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- 0:13Speaker 1: Crammel hair tonic and Cremel shampoo. Because then the New
- 0:16Speaker 1: Adventures of Shellock Holmes starring Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson
- 0:20Speaker 1: and Tom Conway as Shellock Holmes. Well, once again it's
- 0:30Speaker 1: Monday night and time to keep that weekly date with
- 0:32Speaker 1: our good friend and host, Doctor Watson. That's John Sallie
- 0:36Speaker 1: believing doctor Watch.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Believe me, mister Burrow drew off your usual chair. Ah,
- 0:40Speaker 2: that's it the tobacco.
- 0:42Speaker 1: In the thank you doctor Watching. And now how about
- 0:46Speaker 1: tonight's new Shellack Come? Oh, my boys, I showed you
- 0:48Speaker 1: last week.
- 0:49Speaker 2: The story took place in the set a depth looking
- 0:52Speaker 2: behind the walls which lies the north side of the
- 0:55Speaker 2: river near London Bridge.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Sounds like good old rhymehouse.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I it was Misbell, though I preferred to call it
- 1:01Speaker 2: bad old limehouse. But it's a neighborhood where a human
- 1:05Speaker 2: life was held cheap and a scream in the night
- 1:08Speaker 2: or the sickening side of a criminal's bludgeon for almost commonplace.
- 1:12Speaker 3: That, mister Bell, is the setting the weird adventure that.
- 1:15Speaker 1: I call Q for murch Now, doctor Watton, I'm eager
- 1:20Speaker 1: to hear the new shell Art Home story. He's wells
- 1:23Speaker 1: the bell.
- 1:23Speaker 2: That's strange adventure began in the small eyes of a
- 1:26Speaker 2: foggy zumber morning. An emergency call it midnight, It roused
- 1:31Speaker 2: me from my warm bed. An erecting horse care would
- 1:33Speaker 2: take me to the Limehouse district, where an old patient
- 1:36Speaker 2: of mine laid desperately ill for as I did my best.
- 1:40Speaker 4: To save a life that flickered.
- 1:41Speaker 2: In the ballot, Finally I decided that an ambulance was necessary.
- 1:45Speaker 2: The sick man needed little sources of a hospital. Accordingly,
- 1:49Speaker 2: I left the house and began to walk the cobbled
- 1:51Speaker 2: street looking for policemen the Limehouse at three in the morning.
- 1:55Speaker 2: As a deserted and fighting district.
- 1:58Speaker 3: I could hear the ghost sits appear.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Of a pod bones on the.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Riverboats in the distance.
- 2:04Speaker 2: As I walked along, eyes alert, My hand was on
- 2:08Speaker 2: the crust of revolved in my pocket, But there was
- 2:10Speaker 2: no stranger to the wrists involved in walking.
- 2:13Speaker 3: The streets of lime Hunt.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Sudden, how suddenly, under the flickering gas ride ahead of me,
- 2:19Speaker 2: I saw the blurry outline of a London policeman. So
- 2:22Speaker 2: I called out comfortable, Comfortable. The man didn't hear me
- 2:29Speaker 2: if he suddenly turned abruptly and disappeared down the steep
- 2:32Speaker 2: flight of steps, his bruse eye lantern dancing away like
- 2:35Speaker 2: a fading willow of the whip into the insecting blue.
- 2:40Speaker 2: I decided to follow that vanishing figure, and I quickened
- 2:43Speaker 2: my footsteps. After a moment, I saw where the peeple
- 2:47Speaker 2: hat garced between a shop shop and a gym shop.
- 2:51Speaker 2: I noticed the steep flight of stairs leading down a
- 2:54Speaker 2: black cap that it looked like the mouth of a cave.
- 2:57Speaker 1: I walked down.
- 3:00Speaker 2: The steps were worn hollow in the center by a
- 3:03Speaker 2: ceaseless spread and stumbling feet.
- 3:06Speaker 3: I reached the bottom.
- 3:08Speaker 2: The door faced me in Above it a sickly oil
- 3:11Speaker 2: lamps winked warnings at me.
- 3:15Speaker 3: I found the latter of the door, lifted it.
- 3:18Speaker 2: The door squeaked open for testime, and I entered. There
- 3:24Speaker 2: was a pinkle of glass beaded curtains. As I walked
- 3:27Speaker 2: towards the long, low.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Rooms, A strange sight met my eyes.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Through the gloom, thick and heavy with a prooky brown
- 3:38Speaker 2: smoke of opium. I thought of him, was terraced with
- 3:41Speaker 2: wooden bursts. Bodies lay in strange fantastic poisings, loud shoulders
- 3:49Speaker 2: bent knees.
- 3:51Speaker 1: And heads turned back.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Suddenly an attendant walked up to me with a pipe
- 3:56Speaker 2: and beckon mere to an empty burst.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Best way please, I.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Haven't come here to smoke that powder drug. I saw
- 4:04Speaker 2: a policeman under the space a few months ago.
- 4:05Speaker 1: I want to speak to him now for his friend me.
- 4:08Speaker 2: I'm telling him a volver. So you're gonn't argue with me,
- 4:10Speaker 2: My good man, Where do you go.
- 4:12Speaker 3: In bath room?
- 4:14Speaker 1: My sick home?
- 4:16Speaker 4: We please?
- 4:22Speaker 1: Yeah, well bless my soul. If it ain't doctor watch
- 4:28Speaker 1: all right, well you can leave it, yes, sir, I will.
- 4:33Speaker 3: You didn't know me comfortable, But I don't call me
- 4:36Speaker 3: to you before.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I've seen you and mister Elms at Scotland. You are
- 4:39Speaker 1: a doctor. My name is Merryweather, Constable Meddyweather. You couldn't
- 4:43Speaker 1: have a ride to a better time, sir. First man
- 4:45Speaker 1: needs a doctor back for the past. You mind nearby
- 4:49Speaker 1: needs an ambulance. That's why I followed you down here.
- 4:53Speaker 2: I'm examine this wretchards for the first How did you
- 4:56Speaker 2: know he was here uncomfortable?
- 4:57Speaker 1: They sent a message to the station said he was
- 4:59Speaker 1: in I'm trouble. He is, He's in trouble.
- 5:02Speaker 4: All right.
- 5:03Speaker 3: The poor devil's cuffing hisself. Nothing I can do would
- 5:07Speaker 3: make his.
- 5:07Speaker 4: Dying a little more comfortable.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Here you are, hand in my bag, come to.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Give him.
- 5:14Speaker 3: A senative needs you to keep.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Him out of pain. Oh are you what you do?
- 5:22Speaker 3: I'm a doctor, my man.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Yeah, this will ease your pain.
- 5:27Speaker 2: There you good man, doctor, you'll help me now?
- 5:36Speaker 3: You help me.
- 5:37Speaker 4: Kill devil who brings opium to my people?
- 5:41Speaker 1: Help him? What are you talking about? You good man?
- 5:46Speaker 4: You'll find doctor sturch He.
- 5:51Speaker 2: But man's been ty Turgeon has heard of a doctor Sturgeon?
- 6:00Speaker 2: What's address? Ex Just late doctor, Miss pod.
- 6:05Speaker 3: Devil's are the number.
- 6:06Speaker 1: I'm afraid you know, doctor watching This is a great
- 6:09Speaker 1: honor for me. I read every story you've written. Tell
- 6:13Speaker 1: me Sherlock, Elms is almost like a guardia might Okay,
- 6:17Speaker 1: one of these days I hope to be a detective myself, indeed.
- 6:20Speaker 3: And I think if you study me you might learn
- 6:22Speaker 3: a few pointers.
- 6:23Speaker 2: I shall lose no time in investigating this matter. I
- 6:27Speaker 2: may be able to expose a shocking schedule.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Hadn't you better leave that than mister Scherlock Ehlms said,
- 6:34Speaker 1: that's boring? Is Lauren there's more.
- 6:35Speaker 2: A rubbish, my good man, this is one case I'm
- 6:38Speaker 2: more incapable of handling myself. I shall call on doctor
- 6:41Speaker 2: Surgeon as soon as his office opens in the morning.
- 6:54Speaker 5: I am miss stuck, doctor Surgeon's secretary, and I'm afraid
- 6:59Speaker 5: you can't see the doctor now his first patience to
- 7:01Speaker 5: do at in a moment, and you haven't got an appointment.
- 7:03Speaker 1: I'm a doctor myself. My name is Watson.
- 7:07Speaker 3: Now look here, my good woman.
- 7:09Speaker 5: On I'm not a good woman, and you cannot say
- 7:12Speaker 5: that the surgeon.
- 7:13Speaker 2: But Sturgeon and I were friends at at medical schooling
- 7:17Speaker 2: at the sturgeon. The surgeon saw.
- 7:23Speaker 5: Not at all. And what medical comics did you attend?
- 7:28Speaker 4: Dtor Watson?
- 7:29Speaker 1: The University of London.
- 7:31Speaker 5: Oh, which you should have met, doctor Surgeon. He studied
- 7:35Speaker 5: at the University of Glasgow.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Well, I was at Glasser too for a while.
- 7:39Speaker 5: Now that you mentioned it, you've wasted enough of my time.
- 7:42Speaker 5: I don't know what you're after, but I think you'd
- 7:44Speaker 5: better know.
- 7:45Speaker 3: Good Heavens the office, come around.
- 7:51Speaker 4: The surgeon.
- 7:52Speaker 2: He's choking our doctor Surgeon. He's trying to say something,
- 8:07Speaker 2: but he's dead. Look at the mark. Heavens he's been strangled,
- 8:13Speaker 2: and Stark stay here and guard the body. I'm gonna
- 8:16Speaker 2: have had Shelock Holmes at once.
- 8:26Speaker 4: Who is this?
- 8:28Speaker 2: H oh?
- 8:30Speaker 5: We all back again?
- 8:31Speaker 2: Yes, this is mister Shelock Holmes.
- 8:34Speaker 1: How do you do? How do you do?
- 8:36Speaker 5: No one's been here since I left. No patients came
- 8:40Speaker 5: into the out of office, but I sent it away.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Spend it. Show me, miss Stark. Is another entrance to
- 8:45Speaker 1: this office.
- 8:47Speaker 5: Yes, mister Holmes. The doctor had a private door from
- 8:50Speaker 5: the outside leading into the laboratory.
- 8:52Speaker 4: In there.
- 8:54Speaker 5: He always let himself in that way.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Did he ever admit patience by that private door?
- 8:59Speaker 3: Why?
- 9:00Speaker 5: I answer your question?
- 9:01Speaker 1: Do you're not to please? I appreciate your loyalty as that,
- 9:03Speaker 1: but I assure you that if you're trying to protect
- 9:05Speaker 1: your dead employer, you will find me to be more
- 9:08Speaker 1: understanding than Scotland Yard.
- 9:11Speaker 5: Very well, what do you want to know?
- 9:14Speaker 1: I repeat my question, the doctor's surgeon of the patients
- 9:17Speaker 1: by his private.
- 9:18Speaker 5: Door, Yes he did, mister Holmes. Sometimes I never saw them,
- 9:22Speaker 5: but I hear voices.
- 9:24Speaker 3: In there well, distributing drugs. Let anybody name?
- 9:28Speaker 5: Are you in trying?
- 9:29Speaker 1: Mister que You will say that as he was dying,
- 9:33Speaker 1: he kept pointing to a pad on his desk. What yes,
- 9:35Speaker 1: his arms lying across it. Now, let's see if there's
- 9:39Speaker 1: any message written on the pad. There is. It's an
- 9:42Speaker 1: address one hundred and sixteen Upper Spondon Lane, mill Wall
- 9:47Speaker 1: that's in the heart of Landhouse, precisely an art address
- 9:50Speaker 1: to find written on the desk pair of a Harley
- 9:51Speaker 1: Street position. Watson, you are convinced that as the man
- 9:55Speaker 1: was dying out of the word piece, Well, that's what
- 9:57Speaker 1: it sounded like to me. Peace.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Perhaps he meant the death would bring him peace of
- 10:03Speaker 3: his mortal sin.
- 10:04Speaker 1: And partially Watson. And now to examine the marks from
- 10:07Speaker 1: the dead man's throat.
- 10:08Speaker 5: I think I'll wait in the other rooms.
- 10:10Speaker 3: If you don't have.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Hmm, looks you strangle this rope, report closely observe these
- 10:21Speaker 1: traces of oil on the throat, and look look at
- 10:23Speaker 1: this cure long black hair that means a woman need
- 10:28Speaker 1: it know once?
- 10:28Speaker 2: An?
- 10:29Speaker 1: I think not. The combination of long black, oily hair
- 10:32Speaker 1: and the Limehouse address would point to one obvious conclusion.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Doctor Sturgeon was strangled with the Chinese cubs training with
- 10:39Speaker 1: a cube. But how would that be possible? That my
- 10:42Speaker 1: dear Watson, is our next problem? Tell miss answer central
- 10:45Speaker 1: the police. Our work here is done. We're going to
- 10:47Speaker 1: Limehouse certainly as soon as we have adopted Suitabuddh's guisers,
- 10:51Speaker 1: we shall investigate the mystery of one hundred and sixteen
- 10:53Speaker 1: Upper Swandam Lane. I pray that the answer to murder
- 10:57Speaker 1: lies there on my soul homes.
- 11:17Speaker 3: You make the most convincing looking duckhands.
- 11:19Speaker 1: And you watson't let me see one one six it's
- 11:24Speaker 1: the next house. There's a policeman starting your outsided. It's
- 11:28Speaker 1: Constable Melliwell while I'm at last, lad Hello, councilor something happens, never.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Your mind, just keep moving, no mate, we we now
- 11:37Speaker 2: if we're just going down in a figure whistle for
- 11:39Speaker 2: parton our mills at madel Viller, Ain't that right?
- 11:41Speaker 3: Off?
- 11:41Speaker 1: Of course?
- 11:42Speaker 3: Bertie half you'll go both? Have you oh gone of
- 11:44Speaker 3: blake stopping past the time of day? Ain't you been
- 11:46Speaker 3: a bit narky? Jump? Hi, dear?
- 11:48Speaker 1: What's what's happened to you? Murder? That's what's happened. Now
- 11:53Speaker 1: move along there, murder and with the address on doctor
- 11:56Speaker 1: Sturgeon's pad here, ow are you?
- 11:59Speaker 3: It's all right?
- 12:00Speaker 4: May mother.
- 12:01Speaker 3: Mister Sherlock Holme.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Well, blow me down. I'd never recognize you, gentlemen, But
- 12:06Speaker 1: what brought you to this address? I'll explain it later.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Comest to Brome, who is being murdered? A Chinese gentleman
- 12:12Speaker 1: got himself down in was he strangle? I don't rightly know, sir?
- 12:17Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't know? Surely the evidence
- 12:20Speaker 1: of strangulation is perfectly easy to detect. I suppose it is.
- 12:23Speaker 1: But you see, in this case, mister Romes, the corpse
- 12:27Speaker 1: ain't got no head. In just a moment, we'll rejoin
- 12:43Speaker 1: Shellack Combs and doctor Watson, leading hair specialists in this country,
- 12:48Speaker 1: constantly advises to take better care of the hair we've got,
- 12:52Speaker 1: and men don't forget. One of the first requisites of handsome,
- 12:55Speaker 1: healthy looking hair is a hygienic scout. So right, buy
- 12:59Speaker 1: just any hair dressing when you can enjoy the extra
- 13:01Speaker 1: benefits of this highly specialized cremal hair tonic. Crammel contains
- 13:06Speaker 1: a special combination of hair grooming ingredients which has never
- 13:09Speaker 1: been duplicated in any other hair tonic. That's why Kremill
- 13:12Speaker 1: keeps hair in place longer, always looking neat and orderly,
- 13:16Speaker 1: But Kremmel does lots more than keep hair looking handsome.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Kremmel is simply great to lubricate a dry scalp. At
- 13:23Speaker 1: the same time, it removes dandra flakes and leaves your
- 13:27Speaker 1: scalp feeling so alive and invigorated. And men, if your
- 13:31Speaker 1: hair is so dry it breaks and falls when you
- 13:33Speaker 1: comb it, Cremil actually helps condition the hair in that
- 13:37Speaker 1: it makes it feel softer, more priable, and look as
- 13:40Speaker 1: if it had some body to it. So men, buy
- 13:42Speaker 1: a bottle of Cremel at any drug counter, ask for
- 13:45Speaker 1: an application at your barber shop. Use Cremel daily for
- 13:49Speaker 1: better groomed hair. For a more hyggienic scalp. K R
- 13:53Speaker 1: E M L Kremol hair tonics. Well, doctor Watson, what
- 13:58Speaker 1: happened next, my boy?
- 14:00Speaker 2: We quickly entered the house and examine the scene of
- 14:02Speaker 2: the latest tragedy.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Constall Meadoweather seemed to be in.
- 14:05Speaker 2: A sudden heaven of delight to realize that he was
- 14:08Speaker 2: working on a case with a great Sherlock Holmes himself.
- 14:12Speaker 1: I'm glad you are here and now, mistake, mister Elms,
- 14:14Speaker 1: I'm a little out of my depth in a case
- 14:16Speaker 1: like this, and I don't mind admitting.
- 14:18Speaker 3: Mellowether is a great admirer of yours homes.
- 14:21Speaker 1: He's read every story that I've written. Indeed, you will
- 14:24Speaker 1: have a strong constitution constable, though, I will admit that
- 14:27Speaker 1: this case presents as bizarre problem as my friend, as
- 14:29Speaker 1: they've included in his rather sensational accounts. What I can't
- 14:35Speaker 1: understand is why they took the head.
- 14:38Speaker 3: For that matter, how.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Was it stolen? Before we farize, let us assemble the facts.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Has the body been identified consortable? Yes, sir, you see
- 14:47Speaker 1: he had a missing finger on one end. Then obviously
- 14:50Speaker 1: the head was not stolen in order to make identification
- 14:53Speaker 1: of the corpse difficult. Who is the victim? A Chinese
- 14:56Speaker 1: merchant but the name of Lee Ming ran a sharp
- 14:59Speaker 1: downstairs in the basement. Please describe the circumstances under which
- 15:02Speaker 1: you'll discover the crime, well, gentlemen, I was on my
- 15:05Speaker 1: beat and I saw the dead man walk up the
- 15:07Speaker 1: stairs from the basement and go into the house. As
- 15:10Speaker 1: priced the time a day with me he did two
- 15:12Speaker 1: hours is down. I stopped to talk to the fishmonger
- 15:15Speaker 1: outside his shop, and must have talked to him for
- 15:17Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or more. One time was this Merriwetheron, just
- 15:20Speaker 1: up to ten o'clock, sit, I see? Please continue, well, sir,
- 15:25Speaker 1: all the time I was watching this house, Suddenly there
- 15:28Speaker 1: was an owl ring and a yelling, and I runs
- 15:30Speaker 1: back to find the man lying in here with his
- 15:32Speaker 1: head gone. You were watching the house all the time,
- 15:35Speaker 1: you say, Merriwellon, Yes, sirs, just idle like. But I'll
- 15:39Speaker 1: swear no one went in or out, which means it's
- 15:41Speaker 1: somebody inside the house must be the killer. That's what
- 15:45Speaker 1: I think. Doctor. Who are the other tenants? Well, mister Olmes.
- 15:48Speaker 1: On this floor there's an old Chinese lady, a servant
- 15:51Speaker 1: of the dead man. She was, but she's afterward with rheumatism,
- 15:55Speaker 1: and I swear she couldn't have done it. But upstairs
- 15:58Speaker 1: there's a Chinese gentleman, Prince Food. Send Prince the surroundings.
- 16:04Speaker 1: He's got quite a place too. Then you've already interviewed him.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Oh yes, sir, He and his nephew up there swore
- 16:10Speaker 1: they didn't have nothing to do about it, but the
- 16:12Speaker 1: young fella acted mighty suspicious light. Perhaps you would like
- 16:16Speaker 1: to go up there, sir. I know you'd angle these
- 16:18Speaker 1: foreigners better than me very welcomes the moon. Let us
- 16:22Speaker 1: visit Prince Food send at once, Come on in there,
- 16:34Speaker 1: Come on, open up in the name of the law.
- 16:38Speaker 1: I'm afraid the name of the law doesn't appeal to them,
- 16:41Speaker 1: unless I'm much mistaken. The barricading sernits on the other
- 16:44Speaker 1: side of the door.
- 16:45Speaker 3: If the three good showers can take homes.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Good idea, Watson, Come on, one, two, three, once more, mister rounds,
- 16:52Speaker 1: and we'll do it. You have no right to break
- 16:57Speaker 1: in like this, Oh yes we have, mister adld fool.
- 17:00Speaker 1: You're under suspicion of committing murder. I've already told you
- 17:03Speaker 1: that I know nothing about it. Then in that case,
- 17:05Speaker 1: mister fool, why barricade the door? Who blazes are you?
- 17:09Speaker 1: I am Sherlock Holmes, and this is my colleague, doctor Watson.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Why may I ask? Is that partially packed lapstone bag
- 17:16Speaker 1: lying on the city there where you were thinking of leaving?
- 17:19Speaker 4: Of course I was, And so you know nothing about this?
- 17:21Speaker 3: And why admitted gilt by running away?
- 17:23Speaker 6: Because I know this policeman suspected me. They call me
- 17:27Speaker 6: a new rasion that I'm westerned by instinct in education,
- 17:31Speaker 6: because the color of my skin compels me to live
- 17:33Speaker 6: in this part of London. I knew that I was
- 17:35Speaker 6: bound to be associated.
- 17:36Speaker 1: With a Chinese crime. There's spite to your instincts and education,
- 17:40Speaker 1: mister fool. You seem to have a very poor opinion
- 17:42Speaker 1: of British justice. Where is your uncle, Princell Chen in
- 17:46Speaker 1: the study? You can lead the way if you don't mind,
- 17:49Speaker 1: mister fool, I'd like to keep my eye on you.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Oh very well, follow.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Me, stu slat homes. Some of these orients furnishings must be.
- 18:01Speaker 1: Presless, yes, Watson fighting congress in such a district.
- 18:05Speaker 6: Uncle, that policeman's back again, and there's some other men
- 18:09Speaker 6: with him.
- 18:10Speaker 1: What's your come in, Prince Boel. This is mister Sherlott
- 18:15Speaker 1: Holmes and doctor Watson.
- 18:16Speaker 7: You welcome to my humble abode, gentlemen, And perhaps I
- 18:22Speaker 7: may be permitted to ask why two such famous men
- 18:25Speaker 7: should be dressed like griffas from the key side.
- 18:28Speaker 1: We're investigating a murder, Princeville.
- 18:30Speaker 4: You have come to speak to me of murder, mister Holmes.
- 18:34Speaker 4: But I have already told it a constable that I have.
- 18:37Speaker 7: No knowledge concerning the tragedy of which he.
- 18:40Speaker 1: For the first the prinsul as we came in just now.
- 18:43Speaker 3: The door was barricaded in. Your nephew's bag.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Was packed his that he was going to leave.
- 18:49Speaker 7: Harold, my boy, What prompted you to such an action?
- 18:53Speaker 7: You have no knowledge, I'll decry.
- 18:55Speaker 3: How could I prove it?
- 18:56Speaker 1: You know as well as I do, Uncle, that your
- 18:59Speaker 1: raised and hasn't got a child.
- 19:00Speaker 7: Riet, Mister Holmes, you must forgive the boy. He is young,
- 19:06Speaker 7: young and fitter, but he will learn in time that
- 19:10Speaker 7: he is neither English nor Chinese.
- 19:14Speaker 4: Here's something far greater.
- 19:17Speaker 1: He is a man or a devil with your moralizing alcohol.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Prince Fool, you are a man of intelligence, and I'll
- 19:24Speaker 1: put our cands on the table. The dead merchant downstairs
- 19:27Speaker 1: and a certain doctor in Harley Street, who was also
- 19:30Speaker 1: murdered today, were undoubtedly both involved in peddling narcotics. I
- 19:34Speaker 1: believe they were both killed by an associate who was
- 19:37Speaker 1: afraid they might implicate him. They associated from the Constable's evidence.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Must be someone in this house, Prince Fool. I'm sure
- 19:45Speaker 1: that you're wise enough to appreciate your position, mister Holmes.
- 19:49Speaker 7: In my own country, I devoted my life to fighting
- 19:53Speaker 7: the ravages of drug traffic.
- 19:57Speaker 4: Am I then to partake of its profits?
- 20:00Speaker 1: Look here? What is it comfortable on the desk? It's
- 20:05Speaker 1: a doctor's visiting card in Miss Sturgeon in the eighty
- 20:09Speaker 1: six Harley Streets, Great Scott. How do you account for
- 20:12Speaker 1: this principle?
- 20:13Speaker 4: I am completely bewildered.
- 20:16Speaker 7: I have never seen that card before, nor have I
- 20:20Speaker 7: ever heard of a doctor scher.
- 20:23Speaker 1: I suppose the wind master blown is ana fannic coincidents
- 20:26Speaker 1: and no mistake. So I arrested mister Elms, no matter weaves,
- 20:29Speaker 1: though I would like you to remain here on guard.
- 20:32Speaker 1: In the meanwhile, once in that, I have one vital
- 20:34Speaker 1: task to perform. What's at home? We must search this
- 20:37Speaker 1: house from basement to chimney tops. We've got to find
- 20:40Speaker 1: that missing head.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Homes.
- 20:52Speaker 2: I've searched the house with a fine tooth comb. I'll
- 20:55Speaker 2: swear missing headed in here.
- 20:56Speaker 1: So well I would have. That's why I gave you
- 20:58Speaker 1: the job of searching.
- 20:59Speaker 4: For Why is waste my time while you go careering
- 21:02Speaker 4: or somewhere else?
- 21:02Speaker 1: Or don't be angry with me? Once and I needed
- 21:05Speaker 1: you to create a diversion to cloak my real activity.
- 21:07Speaker 1: When I have been having a most illuminating talk with
- 21:11Speaker 1: a certain tradesman by the name of Albert Blogs. Now
- 21:14Speaker 1: I know who our double murderer is, Good lord who
- 21:19Speaker 1: I suggest that we return to Prince food Saends flat upstairs.
- 21:22Speaker 1: There I shall make the matter clear to you. Mister Holmes.
- 21:38Speaker 4: Am I to understand that you have solved this shocking crime.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Yes, Princeville, which one of them? Why did mister Ralms Meriwether.
- 21:46Speaker 1: You've been on this case from the beginning. You've been
- 21:49Speaker 1: remarkably astute in some of your deductions. Thank you, kindly say,
- 21:52Speaker 1: that's real praise coming from you, mister Rum. Surely you
- 21:55Speaker 1: can see the obvious link between the two murders. I
- 21:58Speaker 1: think I can, mister Ralms, Doctor Sturgeon got hisself spangled
- 22:02Speaker 1: with a Chinese kill. Now we know one of these
- 22:05Speaker 1: two men did it. But mister Howldvioo wears his air
- 22:08Speaker 1: short like an Englishman. Only the prince has are killed.
- 22:12Speaker 1: It must have been him. It seems logical to me home.
- 22:15Speaker 7: And singularly lacking in logic to me, my friends, I
- 22:19Speaker 7: quite agree, Prince Pole.
- 22:21Speaker 1: You see Watson, you'll Constable Merriwether overlooking the stolen head.
- 22:26Speaker 1: Why was it stolen? Once more likely reasons than for
- 22:29Speaker 1: the sake of its cue. And if the merchant's head
- 22:32Speaker 1: with the weapon used to strangle doctor Sturgeon, then the
- 22:34Speaker 1: murderer wished to create the imaginary figure of some one
- 22:37Speaker 1: wearing a tool. Therefore the murderer did not have a cue.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Then it was orod fold. It must be. That's utterly ridiculous,
- 22:44Speaker 1: of course it is. You're overlooking one vital point. Limiting
- 22:48Speaker 1: our suspects to the Prince, Mister Harold Food depends entirely
- 22:51Speaker 1: on Constable Meriwether's testimony, which means that we have three suspects,
- 22:55Speaker 1: and the third is the Constable me you're joking, mister Old.
- 23:00Speaker 1: Murder is not a subject for levit income.
- 23:01Speaker 3: But oh what multive could have had?
- 23:04Speaker 1: The reason is obvious, Watson. Why did the murders occur
- 23:07Speaker 1: immediately after you stumbled into this classicking in narcotics? Because
- 23:11Speaker 1: Meriwether himself was involved with the criminals. He overheard the
- 23:15Speaker 1: man last night tell you about doctor Surgeon, and so
- 23:18Speaker 1: doctor Sturgeon had to die. You mean that Meriwether was
- 23:20Speaker 1: a member of this ring, of course, and that this
- 23:23Speaker 1: honest policeman could be a very valuable ally missed around
- 23:25Speaker 1: you you got old of the wrong end of a stick,
- 23:27Speaker 1: and no mistake, No, I haven't constable. You killed the
- 23:30Speaker 1: merchant downstairs, decapitated the poor devil, and then used his
- 23:33Speaker 1: cuteous sangle doctor Sturgeon. You lied about the time you'd
- 23:36Speaker 1: seen him enter. You said it was after ten o'clock. Er,
- 23:39Speaker 1: can you prove it wasn't that time?
- 23:40Speaker 3: Aster around?
- 23:41Speaker 1: I just talked to Albert Blogs of the fish Munder.
- 23:44Speaker 1: He saw you for a moment at eight thirty this morning.
- 23:46Speaker 1: He did not see you at ten.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Wait, Scott and Meriwether killed the merchant first went over
- 23:50Speaker 2: to doctor Sturgeon and strangled him.
- 23:52Speaker 4: Probably dropped the head into the river, and came back.
- 23:55Speaker 3: Here and lied about the time as lightly.
- 23:57Speaker 1: And on his first visit to this flash he carefully
- 23:59Speaker 1: planted one of doctor Sturgeon's card, knowing that it would
- 24:02Speaker 1: incriminate Prince Foul as cold blooded and horrible a crime
- 24:05Speaker 1: as ever I encountered.
- 24:06Speaker 3: You're just grace in the force.
- 24:08Speaker 1: Now Wait, are you still got no proof? My words
- 24:11Speaker 1: is got as that's thinking fishmonger.
- 24:12Speaker 4: I doubt it.
- 24:13Speaker 1: In any case, another word pins the crime on you.
- 24:17Speaker 1: One from beyond the grave the dying word that doctor
- 24:19Speaker 1: Sturgeon uttered. He uttered the word peace. And why should
- 24:23Speaker 1: he say peace when he was pointing at the address
- 24:26Speaker 1: and trying to indicate to us his murderer. No, he
- 24:29Speaker 1: died while he was saying what sounded like peace. What
- 24:32Speaker 1: he was trying to say was PC, which stands for
- 24:35Speaker 1: police constable. He died as he tried to accuse his murderer,
- 24:39Speaker 1: Police constable.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Merry, Well, you'll never get heady, for the winner.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Must be forty feet down in the street. The miracle
- 24:47Speaker 3: that he hasn't broken his neck.
- 24:48Speaker 1: I'll go down and see where I can go first.
- 24:52Speaker 7: A doctor will save a man's life so that he
- 24:56Speaker 7: may lose it on the gallows, A claim custom Prince
- 25:00Speaker 7: who I.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Must apologize to you and your nephew for the embarrassment
- 25:04Speaker 1: and humiliations which you've been subjected.
- 25:06Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, I must confess that I never expected that
- 25:09Speaker 7: my quiet sanctuary, my haven from the outside world, would
- 25:14Speaker 7: be blushed by the wings of violence and sudden deaths.
- 25:18Speaker 7: But I have seen justice done for the remainder of
- 25:21Speaker 7: my poor life. I shall always revere the name of
- 25:25Speaker 7: the man responsible, shall lack Holmes