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- 0:01Speaker 1: And now let's join doctor Watson and get on with
- 0:03Speaker 1: that story.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Good evening, mister Bartell.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Doctor, your study seems a little bitter than usual this way.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Yes, member, I felt that earth Tonight's new Sherlock Holmes
- 0:12Speaker 3: adventure was rather an exciting one.
- 0:13Speaker 2: The men here at Camp Roberts might like me to
- 0:16Speaker 2: to tell it to them in first I'm.
- 0:17Speaker 4: Sure they will.
- 0:18Speaker 5: Doctor.
- 0:19Speaker 4: Which particular story of the selected one that I.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Call the strange case of the murder in Wex It
- 0:24Speaker 3: concerns one of the most sinister mass murderers whoever threatened
- 0:27Speaker 3: the peace of London. In the summer of nineteen hundred
- 0:31Speaker 3: and the same had been rocked by a series of
- 0:33Speaker 3: gustly murders on Hampstead Heath. Hampstead Heath, Yes, Hampstead He's
- 0:37Speaker 3: that's a large rambling park in the suburbs of London,
- 0:40Speaker 3: mister Bartel, and noted as a rendezvous for young lovers.
- 0:45Speaker 2: It was here that the elusive.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Murderer, knife in hand, was wont to roam at nighttime
- 0:49Speaker 3: searching for his prey. All of his victims were young girls,
- 0:53Speaker 3: and despite the frantic efforts of the peace, each murder
- 0:55Speaker 3: seemed to be as baffling as the one that preceded. Finally,
- 0:59Speaker 3: of course, as usual, scottand Yard came to Sherlock Holmes
- 1:02Speaker 3: for help. It seems almost like yesterday mister.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Bartel and its.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Special of stards put in our Baker Street rooms in
- 1:10Speaker 3: pouring home.
- 1:12Speaker 5: Okay, you got to help us.
- 1:17Speaker 4: I don't mind telling you the yards at the end
- 1:19Speaker 4: of its row.
- 1:20Speaker 6: I sympathize with you a start that I don't see
- 1:22Speaker 6: that there's much that I can do. Only the police
- 1:23Speaker 6: can handle the widespread, detailed work necessary to this case.
- 1:26Speaker 5: The private detective is helpless.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Nos.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Perhaps if you'd come to mister Holmes, the first person
- 1:30Speaker 3: to study.
- 1:30Speaker 2: He might have helped you.
- 1:31Speaker 7: But the murderer hasn't finished yet. There'll be more kiddings
- 1:35Speaker 7: if we don't catch him. You mark my words, mister Owes,
- 1:39Speaker 7: please help us, won't you?
- 1:41Speaker 6: Before I commit myself a star, give me the exact
- 1:43Speaker 6: chronology of events, will you. All my information on the
- 1:46Speaker 6: murders has been derived from the London newspapers, notoriously inaccurate
- 1:50Speaker 6: in matters of fact.
- 1:50Speaker 7: I can give you all the particular sir. I've been
- 1:53Speaker 7: on the case right from the beginning, all the murders
- 1:56Speaker 7: have taken place on Ampsteaday at night time and all
- 1:59Speaker 7: the vig tim's and being young women. Was the first one,
- 2:02Speaker 7: a girl by the name of Oakley, Bessie Oakley. She
- 2:05Speaker 7: was a shop girl who worked at Derry and Tom's
- 2:08Speaker 7: in Kensington I Street. Three weeks ago she was out
- 2:12Speaker 7: on the east for the young fellow by the.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Name of Elfrick Smith. What he told me?
- 2:17Speaker 7: It was a moonlight night that night as they sat.
- 2:19Speaker 1: There, Bessie, give us a kiss?
- 2:25Speaker 2: How gone't beat this upping Sophie?
- 2:29Speaker 4: Come on, bess.
- 2:32Speaker 8: Hello, helloas is coming towards this blooming prowler here?
- 2:36Speaker 4: You what you want?
- 2:39Speaker 2: Can't you say that?
- 2:40Speaker 4: Well, Bessie's got a knife.
- 2:42Speaker 2: No you don't.
- 2:46Speaker 3: You meet marfread keep away from me, Keep away from me?
- 2:50Speaker 1: You And that's all I know, Inspector of Strama. I
- 2:59Speaker 1: never got a good look. He caught me on me
- 3:01Speaker 1: every when I come to there was poor BERSI whipper.
- 3:03Speaker 4: Frog c Yeah, that's your.
- 3:05Speaker 7: Story, young fellow, a lad, All right, sergeant, you can
- 3:08Speaker 7: book it on suspicion of murder.
- 3:14Speaker 4: So what we shouldn't be walking on the heat. Didn't
- 3:16Speaker 4: you read about the murder here? Two days ago.
- 3:18Speaker 9: It's a fine thing. I take you out in the moonlight,
- 3:20Speaker 9: and you talk of murders. Let's talk about us, Spilett Darling.
- 3:23Speaker 1: It seems to me we should talk about your wife.
- 3:26Speaker 9: My wife doesn't mean anything to me anymore.
- 3:28Speaker 5: Volet if I could get at the box.
- 3:30Speaker 4: There's someone behind that tree.
- 3:32Speaker 2: She's coming towards us for you, sir, but you know
- 3:35Speaker 2: you don't get it.
- 3:37Speaker 4: Don't come near me, don't.
- 3:45Speaker 5: Inspector Lestrade.
- 3:46Speaker 9: She's dead, poor girl, I know, but a scandal can't
- 3:48Speaker 9: bring her back.
- 3:49Speaker 2: If it is any way to keep my name out
- 3:50Speaker 2: of the papers, Yeah, I'm.
- 3:51Speaker 7: Afraid you'll have to take your chances, said George. And
- 3:54Speaker 7: sergeant was inspector. You can turn that boy loose. Weave
- 3:58Speaker 7: help for questioning. The man who did this is obviously
- 4:01Speaker 7: the same killer. I'm going to hear a lot more
- 4:05Speaker 7: from him.
- 4:08Speaker 8: Either edition Eating Piper Empstony Restats.
- 4:11Speaker 2: For fifth Time.
- 4:15Speaker 4: Light edition.
- 4:19Speaker 9: Look here, miss, you can't go walking by yourself on
- 4:22Speaker 9: the eats.
- 4:22Speaker 4: It ain't safe. Stick you can't stab without a frisen.
- 4:27Speaker 5: I want to be by myself. I want well.
- 4:31Speaker 9: I can't stop you by law, I suppose, but you
- 4:33Speaker 9: shouldn't do it.
- 4:36Speaker 5: I don't know how to.
- 4:36Speaker 9: Handle the modern young things. And that's a fact expected
- 4:43Speaker 9: a strata. He must have killed at the moment you
- 4:45Speaker 9: got out of my sight.
- 4:46Speaker 2: I searched the oldreaddy eat.
- 4:47Speaker 5: But I couldn't find the murderer, but did startle him.
- 4:49Speaker 2: He left his pipe with the body.
- 4:51Speaker 5: Good Jackson.
- 4:52Speaker 7: The body is not being identified yet, I ain't. No,
- 4:56Speaker 7: we'll print a photograph in all the papers. We've got
- 4:59Speaker 7: to find out who she is. Mister Bishop, is this
- 5:09Speaker 7: the body of your missing daughter?
- 5:12Speaker 8: Is it's Rowsy, my rows It's Pickils Drad. If I
- 5:16Speaker 8: ever lay my hands on the murdering feet, I'll kill him.
- 5:18Speaker 2: I'll kill him with my bare hand.
- 5:23Speaker 4: The sorry, mister Rones.
- 5:25Speaker 7: Rose Bishop was the tenth and last girl murdered.
- 5:30Speaker 5: Which was the first girl murdered? And when she was alone? Astride, Yes, sir,
- 5:34Speaker 5: you found no.
- 5:35Speaker 4: Clothes where none that proved anything when we checked on him.
- 5:38Speaker 5: Let me asked you a question at all, astride anything
- 5:40Speaker 5: you like, so take me obvious precautions. Of course, How
- 5:43Speaker 5: do you mean to post to the heavy police guard
- 5:44Speaker 5: on heath?
- 5:45Speaker 2: Why?
- 5:45Speaker 7: Yes, sir, you've had a hundred plain clothesmen walking there
- 5:49Speaker 7: at night ever since the second murder.
- 5:51Speaker 4: But he seems to slip through our fingers.
- 5:53Speaker 6: As suppose you also posted policemen dressed in women's clothes.
- 5:56Speaker 7: Yes, miss Roones, and we've had girls to walk, to
- 5:59Speaker 7: eat and cut with our plain closmen. But the murderer,
- 6:03Speaker 7: it won't seem to rise to our bait.
- 6:05Speaker 6: The cunning brute. Yes, here's Watson. Obviously, I'm morbid, madman,
- 6:09Speaker 6: obsessed by a hatred of love. You'll be hard to
- 6:11Speaker 6: catch the dad. You mentioned clues that amounted to nothing
- 6:14Speaker 6: when you check them.
- 6:15Speaker 5: What were these clues?
- 6:16Speaker 7: Well, footprints, a couple of cigarette butts dropped at the
- 6:20Speaker 7: scene of the crime. Nothing that helped us. The only
- 6:24Speaker 7: important clue was the knife. We founded the body of
- 6:27Speaker 7: Rose Bishop, the last.
- 6:29Speaker 5: Girl murder, because the experts of the yard examined.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Yes, sir didn't tell us a thing though, you got
- 6:34Speaker 4: a knife with you. Here it is, mister Holmes.
- 6:37Speaker 7: I knew you wouldn't trust us, you'd want to look
- 6:40Speaker 7: at each yourself.
- 6:41Speaker 6: Thank you, Lestrad. Yeah, mm hmm interesting, what is it home?
- 6:47Speaker 6: This knife is a collector's item. It's at least one
- 6:50Speaker 6: hundred years old, I should say, Nike Keepers of a Nightlestard,
- 6:52Speaker 6: I should like to conduct.
- 6:53Speaker 5: A few experiments my own.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Why of course, you claim, sir, and you are going
- 6:57Speaker 3: to take on the case home.
- 6:58Speaker 6: I'll let us say that, I'll take it under advise
- 7:00Speaker 6: and i'll do my best, less Chad, I'll do thanks.
- 7:03Speaker 6: If any further developments occur to communicating months below, yes, sir.
- 7:07Speaker 6: In the meanwhile, I'll smoke a few pipes on the problem.
- 7:09Speaker 6: But I promise nothing, my dear fellow, I promise absolutely nothing.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Three couple of morning home. You're still peering through your microscope.
- 7:33Speaker 2: But that knife was strug tru old chat.
- 7:35Speaker 6: That's quite true. I must be a very dull opinion.
- 7:38Speaker 6: Why don't you go to bed?
- 7:39Speaker 5: Oh?
- 7:39Speaker 3: Because I'm afraid I missed something confounded? Have you discovered only?
- 7:43Speaker 2: Yes?
- 7:44Speaker 5: I think so? Oh?
- 7:45Speaker 2: What?
- 7:45Speaker 6: The handle of this knife is corrugated on the underside.
- 7:49Speaker 6: I observed a slight diffusion in the markings under the
- 7:52Speaker 6: penetrating eye of the microscope. I found a new deposit
- 7:56Speaker 6: which had caused the diffusion. I have just analyzed that deposit.
- 8:00Speaker 6: It's wex colored, wax colored worx. Well, what does that
- 8:05Speaker 6: by itself? Very little? But when you can find it
- 8:08Speaker 6: for the Knight for definitely belongs to another century. It
- 8:10Speaker 6: does suggest a certain origin.
- 8:11Speaker 3: I've got an idea perhaps it came from the theater.
- 8:14Speaker 3: An eighteenth century dagger could belong in a period play,
- 8:18Speaker 3: and the colored wax might easily be part of an actor's.
- 8:20Speaker 6: Maker excellent direction, wats more thanks. However, my own theory
- 8:24Speaker 6: would be that this dagger came from a wax works exhibition.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Oh wrong again.
- 8:29Speaker 6: Putty is used in theatrical disguises, but I don't recall
- 8:32Speaker 6: the use of colored wax.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Whereas it is used in making wax and effiges, and
- 8:36Speaker 3: of course the dagger would belong.
- 8:38Speaker 6: As part of the costume precis see my diflo. It's
- 8:40Speaker 6: a long chance, but I think in the morning we'll
- 8:43Speaker 6: make a tour of the various London wax works exhibitions.
- 8:46Speaker 6: If my deduction is a false one, at least we'll
- 8:48Speaker 6: have the pleasure of a bustman's holiday. We can visit
- 8:50Speaker 6: all our old friends who died on the gallows.
- 9:06Speaker 5: Any child, chap a little?
- 9:08Speaker 2: Where is the fourth waxworks exhibition that we've been to?
- 9:11Speaker 5: The fourth and the last with hel to find any clues?
- 9:14Speaker 5: Here at the Vex Museum, we can return to Big Street.
- 9:17Speaker 3: Oh, thank heaven, this is our last portocoll. I'm so
- 9:20Speaker 3: dizzy from looking at waxworks that they begin.
- 9:22Speaker 2: To look like human beings to me.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Did you notice that I asked directions from the wax
- 9:27Speaker 3: policeman the entrance.
- 9:28Speaker 6: To Yes, how many people have been deceived in the
- 9:33Speaker 6: same way here we are?
- 9:37Speaker 2: Levek doesn't believe in understatement? Does he?
- 9:40Speaker 1: Look look into that.
- 9:41Speaker 5: Sign the Chamber of Horrors?
- 9:43Speaker 6: Come in and see the pageant of murder, all the
- 9:45Speaker 6: killers of history re enacting their famous crime as well.
- 9:49Speaker 5: It's qing Watson. We should feel thoroughly home.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Creepy in here, isn't it.
- 9:56Speaker 3: I've heard that mister levec who pay one hundred pounds
- 9:58Speaker 3: anyone who will spend all night alone in the Chamber
- 10:00Speaker 3: of Horror?
- 10:01Speaker 5: Yes, I've heard of that challenge too. Are you thinking
- 10:03Speaker 5: of accepting.
- 10:03Speaker 2: The best greats? I haven't spent a night here for
- 10:05Speaker 2: a thousand.
- 10:06Speaker 6: Very comprehensive collection of killers, aren't they? See WILLIAMS. Wainwright's
- 10:12Speaker 6: ah Lascionist de Bramfellier.
- 10:16Speaker 3: But Georgies, she was an attractive woman, runs she the stream
- 10:19Speaker 3: a pair of ankles over a scene.
- 10:21Speaker 6: Yes, but you wouldn't have liked her cooking Watson, she
- 10:25Speaker 6: used the most lethal condiments of almost any woman in history.
- 10:28Speaker 5: Hellll, what is it over there?
- 10:33Speaker 4: I was wondering when we'd come to twenty.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Your cases Doctor Grimsby Riot and the murdered Stoke Moran,
- 10:41Speaker 3: or the case of the Speckle Band by Joe Holmes.
- 10:44Speaker 2: The tablet's extraordinarialistic, isn't it here?
- 10:47Speaker 5: One of a lot of old friends of mine are
- 10:49Speaker 5: represented here.
- 10:50Speaker 6: She'd rather liked her a new acquaintance with the Ricoletti
- 10:53Speaker 6: of the club Foot and his abominable wife Ricoletti. I
- 10:55Speaker 6: don't remember him or one of my earlier cases, old fellow.
- 10:58Speaker 6: I'm to tell you that story sometimes.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Would off Holmes.
- 11:03Speaker 3: Look that veiled figure over read the packard in front.
- 11:06Speaker 6: Of it, the Hampstead Heath murderer. Oh, how very interesting.
- 11:12Speaker 2: The face is covered with a black veil.
- 11:14Speaker 6: There is this pure showman. I wonder what does Michele
- 11:16Speaker 6: le Beck no more than Scotland yard and die. Good
- 11:20Speaker 6: day to you, gentlemen, Scott Hugh startle miser. Are you
- 11:23Speaker 6: admiring my collection of murderers?
- 11:25Speaker 5: Miche le Beck.
- 11:26Speaker 8: Yes, sir, and haven't I the distinction of addressing mister
- 11:28Speaker 8: Sherlock Holmes.
- 11:29Speaker 5: This is my name, and this is my friend, doctor Watson.
- 11:31Speaker 2: How do you do?
- 11:31Speaker 4: How do you do?
- 11:32Speaker 2: Doctor?
- 11:33Speaker 8: I am greatly honored to meet you both. What do
- 11:35Speaker 8: you think of my chamber of horror?
- 11:37Speaker 6: He's very impressive. We're particularly interested in this veiled figure
- 11:41Speaker 6: of the Hampstead Heath murders.
- 11:43Speaker 3: Indeed, we answer, is the face behind beneath that veil?
- 11:47Speaker 8: I'll let you in on a trade secret, gentlemen, there
- 11:50Speaker 8: are no recognizable features behind that veil. This is purely
- 11:53Speaker 8: for publicity purposes. The public always expects to see the
- 11:56Speaker 8: latest horror is here, and I thought I titulate there more.
- 11:59Speaker 8: But let's buy by having a mysterious figure representing the killer.
- 12:03Speaker 8: Of course, if he is captured, I shall add his
- 12:05Speaker 8: effigy to my collection.
- 12:06Speaker 5: You think he will be captured, then one.
- 12:08Speaker 8: Can only speculate he's a clever man.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Miss Helen.
- 12:11Speaker 6: By the way, Missile bec does your offer of one
- 12:13Speaker 6: hundred pounds to anyone who will spend a night in
- 12:15Speaker 6: the Chamber of Horror still a whole good?
- 12:17Speaker 2: Yes?
- 12:17Speaker 5: Are you thinking of accepting the bet, mister Helen. No,
- 12:20Speaker 5: but Dr Watson would like to.
- 12:22Speaker 8: I don't recommend the experience, doctor, It's an ordeal that
- 12:25Speaker 8: calls for nerves of steel.
- 12:27Speaker 4: However, I shall be glad to.
- 12:29Speaker 2: Haven't the slightest of turt there.
- 12:30Speaker 6: Backing down now, of course you haven't, over bellow, What
- 12:32Speaker 6: time will my friend return?
- 12:33Speaker 8: About eleven thirty tonight. I'll be waiting for him at
- 12:36Speaker 8: the interest made. Come on, Watson, Holmes, are to day
- 12:39Speaker 8: missivec gooday, gentlemen, I shall be waiting for you tonight,
- 12:42Speaker 8: Doctor Holmes.
- 12:43Speaker 2: What the places do you think of doing?
- 12:44Speaker 4: I have the slightest intension of keeping that appointment tonight.
- 12:47Speaker 5: Well, of course you haven't. I shall keep it disguised
- 12:51Speaker 5: as you you.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Keep, hens sake, tell me what you're up to, hose
- 12:55Speaker 3: you didn't even mention that mister Jaggers.
- 12:57Speaker 5: Till bec no, because he knows something about the murderer.
- 13:00Speaker 5: I'm convinced of it.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Oh why do you say that?
- 13:02Speaker 6: As we were standing there talking to him, a breath
- 13:04Speaker 6: of hair from the open window blew back a corner
- 13:06Speaker 6: of the veil. I'll swear that there are clearly defined
- 13:10Speaker 6: features beneath it, and so.
- 13:11Speaker 2: You're going back there tonight to find out.
- 13:14Speaker 5: That's right, Old Phillop.
- 13:15Speaker 6: The superstitious used to believe they could use a waxen
- 13:18Speaker 6: image to kill a man. Tonight, Watson, we shall prove
- 13:20Speaker 6: that a waxen image can be used to trap a killer.
- 13:32Speaker 1: Doctor Watson will continue his story in just a second.
- 13:35Speaker 4: So I'm just going to remind you that there are lots.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Of ways to make good food taste better, but the
- 13:41Speaker 1: easiest way is to serve that food with a good wine,
- 13:44Speaker 1: a Petree wine. If you like a white wine with
- 13:48Speaker 1: chicken or with fish, you'll love that wonderful Petrie California
- 13:52Speaker 1: so Turned. If you like a red wine, then rich
- 13:56Speaker 1: hearty Petrie California Burgundy.
- 13:58Speaker 5: Is your wine.
- 13:59Speaker 1: But if you know which you prefer, why not try
- 14:02Speaker 1: them both, patri Burgundy and Patri So.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Turned Red and white.
- 14:07Speaker 4: Don't buy one by two, but always by.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Patrick Well, Doctor so Sherlock Holmes decided to disguise himself
- 14:16Speaker 1: as you and spend the night in the Chamber of
- 14:18Speaker 1: Hours mister Burteil.
- 14:19Speaker 2: After dinner that night, he began to.
- 14:21Speaker 3: Fly the makeup so Kelly to sit there in Vacon
- 14:24Speaker 3: Street and watch home slowly turning into a very convincing.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Replica of myself as he did. So we discussed last.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Watson, if I'm not that here by two o'clock, you'd
- 14:37Speaker 6: better come after me.
- 14:38Speaker 2: So then me can't wait outside of Fuller, just in
- 14:40Speaker 2: case it was into trouble.
- 14:41Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, you'd attract attention. By the way,
- 14:44Speaker 6: do you recall the name of the bast girl murdered.
- 14:46Speaker 5: On the heath?
- 14:48Speaker 2: Yes, Bishop Rose Bishop was the.
- 14:53Speaker 6: Only girl who was murdered. When she was unescorted. The
- 14:56Speaker 6: body was identified by heart of at home. Lec is
- 15:00Speaker 6: a French name, and yet the gentleman had a decidedly
- 15:02Speaker 6: English accent. I should say that he adopted a foreign
- 15:05Speaker 6: name as being more suited to his professional Now.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Don't see what you're driving it.
- 15:09Speaker 3: What's the connection between the Vec, the owner of the waxworks,
- 15:12Speaker 3: the father of Rose Bishop, the murdered girl.
- 15:14Speaker 6: Levec is the French word for Bishop Great Scott.
- 15:19Speaker 2: You think that he knows who the murder is.
- 15:20Speaker 6: And I know only one thing, batsman, I miss see
- 15:24Speaker 6: this beneath that black veil.
- 15:25Speaker 5: Now, now that's my disguys.
- 15:29Speaker 2: You look exactly like me. But how you manage about
- 15:33Speaker 2: the voice.
- 15:34Speaker 5: Well, those will be two difficult man for.
- 15:37Speaker 6: World Stan half what you say in your own case,
- 15:41Speaker 6: Old Chap, that's a handicapped and I've suffered.
- 15:43Speaker 2: For years rubbish. I'm perfectly until now.
- 15:46Speaker 6: To see the bullseye lantern. Yes, once, and I think
- 15:49Speaker 6: i'll borrow your revolver too. I probably won't need it,
- 15:52Speaker 6: but once I think it might be safer for me
- 15:54Speaker 6: to go on here homes are do be careful. I
- 15:57Speaker 6: will wat Chap, young body goodbye, and if I'm not
- 15:59Speaker 6: back by two o'clock, you better the waxworks and see
- 16:01Speaker 6: what's happened to me.
- 16:13Speaker 8: Doctor Watson, You don't mind if I search you?
- 16:17Speaker 5: Of course?
- 16:17Speaker 8: Not no lantern please. The moonlight will give you all
- 16:21Speaker 8: the illumination that you need. Dear me, a revolver in
- 16:24Speaker 8: your pocket. I'm afraid I can't allow that. Once before,
- 16:28Speaker 8: a young man who unwisely accepted my bet left bullet
- 16:31Speaker 8: holes in some of my finest waxworks before he finally
- 16:34Speaker 8: went raving.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Men.
- 16:38Speaker 8: Don't be frightened, doctor Watson. Many of the waxwork murderers
- 16:41Speaker 8: here are all friends of yours. They'll be good company.
- 16:44Speaker 8: I shall come and release you at eight in the morning.
- 16:50Speaker 8: I've sealed all the windows with string and wax. I
- 16:52Speaker 8: shall seal the door behind me as I leave.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Midnight.
- 16:57Speaker 8: The Betty Dame doctor you steal wish to go through
- 17:00Speaker 8: with it very well? Then I should leave you now.
- 17:05Speaker 8: Good night, doctor Watson, pleasant dream?
- 17:26Speaker 5: What's there?
- 17:27Speaker 8: Who?
- 17:28Speaker 5: Who's there? Smorner? Don't you think about the shadows? Him?
- 17:34Speaker 8: Here with me?
- 17:39Speaker 4: See the window?
- 17:41Speaker 5: What Scott's Watson?
- 17:44Speaker 4: Now? Before his time?
- 17:46Speaker 10: Well they got the seals on the string. Hope you
- 17:53Speaker 10: are right all right, buddy, But it's just as well.
- 17:58Speaker 10: You're getting a Latin and I took mine with him.
- 18:01Speaker 4: Come on in.
- 18:08Speaker 5: There, we'll over what.
- 18:11Speaker 4: I'm glad to see you, Watson. But what made you
- 18:14Speaker 4: decide to come here?
- 18:14Speaker 2: S a word? Why you left the start tap to
- 18:16Speaker 2: Vegg Street?
- 18:17Speaker 7: He told me there was another murder on the heath,
- 18:19Speaker 7: and at seven o'clock to night, another murderer.
- 18:21Speaker 5: I started worrying about your homes.
- 18:23Speaker 8: I had a premonition of impending danger, and I decided
- 18:25Speaker 8: to come over here.
- 18:26Speaker 2: You're you're not.
- 18:27Speaker 5: Angry with me, of course, not, my dear fellow.
- 18:29Speaker 10: I'm glad of your company, and I appreciate your concern.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Have you looked under the veil of the waxwork figure
- 18:34Speaker 2: of the hampstere Heath murdering.
- 18:35Speaker 5: Yet now it's just about too your lanon will be
- 18:37Speaker 5: most useful. Come on, Watson, Oh what have you been doing?
- 18:41Speaker 2: Just do just doing nothing.
- 18:43Speaker 6: As I wanted to give an impression that I was
- 18:45Speaker 6: here for the night, and I also wanted to do
- 18:47Speaker 6: some serious thinking.
- 18:48Speaker 5: I smoked two pipes from the.
- 18:49Speaker 6: Problem Watson, and I think I know the answer. Now
- 18:52Speaker 6: I'm willing to swear you'll know the face you see
- 18:54Speaker 6: you when I lift the veil from the wax and dummy.
- 18:57Speaker 6: Here's a figure now, a lantern middle high Jim, that's it,
- 19:02Speaker 6: I left the veil land or do we see, good lord.
- 19:05Speaker 2: It's the waxwork figure of levec.
- 19:07Speaker 6: Himself, precisely, Watson, an non paralleled example of the self
- 19:11Speaker 6: portrayal inherent in criminal egotism that Beck couldn't resist.
- 19:15Speaker 2: The homes The waxwork is moving.
- 19:17Speaker 8: It's it's larst gentlemen, which is more than either of
- 19:21Speaker 8: you will be in a few minutes.
- 19:23Speaker 5: You re entered this from by secret doors.
- 19:24Speaker 8: Both gets me to Holmes, and since you've displayed such
- 19:27Speaker 8: a flattering interest in the Hampstead Heath murderer. I decided
- 19:30Speaker 8: to remove the wax figure and appear in person.
- 19:32Speaker 2: Got homes, you got a revolver?
- 19:33Speaker 8: No, no, no, doctor, this isn't a revolver in my pocket.
- 19:36Speaker 8: What would the Hampstead Heath murderer want with the revolver?
- 19:39Speaker 2: This is a knife.
- 19:41Speaker 8: I feel so much more at home with a knife.
- 19:43Speaker 8: There are two of us, remember that, and both unarmed.
- 19:46Speaker 8: Which one of you met ers wants to die?
- 19:47Speaker 5: Fact Homes watch.
- 19:52Speaker 8: The lancence fash yes, and the moon's stating what a
- 19:55Speaker 8: pity homes.
- 19:57Speaker 6: Over here by the ee macbeth, I'm very thoughtful of
- 19:59Speaker 6: you to provide him.
- 20:00Speaker 8: With a dagger effect. I wouldn't run, my dear, Homes.
- 20:03Speaker 8: You can't escape me. I can feel my way in
- 20:05Speaker 8: the dark here. I know every inch of this room.
- 20:08Speaker 8: You're doomed.
- 20:09Speaker 5: Both of you.
- 20:10Speaker 3: Don't struck a match, Holmes, You'll make a target of
- 20:12Speaker 3: yourself devil.
- 20:13Speaker 5: With that, I'm letting this newspaper. I will make an
- 20:15Speaker 5: excellent torch to set the light to the nearest waxworth.
- 20:17Speaker 4: Well, now, don't burn my wax what.
- 20:20Speaker 5: Wax? And I wouldn't frame that plays brilliantly there we are.
- 20:24Speaker 4: Oh, you devil, you're just trying my life's worth.
- 20:27Speaker 3: Homes are running, wax is pouring all over the floor,
- 20:29Speaker 3: the curtains are touching light the whole placeful bundle.
- 20:33Speaker 5: I doota will do dear?
- 20:35Speaker 2: I thought this would smoked you up quick?
- 20:37Speaker 4: What's not even again?
- 20:38Speaker 2: What's a knife? Arms?
- 20:51Speaker 5: Will?
- 20:52Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, you've done it again. You solve the case
- 20:55Speaker 7: in a blaze and glory. Get the points a blaze
- 21:01Speaker 7: of glory?
- 21:02Speaker 5: Yes, strad I get fine, Thank you very much as
- 21:04Speaker 5: that marmalade.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Will you want some homes? Is that the morning paper
- 21:07Speaker 2: you brought with you? Then?
- 21:09Speaker 5: Yes, doctor, want me to read you the adminis yes, please.
- 21:14Speaker 7: M steady murderer captured in fire that destroys Wexworth exhibition.
- 21:20Speaker 7: You know, mister Romees, you and doctor were lucky you
- 21:23Speaker 7: went burned to death. Never mind the chance you ran
- 21:26Speaker 7: of having your throat cut by that from maniac.
- 21:28Speaker 6: I was fortunate that the the police and farman were
- 21:30Speaker 6: on the scene as quick as they were, that they
- 21:32Speaker 6: kept the strength of ten men.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Yes, the strength of a madman. You'll never u stand trial, of.
- 21:36Speaker 7: Course, no, doctor, He'll end up in an asylum.
- 21:40Speaker 4: Weary belongs. Mister Roones, what made you suspect levic?
- 21:45Speaker 6: You first came in there to yourself for stard You
- 21:49Speaker 6: told me that all the murdered girls were accompanied by
- 21:51Speaker 6: men when they were attacked, all of them save one
- 21:53Speaker 6: Rose Bishop.
- 21:55Speaker 5: Therefore, if the.
- 21:55Speaker 6: Murderer was then hated of love, he had to be
- 21:59Speaker 6: someone bit it close to Rose Bishop to know that he.
- 22:02Speaker 5: Was a suitable victim. That point alone, which I was shocking.
- 22:05Speaker 6: The slowan observing should have told us to focus our
- 22:07Speaker 6: attention on the father, mister Bishop.
- 22:09Speaker 7: He yes, well, your theory was certainly right. Mister Romes,
- 22:14Speaker 7: you should divert his ravings. After the arrest, East wore
- 22:18Speaker 7: his daughter had been ruined, and so he'd killed a tomsy.
- 22:21Speaker 2: The waxwork figure of the killer, the one with a
- 22:23Speaker 2: veil o rich face.
- 22:24Speaker 3: The features underneath were those of the Leveque himself, wasn't there.
- 22:28Speaker 5: I'm certain of it, old fellow.
- 22:30Speaker 6: You see he had two great prides, the first his
- 22:32Speaker 6: natural pride as a fine craftsman in wax, the second
- 22:36Speaker 6: his perverted pride as a prominent and successful murderer.
- 22:39Speaker 5: These two brides combined.
- 22:41Speaker 6: Suggested to his praised mind, you make a waxwork figure
- 22:44Speaker 6: of himself and range it by the other great killers
- 22:46Speaker 6: of history.
- 22:47Speaker 3: But he was cunning enough to protect himself by placing.
- 22:49Speaker 5: A veil over the face, my dear fellow.
- 22:52Speaker 6: And when he saw us yesterday and we accepted the wager,
- 22:54Speaker 6: he undobtedly became suspicious and removed the wax figure last
- 22:57Speaker 6: night and made his personal appearance as the murder, with
- 23:00Speaker 6: every intention of killing us both.
- 23:03Speaker 5: Yes, we were very lucky, Old chap Hey.
- 23:05Speaker 4: If you ask me, mister Elmes, you've been very smart,
- 23:08Speaker 4: I quite.
- 23:08Speaker 2: Agree to stir and I think you solved the case brilliantly.
- 23:11Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no, I've been very staggish.
- 23:12Speaker 6: I solved my circumstance and melodrama what should have been
- 23:16Speaker 6: a purely intellectual problem.
- 23:17Speaker 5: I'm not pleased with myself, John.
- 23:19Speaker 4: I hope that my name has not been used.
- 23:21Speaker 6: In that newspaper report. No, it hasn't excellent. I want
- 23:24Speaker 6: no credit in this case.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Do you mean to say you can let scotland Yard
- 23:27Speaker 3: get the praise for catching him home?
- 23:28Speaker 5: Why not?
- 23:29Speaker 7: That's very generous of you, mister Elmesy, it'll make things
- 23:33Speaker 7: a lot easier for me.
- 23:35Speaker 2: Is it certainly?
- 23:35Speaker 4: Well?
- 23:36Speaker 2: Holmes. I can't see why you reproach yourself because my dear.
- 23:39Speaker 6: Watson, like the Hampsteadieth murderer, I too have my pride
- 23:43Speaker 6: as a craftsman. This case had a clearly defined pattern,
- 23:46Speaker 6: and I was unable to recognize it. If you should
- 23:49Speaker 6: have occasion to chronicle this story, Watson and I should
- 23:51Speaker 6: prefer that you didn't. I I would like you to
- 23:53Speaker 6: entitle it the education of an idiot.
- 23:56Speaker 2: Oh Kamla Holmes, education of an idiot.
- 24:00Speaker 6: That's absurd, I know, but if you do tell this story,
- 24:05Speaker 6: it'll probably end up as a strange case of the
- 24:08Speaker 6: murderer in wax