August 19, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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that master Detective Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
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and waiting for your dinner, and well, that's when you
want to lean back and take it easy.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's the time a glass of Petree sherry tastes like
something just too good to be true.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Try it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Petree sherry is the perfect before dinner wine.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
The important thing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Is the Petree label, because when it says Petree, it
always means good wine. And now for our weekly visit
with our good friend and host, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Good evening, doctor, good evening.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's about hell late. I've been keeping some dinner hot
for you here, pull up your turn join me.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's very nice. Good thanks doctor. Are you all set
with the night story?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, my boy, I'm all set, as you call it.
As a matter of fact, I was going over my
notes from the caves just you arrived last week.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You hitted that a beautiful girl figured prominently in your adventure.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's quite right, mister Bartell, an extremely beautiful girl. In fact,
I often used to.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Say Sherlock Holmes as if I'd been a little younger
at the time, I might, oh, well, you haven't come
here to listen to my personal reminiscences. You wanted to
hear the story that I called the Problem of toll Bridge.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's which apprised us darting how did it begin?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
On a window morning in October in eighteen eighteen nineties,
was as I was dressing, I observed how the last
remaining leaves were being whirled away from the solitary plane
tree which graced the yard behind our Baker Street house.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I descended to breakfast, prepared to find my companion into
pressed spirits. For like all great artists, he was easily
impressed by his surroundings. But to my surprise, he was
in an unusually gay mood. As I entered the room,
he looked up at me and with her with a smile. Hope,
you said, well, splendid, I think so so glad we.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Are very list this morning. I think you must have
got a new case, Am I right?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The faculty of the Kars set in the contagious Yes,
I have a new case.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
After a month of trivialities and stagnation, the wheels revolved
once more.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tell me all about it? Well, yet there's much to tell.
Have you ever heard of Neil Gibson?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You? Who is this has something to do with gold mining?
Isn't he a great deal to.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do with the video follow In fact, he's considered the
greatest mining magnet in the world.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Not buy us go he bought largest state in Hampshire
that you've read of the dicto his wife.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Of course, I remember the case now. She was murdered
by jealous governess who was in her employee.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Wasn't it that pint will be decided and the lady
in question, Grace Dunbar, I believe her name is, comes
up for pilot the forthcoming winches to decide this. In
any case, it's hard for me to see what I
can do from my tent at this late date.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Your client, Oh yes, God, I hadn't told you.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
I'm getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That'll read this letter ken this morning, So love.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Here, mister Sherlock Holmes. Missus Dunbar is innocent.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I don't see the finest woman in the world go
to her death without doing everything.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Possible to save her. I shall call on.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You at ten thirty tomorrow morning to discuss the matter,
yours faithfully, Neil Gibsons.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
We have it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Watson is the gentleman. I wait, do you know anything
about his dead wife? Only what I've been reading in
the papers.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Apparently she was past her prime, which was the more
unfortunate as this Miss Dunbar, who superintended the education of
the two young children, is reputed the very attractive young.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Lady, the eternal trianglar. Where does the murder take place?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
On Gibson's estate in Hampshire?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
His wife was found in the grounds nearly half a
mile from the manor house, late at night, pad in
her dinner dress, with the shawl over her shoulders and
a revolver bullet through her brain.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And a weapon found near her.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh, though no clues found it the scene of the crime.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What made them suspect to Governess Well in first place?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There was some very incriminating evidence.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
A revolver with one discharged chamber the caliber corresponding with
a bullet in the dead woman's head, was found on
the floor in missus Dunbar's wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh was it pretty damaging evidence.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Home till the coroner thought, And to make the case
even blacker against miss Unbar, the dead woman had a
note on her making an appointment at that very spot,
and the note was signed by the Governess.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
He's obvious if the girl's guilty and the motive's clear,
Gibson be a great catch for a young girl, love, fortune, power,
all dependent on one.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Life, possibly Watson.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But circumstantial evidence can be very misleading at times.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nah as a.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Gentleman in question, as I'm very much mistaken considerably before
his time.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I can see him from the window here, formidable looking
for her. Must be well over six foot four.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Judging by the way he's wrenching at that door bell.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Is a man with the violent temper.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Is Hudson's opening the door to him?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Now meet him on the stairs where he won't happen.
He'll say, missus Hudson, the journey Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Up here her?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Thank you? All right you, mister she'll like home? No, no, indeed,
I miss.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Polly, don't go up and come along in, won't you,
mister Neil Gibson. I presume that's right. See all the
great she'll like old. The adjective is your own, Mister
Gibson said that, won't you? By the way, you miss
be quite freely in front of Dr Orbson, Well, I
may as well begin by telling you that money means
nothing to me in this case. You can burn it
if it's any use to you. Inviting the truth, Miss
Dunbar is innocent and it's up to you to prove it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Just name your fee, and.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Mister Gibson, my professional charges are on a fixed scale.
I don't bury them except when I omit them altogether.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Very well, I imagine that you were the newspaper reports.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Are the coroner's in quest? Yes, very thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't see that I can add anything that'll help you,
But if there any questions you'd like to ask, I'll
answer them.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
First, what are the exact relations between you and miss Dunbar?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I suppose you're within your rights in asking such question,
Mister Hone, we will.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Agree to suppose, so, shall we?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Then I can assure you that my relations with Miss
Dunbar were always those of an employer towards a young
lady with whom he never conversed or even saw except
in the company of his children.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Oh, I'll busy man, Mister Gibson. I have no time
or taste to aim this conversation. I wish you goold Mont.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What the devil do you mean by this?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Mister Home, My dear sir, the case is difficult enough
without your giving me a false information that I lie.
I was trying to express it as delicately as pass
that if.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You insist on the word, I won't contradict you.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Why you can't found not been noisy, mister Gibson, Please
don't denise you. I find that after breakfast, Evehen's smallest
argument is unsettling.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'd suggest that it's.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Toll in the morning air and a little quiet thought
will be great to the other Auntie.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I suppose I can't make you take the case. But
you've done yourself low good this morning, mister Holmes. I've
broken stronger men than you.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No man ever crossed me.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It was the better word running. That's getting you a
great deal yet to learn.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
On myrsel home. You were unuseless to there with him.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I just like liars Watson and I cannot tolerate arrogance,
particularly when he's coupled with great wealth.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Now, how did you know about his relations with the government.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was pure bluff bluff. It certainly worked needs to
come hack.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Of course he will.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
He needs my help too badly. He will probably change
his men for his halfway downstairs, come in, ah, mister Gibson,
just saying to doctor Watson that I.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Was setting you'll be back.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I've been thinking it over, mister Holmes, and I feel
that perhaps I was hasty in taking your remarks, and
miss us to say, I can assure you that the
relations between.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Miss Dunbar and me really don't affect his case. Surely
that is for me to decide. Mister Gibson, you.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Sho to give him my friends.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Like a doctor, he wants every symptom before he can
give his diagnosis.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Fire away, mister Holmes. What is it you want to know?
The truth? I can give it to you in very
few words. Inn with. I met my wife when I
was gold mining.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
In brasbol H. Your wife was Brasian by birth, wasn't you?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
A yes, doctor and very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, to make a long story short, I fell in
love and married her and brought her to England. For
a few years, I realized that we had nothing, absolutely
nothing in common. And then I suppose this young governess,
Miss Dunbar, arrived on the scene.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's right, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well the story should be obvious to you from mayor
you will fell in love with his girl, I suppose her.
Who could help it that you suggest marriage to her? Yes,
though I knew that my wife would never divorce me
and I see then you made an utterly insincere proposition
to her. Now look here, mister Holmes, I came to
one a question of evans, not of morals. I'm not
asking for your criticism.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's only the young lady's sake.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Fifturn horses me to touch your case at all. Now
tell me, sir, what is your own opinion as to
Miss dunbars gilt.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's very black against her. I can't deny that.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
When exploration of the tragedy did come into my head,
mister Holmes, I give to you for what it's worth,
Ray continued Miss Gibson. My wife was bitterly jealous. She
was half crazy with him. Should have planned to murder
Miss Dunbar, or, we'll say, to threaten the girl with
the revolver and so frighten her into leading us. There
might have been a struggle in which the gun exploded
and gone off and shot my wife who was holding
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it on. That possibility already occurred to me. It's the
only obvious alternative to deliberate murder.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Harbur Holmes was found on the floor the Governess's wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Mister Gibson, I should like to examine our house.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
On the scene of the murder as soon as possible safely.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Mister Holmes, certain Coventry, the local police is still down there.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He'll give you any help you may need, Excellent Watson.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Alf out of the time, Jable. We're catching the next
past train to Winchester, so if.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I have to have someone else on the case, I'd
rather have you, mister Elmes.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The yard gets called in then then we local police
loses all credit for success, generally gets blamed for the failures.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Though I've heard that you play straight. I know pure,
no matter. It's all Sergeant Coventry.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
If I can tear it out, I don't ask if
you even have my name engined, i'd.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Say some of you, I'm sure not. I know your friend,
doctor Watson can be trusted to follow.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
We won't steal any of your thunder.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
It's not friendly of you, doctor. But come on, gentlemen,
I'll packet down to the bridge. That's where we found
missus Gibson's body stuff far from the house here.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, I must say, mister Gibson has a beautiful state.
It must be sixty or seventy acres.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Or nearly twice that doctor the witch back at us.
There belongs to him too, mister Elmes, Yes, sugeant, there's
a question I'd like to ask you question I wouldn't
ask anyone else, simp please ask it. Don't you think
there might be a case against missus Gibson. I've been
considering that possibility that there, miss dunbarss a bit of
all right. He asked me wanted his wife out of
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the way. And the pistol she was shot with was
his pistol?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You know? Was that factor proven?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes, doctor, it was one of a pair.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
That he had.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
One of a pair. Where's the other?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Well, mister Gibson has a lot of fire armsrey never
quite matched that particular pistol.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But the box was made for two.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, if it's one of a pair, surely you'd be
able to mention it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, we have them more laid out at the house
if you want to look him over, and we'll do
that later. Ah, this I presume it is Tall Bridge.
That's right, sir, Good. Missus Gibson's body line right here
at the approach to.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
The bridge, I see I gathered from the newspaper the
parts the shop was part of Vertic CLO's quarters.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yes, sir, vertic clost in the right temple, wasn't it
just behind it?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
So how did the body lie? Sergeant inspect doctor. No
trace of a struggle, no march, no weapon. The note
from miss Dunbar was clutched left hand, you said, yes,
so we could hardly open the things to get at it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ah, that's the greatest importance.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
It excludes the idea that anyone could have placed the
note there after death in order to furnish a false clue.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
What a little doctor just said, I will be a
toll bridge at nine o'clock and it was assigned Grace Dunbar.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's done by admit writing.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What was her explanation? She will say nothing. Said she
was setting her defense for the trial.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, it seems odd that missus Gibson was still touching
that note. Seems perfectly natural to me, Come now, fellow
arguing the thing out. Logically, the letter is genuine. It
was certainly received sometime before the tragedy.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Cnraco.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Why then, was the dead woman still clasping it in
her left hand? Why should she carry it so carefully
if she certainly didn't need to refer to a note
at all the interview doesn't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Strike you as rather strange?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, are you put it that way? It does seem
a little peculiar.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Helloll gard Oh you mean that chip out of that
stone on the under side of the poaper of the bridge.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Sir, yes, I noticed it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Didn't think nothing of it though.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Very large tip, yes, but it's been on recently work.
It's quite just yet it took some to do that,
and your king, Yes, a hard knock.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
And in a curious place too, but it's fifteen deep
from where we found the body.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Mister Dout, Yeah, terms, I don't see how it could
have any connection with missus Gibson's murder.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It hasn't, but it's the point worth noting. There were
no footprints, who says.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Sergeant and mister the ground was as odd as are
and it's been a very dry summon. We have no
range of how much obliged doing.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think we'll get back to the house.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
So I says, our show with the firearms, I sir, oh, who,
he says, A funny kind of a bloke, Brazilian. He
is Brasilia like this is Gibson's mister Elms. It's from
the same term that she does, as a matter of fact,
something very fishy about him, if you ask me. Now,
if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I'm going to take a
little stroll around the grounds you started. We are a
new train of thoughtless case, mister.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Dan, I'm the lighted sergeant. I get back to the house.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I see and these are all the firearms in mister
Gibson's possession.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
He says, I except for the revolver that is missing
from the kuss. Yes, so, I say, I see him.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I have never seen such a collection of guns involvers
in my life.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Mister Gibson have many enemies, Senor. He always sleep with
a lauded pistol besides his bed. She's a man of
great violence. There have been times when all of us
were afraid of him.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Did you have this physical violence towards missus Gibson, No, Senor,
I cannot say that I have.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
But I have heard him say many terrible things to her.
She would taunt her in front of we servants. I
have heard them do it many times. Thank you, sir,
I that will be all will into vain, Senor you Holmes.
I do think the case against miss Dunbar looks very black.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I should agree with you if it were not for
one fact, the finding of the revolver in her wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So Holmes, that seems to me easy the strongest evidence
of all.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I think, not old Chef huh. We must look for
consistency where there is a want of it. We must
suspect deception. I quite fire suppose from what we've visualized,
you in the character of a woman who, in cold
premeditated fashion, is about to murder a rival.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You've planned it, and it has been written. The victim
has come.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You'll have a weapon. The crime is well done. There's
been workmen I can complete.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You need to tell me that after carrying out her craft,
your crime, you'd be so stupid as to forget the thing,
the incriminating revolver, at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Of the stream, or perhaps in the dense reeds that
border it.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Would you carefully carry it home and put it in
the first place that would be searched.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Your wardrobe have in the excitement of the moment, One,
my dear Chap.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Won't admit that's even possible when the crime is coolly
premeditated and the means of covering it are coolly permitiated
and if.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Miss Dunbar didn't shoot missus Gibson, who the devil did?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I hope I can give the answer to that question, Watson,
when we've made one further visit.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh Lord, we'll be now to prison prison.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes, we're going to Winchester Prison to call on Dunbar.
I'm sutain. But the key to this strange mystery lies
in her hands. You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's
story in just a few seconds, Just time enough for
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me to remind you that the easiest way to make
good food taste better is to serve that good food
with a good Petree wine.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
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Speaker 2 (17:05):
Makes good food tastes better.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And now back to doctor Watson and tonight Sherlock Holmes Adventure,
The Problem of tour Bridge.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well, doctor, did you go to Winchester Prison and see
miss Dunbar.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
We did, mister Bartel, And now later I found the
two of us.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Sitting in a dank and gloomy cell talking to one
of the most beautiful girls that I've ever seen. Her
bright flashing eyes and her air of quiet confidence seems
sadly out of place in such a city. Homes spoke
to a quietly.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Tell us of your true relations with the dead woman.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
She hated me, mister Holmes. She hated me with all
the passion of her distorted mind.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Please tell us exactly what happened on the evening of
missus Gids since death.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Well, I I received a note from her in the morning,
a note imploring me to meet her at the bridge
after dinner that night. She said she had something important
to say to me. Did you keep that note with
no doctor?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
She well?
Speaker 10 (18:14):
She asked me to destroy the note, so I burned
it in the schoolroom grade. I saw no reason for
such secrecy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But when I did as she asked, hmm, and yet
she kept you up applying her a carefully.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's interesting, I mean, what happened when you met her
that night?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
When I reached the bridge, she was waiting for me.
I won't tell you what she said, but she poured
out her whole wild fury and burning horrible words. I
didn't answer.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I couldn't.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
It was dreadful even to look at her. She was
like an insane woman standing there screaming disgusting insults at me.
I put my hands to my ears and rushed away.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well if she's staring when you left.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Her within a few yards of a spot where her
body was found later.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And yet presuming she met her death shortly after you
left her, you heard no.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
No, no, I heard nothing. But I was so upset,
mister Holmes that I rushed straight.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Back to my room. Did you leave it again that night?
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
When the alarm came that missus Gibson was dead, I
ran up with the others.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Did you see mister Gibson?
Speaker 10 (19:16):
Yes, doctor he had just returned from the bridge when
I saw him. He had sent for the doctor and
the police.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This pistol that you found in your room, have you
ever seen it before?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Never, mister Humes, I sweat. When was the fire in
the next morning when the police did their search, it
was on the floor of my wardrobe, where I'd keep
my shoes.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You had no idea how long it had been there?
Speaker 10 (19:35):
But it hadn't been there the morning before?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
How do you know?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Because I had tidied up the wardrobe that day.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I see, then someone must have come into your room
and placed the piscol there in order to incriminate your
and certain nothing well, and.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Could they have done there?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well?
Speaker 10 (19:49):
It could have been at meal time or when I
was in the school room, mister children.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, Miss dunbar On Exena was gone missus Gibson's death.
I noticed that a piece of stone work on the
underside of the telepate of the bridge had been broken away?
Can you suggest any possible explanation for that?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Surely it must have been a mere coincidence.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Possibly, But why should it appear at the very time
of the tragedy and at the very place?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Could it possibly be the why? Yes, of course, idiot?
Why didn't I think it did before? Come wrong? Watson?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Where are we going?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Homes back to Fort Bridge o'feller as fast.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
As we can get there.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What have you found out, mister Holmes the answer to
this mystery?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
I hope, my dear young lady, he will get news
before the day is out. And meanwhile, take my assurance
the clouds are lifting.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And that the life of truth is breaking through. Well,
mister Rols still back here? What if your found on
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a few moments now you've got my message? Yes, sir,
here you are all a twice what you wanted for
a cordilation.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
You soon see, Sergeant Watson, I have some recollection that
you usually go armed on these excursions of ours.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yes, I'm carrying my voval.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Give it to me, old Chap, No thanks.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I believe your revolver may have a very intimate connection
with the mystery we're investigating.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
N't I very serious? A test to make?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
The test is successful, Miss Dunbar will be free before nightfall,
and the test will depend on the conduct of this
revolver of yours.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Take the precaution of unloading it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
There we are now, targeant ball twine please shall be
what you was up to, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I tie one into the twine like this to the
handle of the revolver. So starge and see if you
can find me a heavy stone?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Will you want to ruck?
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Your sir?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
What are you doing trying to reconstruct.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The king of Thissus Gibson that you've seen me?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Miss the mark before, Watson, I have an instinct for
such things, and yet it has sometimes played me false.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It seemed a certainty when it first clashed. Course my
mind it was dunbar cell.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
But one drawback of an active mind is that one
can always conceive alternative explanations which would make us sense
a false swam.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And yet, oh well we can but try, is my
stillest rose? Thank you, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Now I tie the other end of the twine to
the stone. Wait a minute, like that, splend it, sargeant.
Will you please take the stone and stretch the twine
across the parapet of the.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Bridge there so that the stone will swing just tail
to the water on the other side of the bridge. Right, yes,
I'll stand the pot where Missus Gibson's body was found,
adds a sergeant over the parapet.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Out, said mister Rowse. The stone swing about eight feet.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
A bog of water. Splend it now, Watson, watch closely.
I raised the revolver to my head.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Careful, homes, careful, nobody.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Old Jeb's not loaded. Now let us imagine I am
late Missus Gibson. I raised the revolver to my head
and fire it instantly. Think us release that Gribbin.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Thanks you answer, Watson, great comfort of all.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The flash back out of your hand struck the parap's
bridge and then the way till the stone slipped it
over into the water.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
However, I'm more exact demonstration.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Come on o'cofditi, misters, that's.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
What you wore.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Served the second ship on the stonework, the caliphate here same.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Size as the first. And the murder Missus basont murder
at all.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was suicide. But we can follow the various steps
quite clearly.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
A note was extracted very cleverly from Miss Dunbar, a
note which made it appear that she had chosen the
scene of the crime. Missus Gibson, in her anxiety that
the note should be discovered somewhat overdid it by holding
it in her hand to the last. That alone should
have excited my suspicions earlier than it did.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
She stole one of her husband's revolvers, was it the
other one?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Miss Dunbar's water jacta.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
After discharging one of the cartridges, which she could easily
do in the woods without attracting suspicion, she then went
down to the bridge, where she contrived the succeedingly ingenious
method of getting rid of her weapon. When miss Dunbar appeared,
she used her last breath in pouring out.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Her hatred, and then, when the girl had left, carried
out her terrible purpose.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
In this reform.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You'll find it with the aid of a grappling hook
at the bottom of the stream, and also the stone
in the.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
String with which this vindictive woman added it. To the
guys are own crime and fast the charge.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Of murder on an innocent victim, youre, sergeant, And don't
forget while you're at it, that my revolver was down
there too.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Don't worry, doctor, I'll get some grappling.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Hooks right away. I must say, homes, you saw this
case dimply quite brilliant.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Blur ah.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I disagree, old chef, and I fear that you will
not improve my reputation by heading the case of the
toll bridge mystery to your animal.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh nonsense, was that ridiculous?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh no, it is, no boy.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I've been sluggish in my mind and wanting in that
mixture of imagination and reality which is the very basis
of my art. I confess that the chip in the
stonework was a sufficient clue to suggest the fools, so Lucien.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And I blame myself. I'm not having attained it sooner.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well I was personally. I agree with the sergeant's opinion
on you.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh what was that over?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You're a blooming magician, Mistrobes. That's what you are, a
blooming magician.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, doctor Holmes really was a magician. That is if
you did find missus Gibson's revolver and your own.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
It wants to be.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Fun of all right, don't think i'll tell you the
story otherwise, don't you what do you take before? Anyway? Well,
now that you ask, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I thank you for a very charming gentleman, a wonderful storyteller,
and a fine hole. Well you are a gentleman of
the old school, tell a fine story, and you are
a perfect toast. That year we had tonight was wonderful
it was. And that that wine, what kind was it?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
It was Petri wine, and you know it. And I
should have known that you were leading up to something.
Mister Boto, you should be ashamed of yourself. You will
do anything to get a chat. Petrie. I can't say
I blame.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You, honestly, doctor, I meant everything I said, but you
don't really want me to stop talking about Petrie wine.
After all, it's worth talking about, isn't it. What other
wine is made with a loving care that goes into
Petrie wine? Forget Petrie wine is made by the Petrie family.
Wine making is their business. Why they've been making wine
for generations, handing down from father to son, from father
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to son, all their skill and knowledge and experience.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You can be sure Petrie.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Family really knows plenty about the fine art of turning
luscious grapes into delicious wine. That's why, whether you want
a wine for before dinner, with dinner, or for any time,
you can't go wrong with a Petrie wine because Petrie
took time to bring you good wine. And now, doctor Watson,
what new story are you planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, next thing it's about tell I'm good telling an
adventure that Holmes and I had him in the audiential
magnificence Ramaharaj just peedas.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
In India India.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sounds intriguing.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
What were you and Sherlock Homes doing out there?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Doctor?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We will have to wait until next week we answer
that question.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
We were, but I can tell you that it was
one of the weirdest problems that we ever have to solve.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I call the story The Vanishing Elephant Tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Sherlock Holm's Adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Boucher and is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle story
The Problem of tour Bridge. Mister Rathbone appears through the
courtesy of Metro Goldwen Mayor and mister Bruce through the
courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petree Wine Company of San Francisco,
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California invites you to tune in again next week, same time,
same station.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
The Petree family took the time to bring you such
good wine. Cool when you eat, and when you cook,
remember Petree wine.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
To make good food taste better.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Remember Hurt Hurty. This is Harry Martell saying good night
for the Petrick family. Sherlt Holmes comes to you from
our Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting Syste
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be
transmitted to our men and women overseas by a short
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Radio Service. Petrie Wine brings you That's a rough Phone
and Nigel Bruce and the new Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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The Petrie family, the family that took time to bring
you good wine, invites you to listen to Doc Watson
tell us another exciting adventure he shared with his old friend,
that master Detective Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And while you're settling back.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Comfortably in your chair, mind if I tell you about
something I'd like you to share with me. It's a
glass of Petrie California's sherry. Of course, most people think
of Petrie California's sherry as the one wine that's really
swell anytime. But personally, I like a glass of that
Petrie sherry before dinner. You know, that's the time you're
a little on edge, you've just finished your day's work
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and waiting for your dinner, and well, that's when you
want to lean back and take it easy.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's the time a glass of Petree sherry tastes like
something just too good to be true.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Try it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Petree sherry is the perfect before dinner wine.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And incidentally, if you like your sherry dry, you know,
not sweet, then you'll find that Petree pale dry sherry
is just made for you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The important thing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Is the Petree label, because when it says Petree, it
always means good wine. And now for our weekly visit
with our good friend and host, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Good evening, doctor, good evening.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's about hell late. I've been keeping some dinner hot
for you here, pull up your turn join me.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's very nice. Good thanks doctor. Are you all set
with the night story?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, my boy, I'm all set, as you call it.
As a matter of fact, I was going over my
notes from the caves just you arrived last week.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You hitted that a beautiful girl figured prominently in your adventure.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's quite right, mister Bartell, an extremely beautiful girl. In fact,
I often used to.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Say Sherlock Holmes as if I'd been a little younger
at the time, I might, oh, well, you haven't come
here to listen to my personal reminiscences. You wanted to
hear the story that I called the Problem of toll Bridge.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's which apprised us darting how did it begin?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
On a window morning in October in eighteen eighteen nineties,
was as I was dressing, I observed how the last
remaining leaves were being whirled away from the solitary plane
tree which graced the yard behind our Baker Street house.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I descended to breakfast, prepared to find my companion into
pressed spirits. For like all great artists, he was easily
impressed by his surroundings. But to my surprise, he was
in an unusually gay mood. As I entered the room,
he looked up at me and with her with a smile. Hope,
you said, well, splendid, I think so so glad we.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Are very list this morning. I think you must have
got a new case, Am I right?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The faculty of the Kars set in the contagious Yes,
I have a new case.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
After a month of trivialities and stagnation, the wheels revolved
once more.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tell me all about it? Well, yet there's much to tell.
Have you ever heard of Neil Gibson?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You? Who is this has something to do with gold mining?
Isn't he a great deal to.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do with the video follow In fact, he's considered the
greatest mining magnet in the world.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Not buy us go he bought largest state in Hampshire
that you've read of the dicto his wife.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Of course, I remember the case now. She was murdered
by jealous governess who was in her employee.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Wasn't it that pint will be decided and the lady
in question, Grace Dunbar, I believe her name is, comes
up for pilot the forthcoming winches to decide this. In
any case, it's hard for me to see what I
can do from my tent at this late date.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Your client, Oh yes, God, I hadn't told you.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
I'm getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That'll read this letter ken this morning, So love.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Here, mister Sherlock Holmes. Missus Dunbar is innocent.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I don't see the finest woman in the world go
to her death without doing everything.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Possible to save her. I shall call on.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You at ten thirty tomorrow morning to discuss the matter,
yours faithfully, Neil Gibsons.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
We have it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Watson is the gentleman. I wait, do you know anything
about his dead wife? Only what I've been reading in
the papers.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Apparently she was past her prime, which was the more
unfortunate as this Miss Dunbar, who superintended the education of
the two young children, is reputed the very attractive young.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Lady, the eternal trianglar. Where does the murder take place?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
On Gibson's estate in Hampshire?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
His wife was found in the grounds nearly half a
mile from the manor house, late at night, pad in
her dinner dress, with the shawl over her shoulders and
a revolver bullet through her brain.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And a weapon found near her.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh, though no clues found it the scene of the crime.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What made them suspect to Governess Well in first place?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There was some very incriminating evidence.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
A revolver with one discharged chamber the caliber corresponding with
a bullet in the dead woman's head, was found on
the floor in missus Dunbar's wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh was it pretty damaging evidence.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Home till the coroner thought, And to make the case
even blacker against miss Unbar, the dead woman had a
note on her making an appointment at that very spot,
and the note was signed by the Governess.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
He's obvious if the girl's guilty and the motive's clear,
Gibson be a great catch for a young girl, love, fortune, power,
all dependent on one.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Life, possibly Watson.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But circumstantial evidence can be very misleading at times.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nah as a.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Gentleman in question, as I'm very much mistaken considerably before
his time.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I can see him from the window here, formidable looking
for her. Must be well over six foot four.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Judging by the way he's wrenching at that door bell.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Is a man with the violent temper.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Is Hudson's opening the door to him?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Now meet him on the stairs where he won't happen.
He'll say, missus Hudson, the journey Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Up here her?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Thank you? All right you, mister she'll like home? No, no, indeed,
I miss.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Polly, don't go up and come along in, won't you,
mister Neil Gibson. I presume that's right. See all the
great she'll like old. The adjective is your own, Mister
Gibson said that, won't you? By the way, you miss
be quite freely in front of Dr Orbson, Well, I
may as well begin by telling you that money means
nothing to me in this case. You can burn it
if it's any use to you. Inviting the truth, Miss
Dunbar is innocent and it's up to you to prove it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Just name your fee, and.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Mister Gibson, my professional charges are on a fixed scale.
I don't bury them except when I omit them altogether.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Very well, I imagine that you were the newspaper reports.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Are the coroner's in quest? Yes, very thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't see that I can add anything that'll help you,
But if there any questions you'd like to ask, I'll
answer them.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
First, what are the exact relations between you and miss Dunbar?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I suppose you're within your rights in asking such question,
Mister Hone, we will.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Agree to suppose, so, shall we?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Then I can assure you that my relations with Miss
Dunbar were always those of an employer towards a young
lady with whom he never conversed or even saw except
in the company of his children.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Oh, I'll busy man, Mister Gibson. I have no time
or taste to aim this conversation. I wish you goold Mont.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What the devil do you mean by this?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Mister Home, My dear sir, the case is difficult enough
without your giving me a false information that I lie.
I was trying to express it as delicately as pass
that if.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You insist on the word, I won't contradict you.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Why you can't found not been noisy, mister Gibson, Please
don't denise you. I find that after breakfast, Evehen's smallest
argument is unsettling.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'd suggest that it's.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Toll in the morning air and a little quiet thought
will be great to the other Auntie.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I suppose I can't make you take the case. But
you've done yourself low good this morning, mister Holmes. I've
broken stronger men than you.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No man ever crossed me.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It was the better word running. That's getting you a
great deal yet to learn.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
On myrsel home. You were unuseless to there with him.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I just like liars Watson and I cannot tolerate arrogance,
particularly when he's coupled with great wealth.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Now, how did you know about his relations with the government.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was pure bluff bluff. It certainly worked needs to
come hack.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Of course he will.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
He needs my help too badly. He will probably change
his men for his halfway downstairs, come in, ah, mister Gibson,
just saying to doctor Watson that I.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Was setting you'll be back.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I've been thinking it over, mister Holmes, and I feel
that perhaps I was hasty in taking your remarks, and
miss us to say, I can assure you that the
relations between.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Miss Dunbar and me really don't affect his case. Surely
that is for me to decide. Mister Gibson, you.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Sho to give him my friends.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Like a doctor, he wants every symptom before he can
give his diagnosis.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Fire away, mister Holmes. What is it you want to know?
The truth? I can give it to you in very
few words. Inn with. I met my wife when I
was gold mining.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
In brasbol H. Your wife was Brasian by birth, wasn't you?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
A yes, doctor and very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, to make a long story short, I fell in
love and married her and brought her to England. For
a few years, I realized that we had nothing, absolutely
nothing in common. And then I suppose this young governess,
Miss Dunbar, arrived on the scene.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's right, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well the story should be obvious to you from mayor
you will fell in love with his girl, I suppose her.
Who could help it that you suggest marriage to her? Yes,
though I knew that my wife would never divorce me
and I see then you made an utterly insincere proposition
to her. Now look here, mister Holmes, I came to
one a question of evans, not of morals. I'm not
asking for your criticism.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's only the young lady's sake.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Fifturn horses me to touch your case at all. Now
tell me, sir, what is your own opinion as to
Miss dunbars gilt.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's very black against her. I can't deny that.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
When exploration of the tragedy did come into my head,
mister Holmes, I give to you for what it's worth,
Ray continued Miss Gibson. My wife was bitterly jealous. She
was half crazy with him. Should have planned to murder
Miss Dunbar, or, we'll say, to threaten the girl with
the revolver and so frighten her into leading us. There
might have been a struggle in which the gun exploded
and gone off and shot my wife who was holding
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it on. That possibility already occurred to me. It's the
only obvious alternative to deliberate murder.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Harbur Holmes was found on the floor the Governess's wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Mister Gibson, I should like to examine our house.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
On the scene of the murder as soon as possible safely.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Mister Holmes, certain Coventry, the local police is still down there.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He'll give you any help you may need, Excellent Watson.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Alf out of the time, Jable. We're catching the next
past train to Winchester, so if.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I have to have someone else on the case, I'd
rather have you, mister Elmes.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The yard gets called in then then we local police
loses all credit for success, generally gets blamed for the failures.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Though I've heard that you play straight. I know pure,
no matter. It's all Sergeant Coventry.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
If I can tear it out, I don't ask if
you even have my name engined, i'd.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Say some of you, I'm sure not. I know your friend,
doctor Watson can be trusted to follow.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
We won't steal any of your thunder.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
It's not friendly of you, doctor. But come on, gentlemen,
I'll packet down to the bridge. That's where we found
missus Gibson's body stuff far from the house here.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, I must say, mister Gibson has a beautiful state.
It must be sixty or seventy acres.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Or nearly twice that doctor the witch back at us.
There belongs to him too, mister Elmes, Yes, sugeant, there's
a question I'd like to ask you question I wouldn't
ask anyone else, simp please ask it. Don't you think
there might be a case against missus Gibson. I've been
considering that possibility that there, miss dunbarss a bit of
all right. He asked me wanted his wife out of
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the way. And the pistol she was shot with was
his pistol?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You know? Was that factor proven?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes, doctor, it was one of a pair.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
That he had.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
One of a pair. Where's the other?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Well, mister Gibson has a lot of fire armsrey never
quite matched that particular pistol.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But the box was made for two.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, if it's one of a pair, surely you'd be
able to mention it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, we have them more laid out at the house
if you want to look him over, and we'll do
that later. Ah, this I presume it is Tall Bridge.
That's right, sir, Good. Missus Gibson's body line right here
at the approach to.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
The bridge, I see I gathered from the newspaper the
parts the shop was part of Vertic CLO's quarters.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yes, sir, vertic clost in the right temple, wasn't it
just behind it?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
So how did the body lie? Sergeant inspect doctor. No
trace of a struggle, no march, no weapon. The note
from miss Dunbar was clutched left hand, you said, yes,
so we could hardly open the things to get at it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ah, that's the greatest importance.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
It excludes the idea that anyone could have placed the
note there after death in order to furnish a false clue.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
What a little doctor just said, I will be a
toll bridge at nine o'clock and it was assigned Grace Dunbar.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's done by admit writing.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What was her explanation? She will say nothing. Said she
was setting her defense for the trial.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, it seems odd that missus Gibson was still touching
that note. Seems perfectly natural to me, Come now, fellow
arguing the thing out. Logically, the letter is genuine. It
was certainly received sometime before the tragedy.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Cnraco.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Why then, was the dead woman still clasping it in
her left hand? Why should she carry it so carefully
if she certainly didn't need to refer to a note
at all the interview doesn't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Strike you as rather strange?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, are you put it that way? It does seem
a little peculiar.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Helloll gard Oh you mean that chip out of that
stone on the under side of the poaper of the bridge.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Sir, yes, I noticed it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Didn't think nothing of it though.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Very large tip, yes, but it's been on recently work.
It's quite just yet it took some to do that,
and your king, Yes, a hard knock.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
And in a curious place too, but it's fifteen deep
from where we found the body.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Mister Dout, Yeah, terms, I don't see how it could
have any connection with missus Gibson's murder.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It hasn't, but it's the point worth noting. There were
no footprints, who says.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Sergeant and mister the ground was as odd as are
and it's been a very dry summon. We have no
range of how much obliged doing.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think we'll get back to the house.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
So I says, our show with the firearms, I sir, oh, who,
he says, A funny kind of a bloke, Brazilian. He
is Brasilia like this is Gibson's mister Elms. It's from
the same term that she does, as a matter of fact,
something very fishy about him, if you ask me. Now,
if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I'm going to take a
little stroll around the grounds you started. We are a
new train of thoughtless case, mister.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Dan, I'm the lighted sergeant. I get back to the house.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I see and these are all the firearms in mister
Gibson's possession.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
He says, I except for the revolver that is missing
from the kuss. Yes, so, I say, I see him.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I have never seen such a collection of guns involvers
in my life.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Mister Gibson have many enemies, Senor. He always sleep with
a lauded pistol besides his bed. She's a man of
great violence. There have been times when all of us
were afraid of him.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Did you have this physical violence towards missus Gibson, No, Senor,
I cannot say that I have.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
But I have heard him say many terrible things to her.
She would taunt her in front of we servants. I
have heard them do it many times. Thank you, sir,
I that will be all will into vain, Senor you Holmes.
I do think the case against miss Dunbar looks very black.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I should agree with you if it were not for
one fact, the finding of the revolver in her wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So Holmes, that seems to me easy the strongest evidence
of all.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I think, not old Chef huh. We must look for
consistency where there is a want of it. We must
suspect deception. I quite fire suppose from what we've visualized,
you in the character of a woman who, in cold
premeditated fashion, is about to murder a rival.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You've planned it, and it has been written. The victim
has come.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You'll have a weapon. The crime is well done. There's
been workmen I can complete.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You need to tell me that after carrying out her craft,
your crime, you'd be so stupid as to forget the thing,
the incriminating revolver, at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Of the stream, or perhaps in the dense reeds that
border it.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Would you carefully carry it home and put it in
the first place that would be searched.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Your wardrobe have in the excitement of the moment, One,
my dear Chap.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Won't admit that's even possible when the crime is coolly
premeditated and the means of covering it are coolly permitiated
and if.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Miss Dunbar didn't shoot missus Gibson, who the devil did?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I hope I can give the answer to that question, Watson,
when we've made one further visit.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh Lord, we'll be now to prison prison.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes, we're going to Winchester Prison to call on Dunbar.
I'm sutain. But the key to this strange mystery lies
in her hands. You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's
story in just a few seconds, Just time enough for
(16:34):
me to remind you that the easiest way to make
good food taste better is to serve that good food
with a good Petree wine.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
If you like a red wine, well you want a.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Petrie California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a white wine,
then you want a Petrie California So Turned. But red
or white. Petrie Burgundy or Petrie so Turned. You're choosing
a dinner wine that's sure to turn a simple meal
into a feast. Your whole family and all your friends
will love Petrie, the wine that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Makes good food tastes better.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And now back to doctor Watson and tonight Sherlock Holmes Adventure,
The Problem of tour Bridge.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well, doctor, did you go to Winchester Prison and see
miss Dunbar.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
We did, mister Bartel, And now later I found the
two of us.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Sitting in a dank and gloomy cell talking to one
of the most beautiful girls that I've ever seen. Her
bright flashing eyes and her air of quiet confidence seems
sadly out of place in such a city. Homes spoke
to a quietly.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Tell us of your true relations with the dead woman.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
She hated me, mister Holmes. She hated me with all
the passion of her distorted mind.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Please tell us exactly what happened on the evening of
missus Gids since death.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Well, I I received a note from her in the morning,
a note imploring me to meet her at the bridge
after dinner that night. She said she had something important
to say to me. Did you keep that note with
no doctor?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
She well?
Speaker 10 (18:14):
She asked me to destroy the note, so I burned
it in the schoolroom grade. I saw no reason for
such secrecy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But when I did as she asked, hmm, and yet
she kept you up applying her a carefully.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's interesting, I mean, what happened when you met her
that night?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
When I reached the bridge, she was waiting for me.
I won't tell you what she said, but she poured
out her whole wild fury and burning horrible words. I
didn't answer.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I couldn't.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
It was dreadful even to look at her. She was
like an insane woman standing there screaming disgusting insults at me.
I put my hands to my ears and rushed away.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well if she's staring when you left.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Her within a few yards of a spot where her
body was found later.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And yet presuming she met her death shortly after you
left her, you heard no.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
No, no, I heard nothing. But I was so upset,
mister Holmes that I rushed straight.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Back to my room. Did you leave it again that night?
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
When the alarm came that missus Gibson was dead, I
ran up with the others.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Did you see mister Gibson?
Speaker 10 (19:16):
Yes, doctor he had just returned from the bridge when
I saw him. He had sent for the doctor and
the police.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This pistol that you found in your room, have you
ever seen it before?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Never, mister Humes, I sweat. When was the fire in
the next morning when the police did their search, it
was on the floor of my wardrobe, where I'd keep
my shoes.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You had no idea how long it had been there?
Speaker 10 (19:35):
But it hadn't been there the morning before?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
How do you know?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Because I had tidied up the wardrobe that day.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I see, then someone must have come into your room
and placed the piscol there in order to incriminate your
and certain nothing well, and.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Could they have done there?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well?
Speaker 10 (19:49):
It could have been at meal time or when I
was in the school room, mister children.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, Miss dunbar On Exena was gone missus Gibson's death.
I noticed that a piece of stone work on the
underside of the telepate of the bridge had been broken away?
Can you suggest any possible explanation for that?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Surely it must have been a mere coincidence.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Possibly, But why should it appear at the very time
of the tragedy and at the very place?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Could it possibly be the why? Yes, of course, idiot?
Why didn't I think it did before? Come wrong? Watson?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Where are we going?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Homes back to Fort Bridge o'feller as fast.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
As we can get there.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What have you found out, mister Holmes the answer to
this mystery?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
I hope, my dear young lady, he will get news
before the day is out. And meanwhile, take my assurance
the clouds are lifting.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And that the life of truth is breaking through. Well,
mister Rols still back here? What if your found on
(20:50):
a few moments now you've got my message? Yes, sir,
here you are all a twice what you wanted for
a cordilation.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
You soon see, Sergeant Watson, I have some recollection that
you usually go armed on these excursions of ours.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yes, I'm carrying my voval.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Give it to me, old Chap, No thanks.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I believe your revolver may have a very intimate connection
with the mystery we're investigating.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
N't I very serious? A test to make?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
The test is successful, Miss Dunbar will be free before nightfall,
and the test will depend on the conduct of this
revolver of yours.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Take the precaution of unloading it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
There we are now, targeant ball twine please shall be
what you was up to, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I tie one into the twine like this to the
handle of the revolver. So starge and see if you
can find me a heavy stone?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Will you want to ruck?
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Your sir?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
What are you doing trying to reconstruct.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The king of Thissus Gibson that you've seen me?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Miss the mark before, Watson, I have an instinct for
such things, and yet it has sometimes played me false.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It seemed a certainty when it first clashed. Course my
mind it was dunbar cell.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
But one drawback of an active mind is that one
can always conceive alternative explanations which would make us sense
a false swam.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And yet, oh well we can but try, is my
stillest rose? Thank you, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Now I tie the other end of the twine to
the stone. Wait a minute, like that, splend it, sargeant.
Will you please take the stone and stretch the twine
across the parapet of the.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Bridge there so that the stone will swing just tail
to the water on the other side of the bridge. Right, yes,
I'll stand the pot where Missus Gibson's body was found,
adds a sergeant over the parapet.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Out, said mister Rowse. The stone swing about eight feet.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
A bog of water. Splend it now, Watson, watch closely.
I raised the revolver to my head.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Careful, homes, careful, nobody.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Old Jeb's not loaded. Now let us imagine I am
late Missus Gibson. I raised the revolver to my head
and fire it instantly. Think us release that Gribbin.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Thanks you answer, Watson, great comfort of all.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The flash back out of your hand struck the parap's
bridge and then the way till the stone slipped it
over into the water.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
However, I'm more exact demonstration.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Come on o'cofditi, misters, that's.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
What you wore.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Served the second ship on the stonework, the caliphate here same.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Size as the first. And the murder Missus basont murder
at all.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was suicide. But we can follow the various steps
quite clearly.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
A note was extracted very cleverly from Miss Dunbar, a
note which made it appear that she had chosen the
scene of the crime. Missus Gibson, in her anxiety that
the note should be discovered somewhat overdid it by holding
it in her hand to the last. That alone should
have excited my suspicions earlier than it did.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
She stole one of her husband's revolvers, was it the
other one?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Miss Dunbar's water jacta.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
After discharging one of the cartridges, which she could easily
do in the woods without attracting suspicion, she then went
down to the bridge, where she contrived the succeedingly ingenious
method of getting rid of her weapon. When miss Dunbar appeared,
she used her last breath in pouring out.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Her hatred, and then, when the girl had left, carried
out her terrible purpose.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
In this reform.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You'll find it with the aid of a grappling hook
at the bottom of the stream, and also the stone
in the.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
String with which this vindictive woman added it. To the
guys are own crime and fast the charge.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Of murder on an innocent victim, youre, sergeant, And don't
forget while you're at it, that my revolver was down
there too.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Don't worry, doctor, I'll get some grappling.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Hooks right away. I must say, homes, you saw this
case dimply quite brilliant.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Blur ah.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I disagree, old chef, and I fear that you will
not improve my reputation by heading the case of the
toll bridge mystery to your animal.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Oh nonsense, was that ridiculous?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh no, it is, no boy.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I've been sluggish in my mind and wanting in that
mixture of imagination and reality which is the very basis
of my art. I confess that the chip in the
stonework was a sufficient clue to suggest the fools, so Lucien.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And I blame myself. I'm not having attained it sooner.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well I was personally. I agree with the sergeant's opinion
on you.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh what was that over?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You're a blooming magician, Mistrobes. That's what you are, a
blooming magician.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, doctor Holmes really was a magician. That is if
you did find missus Gibson's revolver and your own.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
It wants to be.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Fun of all right, don't think i'll tell you the
story otherwise, don't you what do you take before? Anyway? Well,
now that you ask, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I thank you for a very charming gentleman, a wonderful storyteller,
and a fine hole. Well you are a gentleman of
the old school, tell a fine story, and you are
a perfect toast. That year we had tonight was wonderful
it was. And that that wine, what kind was it?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
It was Petri wine, and you know it. And I
should have known that you were leading up to something.
Mister Boto, you should be ashamed of yourself. You will
do anything to get a chat. Petrie. I can't say
I blame.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You, honestly, doctor, I meant everything I said, but you
don't really want me to stop talking about Petrie wine.
After all, it's worth talking about, isn't it. What other
wine is made with a loving care that goes into
Petrie wine? Forget Petrie wine is made by the Petrie family.
Wine making is their business. Why they've been making wine
for generations, handing down from father to son, from father
(26:10):
to son, all their skill and knowledge and experience.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You can be sure Petrie.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Family really knows plenty about the fine art of turning
luscious grapes into delicious wine. That's why, whether you want
a wine for before dinner, with dinner, or for any time,
you can't go wrong with a Petrie wine because Petrie
took time to bring you good wine. And now, doctor Watson,
what new story are you planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, next thing it's about tell I'm good telling an
adventure that Holmes and I had him in the audiential
magnificence Ramaharaj just peedas.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
In India India.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sounds intriguing.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
What were you and Sherlock Homes doing out there?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Doctor?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We will have to wait until next week we answer
that question.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
We were, but I can tell you that it was
one of the weirdest problems that we ever have to solve.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I call the story The Vanishing Elephant Tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Sherlock Holm's Adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Boucher and is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle story
The Problem of tour Bridge. Mister Rathbone appears through the
courtesy of Metro Goldwen Mayor and mister Bruce through the
courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petree Wine Company of San Francisco,
(27:36):
California invites you to tune in again next week, same time,
same station.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
The Petree family took the time to bring you such
good wine. Cool when you eat, and when you cook,
remember Petree wine.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
To make good food taste better.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Remember Hurt Hurty. This is Harry Martell saying good night
for the Petrick family. Sherlt Holmes comes to you from
our Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
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