not know it, mister Harris, but a good
English ue hedges as.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Impenetrable as a bick wall, and much more impossible to scale.
There was only one entrance to that circle, the one
for which the matron ran practically into our arms. No
one else could have passed without our seeing him. Consequently,
no one else was in the circle with doctor Jeffers
when he was shot. It had to be the matron
who fired the revolver who fared the two revolvers, I
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should say, the one to incriminate George McGown, and the.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Other to do the job. Thank you, doctor Watson. And
now what is in store for us for next week?
Next week? Well, now let me see.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
Mister Harris, I'm surprised and delighted to hear you mention.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My given name.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Everyone of course knows that Holmes's fair's name is Sherlock,
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Speaker 3 (01:15):
But to draw up your chair to the fire feels
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
Doctor, only as Sherlock Holmes's adventure could lure me out
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That's exactly what I used to say the old Baker
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Speaker 3 (01:26):
Mister Harris, Yes, it brings to mind.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
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Speaker 3 (02:55):
And now doctor Watson to get back to the neat
little murder in tough note park right this met.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
In fact, Holmes and I just missed being eyewitnesses to
the shooting. It was a night when the century was
very young, a night's very much like tonight, rain with
a bit of mist mixed in for good measure.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Holmes and I were.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Taking a slight constitutional.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You mean you went walking on a night like this
for pleasure, doctor, which you were.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Out walking, mister Harris to relieve the tension. It had
been raining for four days from Monday to Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I doubt whether it ceased for a moment when.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
For the fourth time, after pushing my chair back from
the breakfast table, I saw the heavy brown swell condensing
in oily drops on the window panes.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I was ready to jump out of my skin. I
can't say I'll blame you.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Holmes nerves were, if possible, in worse shape than mine.
He paced around our Lamplets sitting room like a caged animal,
cursing under his breath in a fever of suppressed energy. Finally,
as evening drew in, he proclaimed he was going out
for exercise.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
If we had to swim in the gutters.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We donned caps and ulsters, and after sat amount of
acrimonious discussion, I persuaded Holmes into his overshoes and buffler.
For half an hour, we stood the streets in silence.
Little by little, our nerves relaxed.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And our pace slackened.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
By the time we started across Tutnell Park Homes was
feeling almost aible.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Nothing of interest in today's papers.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I suppose Watson.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
The only news of the revolution, the possible war and
an impending change of government commonplace.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Maria Watson. Yes, the London criminals. Certainly a dull fellow.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The thief or murderer could roam London on a night
like this as the tiger does his jungle, unseen to
be punches, and there never the donated his victims.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, there have been a few petty thefts.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Headed theft, thick pockets and handkerchief snatches. The state you
set for something somber, sinister, Violet.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh, I do wish you wouldn't run on like that, homes,
at least until we reach the other side of the park.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's it's uncommonly dark in here tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, I was wondering if you've noticed that, Monson, there
should be a street.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Lamp along here somewhere, either of the lamplight has neglected
to light it or.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Flow. Here's a lamp post. This glass scattered on a pavement.
The light's been put out. Watson, you heard that it
sounded like someone shooting.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Let's be accurate.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Once and there were two gunshots. The second I think
was particular homes homes.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Here comes a woman. She's running along the path. She's terrified.
Here someone only, madam, Can I be of assistance? I'm
sureock closed, you're just the man I need.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's murder well ahead, there said an open circular space
with a fountain.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And a you head all around.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I was walking towards it when I saw men rise
up out of the bushes.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He shot at.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Someone sitting on a bench in front of the fountain.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Disappeared in which direction. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Oh, please please see if the men sered, I'll get
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'll be right this.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It won't be necess to say, my friend here is
a medical man. And judging by your Captain Cape, you're
not unacquainted with the medical profession yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
No, matron, miss and thank Christ and firmly excellent.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Come with us. We may need your assistance.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That shouldn't someone go for the police.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Mustn't let the murder get away.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
My dear missus, Missus Sydney, My dear missus Sydney.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
The first thing is to ascertain if it really is
murder we're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, the first thing is, Holmes, if you'll pardon my
saying so, is to save the victim's life if we.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Can and hear Watson for once, I agree with you.
Come on tell me so. I'm sure hideous Watson on the.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Ground beside the bench, hoes that's a Messes, so I
can have a note at him.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Good Lord, it's Superintendent Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
He's been shot. Yes, I'm afraid it's serious. Metro.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Oh you I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Have them get me to them them. He's right, you'd
have to operate. Howry missus Sidney, tell him to send
the ambulance and a stretcher.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What so rather, what happened?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
What have they done to you?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Where were you? I waited, came quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
As I could.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
They wouldn't let me off to No, No, never mind that,
go get help.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Tell them to ring the ambula.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Oh no, no, I want to stay with him.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
What good would juve?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Just a probation. I'm the one he needs now the
love of hidden.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Some one go.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We've got to get the bullet.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Out of him. He's beating in tall. No. Please, I
think she's a nurse. What does she know?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What does she know about anything?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What's many more wounds beside the one of my neck?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Please? Scott? No, that's enough, isn't it? But there were
two shots.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We heard two shots, Watson, don't bother me now, Holmes, consciously,
I'm busy.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
He was sitting on the bench.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
The bullet entered from the front. The shot was fired
from this direction.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
That's right, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The men came out of the bushes from over there.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
He took two steps, and then I saw the flames
spirt out a little bone.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
But once or twice. Well, I don't well that is once.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I'm sure it was only once.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
It was so shortly. Oh, George McGowan, I thought it
is in the dark over there, in handing me all afternoon.
Thought i'd shaken him off.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But I wouldn't have kept the appointment with Nellie.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
You know I was in danger minute I saw his
cap come out of the bush.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Did he say anything? Did he threatened?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You didn't see anything?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Just shot me. What did his face look like as.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
He came towards him?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Leave him alone?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Can't you leave him alone? That's sir, don't try to talk.
Heave your thing. Here comes Cam to thank him for that.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It won't be long now, been here as closest we could,
with the past as much too narrow. Never mind the
excuse is nelle bring the stretcher.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Over here, Yes, right down, George.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's right boys now, easy, easy, and take the shoulders
and the head.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Oh I brought a lantern.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You keep away from him.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Already, Ron carry him to the ambulance.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Careful, keep at his stiff.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh he's hit, you fool. You've got his head lower
than his.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Watson when you finished operating, we sure have saved me
the bullet.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I'm not interested in adding to your grizzlys souvenir.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'm not asking for a subre what'sn't I'm demanding evidence.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Be sure I get that bullet.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
So my fault. I shouldn't have said I'd meet him
here tonight. I knew Old George it's Betton, doctor Jeffers
when he was released today.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Who is old George, miss Nellie And what did he
have against the superintendent?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Nothing, really, George McGown is just a tragic old man
who drank too much and couldn't get on with his family.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
His daughter stood it as.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Long as she could, and then she had him committed.
I see.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The first few days were pretty bad. He had DT's,
you know, and he kept yelling for his revolver to
protect himself. Fortunately doctor Jeffers had taken the gun away
from him when Old George arrived. That's when he first
took a dislike to doctor Jeffers, and even after he
was better, he went on hating him.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Is doctor Jeffers generally disliked? Oh no, he's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
That is well, I suppose it is stritch, But you
have to be if you're in charge of a place
to hit.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Sim pancas you wouldn't buy any chance be prenjudiced.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well, I perhaps I am said this.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's a secret.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
But well, doctor Jeffers and I are engaged to be married.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yes, I gathered as much. Tell me, miss Narame. Does
anyone else suspect this attachment?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Oh no, no, I'm sure no one does. Doctor Jefferson's
most particular, none of the other nurses should find out.
He said it would be bad for hospital discipline.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I see.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Tell me what did doctor Jeffers do with mister mc
gowan's revolver when he took it away from him?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Oh, he'd put it in the safe. That's what they
always do with the patient's valuables when they arrive. They're
handed back, of course, when the patient is discharged.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You say, George McGowan was discharged today, Yes, sir, at
ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Did doctor Jeffards return his revolver?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
No, sir, that was what they had to wrong about
that an old George's cap.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Hey, hey, yeah, I've been waiting this ha hoo for
me discharge.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Well here it is, George.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And how many times do I have to tell you
to take that cap off when you're in the house.
I'm wearing a buy because I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Very well then, but see you go straight home. No
dropping in at any pub on the way, mind you.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Eh, well, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Tell you yet to come a pack a pistol?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Don't you think you're better off without it?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Who's to be the judge on that?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I brought it with me from Grasky.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Well, you're not going to get it if you're going
to stand here arguing take off that dirty cat.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It's no dirty cat has my fine Scotch bonnet.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Here's the mcgard canton it is.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I've kept it on in the presence I've better men
than you'll be that will do.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
George.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I'm not allowed to talk to the superintendent like that.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Oh matron here and your nurses maybe daft over this doctor,
but he better look out for old George.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I'll get even with mister Superintendent Jeffers.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
He was the last thing at all.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I begged doctor Jeffers to be careful, but he just laughs.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
He said if the doctor was going to worry about
all the patients that took a dislike to him, he'd
better give up medicine. Do you think they'll be able
to save his life, Doctor Jeffers.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I mean, fortunately, my dear doctor Watson is a much
better surgeon than he is a detective.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Your friend is in good hand.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Doctor Watson. Why then, then you must be the great
mister Sherlock comes.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Hadn't you guessed?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No, I suppose I was so upsets.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And then the light here is so dim tonight? Oh
I can rarely see?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Is that peak cap of yours?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yes, doctor Jeffers says it would mister McGowan that shot him.
But I suspect all he saw and this light was
a Scottish bonnet. I rather imagine that was why the
street lamp was extinguished.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Of course, Old George hoped to get away without being
recognized at all.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I wonder what are you looking for, mister Holts. Confound
this rain that's drowned my match.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You'll try another here, I'll hold my cape all it?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Thanks? Yes, that's better.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
No footprints on this gravel, confounded, Yes, shadow here we
are just as I expected, right here on the ground
under the yew head. A trifle waterlo but still recognizable.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Why that's all George's care.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He must have lost it in the excitement. And look
here on the grass, mister Holmes, there's his revolver too.
Don't touch it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Whatever you do, don't touch it. Don't want any unnecessary fingerprints.
I'll handle it with my muffler. Good thing, Watson, bullet
be into wearing. It comes in useful after all, although
what fingerprints we have are probably badly smeared. The gun
has recently been discharged. Yes, only one chamber has been emptied. Interesting,
very interesting, And.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Mister Holmes, doctor Jeffers, is only one move quit right?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Two shots were fired. However, I heard them myself, but
I don't understand. I'm not sure I do either. That
is not entirely that. I have a few rather definite
suspicions which I shall endeavor to confirm.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
How will you do that, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
By means of some experiments with this revolver and with
a bullet. Doctor Watson is even now removing from the
neighborhood of your fiances jugular vain. Yes, suppose you get
along to St.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Pancras infirmity.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm counting on you to procure me some rather important information.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Anything I could do, mister Holst, anything at all.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You could look through the files and get me mister
mc gowan's home address. I think a visit to his
daughter is indicated. Let's see seventeen berbery mules seventeen years
here we asked lapidated little villa, Ah will what do
(15:01):
you want, miss McGowan? I presume I wonder if I
might speak to.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Your father for a moment.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You needn't be afraid I've come to harm him. In fact,
I think it will let me talk to him now
before the authorities arrived. Sure two later, owns, you'll not
be playing ducks and drakes for the law this time. Well, well,
if it isn't the strad the super snooper of Scotland Yard,
you can laugh, mister Strllock Holmes, but this is one
time you don't need your assistance.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I am here to arrest George Beggaron for the murder
of Superintendent.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Jeffers of Saint Pancras Infirmary.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You mean to say he's dead, No, but from what
the matron tells me, he will be before morning. So
I've come to arrest his murderer.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Don't you think you may be underrating both doctor Watson
and myself. Also the Superintendent may pull through and it's
just possible McGowan is not the man who shot him.
Oh no, Superintendent Jeffers Finn, the matron says, you found
McGowan's cap and revolver a Webley sixth seminder on the
scene of the crime. What's more, I've got the bullet
they took out of Jeffers's neck. Possibly, but what makes
(15:58):
you think the bullet was fired from that particular it's.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
The right size and cannibal. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Furthermore, the young nurse tells me you made off with
the gun and the cat.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I thank you to end him over.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So sorry, but I can't you know, not until I've
conducted a few rather important experiments. So obstructing the law,
that's what it is. You've overstepped yourself this time, Earns
and door mistake. I'll have a warrant sworn out for
your first thing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Aren't you forgetting the real purpose of your visit here?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What's that? The apprehending of your so called murderer, mister
George mcgonne.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't need you to remind me of the duty now, then,
miss tell your father I want to see it.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He need you will your.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Cant, But why not because it didn't come home? And
if you had a set your bond with you go
and look for him, lay and drunk in some powers
and wheelhouse. Who will be in taxes for I'd like
to know why didn't they keep him in the hospital
till it was cured me?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And why don't you smile?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Hell? Explain your own business.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Either bother you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
It seems miss McGown has put us both.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
In the same class. Congratulations, Miss claud you've been promoted.
You go to Blazes and another thing. You bring that
cap and that revolver down of the DD first thing
in the morning, Elves, and I'll see you put behind bars.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You've made your little out to make them lestrade now
and make mine.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You bring that bullet Bay took out of doctor Jeffer's
neck around the two twenty one B Baker Street before
midnight tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But I'll make you a laughing stock of London. Oh
that's bluff.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Your bluff possibly became astrode. I'll stake my reputation that
that bullet was not fired from mc gowan's gun. You
can bring a warrant with the bullet if I'm wrong.
You can arrest me for trying to conceal evidence. Pretty
sure of yourself, arch, All right, it's a deal. I'll
bring the warrant and dead us through, all.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Right, George, because the taar you can come out from
behind the rain barrel. Thank you, sir. Will your beef
no ting me in? Don't mention it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh, just one thing, tell me the truth, George. Did
you shoot Superintendent Jeffers to night in Tufno Park?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So help me, sir. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I followed him all afternoon, but it was that wet
and Aurora had to stop in and again for a
wee trap, and pretty soon I was in a bit
of a fog, as you might say, So I don't rightly.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Remember what happened. When I come to, I was lying
in the with my.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Bonnet gun, my hand here covered with blood.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Hey, it could be me in blood, Sir.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I've got a nasty cut over my left eye.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Let's hope it is your own blood, George. If it's not,
you should both then end up in jail.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh what in the name of commons? Since do you
think you're doing shooting? That's obvious?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I may say it was obvious the moment I turned
the corner of Merrybone Road. What's the idea of target
practice this hour of the night. This is not target practice, Watson.
You'll notice I'm shooting into a large.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Cylinder filled with cotton wool.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's a little experiment whereby I hope to convince inspect
to Lestrade that Baker Street is more satient than Scotland Yard.
Oh that, if I'm not mistaken, is the minion of
the law in person.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'll go down bother Watson. I told missus Hudson we
were expecting a midnight caller. She let him in. Yes,
twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Come in, Lestrade, come in your prompts itself. Well, Holmes
have brought the bullet and the handcase. Fair enough, now here,
take this chairy o by the microscope. I'll turn the
lamp up a little higher. Now, then if you'll give
Dr Watson the bullet he extracted from doctor Jeffer's neck
and allow him to place it under the lens.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
All right, but no, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Really.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
By the way, Dr Watson, now is the victim? Did
you pull him through? And I'm dead?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Someone is interested. I left doctor Jeffer's rest in quiety.
Thank you Holmes never thought to inquire.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
My dear Watson, I have every confidence in your medical ability. No,
what I'm really curious of, but as a pattern of
the marks on this bullet upon me what I've focused
the lens.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yes, let's see I thought so.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I thought, so he may know what you're talking about,
Dr Watson.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But I'm completely in the dark.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
How about you, I Confesslesstard, I am quite frequently in
your predicament.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But it's all so childishly simple. This bullet could not
possibly have been.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Fired from George McGowan's revolver. The bore patterns are entirely different.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh what's he raving about here?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Look in the microscope while I explain in words of
one syllable, I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Notice the pattern of lines, falls and scratches on that bullet.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Fix them well in your mind? All right, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
A few years ago, Less jard I persuaded Scotland Yard
to take up the science of fingerprinting. Fingerprints are now
recognized the one sure method of identification. No two sets
of fingerprints can possibly be alike. Grass it, I'd like
to introduce you to the science of ballistics. Oh, what's
that every gun that's capable of firing a bullet leaves
on that bullet a pattern of its a pattern that's
(21:01):
as individual as a man's fingerprints and as incapable of duplication. Now, Watson,
if you'll dig one of the bullets fired from mister
mc gowan's weblay out of that cotton wool.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
All right, we'll have a look at it under the microscope.
Here you are, homes the strad You've memorized the pattern made.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
By the killer's revolver on the bullet. Now have a
look at this one fired from Old George's gun.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's Scott, all right, they're different, different is night and day. Therefore,
the webley did not fire the.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Shot that was supposed to kill the superintendent, and MacGowan
is not the potential killer. But look here, Hoe, you
just had a look at the second bullet yourself. What
made you so sure earlier this evening that McGowan wasn't guilty?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
For one thing? The stage was too carefully set.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Why was the street lamp extinguished so Jeffers couldn't really
recognize the person who wore.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Mc gowan's cap.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Why were both the cap and the revolver left at
the scene of the crime to incriminate Old George. Fortunate
to be him mc gowan was the one person who
couldn't possibly have fired the webley because it was carefully
locked in the hospital safe.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But who could have taken it from the safe.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Almost any of the offices of the hospital stop. I
imagine that I can find out which one by paying
a return visit to the hospital to strod whoever fired
that shot will be quite chagrined to learn it wasn't fatal.
I rather suspect a sicken attempt will be made unlock
to Jeffer's life have very near future.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Take a good long look before the mirror.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
If you hadn't seen that clipper Craft label, how much
would you say that beautiful suit costs? Well many many
dollars more than the figure on the price ticket. It's
pretty hard to believe you can buy clothes that fit
so beautifully, such long wearing woolens, such.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Smart styles, and superior tailoring at prices so remarkably low.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Suits had only thirty five and forty dollars with a
few special numbers at forty three seventy five.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Top coats and overcoats had.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Only thirty to forty dollars, and sport jackets had only
twenty four dollars. Without the famous clipper Craft Plan, it
would be impossible.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
It concentrates the.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Buying power of nine hundred and twenty four leading stores
across America, gives you the savings that result from group
buying at the store you can trust at your own
local independence store. Selling beautifully tailored, expensive clothes at inexpensive
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(23:22):
know insist on Clippercraft clothes. So be sure to visit
the Clippercraft store in your city.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
The leading stores in the metropolitan area that bring you
Clippercraft clothes are Sacks thirty four Broadway at thirty fourth Street, Manhattan,
Abraham and Strauss, Brooklyn, The Boulevard Men's Shop Cresky ewart Ywick,
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(23:50):
that of Clippercraft in the label of your suit, top coat, sports.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Jacket and overcoat. Watson in which wing of the hospital
they put doctor Jeffers. He's on the ground floor over there,
to the left, where the light is burning good. The
window's partly open.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You shall be able to stand behind those bushes and
see him without being observed.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Come along the stride.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I'm common.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Quiet you two.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Here we are.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We can see over the sill. Nurses a back turn.
She won't notice. Everything seems to be quiet enough. Jeff
has just moved his hand. He's coming out of the ether.
I imagine, color looks good. Quiet, the doors opening. It's
the matron. She's coming in with the glass of something
in her hand. I've brought him to morn greatness. Why
(24:46):
don't you go at your supper now? Says the kettle
boiling in the pantry. I'll sit with him for a while, nurse.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He's leaving.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Is a matron smoothing out the covers. Robert, Robert, can
you hear me? He's opening his eyes.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You are going to live, Robert. They saved you.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I thought to death, I wish the one that found you,
that went for me.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You'd have bled to day.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You were a fool to throw me over for that young.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Nurse Matron, life is like that, couldn't help it. We
love each other, going to be married.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Sorry, don't worry about it. What is to be is
to be here.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Drink this to make you feel better.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Jeffers, don't set that lass. What you're doing here?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
He came back to provential making a second attempt on
doctor Japper's life, and to find out why you made
the first?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
What's in helpless trade over the sill before he strangled
his health.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yes, Matron, you've just given us the strongest motive that
exists for murder.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Jealousy. You'll think you're smart. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
You can't prove anything.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You'll never find my fingerplasts.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
On any revolver, and you'll never find the revolver. Mister
Lestrade here knows you can't convict anyone without proof.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think the contents of that glass will prove you
tried to murder doctor Jeffers. Take the glass away from
a Lestrad quick before.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Good Lord shall drank it. Holmes, I drank it herself.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Oh there's nothing Homes or I could do, mister Harris.
That glass contained a very lethal dose of classic acid.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
She was dead inside of two minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Good Lord, tell me, doctor Watson, when did Chili calms
first suspect the matron.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Of trying to kill doctor Jeffers almost at once, or perhaps.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I should say from the moment we entered the circle
of u hedge that surrounded the fountain.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You may not know it, mister Harris, but a good
English ue hedges as.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Impenetrable as a bick wall, and much more impossible to scale.
There was only one entrance to that circle, the one
for which the matron ran practically into our arms. No
one else could have passed without our seeing him. Consequently,
no one else was in the circle with doctor Jeffers
when he was shot. It had to be the matron
who fired the revolver who fared the two revolvers, I
(27:31):
should say, the one to incriminate George McGown, and the.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Other to do the job. Thank you, doctor Watson. And
now what is in store for us for next week?
Next week? Well, now let me see.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I think I'll tell you how homes on Earth to
stolen naval treaty that threatened the peace of Europe. It
involves a careless young employee of the British Fallen Office,
A beautiful.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Lady with a lamp and a mist shrouded garden.
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