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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Frightened Bookkeeper Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, just what was the frightened bookkeeper
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: afraid of?
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  Speaker 2: This story, mister Harris begins shortly after nine in the
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  Speaker 2: morning on Lombard Street. The customary swarm of office workers
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: was dashing about, but no one was hurrying quite as
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  Speaker 2: quickly as our bookkeeper, mister Humphrey Littleton. He scurried across
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  Speaker 2: the street like a startled rabbit and ran into the overseas.
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  Speaker 2: Back he raced across the marble flaws to his cubital
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  Speaker 2: in a park corner. There he hastened to hang his
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  Speaker 2: coat on a hook and wipe his perspiring brow. Then
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  Speaker 2: he mounted his toes tools and opened a huge lender.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Littleton, Yes, mister Mason, I presume you realize that
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  Speaker 2: you are late. Yes, mister Mason, I'm terribly sorry to
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  Speaker 2: beat precise mister Littleton. You are eighteen minutes late. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, mister Littleton, this is the first time in
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  Speaker 2: twenty one year that you have been late. That is correct, instimation.
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  Speaker 2: The bank is shut. I know, sir. I presume there
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  Speaker 2: is some reasonable explanation for this some pastionist parents. There is, sir.
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  Speaker 2: It's the bill. What ben if you step to the
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  Speaker 2: window with me, sir, then I can explain the window please,
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  Speaker 2: Oh very well, now, sir, if you look across the
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  Speaker 2: way of the crowd in front of the Merchant's building,
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  Speaker 2: what of it? It's the old bell, the bill on
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  Speaker 2: top of the building. It didn't ring this morning, the
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  Speaker 2: first time in years. And what concern is it of
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  Speaker 2: yours when you see this? The bason I always stopped
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  Speaker 2: for my breakfast down the street. I always tie myself
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  Speaker 2: by listening to the bell. But it didn't ring this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why I was late. We missed. Oh I say,
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  Speaker 2: what on earth have those policemen doing? It appears as
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  Speaker 2: though they are carrying something, doesn't it. It's a man.
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  Speaker 3: They're carrying someone out of the building on a stretcher.
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  Speaker 2: An accident, no doubt. Oh see they're covering his face
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  Speaker 2: with the blanket. He must be dead, indedn't they have
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  Speaker 2: inspected Lestrada, Cottle and yard out there? I have never
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  Speaker 2: met the gym of it is. He's coming into the
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  Speaker 2: bank now you should see what what and who's been killed? Mister? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: miss may I present Inspector Lestrade Scotland John, happy to
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  Speaker 2: make your acquaintance Inspector, how do you do, mister Lytton?
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  Speaker 2: You were late this morning because the bell on the
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  Speaker 2: top of the Merchants building failed to strike the hour
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  Speaker 2: of nine. Yes, Inspected Lestrade informs me that the bell
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  Speaker 2: did not strike because something had fallen into the mechanisms.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what it was? I hadn't noticed. It
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  Speaker 2: was a dead body. It was the body of the
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  Speaker 2: mister Henry Bennett. Henry Mister Bennett was murdered. You committed
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  Speaker 2: the murder, mister little You were late because you did
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  Speaker 2: not simply stop for breakfast. You also stopped to do
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  Speaker 2: away with Henry Bennett. I'm belittled and no.
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  Speaker 3: No I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You can't arrest me give or, Inspector. Thank you the
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  Speaker 2: gun there? I have the gun. Now out of my
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  Speaker 2: way about.
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  Speaker 3: If you haven't a chance, Littleton, we'll find I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Think so, Inspector. I'll take my course. If you don't mind,
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  Speaker 2: don't call to your man. I can still see you
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  Speaker 2: very well.
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  Speaker 3: If you budge or say a word, I shall kill you.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought he had it in mister.
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  Speaker 3: Now we'll have to search all London for the rascal.
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  Speaker 2: Stop that man, Stop him, I say, am off I'll
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  Speaker 2: answered homes the morning. The mornings, Well, that's hard. What
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  Speaker 2: information you wished to impart aside from the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you've found a cadaver in a small, inaccessible area, that
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  Speaker 2: you've lost a prisoner, and that you're desperately anxious to
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  Speaker 2: discuss the case homes? The inspector's hardly said a word.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know what this is all about? He's
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  Speaker 2: hardly said a word, my dear Watson, but his appearance
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  Speaker 2: is most eloquent, is.
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  Speaker 3: It, mister Holmes?
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  Speaker 2: You've dust on the knees of your trousers and the
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  Speaker 2: elbows of your coat, indicating clearly that you've been squirming
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  Speaker 2: about in an area that's fairly accessible. You on the corpse,
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  Speaker 2: since a considerable number of woolen threads are on your jacket.
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  Speaker 2: They are the distinctive colored threads found on the blankets
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  Speaker 2: used by the coroner when placing dead bodies in his wagons. Markably,
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  Speaker 2: your confection is livid, and your breathmits you have therefore
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  Speaker 2: been running, surely not in haste to pay us a
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  Speaker 2: social call, rather than I should say, in pursuit of someone,
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  Speaker 2: and the manner in which you're nervous it singling your
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  Speaker 2: notebook inspector can only signify that you are impatient to
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  Speaker 2: disgust the case prediscuss it.
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  Speaker 4: Then, understand, mister Home, I'm telling you this because you
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  Speaker 4: have been somewhat helpful on previous occasions, a masterpiece of understand.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not asking your assistance, It's just if you.
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  Speaker 4: Should come across anything that you'll be brought to by attention. Now,
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  Speaker 4: then our information is fragmentary, the hepsimy and delicious. We've
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  Speaker 4: found a corpse lying across the mechanism of the gigantic
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  Speaker 4: bell on top of the Merchant's building.
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  Speaker 2: On Lombard Street. Who was the dead man?
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  Speaker 3: A mister Henry Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: Bennett Bennett, Yes, I have a card on him. Who
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  Speaker 2: is it Home or a petty thief? Tiresome record of
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  Speaker 2: criminal trivial and served a few short prison terms bit
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  Speaker 2: of flotsam on the sea of a London underworld. Then
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  Speaker 2: its skull was split open.
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  Speaker 4: We found the weapon, but the walking stick with a
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  Speaker 4: cast iron tops of walking stick. We couldn't have them
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  Speaker 4: where it came from, but a girl in the crowd
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  Speaker 4: recognized this. He's the secretary of the Overseas Bank. Tocross
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  Speaker 4: the way. The bank had presented the walking stick to
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  Speaker 4: one of its bookkeepers, a memento of twenty years service
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  Speaker 4: and the bookkeeper's name, Humphrey Littleton.
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  Speaker 2: Find anything out here.
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  Speaker 4: There's a letter on the body, obviously a blackmail note
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  Speaker 4: addressed to Humphrey Littleton.
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  Speaker 2: For the note reads U.
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  Speaker 4: It said, merchants buildings Tuesday mornings, bring usual payments.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure you keep mums.
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  Speaker 4: The scrawled in pencil wasn't signed, of course, any eyewitness.
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  Speaker 4: Two of his fellow employees saw Littleton.
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  Speaker 2: Leave the merchant's building. You then crossed the streets and
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  Speaker 2: entered the bank and attempted to arrest Humphrey Littleton, but
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  Speaker 2: he the sticks am I correctness from a.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Holmes, he banished.
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  Speaker 4: He took, got guns from the cashier's door, forced his
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  Speaker 4: way past us. Evidently the little bookkeeper was tired of
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  Speaker 4: being blackmailed by Bennett, so he did away with him.
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  Speaker 2: As but the house dies. The body get into.
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  Speaker 3: The mechanism of the bell instead of the down.
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  Speaker 4: Little had met his man in the building this morning,
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  Speaker 4: struck him on the head, killing him. Instantly dragged the
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  Speaker 4: body to the roof. He intended to push it off,
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  Speaker 4: so we'd believe Bennett and fallen or committed suicide. And
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  Speaker 4: that's all very well, but you still coming to.
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  Speaker 2: That, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: The killer must have been startled by.
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  Speaker 4: A noise and believed he was about to be caught
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  Speaker 4: seen by someone on the roof a chimney, sweet fat
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  Speaker 4: as a trap door on.
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  Speaker 2: The roof at least the bell.
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  Speaker 4: Littleman must have dropped him there when he became afraid,
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  Speaker 4: lest he wouldn't have time to push him off the roof.
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  Speaker 2: Anything further you wish to stay for stan Oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: now I must be offered. I don't suppose you'll have
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  Speaker 2: occasion to.
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  Speaker 4: Do so, mister Holmes, but if you should come across
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  Speaker 4: the crew as the whereabout of Littleton, you might tell
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  Speaker 4: the odds.
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  Speaker 2: The's time I need the solution of this case entirely
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  Speaker 2: in your capable hand.
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  Speaker 3: It will rest well there, mister hum.
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  Speaker 2: I've no doubt last time, Good morning, good morning, Well
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  Speaker 2: confounded homes. You're not just going to sit there while
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: Inspector's drums steals the march on you a bit of it,
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  Speaker 2: my dear Watson. I'm merely giving him time to leave,
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  Speaker 2: the moment he sufficiently far away, We're off to the
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  Speaker 2: overseas bank. We shall see if we come to locate
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  Speaker 2: mister Humphrey Littleton, the frightened bookkeeper. Perhaps we may shake
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  Speaker 2: the saws on the tail of this bird who's flown
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  Speaker 2: the cage. This is the photograph of mister Littleton, mister
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  Speaker 2: Holmes from mars Field as Math, and this is a
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  Speaker 2: cage where he works. Yes, Doc Watson, I said, Holmes,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing crawling about on the floor. Mister
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  Speaker 2: Mason when he made his escape, you say, he sees
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  Speaker 2: the revolver from the drawer, then his coat hanging on
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  Speaker 2: that hook, then left the bank exactly. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how an earthy lever be found in all of London.
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  Speaker 2: Ah hah. Hunting home. This pink pill it roll under
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  Speaker 2: the desk, and this microscopic bit of green paper. Note
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  Speaker 2: the geometric design of the paper. Both items are most
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  Speaker 2: informative green papers. That copy of the Evening Star on
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  Speaker 2: the death Watson, Oh wirst you find a pill and
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  Speaker 2: then you want to read the newspaper? What are you
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  Speaker 2: up to the homes? Huh there we are this page.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, excellent, Come Watson, mister Mason. We shall have
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  Speaker 2: the killer in a jiffish, but no time, no time.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Mason, Yes, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Where we are to homes Victoria Station as quickly as
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  Speaker 2: a campbell carriers sons? Why may I ask the cause,
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  Speaker 2: my dear Watson. It's there we shall find mister Humphrey Littleton.
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  Speaker 2: If they're not too late. We shall find him with
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  Speaker 2: the aid of this pink pill and the geometrically designed
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  Speaker 2: speck of green paper. The most fortunate Watson. The train
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  Speaker 2: mister Littleton has chosen for his departure to the continent
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  Speaker 2: is still here in the station. Come on, I searched
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  Speaker 2: his tickets for us. We was caught it. What train?
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  Speaker 2: How do you know all this? The answer is the
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  Speaker 2: pink pill I'd have scovered in his cage at the bank.
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  Speaker 2: I recognize it immediately. Its mate is missing. The pink
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  Speaker 2: pill and the brown pill ingredients a form of utile
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  Speaker 2: alcohols higher seene, bromide and caffeine, more commonly known as
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  Speaker 2: sea sick pills. I see the pill pails from Littleton's
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  Speaker 2: pocket when he lifted his coat from the hook pill
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  Speaker 2: by George. He was preparing for a sea voyage. Positively
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  Speaker 2: brilliant by dear Watson, yes, our bookkeeper was prepared to
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  Speaker 2: boast from the clutches of his blackmailer to abandon his
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  Speaker 2: position at the bank. He was preparing for sea voyage,
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  Speaker 2: timid soul that he is by securing pills.
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  Speaker 3: Mis Kate Watson, all right, but why did you read
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  Speaker 3: the Evening.
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  Speaker 2: Star to Adamone? The channel section got a single passengership
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  Speaker 2: sails today for a par off pot that are simply
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  Speaker 2: the regular daily sailing across the channel to front. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: I had to fortify this clue with more tangible evidence.
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  Speaker 2: The particle of green paper easily identifiable. It was a
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  Speaker 2: familiar green paper utilized for the printing of railway tickets.
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  Speaker 2: As for the neat pattern of it, it was definitely
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  Speaker 2: the portion punched out by the ticket seller. The railways
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  Speaker 2: maintain an infallible system of tracing those punch marks. What
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  Speaker 2: each punch has a peculiar design of its own. I
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  Speaker 2: was quite correct in surmising that Littleton was headed across
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  Speaker 2: the channels via Victoria Station his tickets for the train
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  Speaker 2: to Dover. The train we're about to board, Choey of
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  Speaker 2: this compartment, said the agent said, I say, Holmes, do
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  Speaker 2: you expect the killer in this compartment. Yes, I realize
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  Speaker 2: it emply now, but he'll arrived most assured. Day. All right,
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  Speaker 2: step in? What you step in? Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the bye.
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  Speaker 2: While I was waiting at the gate, eye glances at
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  Speaker 2: the newspaper Homes, there's a night of about this crime.
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  Speaker 2: The eminent counselor mister Fencer's Ridgeway, upon being informed of it,
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  Speaker 2: has volunteered to defend litism without a fee. Really, you
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  Speaker 2: know this is an extremely dangerous method of dealing with
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  Speaker 2: the killer. Homes were leaving and he isn't the board.
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  Speaker 2: You must have made an error in your deduction. Impossible.
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  Speaker 2: We're moving, Yes, and someone's out there trying to jump
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  Speaker 2: on open the door up.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I thought i'd never make it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Are you gentlemen going to Dova, Yes? And you
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  Speaker 2: to dover the the tennel Steama, well ell. Since we
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: have the journey of two hours together, perhaps we should
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  Speaker 2: introduce ourselves. This is doctor John Watson. How do you know?
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  Speaker 2: My name is shummuck Home? What is your name, sir?
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  Speaker 2: What is your name? Time? Bucky George Buck? I beg
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  Speaker 2: your pardon. Your name is Humpter Littleton and you want
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  Speaker 2: it in London for committing murders.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Dr Watson, mister Holmes is brazenly inviting disaster in
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  Speaker 1: challenging the arm killer, wasn't he?
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  Speaker 3: He certainly love as dead headed.
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  Speaker 2: But at this point I've an invitation for you concerning
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: a much more pleasant topic. Won't you tell us more
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: about Clippercraft clothes. Well, I accept the invitation gladly. Doctor.
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  Speaker 1: One of these days, you're going to walk into the
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  Speaker 1: Clippercrafts store in your community and walk out wearing a
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: happy smile and a handsome suit by Clippercraft. You'll pay
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  Speaker 1: only forty or forty seven fifty, depending on your choice,
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  Speaker 1: but you'll deserve all the admiration your friends will voice,
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  Speaker 1: because yours will be an investment in one of America's
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  Speaker 1: greatest clothing values. Yes, Clippercraft is just about the finest
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: clothing value America can offer you. You see, more than
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: twelve hundred fine stores from coast to coast have concentrated
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: their enormous buying power to really put the brakes on
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: your high cost of living. Why it's clearest daylight that
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: a project of Clippercraft's code keeps Clippercraft's great tailoring plants
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  Speaker 1: operating at full speed the full year round, you get
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  Speaker 1: the savings that money saving plan makes possible. Yes, Clippercraft
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  Speaker 1: suits are phenomenal values at only forty and forty seven fifty.
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  Speaker 1: That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes.
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  Speaker 1: So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
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  Speaker 1: your city.
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  Speaker 5: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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  Speaker 5: add their names to Clippercraft and your suits, top coats
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  Speaker 5: and sports jackets. In Manhattan, John wanna make Amend's Stores
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  Speaker 5: Broadway at eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street, Sacks, thirty
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  Speaker 5: fourth Broadway at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss
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  Speaker 5: in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop, Presley Ewarck, And
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  Speaker 5: in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty
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  Speaker 5: four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Now shall we return to the frightened booking on as heircraft.
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  Speaker 2: We can't return to that train fast enough for me,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Watson. Well, you remember that Holmes and I were
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  Speaker 2: in the compartment of the Dover train face to face
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  Speaker 2: with Humphrey Littleton, the murderer. Holmes had just identified him.
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  Speaker 2: What makes you think that I'm Littleton because you answer
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  Speaker 2: one question, Sir, would you leave this train and return
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  Speaker 2: to London in our custerday or do you choose to
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  Speaker 2: be stubborn. I'll not return to London. I'll take better barber.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Littleton, you'll not take me back? I repeat, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're behaving like an idiot. London's most brilliant criminal attorney,
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  Speaker 2: mister Francis Bridgeway, has announced he will defend you greatest.
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  Speaker 2: He has never lost the case. You've an excellent chance. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: I won't. I won't. Oh, don't be silly man. You've
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  Speaker 2: no possible avenue of his cape. Scott and Yard are
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  Speaker 2: surely telegraphed the French surinity. I'm waiting, mister Littleton. Once
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  Speaker 2: I saw rendered to you, I'm finished. I'd rather kill
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  Speaker 2: both of you. Once you're out of the way, I
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  Speaker 2: can jump off the train. Then what dashing from village
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  Speaker 2: to village? How long can you hide out on the
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  Speaker 2: downs like a stricken an? You shunt swad. My mind
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  Speaker 2: is made up. I'll take my chances very well. You
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  Speaker 2: insist him. He missed. It's gone and I haven't home.
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  Speaker 2: I regret the necessity of using my hunting crop on
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  Speaker 2: your hand, mister Biddleton, but you are rather obstinate. I
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: shall stop the training. We shall return to London. Then
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I shall have the pleasure of turning you over to
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: inspect a mistrand as a gift with the compliments of
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: mister Shellock hone while homes the morning newspaper say that
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  Speaker 2: Littleton is safely locked in prison, I must say, you
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: handle that case with a dnasing speed. I've hardly even
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  Speaker 2: a time to catch my breath, and it's over. It's
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: not over.
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  Speaker 3: What what do you mean it isn't over?
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I'd say from the moment the murder was committed. Events
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: moved with a relentless logic and hardly employedabord logic, my
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  Speaker 2: dear wants. And that's what disturbs me. So hurry finish
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: your breakfast. We're after the merchants buildings. But why to
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: visit mister Francis Ridgeway Council for Littleton's defense? Why to
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: ascertain how he plans to defend the bookkeeper. But it
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: should be a simple, speedy trial, shouldn't it.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps I'm delighted that you've dropped in here to my office,
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  Speaker 6: mister Holmes and doctor Watts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you as the Ridgway. It is an incredibly
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  Speaker 2: exclusive office. Those draperies, magnificent drugs, most striking, don't you agree, Holmes? Yes, yes, quite.
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  Speaker 2: May I ask mister Ridgway what sort of defense you
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  Speaker 2: plan for Humphy Littleton.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there isn't a scrap of evidence on his behalf,
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  Speaker 6: mister Holmes, and he admits he was being blackmailed by
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  Speaker 6: the dead man. You see, Littleton once needed money desperately
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: for his wife, who with ill. He took some from
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: the bank and juggled his books to cover up. Bennett
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: knew about it, but Littleton denies committing the murder, said
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  Speaker 6: he was never on the roof of the merchant's buildings,
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  Speaker 6: said his walking stick was stolen from his platt. No
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  Speaker 6: one will believe him. I'm afraid. I don't suppose you've
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: learned anything that would help me, have you?
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: No, I had not to make matters worse. He bought
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: that ticket to France.
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  Speaker 6: He claimed he wanted to chuck his position and run
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: away just to avoid the blackmailer, but the jury will
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: interpret it as a plan for escaping after committing murder.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Oh I saw painters tarring a picture as I can
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: of the miserable creature hounded by a petty thief. He
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: he became fed up. That's about all.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I shall fight every inch of the way. But confidentially,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: this may be the first case I've ever learnt.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: It's true. In the morning, homes, where the dickens have
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you been? I couldn't wait for you to return from
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: a hospital, Watson. My mission was urgent, he is, But
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: where were you? I've been searching for evidence that might
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: interest was the ridgeway or did you go on this
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: urgent mission carrying that pair of shoes under your arm?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I did not start out on the mission that way. No, really,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: you do perform the most extraordinary antics. Why the trial
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: begins tomorrow? You mean you've got something that might ac
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: quit the bookkeeper, the grim fascination of a trial for homicide,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: watching because the results as unpredictable.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Light til the car.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Here you are held two seats. There's littles in the docks,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and fences which were in the park corner. The talk
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: of your size about to me the indictment of the journey.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Gentlemen of the Jewey. The prisoner at the bar, Humphrey
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: little Ton is indicted, and the charge against him is murdered.
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: Upon this indictment, he has been arranged. Upon his arraignment,
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: he has pleaded that he is not guilty, and has
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: put himself upon his country. Which country you are, It
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: is for you to inquire whether he be guilty or not,
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: and to hearken to the evidence the Crown God is.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: On the morning of July nineteenth, Henry.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Bennett was ruthlessly attacked and died instantaneously when he was
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: struck upoun the skull.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Mister Fancis Ridgeway, Mister Holmes, what is the reason for
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: these disturbance? May peace, your lordship. Gentlemen of the jury,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Henry Bennett was not murdered by Humphy Littleton, the prisoner
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: in the dock, but by mister Francis Bridgeway, Council for
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the Defense, May peace, your lordship.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: I do not know why mister Holmes has chosen to
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: interject this fantastical.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Mister w Mi lord, you have, on many previous occasions
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: made a substantial contribution to the inportment of law and honor.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Will entertain I protest your logic, homes, tell them, tell
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: them I didn't do it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I didn't God help me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't know the court will in to pain the
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: statement by mister Thurler. Come, mister Ridgway. It originally struck
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: me as curious that the council possessing your perfect record
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: should volunteer for a case so obviously doomed to defeat.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Could it have been that you wanted to have the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: case because you wanted to lose it? Idle speculation. I
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: visited your office to develop my theory, Doctor Watson. Admired
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: your draperies, but I noticed a black spot on your rug.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It was tar. Although you may have vigorously cleaned the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: remainder of your office, you neglected to remove that once Beckon,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: for go on, homes go on. Where did the tar
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: come from, mister Ridgway. Well, the murder was committed on
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: an extremely hot day on the roof of the merchants building.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: The tar melted, it came off on your shoes. After
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: killing Bennett on the roof, you returned to your office,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: soiling your rug. Preposterous conjecture on your path. Last night,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I was on the roof of the Merchant's building. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: made plaster crusts at the killer's footprints. I then paid
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a midnight visit to your deserted office, mister Ridgeway, I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: found a pair of your shoes in a closet the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: class which I'm prepared to submit his evidence match your
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: foot prints perfectly inconclusive evidence, utterly inconclusive. In addition, in addition,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I took a sample of a tar from that same
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: roof and compared it with a sample from the tar
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: on your rug. I have here a report based on
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: experimentation at home to the affected. Both samples matched perfectly
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: in chemical content. Proof. I demand proof, sir, that I
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: actually committed the murder, and you shall have it. There
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: is a young gentleman waiting outside at my request. His
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: name is Bob Dexter. What is most important about this
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: young gentleman, however, is not his name. It is his occupation,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: mister Dexter, is a chimney sweep. My friend in spector
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: of Strade thesis was correct. There was a noise that
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: startled the killer. It was a chimney sweek you now,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: in a moment, my lord, I made inquiries. I found
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: this young gentleman his home and set me. I persuaded
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: him that accepting your bribes to keep silent, mister Ridgway
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: was a disgraceful crime. He is prepared to testify that
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: he overheard your angry conversation with Bennett upon the roof
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: mister her what conversation, mid Odd? The conversation revealed that
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: while Bennett was in prison, he secured information from his
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: fellow prisoners. From your victims, mister Ridgeway, your dukes who
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: served while your clients was cut free once released. Bennett's
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: patiently gathered canceled checks, no photographs, overwhelming evidence upon your career.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Your brilliant career was founded upon a tissue of lives,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: primary forgery, coercions. You invited Bennett to the building to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: purchase his collection, but you killed him with Littleton's walking sticks,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: with Jude stolen. To be sure, the evidence pointed to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the Helplet bookkeeper. Now shall we call mister Dexter who
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: saw you do away with Bennette Matt Please, your lordship,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I should like to make a request, okie, mister Ridgeway.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I moved that the indictment against mister Humphrey Littleton was
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: stricken from the record and a new indictment be drawn
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: up by the grand jury charging the murder of Henry Bennett.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Mister Francis Ridgeway by Jeromes, Now that you're relexed in
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: your chair with your pipe, you must take the time
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: to tell me precisely what did happen on the morning
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of the murder.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I confess I'm still a bit puzzled, and.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: It's painfully obvious. Watson Bennett was blackmailing both the bookkeeper
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: and the Bridgeway. Ridgeway knew it, Littleton didn't. Ridgeway sent
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a message to the bookkeeper enticing him to the merchant's
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: building that morning. He'd previously stolen.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: The walking stick, I say, but.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Before the bookkeeper was due to arrive, Ridgeway killed Bennett
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: with Lilyttleton's walking sticks. Then Littleton came along innocently announced,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: expecting me only to make his regular insignificant con payment
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to Bennett. He saw a crowd, became frightened, and dashed
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: off to work at the bank. When I'm still amazed
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: at how you arrived at the proper solution, confounded Homes,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: how do you do these things? Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Questor doctor Watson, the case of the frightened bookkeeper was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: really very surprising. I'm sure you've an equally startling adventure
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: plan for next week as the hell as I have.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: It's called the Adventure of the Guy Fawk Society, a
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: secret count whose membership consisted entirely of phonetics, devoted to
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: one of the most horrible purposes imaginable. Of course, nothing
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: on earth could keep Holmes from joining the society. Well,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: doctor Watson, we shall be standing impatiently at the door
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: of your study next week for the Adventure of the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Guy Fox