Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to people who may still
Speaker 1: be living.
Speaker 2: Character names in some of these true unsolved mysteries have
Speaker 2: been changed. A closed room, a door bolted and blocked
Speaker 2: at night, fastened window, and a raging storm, a novelist
Speaker 2: setting for a murder and stretched.
Speaker 1: On the bed, a man stepped through the heart. Such
Speaker 1: the Cambridge unsolved mystery.
Speaker 3: That's different, something that something, think of, pep.
Speaker 2: The scene is Cambridge and standing in its own ground
Speaker 2: just off the Great North Road. It's the Hermitage, home
Speaker 2: of Henry Monty, affectionately known as the Squire. Darkening skies
Speaker 2: and a chill to the air with the distant rumble
Speaker 2: of thunder foretells the coming storm as the Squire, accompanied
Speaker 2: by Sheriff Welford, walks up to the front door of
Speaker 2: the hermitage.
Speaker 4: I think I felt a few drops, then, Sheriff, no
Speaker 4: doubt about. We'll have a storm before morning.
Speaker 5: Better come in and have a nightcap with me before
Speaker 5: you go on home.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Come along, old man. I always have one. Hannah probably
Speaker 5: has it all worn. Yes, indeed, Hannah and I have
Speaker 5: the sheriff with me, so we'll have a double order a.
Speaker 1: Punch and go and blame me, Hannah.
Speaker 4: I was all for getting on my way home, but
Speaker 4: the squire here insisted, And you know the squire.
Speaker 1: Oh indeed, and I.
Speaker 4: Do, sir Mary. Mary.
Speaker 6: Yes, Lieuleana, bring another bowl of punch to the kitchen.
Speaker 1: The master has company, Yes, lou Hannah, we'll go up
Speaker 1: to my room, Sheriff. The fire is burning brighter there,
Speaker 1: just as you say, does as you say.
Speaker 7: I'm getting old, Sheriff, and these stairs taxed me, But
Speaker 7: I like my upstairs room.
Speaker 1: I look out over the downs in.
Speaker 7: The spring and summer, and in the winter I can
Speaker 7: see the village through the bare branches.
Speaker 4: Sit down over here by the fire, Thanks wire. Yes,
Speaker 4: this is a delightful room, filled with memories too.
Speaker 1: I'll be bound yares memories of sixty odd years. Ah,
Speaker 1: here's Mary, here's here winds it. Miss Hannah's baking old
Speaker 1: cakes for tomorrow's dressless else she'd have brought it her.
Speaker 1: Tell that's all right, Mary. Here, Sheriff.
Speaker 4: Ay you your health, squire, and may you live another
Speaker 4: sixty five years.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not that, not that there she comes.
Speaker 7: You better drink down your wine, Sheriff, and be off
Speaker 7: bell you will get us soaking.
Speaker 1: I will, I will. Ah, that's good, that's good, and
Speaker 1: thanks for the refreshment. And good night, good night, good night,
Speaker 1: like the sheriff's sair to the door. Mary, Yes here,
Speaker 1: I will good night, good night marry. Old Hannah walks
Speaker 1: down the hallway.
Speaker 2: Both she and Mary look up to the landing above
Speaker 2: and see the squire close his room door.
Speaker 1: Hear the key turn in the lock. Here the boat
Speaker 1: slide home.
Speaker 4: The old grandfather's clock on the turn on the stairs
Speaker 4: strikes ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: As the two women say good night and go to
Speaker 1: their separate bedrooms. Tell the master.
Speaker 6: Breakfast ready, Mary, Yes, Miss Hannah, breakfast is ready, Master, Master, Master,
Speaker 6: what's to do?
Speaker 5: Mary?
Speaker 1: Is the master.
Speaker 6: He doesn't answer, not to speak, say something, Oh, something's happening. Done,
Speaker 6: let me get helpless. We'll have to break down the door,
Speaker 6: o the master. Lady ill, very ill, said quick quick.
Speaker 4: Then love, run for help.
Speaker 8: Coming helps the master.
Speaker 1: The Master doesn't answer.
Speaker 4: Sent open the door and go in the doors boat
Speaker 4: and knocked on the inside or the door to that roommate.
Speaker 1: No, bring an eggs, Mary, a big one? Here does
Speaker 1: the squirrels lock himself.
Speaker 5: In his room?
Speaker 4: Always share a pair for years.
Speaker 1: Was he afraid? Prayed for his life?
Speaker 6: Nothing I know of sharriff.
Speaker 1: He's the biggest ex stands there.
Speaker 4: I think I can get in now, Yes, yes, I
Speaker 4: think I can. Oh, don't look, Hannah, Marry, don't look,
Speaker 4: run Marry. Telephone the village for the police. Tell him
Speaker 4: the squire had been stabbed through the hot Two hours later,
Speaker 4: the police arrived from the nursed village. Hannah and Mary
Speaker 4: are weeping hysterically. The sheriff has opened widely smashed in door.
Speaker 4: The detective, inspector and sergeant the police glanced quickly about
Speaker 4: the room as they walk over to the bed. Eh
Speaker 4: must have died instantly, Yes, no signs of the struggle.
Speaker 4: When did you lassie him alive? We are marrying me.
Speaker 6: Both saw him when he knocked himself in his room
Speaker 6: last night, two wine glasses.
Speaker 4: He had company last night there he did me, h sheriff. Yes,
Speaker 4: I let him last night. He invited me up for
Speaker 4: a glass of wine.
Speaker 1: I left a few minutes before ten o'clock and he
Speaker 1: was all right.
Speaker 4: Then, Holy, he was all right. Oh.
Speaker 6: I saw the sheriff to the door. I'll knocked and
Speaker 6: bolted the front door.
Speaker 1: Hannah and me stood and watched the master. If he
Speaker 1: bolted his doors, well, I suppose he went to ben
Speaker 1: And if you volted the front door, the murderer must
Speaker 1: have gone in through the back door that he couldn't.
Speaker 1: The back door was locked at dusk and it never
Speaker 1: was opened. Well, it's a certainty that the murder didn't
Speaker 1: get in through this window. It's bored on the outside,
Speaker 1: left on the inside, and its dry as a bone,
Speaker 1: so it was not open while it was raining. I
Speaker 1: wait a minute.
Speaker 4: Both of you women saw a squire monthieth closed and
Speaker 4: both his bedroom doors. Yes I did. And you didn't
Speaker 4: hear a sound during the night, nothing but rain, No
Speaker 4: angry voices, no scream.
Speaker 1: Do you recognize the knife he's been killed with? I
Speaker 1: don't want the book, sorry, lady, but who haves to go?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I know it.
Speaker 6: It's the one that used to lie on his own
Speaker 6: table weight, his own hunting knife.
Speaker 1: Hey, there's something spooky about all this. He's all right.
Speaker 1: Last night at ten o'clock in the sheriff seize him,
Speaker 1: speak to him so we know he's alive.
Speaker 4: Then and the two women here him lock himself in
Speaker 4: his rooms.
Speaker 1: A few minutes later. When'd you try to wake him?
Speaker 1: This morning? A few minutes after seven? It was I
Speaker 1: couldn't give no, and Miss Hannah sat me for help.
Speaker 4: I was passing by on my way to the village
Speaker 4: when Mary ran out of the house. The door was bolted,
Speaker 4: so I broke it in with an axe. All it
Speaker 4: begins to look like suicide. No, the squire had no
Speaker 4: reason to kill himself. Well, no one got in here
Speaker 4: through this locked door and got out again and locked
Speaker 4: and bolted it behind him.
Speaker 1: And nobody got in or out through this chimney. Guess
Speaker 1: it's post of them suicide.
Speaker 4: I can't agree with you, and I know the doctor won't.
Speaker 4: No man stabbed himself the way the Squire has been stabbed.
Speaker 4: The blade's been driven in clear up to the hill.
Speaker 1: That's right. But listen, we've got to be sensible. This
Speaker 1: door was bolted, wasn't sure?
Speaker 4: Yes, I pulled the bolt myself after I crawled through
Speaker 4: the hole I made in the door.
Speaker 1: All right, Then the room was closed. Nobody could get
Speaker 1: out or in. And if nobody could get out of
Speaker 1: or in, then it was suicide.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't suicide. Squire Monteeth had been brutally murdered.
Speaker 2: And although today, twenty two years later, the Cambridge murder
Speaker 2: is still an unsolved mystery, we believe we know the answer.
Speaker 1: Just a moment you will hear a solution to the
Speaker 1: Cambridge murder mystery.
Speaker 8: A couple of.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Inasmuch as any solution must have.
Speaker 2: Necessity, be supposition, liberties of time, place and character have
Speaker 2: been taken in the solution for which you've been waiting.
Speaker 2: The scene is the Cambridge Police station, where the Chief
Speaker 2: is seated behind his desk talking to the sergeant and
Speaker 2: the detective inspector.
Speaker 4: Well, boys, a month as fassins the killing of the squire.
Speaker 4: As far as I can see, we're no nearer a solution.
Speaker 1: A near compare a chief, and I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: be any narrow one.
Speaker 4: A commissioner is going to about there next week when
Speaker 4: he hears what the local papers have had to say, Well, well,
Speaker 4: I wish some of these reporters would try their hand
Speaker 4: at solving the thing. They were half as good as
Speaker 4: they think they are. I know it's tough, and I
Speaker 4: get it too. On every side, not a mote that
Speaker 4: you could find at all. No one had it in
Speaker 4: for the old squire. No, but yeah, gome On, Oh,
Speaker 4: he'd only laugh at me if I David, only the
Speaker 4: first laugh I've had out the case.
Speaker 1: Then all it's been so far is a bunch of grief.
Speaker 1: Speak up. Is hate for the squire. The only motive
Speaker 1: that could lead the murder. What do you mean? I mean?
Speaker 4: How about somebody having it into the police. You means
Speaker 4: somebody deliberately committing murder to battle the police.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been done before, if you recall a Camden case.
Speaker 1: But who who would you guess, Chief? The sheriff. Yes,
Speaker 1: the sheriff. He's hated us ever since we were sent
Speaker 1: up here. He's always resented as taking over his job.
Speaker 1: But you can't accuse a man of murder. I'm not
Speaker 1: accusing him of murder. But between ourselves, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what I think. Go On.
Speaker 4: I think that the sheriff had been watching his chance.
Speaker 4: He met the squire that night, he invited him up
Speaker 4: for a drink. He drug the old man's wine.
Speaker 1: Sleeping draft.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why the old man doesn't wake up in
Speaker 4: the morning, right, Chief. Then the sheriff shows up first thing,
Speaker 4: he watches.
Speaker 1: For the servant girl, he goes up to the room.
Speaker 4: Remember, he breaks the door and it says, don't look.
Speaker 1: He's been stabbed through the heart. That's what the women said.
Speaker 4: And from the doorway he couldn't see a thing on
Speaker 4: that bed. I've tried, then you think. I think he
Speaker 4: crossed the room, picked up the knife and stabbed the
Speaker 4: squire as he lay there under the influence of the
Speaker 4: sleeping may be right, I am right.
Speaker 1: That's like you. I'm thinking. We can't do a confounded
Speaker 1: thing about it. No, no, we can't.
Speaker 4: We haven't got a single shred of proof.
Speaker 2: And so Cambridge, twenty two years later, still regards the
Speaker 2: killing of Squire mon Teeth as an unsolved mystery.
Speaker 3: Thing of the first
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