WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:16.800 Raaffus. I found it. I found a reagent which is 2 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:20.160 precipitated by humor globan And by that year doctor Watson, 3 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.120 mister Sherlock, home, how are you? How do you do 4 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.719 You've been in Afghanistan? See how on earth do you 5 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:34.240 know that, mister Holmes. Never mind it was many years ago, 6 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.280 but I shall never forget that faithful meeting in the 7 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:42.920 laboratory of Bath Hospital. I was home from India, invalided 8 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.079 out of the army and looking for lodgings and keeping 9 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:49.079 with my pencil homes. Had just found a suite of 10 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:52.200 woman at number two to one B Baker Street, and 11 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:56.320 wanted someone to show them I'd been worn. He might 12 00:00:56.439 --> 00:01:01.560 prove a strange companion, and so you didn't do. I 13 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.879 became more and more curious about you, and of course 14 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:15.439 he quickly noticed it. I to thought that these two 15 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:18.120 weeks have not provedure that I'm too difficult to fellow 16 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.480 larger after all, Far from it. I don't mind a 17 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.159 getting you puzzle me, the puzzle you well, the way 18 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.480 you work like a fiend. Sometimes and others who lie 19 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:28.519 on the surfada have the uwering a word or moving 20 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.439 a muscle from morning to night. And there are those 21 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:35.079 curious visitors of yours in one afternoon, a gray headed 22 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.239 CD fella looking like a peddler. They're an old, white 23 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.719 haired gentleman, a fashion addressed young girl, and a railway porter, 24 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:47.640 and that little fellow rat faced fellow as trade. We've 25 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:50.280 been here three times in a single week. But I 26 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.319 always apologize for putting you to any inconvenience in the 27 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.760 matter of Boston. I have to use this room as 28 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.680 a place of business, and these people are my clients. 29 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:03.319 But what is you? No man, you don't inconvenience me 30 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:08.400 at all. I'm only two. Please thank you, But tell 31 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.159 me have your observations up here over these weeks reached 32 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.719 any sum total year. You might think of a bit 33 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.319 of a cheek, But I've I've been jotting down all 34 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.319 the various points on which you've shown me that you're 35 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.000 exceptionally well informed. No, indeed, I should much like to 36 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:29.360 hear it, you would. I've got the paper here somewhere 37 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:36.479 it is you won't mind, really all well, it runs 38 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:41.159 this way. Sherlock Holm has limits one knowledge of literature 39 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:46.120 nile two, knowledge of philosophy nil three, knowledge of astronomy 40 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:52.960 no knowledge of politics people you go on. Knowledge of 41 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.400 botany variable well up in belladonna, opumen, poisons generally, there's 42 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:01.879 nothing in pactical gardening, yeah be knowledge of geology practical 43 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.439 but limited. Tells of the glance different soils from each other. 44 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.439 After Walks has shown me stashes one, it doses and 45 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:10.400 tell me about the color and consistency. What part in 46 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:15.800 London to receive them? Seven? Knowledge of chemistry profound. Eight 47 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.639 knowledge of anathemy accurate but unsystematic. Nine. Knowledge of sensational 48 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.240 literature immense, it tears. Know every detail of every horror 49 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:31.319 perpetrated in the century. Ten phase of ale in well, 50 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.560 thank you. Eleven is an expert single stick player, boxer 51 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.240 and swordsman. Twelve is a good practical knowledge of British 52 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.759 laws capital Well, i'd best I'd better provide you with 53 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.800 the answer to it all. You see the theories of 54 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:48.319 observation and deduction, which I have frequently expressed. You are 55 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.919 really extremely practical, so practical that I depend upon them 56 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:56.240 for my bread and cheese. But how well I have 57 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.879 a trade of my own. I suppose I'm the only 58 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:03.879 one in the world. I'm a consulting detective consulting to tick. 59 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:07.280 Here in London we have lots of government detectives and 60 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.800 lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault, 61 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:11.439 they come to me and I managed to put them 62 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.919 on the right sense. Les Trade is a well known detective. 63 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.360 He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, 64 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.279 and that was what brought him here. I see, and 65 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.040 these other people, oh, they are most present on by 66 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.720 private inquiry agencies. I listen to their story, they listen 67 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.279 to my comments, and then I pocket my seat. But 68 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.279 do you mean to say that without leaving your room 69 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:34.759 you can unravel some lot that other men can make 70 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.120 nothing off. I have a kind of intuition that way 71 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:42.360 observation will be a second nature. You appear to be 72 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.720 surprised when I told you on our first meeting that 73 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.680 you had come from Afghanistan too. My train of reasoning 74 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.040 ran thus, the air is a gentleman of a medical type, 75 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:54.319 but with the air of a military man, clearly an 76 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.959 army doctor. Then he's just come from the tropics. For 77 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.920 his face is dark, and that's not the natural tindery 78 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.199 skin for his wrist that's there. Oh, he's undergone hardship 79 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.240 and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly his left 80 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:11.680 arm has been injured. He holds it in a stiff 81 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.240 and unnatural manner. Now where in the tropics could an 82 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.439 English army doctor seem much hardship and got his arm wounded? 83 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.680 Clearly in Afghanistan. The whole train of thought didn't occupy 84 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.439 a second. It's simple enough that you explain it. But homes, 85 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:30.959 I don't really think that. I say, Hm, that's Pelado 86 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.920 on sees. I wonder what he's looking for. Oh, you 87 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.560 mean the retired pageant of marine. Oh, now that really 88 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.160 is going too fast. Well, we shall soon see. He's 89 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:47.240 coming to our door. You know that probably is one 90 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.360 from that. There are no crimes and no criminals these days. 91 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.399 What's the use of having brains in our professions? I 92 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.040 know well that I have it in me to make 93 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.360 my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived, 94 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.639 who had brought the same amount of study of natural 95 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.639 talent for the detection of crime which I have done. 96 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.839 And what's the result. There is no crime to detect 97 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.079 or of most some bungling villany were a MOSTI so 98 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.560 transparent that even a Scotland yard official conceit through it 99 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:20.360 a person to see you. Oh, thank you, missus Hudson, 100 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:26.160 come in, let it bore hand for mister Sherlock Holmes. 101 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.519 Thank you. May I ask my good man what your 102 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:34.519 trade may be A commissioner answer uniformer wiper repairs, and 103 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:43.240 you will answer raw. Marie nodded, Patersa. No one could 104 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:49.920 I get went for that? Which, Now, how in the 105 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.079 world did you deduce that? Why? Even when he bet 106 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:54.839 down in the street, I could see a great blue 107 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.360 anchor tattooed on the back of the fellow's hands. That's 108 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.800 not to the sea. He had a military carriage, however, 109 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.720 and regulation side wiskn there we have the marine. He 110 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.040 was a man with some amount of self importance in 111 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.800 a sertain air of command. You must have observed the 112 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:11.800 way in which he held his head and sprung his cane. 113 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.120 A steady, respectable middle aged man too on the face 114 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.680 of him, all facts which led me to believe that 115 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:24.519 he had been a sergeant commonplace. Oh but I said 116 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:29.319 just now that there were no criminals right who. It 117 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:34.160 appears that I am wrong? If it is, would you 118 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:41.480 mind reading it to be alive? My d mister Sherlock Holmes. 119 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.439 There has been a bad business during the night that 120 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:49.519 three Lorriston Gardens off the Brixton Road. Men on the 121 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.720 beach saw light there about two in the morning, and 122 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.360 as the house was an empty one suspected that something 123 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:57.680 was ah. It was a miss. He found the door 124 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:59.759 open and in the front room discovered the body of 125 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.040 a gentleman, well dressed and having cards in his pockets 126 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:08.439 bearing the name of Enoch J. Dribber, Cleveland or High USA. 127 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.160 There had been no robbery or is there any evidence 128 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:16.480 as to how the man met his death. The remarks 129 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:18.079 of blood in the room, but there's no wound upon 130 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.399 his person. We are at a loss as to how 131 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.160 he came into the empty house and heed. The whole 132 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.920 of thows a puzzler. If you can come round to 133 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.240 the house anytime before twelve you'll find me there. Your 134 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:35.000 faithfully to bas Gregson. Gregsmon is the smartest of the 135 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:37.200 Scotland yadas. He and less trade at the pick of 136 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.759 a bad lot. They had their knife into one another, 137 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.600 too jealous as a pair of professional beauties. There would 138 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.320 be some fun over this case of the boat put 139 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:47.759 upon the said fully, there isn't a moment to be lost, 140 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.240 So I go on order you a cab, My dear fellow, 141 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.440 what does it matter to me? Supposing I unravel the 142 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.000 whole matter? You may be sure that gregsmon Less Trade 143 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.480 and Co. Will pocket all the credit he beg you 144 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:02.240 to help him. He knows that I'm his superior and 145 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.120 acknowledges it to me. But he'd cut his tongue out 146 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:09.440 before he'd only twenty third person. However, we may as 147 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:11.679 well go and have a look. I shall work it 148 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.679 out on my own hook. I may have a laugh 149 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.080 at the b I have nothing else. Come on, get 150 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.840 your hat you you wish me to come? Yeah, if 151 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:33.320 you have nothing better, leady, yeah, right, gimm it up. 152 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:37.840 I must say, you don't think you've been doing much 153 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.120 thought the matter in him, all that talking to Cab 154 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:43.639 about Promona Siddils and the difference between the Stadivarius and market. 155 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:47.159 No data yet, it's the capital the stata theorized before 156 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.840 you have all the evidence. Well, I'll have your data soon, 157 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:58.720 aren't we go? In all in good time? Watson, Let's 158 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:02.240 start to observe such a important details as the roadway 159 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:15.200 mm hm, the pavement m and the grass tringe. Ah, yes, 160 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.039 that is interesting, mister Holmes. It's very kind of good 161 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.200 to come, Inspector Gregson. This is my friend, doctor Watson. 162 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.000 I've had everything they've untouched except the past day after 163 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.960 the house. Huh. If I heard of buffalo and passed along, 164 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.840 there couldn't be a greater mess, no doubt. However, you 165 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.120 had drawn your own conclusions before you permitted it. I've 166 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.480 had so much to do inside the house with homes. 167 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:42.000 My colleague, mister lest Trade is here. I relied upon 168 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.440 him to look after the path. With two such men 169 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.840 as yourself and as Trade upon the ground, there will 170 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:49.360 not be much for a third party to find out. Well, 171 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.679 I think we've done all that can be done. It's 172 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.039 a queer case. So and well, I know your taste 173 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.720 for those things. Did you come hear in the cab, Gregson? 174 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.519 Did less trade? Nosa and let us go and look 175 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:13.759 at the room. Ah, good morning, good morning, mistrade. I 176 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.399 think you've met that about something. Of course, it's your room, stir. 177 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.759 Don't this case will make a source. It's anything I've seen, 178 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.440 and I'm no chicken. You found no clue none at all. 179 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.000 Your shirt there is no wound, but as patches of 180 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.919 blood all over the place, no part of it. And 181 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.759 of course this blood belongs to the second individual, because 182 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.720 you would be as a murderer if murder has been committed. 183 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.480 It reminds me of the circumstances dependent on the death 184 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.039 of Van Jansen. A new trek. You remember the case 185 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:46.000 trap a Loser? Read it up, you really should. There's 186 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.240 nothing new under the fund. It's all been done before. 187 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.279 You want to examine the body. So yes, it's just 188 00:11:52.399 --> 00:12:04.480 a quick look, I think, yeah, loose m Well that 189 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:08.320 seems to be all. Just to sniff at his lips 190 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:15.799 and the glance at the soles of these patent leather boots. 191 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:22.279 M hm, yeah, well, I think I've seen everything I 192 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.759 need to see. He's not being moved at all. No 193 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.120 more of them was necessarily for the purposes of our examination. 194 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.480 Then you can take into the mortuary. There's nothing more 195 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:36.159 to be learned, right, Look at this clitter? Hellone, what's 196 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.440 that work? It's a ring? There's been a woman here? 197 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.960 Wait's a woman's waiting ring. Well, this does complicate members, 198 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.879 even though they were complicated enough before. Yeah, sure, it 199 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:51.440 doesn't simplify them. Simplify more. Eyes didn't game Away said, 200 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.639 come come, there's nothing to be learned by tearing at 201 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:00.240 the ring. But did you find it this puppet? Go 202 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:04.480 watch and shame go ring with a Masonic device, Go 203 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:06.919 pin bullo on his head with the movies and eyes 204 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.279 cards of Enoch J. Grebber of Cleveland, corresponding with the 205 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:14.759 EJ D. Upon the linen, No purse but loose money 206 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.720 to the extent of seven pounds thirteen shillings, oh and 207 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.840 two rappers, one addressed to J. Drebber and one to 208 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:24.960 Joseph Stangerson at what a dreaded American Exchange trand to 209 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:27.639 be left till called for. They are both from the 210 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.519 Guion Steamship Company and refer to the sailing of their 211 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.919 boats from Liverpool to New York. Have you made any 212 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.600 inquiries as to this man Stangerson? I did it once their. 213 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.600 I've had advancements sent to all the newspapers, and one 214 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:40.399 of my men has gone to the American Exchange, but 215 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.720 he has not yet returned. Have you sent to Cleveland? 216 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.919 Did anywhere this morning? How did you word your inquiries? 217 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.879 We simply detailed the circumstances and said that we should 218 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:50.720 be cleared of any information that could help us. He 219 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.120 didn't out put particulars on any point of which appear 220 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.919 to you to be crucial by us about Stangerson? Nothing else? 221 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:00.559 Is there a circustance upon which this pope it appears 222 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:04.600 to hinge? Will you not telegraph again? I've said all 223 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.200 I had to say, mister Holmes Smithtic Maxon. I have 224 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:09.720 just made a discovery of the highest importance, and one 225 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:11.440 which would have been overlooked and I not made a 226 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:14.840 careful examination of the walls. Oh, mister Leslade, and what 227 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.960 is it? Look here on this wall. I'll stand there, 228 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:23.600 I'll strike a match. Look at that? What did it say? 229 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:30.399 Come glad? See r A c h E rate. Why 230 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.559 do you think of that? The merger has written it 231 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.399 with his or her own blood? You see this smell 232 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:37.840 where it strickled down the wall. That disposes of the 233 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.519 idea of suicide? Anyhow, Hey, why was that corner chosen 234 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.399 to write it down? I'll tell you you see that 235 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.840 camera on the mantelpiece. It was lit at the time, 236 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.039 and if it was lit, this corner would be the 237 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.440 brightest instead of the darkest portion of the wall. What 238 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.480 does it mean then you have found it? Why? It 239 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.039 means that the writer was going to put the female 240 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:57.720 name Rachel, but was disturbed before he or she had 241 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.639 tried to finish you marked thy words. When this case 242 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.559 comes to be clear up, you will find that a 243 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:05.200 woman made Way something to do with it. Oh, I 244 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.159 will for you all laugh as I shall homes. You 245 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.879 may be very smarting for us, but the old round 246 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.960 is the best one, all cut and done. So I 247 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:15.559 really beg your pardon to say you certainly have the 248 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.600 credit of being the first of it to find the fire. 249 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.759 And as you say, there's a remark of having been 250 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.200 written by the other participant in the last time's mystery. 251 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.600 I have not had time to examine this room yet, 252 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.120 but with your permission, I shall do so. Now, Now 253 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:43.200 where's my lemb there? I think that will do twenty 254 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.000 two minutes. That's a humor. Zones are to the spread 255 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.799 of the trouble and vibe. They say the genius is 256 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.639 an infinite capacity for taking pains. It's a very bad definition, 257 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:54.960 but it does apply to detective Way. What do you 258 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:58.320 think of itself? Oh, it would be robbing you of 259 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.399 the credit of the case if I were to presumed 260 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:02.919 to help you. You're doing so well now that it 261 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:04.840 would be a pity for anyone to d this here. 262 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:07.559 If you let me know how your investigations go, I 263 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:09.279 for they happy to give you any help I can. 264 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.240 In the meantime, I should like to speak to the 265 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.080 constable who found the body. Is he here? No, he's 266 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.639 off guilty Now then can you give me his name 267 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:21.919 and address? Yes, sir, his name is John Ratzon. You'll 268 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:26.120 find him at forty six Ordly fourt, Kennington Park Gate, 269 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:31.840 Kennington Far Gate. Thank you, Come along, doctor, we shall 270 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:35.679 go and look him up. Oh gentlemen, I'll tell you 271 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.240 one thing which may help you in the case. What's denser. 272 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.360 There has been murder done, and the murderer was a man. 273 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.039 He was more than six feet high, was in the 274 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:50.519 prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, 275 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:54.039 square flat boots, and smoked a kitchen up lay cigar. 276 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.120 He came here with his victim in a four wheeled 277 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:59.240 cab which was drawn by a horse. For three old 278 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.919 shoes and one new one on his off fore leg. 279 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.200 In all probability of the murderer had a florid face, 280 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.599 and the fingernails of his right hand were amostly long. 281 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.079 These are only a few indications, but then nailsstrue. A 282 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:18.720 business man was murdered. How was it done? Poison? One 283 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.039 other thingles straight. We don't waste your time looking for 284 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:29.000 miss Rachel Rache is the German for revenge. Come along, doctor, 285 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:44.400 I have a telegram to send. I'm coming home. Now 286 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.720 that I have sent my telegram, we can go and 287 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.440 see this Constable John Rence. You can, he'll be able 288 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:52.720 to help us. There's nothing like first tand evidence. The 289 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:54.880 matter to take my mind is entirely made up on 290 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:56.839 the case. But still we may as well learn all 291 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.480 that is we learn. Yes, you amazing hopes, only you're 292 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.400 not as sure as you pretend to be. Of all 293 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.359 as particular as you gave. There's no room from stay. 294 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.200 The very first thing which I observed on the riding 295 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.440 there was that a cab had made two rufts with 296 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.839 its fields close to the curb. Now, up to last night, 297 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.480 we've had no rain for a week, so that those 298 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.799 fields which left such a deep impression must have been 299 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.599 dead during the night. There were the marks of the 300 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.480 horses hoofs too, the outline of one of which was 301 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:26.559 far more clearly cut than that of the other three, 302 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.960 showing that that was a new shoe. Since the cab 303 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.559 was there after the rain began, and was not there 304 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.359 at any time during the morning, I have Gregson's word 305 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:38.559 for that. It follows that it must have been there 306 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.200 during the night, and therefore that it brought those two 307 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.920 individuals to the house. Well, that seems simple enough, But 308 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.519 how about the other man's fight. Why the height of 309 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.599 a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be 310 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.240 told by the length of his tribe. It's a simple 311 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.519 calcuation enough, though, There's no use my boring you with figures. 312 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:58.720 I had this fellow's tribe both on the clay outside 313 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:01.279 and on the dust within. Then I had a way 314 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:05.119 of checking my calculations. When a man writes on a wall, 315 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:07.839 it instinct leads him to write about the level of 316 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.400 his own eyes. Now that writing was just over six 317 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:17.359 feet from the ground. There's childless any age. Well, if 318 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.519 a man can stride form a half feet without the 319 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.160 smallest effort, he calp it fight in the sere and yellow. 320 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:24.839 This was the breadth of a puddle on the garden 321 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.359 path that she had evidently walked across. Patent leather boots 322 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.119 had gone round, and square toes had stepped over. There's 323 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:35.240 no mystery about it at all. I'm simply applying to 324 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:38.279 ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and 325 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.680 deduction which I advocated in the arcicle Santariga. Is there 326 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.880 anything else that posed you well? The finger nails and 327 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:49.359 the trichinopolis have gone. The writing on the wall was 328 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.720 done with a man's forefinger dipped in blood. My glass 329 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.440 allowed me to observe that the plaster was slightly scratched 330 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.319 in doing it, which would not have been the case 331 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:01.480 had the man's nail been trimmed. M I gathered up 332 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:04.839 some scattered ash from the floor. It was dark in 333 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.480 color and flaky, such an ash as is only made 334 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:12.319 by a prechernotoly. I did a special study a cigar ashes, 335 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:15.720 in that I've written a monograph upon the subject. Here 336 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.079 I flatter myself that I can distinguish at a glance 337 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.000 the ash of any known brand, either of a cigar 338 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:24.480 or tobacco. It's just in such details. But the skills 339 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:29.960 detective differs from the grapesmoonless trade type and the florid face. Then, ah, 340 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.039 that was a more daring shot. Though I have no 341 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:35.920 doubt that I was writing. You mustn't ask me that 342 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:40.400 the present state of the affairs. My head's in a whirl. 343 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:43.440 The more one thinks it, the more mysterious it grows. 344 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:47.039 How came these two men? If they were two men 345 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:50.839 into an empty house? How could one man compel another 346 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.079 to take poison? Where did the blood come from? What 347 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:56.319 was the object of the murderer? Since robbery had no party? 348 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.519 How came the woman's ring? There? And above? Why should 349 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:02.480 the second man right up the German word racha before 350 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:07.079 DECAMPI I confess, and I can't see any possible way 351 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.599 of reconciling all these facts. You're some up. The difficulties 352 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.720 of the situation sucked simply and well, Watson, there is 353 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.359 much that is still obscure, though I've quite made up 354 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.559 my mind on the main facts to poor illustrated. The 355 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:23.079 discovery was simply a blind intended to put the police 356 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.400 upon a wrong track by suggesting socialism and seek his societies. 357 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:29.799 It was not done by a German. Oh, if you 358 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:33.319 notice the A was printed somewhat after the German fashion. 359 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.200 Now a real German, invariably Prince sim the Latin character. 360 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.039 Since we may safely say that this was not written 361 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.960 by one but by a clumsy imitator who overdid his party. 362 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:46.440 Or no, there's simply a ruse to divert inquiry into 363 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:50.200 a wrong channel. I'm not saying to tell you much 364 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.640 more of the case. Doctor. You know, a tanjurer gets 365 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.839 no credit. But once he's explained his tricky and if 366 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:58.799 I show you too much of my method of working, 367 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:01.039 you will come to the inclusion that I'm a very 368 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:05.599 ordinary individual. After room, never do that. You have brought 369 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:09.240 detectionists near to an exact science as it ever will 370 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:13.119 be brought in this world. I'll tell you one other thing. 371 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:17.079 Patent letters and square toes came in the same cab. 372 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:21.240 When they walked down the pathway together as friendly as possible, 373 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:25.119 whilem in arm in all probability. When they got inside, 374 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.759 they walked up and down the room or other patent 375 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.559 letters could still while square toes walked up and down. 376 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:32.599 I could read all that in the dust, and I 377 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:35.200 could read that as he walked. He grew more and 378 00:22:35.319 --> 00:22:38.599 more excited. That's shown by the increased length of his tribe. 379 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:41.559 He was talking all the pile and working himself up 380 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:47.440 now out into a fury. Then the tragedy occurred. Well, 381 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:50.079 I told you all I know myself, for the rest 382 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:54.160 is mere surmise and conjecture. We have a good working basis, however, 383 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:57.319 with the stars and now we met Parry for I 384 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:02.519 particularly want to visit comfortable rents and let's go find 385 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:18.720 a cab. Yes, what is it? You are Constable John 386 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:21.680 Wren Well of it? He wants to know. My name 387 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:24.880 is chellas infect on less trade that I can find 388 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:29.279 you here. It's about the business at Larston Gardens, Brixton Road, 389 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.519 b by report at the office. Come a man, get 390 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:35.839 a bit of rest when it's off duty. We we 391 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:38.079 thought that we should like to hear it all from 392 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:43.319 your own lips. Well, I shall be most happy to 393 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:51.000 tell you anything I can. It's coming you sut you're 394 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:58.119 down on the now? What was it? Just let us 395 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.519 hear it all in your own where is it? As? 396 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:05.880 Very well? My time is from ten at night till 397 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:09.160 six in the morning. At eleven there was a fight 398 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:12.079 at the White Hart, but bar that wall was quiet 399 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:16.559 enough on the beach, but one o'clock it began to rain. 400 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.880 I met Barry March sure as the Holland Grove. We 401 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:23.200