Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, I'm sure we're all as anxious as
Speaker 1: I am to hear the strange story of the Iron Maiden.
Speaker 2: Well, it was just before the turn of the century,
Speaker 2: and Holmes and I had brought to successful completion the
Speaker 2: most delicate mission for the reigning family of Saxony, with
Speaker 2: was spending a day relaxation the picturesque old German town
Speaker 2: of Nuremberg, prepared it to a leisurely trip on the.
Speaker 3: Rhine and then back to England.
Speaker 2: As we were getting up from breakfast in our rooms
Speaker 2: in the hotel, Holmes.
Speaker 4: Said, wonderful weather, Watson, and I see your admiring the
Speaker 4: excellent view of this quaint old town from my window.
Speaker 3: You woos of yous.
Speaker 4: All right, you don't sound very enthusiastic. I'm not not.
Speaker 2: The trouble with Germany, is Holmes, No, but it's full
Speaker 2: of Germans.
Speaker 4: Hum to the waiter, come in, come, in, come in.
Speaker 5: If I the honor of addressing mister Sherlock Holmes of London, England, er.
Speaker 2: This is mister Sherlock Holmes, Sir, my name is Watson.
Speaker 5: Not to watch, yeah, mister Holt so celebrated college. Permit
Speaker 5: me that I introduced myself. Gentlemen, my name is Vedinant Langa.
Speaker 4: Yes, Mattalanga, and.
Speaker 5: My friend, the chief pot of this hotel told me
Speaker 5: of your arrival, and I have come to beg of
Speaker 5: you if perhaps you can help me with my.
Speaker 4: So difficult problem. If it is a matter for the police, Mittalanga,
Speaker 4: I fear that I should be unable to assist you.
Speaker 4: I have no official standing here and betimes, Doctor Watson
Speaker 4: and I will be leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Ah the police. To the police, I have been with
Speaker 5: the Holmes at me, they.
Speaker 2: Laugh, I am how do you say?
Speaker 5: Chief keeper of the film Edgar term Want the five
Speaker 5: corner Tower of the Castle of Nunbeg.
Speaker 4: You have heard of it, of course, and of its
Speaker 4: famous torture museum, Toki Museum.
Speaker 2: It sounds distinctly unpleasant.
Speaker 5: For thirty five years now, I've worked in the tower.
Speaker 5: The last eighteen years, I am chief keeper.
Speaker 4: All this time there.
Speaker 5: Is never a complaint about me. But now these last
Speaker 5: few weeks the letters has started to come, each one
Speaker 5: with more awful threatenings.
Speaker 4: Threats mister Langer, threats of one that for all I.
Speaker 5: Am carety, that I should resign my position, that if
Speaker 5: I do not something terrible will happen here.
Speaker 4: He is the latest for yourself. You shall see me
Speaker 4: to Ah. Yes, if my knowledge of German says me
Speaker 4: vague threats, nothing specific, quite a typical letter. From the
Speaker 4: irregularity of handwriting, mister Langer, these slanting lines, and certain
Speaker 4: other definite characteristics, I'd say that the writer of this
Speaker 4: letter is definitely unbalanced. Ah, you mean Madham, Perhaps not
Speaker 4: outwardly so, but most definitely abnormal. And from the fact
Speaker 4: that these threats are evidently designed to make you resign
Speaker 4: your position, Mitter Langer, I deduce that the author of
Speaker 4: them must be connected in some way with the affairs
Speaker 4: of the Tower suspicions.
Speaker 5: This I do not like to say, mister Holmes, but
Speaker 5: there is a young man, my assistant, Heindrich Shila, who
Speaker 5: but waits to step into my shoes. He even presumes
Speaker 5: to pay court to.
Speaker 4: My daughter La.
Speaker 2: Oh we well, we're very young ones.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I have better things in mine than
Speaker 5: this insolent young man. No, you, to, mister Holmes, think
Speaker 5: Heinrich wrote these letters? You think I should have him
Speaker 5: arrested or dismissed.
Speaker 4: I think you will fire more evidence than a mayor
Speaker 4: guest after Langer.
Speaker 5: But how shall I get it?
Speaker 4: Well? Perhaps when my combined business with pleasure. What do
Speaker 4: you say, wasn't suppose we have mister Langer shows through
Speaker 4: Nuremberg's most famous fight, the Five Corner Tower.
Speaker 5: Oh, here we are, gentlemen. If you will just follow
Speaker 5: me through this gate, here, this very gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Just a moment, my man.
Speaker 4: Are you in charge here?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Madam?
Speaker 3: Then why are these people being admitted to the tower
Speaker 3: while my friend with Simpson and I are kept standing
Speaker 3: about in the mark the bar fiance? Oh do please
Speaker 3: be careful for me? It isn't as though we were home.
Speaker 3: I am sister undoing.
Speaker 5: I am sorry, madam, but guitar is not open for
Speaker 5: visitors until eleven each morning, as you will find. If
Speaker 5: your baby can you have your consult? And it is
Speaker 5: now but ten o'clock?
Speaker 3: Then why are these two men being admitted? Because no excuses?
Speaker 3: I'm English, my man, and in England we believe in
Speaker 3: fair play, no favoritism.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, mister Wungo that you have no objections to
Speaker 4: throwing these two charming leaders through the town with us.
Speaker 4: Of course, mister Holmes, if you say hi, do indeed
Speaker 4: thank you very.
Speaker 3: Much, just what I should expect from fellow.
Speaker 4: British pressure to you later lead the way, mister Langham.
Speaker 5: At this point, in the very center of the castle,
Speaker 5: we are cut from out the solid rock built by
Speaker 5: the prisoners from twelve to fifty three. In sixty years.
Speaker 3: Later twelve fifty three, victorias that what.
Speaker 2: In Heaven's name is that black pit yawning in the
Speaker 2: center of the.
Speaker 4: Thief bruning the deep Wales?
Speaker 5: Lean over and listen by like rock a stone.
Speaker 4: Oh, it must be almost possible, about three hundred and
Speaker 4: forty feet, I'd say you have been needed for mister Horns. No,
Speaker 4: I merely counted the interval from the time you dropped
Speaker 4: the stone until the splash.
Speaker 3: Oh, Melia down her corridor looks. That's a gett it shadow,
Speaker 3: it's getting here.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, can carry yourself, madam. It's merely
Speaker 2: if somebody approach you the.
Speaker 6: Torch, Ah, good morning here longer I did not know
Speaker 6: you are showing a party, thought so earlier that.
Speaker 5: It's highly mister horns Fallow, its highly. Yet sir, here
Speaker 5: are the dungeon, says where we've kept the crest is
Speaker 5: most insanitary.
Speaker 2: I call it nothing but damp stone path.
Speaker 3: That's what I should expect a finder.
Speaker 4: Old here.
Speaker 5: The torture chamber.
Speaker 3: What are all those strange objects? Oh, at least there's
Speaker 3: accounts for the poor prisoners.
Speaker 4: Hardly that idea that the wheelike object of ahead of
Speaker 4: it proclaims it's true purpose.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mister Holmes, this was the wreck, and that they
Speaker 5: would tie the victim, and with the wheel they would
Speaker 5: stretch on stretch, on stretch his limbs until his bones cracked.
Speaker 3: How awful?
Speaker 2: What's that iron color thing of the lead?
Speaker 5: Doctor fits into that larger iron frame which over there
Speaker 5: you may see around the neck of a prisoner. It
Speaker 5: was let unlocked so that the unfortunate man neither sit,
Speaker 5: nor lie down nor slip could your chamber of hers?
Speaker 5: What there is the boot, the iron frame in which
Speaker 5: a prisoner's leg was slowly crushed, the precious for melting
Speaker 5: lead and heating tongues and pincers, they are.
Speaker 4: All here, and that large iron at theare beneath the
Speaker 4: empressure that mister I assume to be a famous iron maiden.
Speaker 1: Iron maid.
Speaker 4: It looked just like a statue.
Speaker 2: He can't say that I consider that a dudiful one.
Speaker 5: It is a statue, Madam, but the hollow one, and
Speaker 5: for good reason.
Speaker 3: I think I'd rather not hear about it, Victoria.
Speaker 5: The two halves of this statue swing open within how
Speaker 5: many iron spikes, as in the moment you will see
Speaker 5: into it was placed the victim, and slowly, slowly the
Speaker 5: door upon him was closed.
Speaker 2: The maiden's kiss.
Speaker 5: The execution has called in.
Speaker 2: Imagined a bunch of fellows.
Speaker 4: There must have been a most cratic description, mister Langham,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 5: Perhaps one of the ladies would like to open this
Speaker 5: statue on CVD.
Speaker 3: Oh no, not, I nonsense, Victoria. The ghost to prisoners
Speaker 3: who've been day to five hundred yeards can't hurt.
Speaker 5: I can't, mister guide.
Speaker 4: I you live this by here.
Speaker 5: And then pull open with this handle.
Speaker 3: It works rather stiffly.
Speaker 4: Now, don't touch me at home.
Speaker 2: Something horrible they spoke of.
Speaker 4: No, it has unbelievable control yourself. Chip. Take these two
Speaker 4: ladies out into the air.
Speaker 3: Up used to like cheer up.
Speaker 4: I must say, home.
Speaker 2: That's about as nasty as sight as I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Crier Watson. Mister Langer, do you recognize this woman? Never
Speaker 4: saw her before? What time? Yes?
Speaker 3: The day.
Speaker 5: Did the last visitors go through you see miss close
Speaker 5: from six o'clock on?
Speaker 4: Mister, then the body of this unfortunate young woman must
Speaker 4: have been placed here between that time last night in
Speaker 4: the present moment. Yeah, but how I cannot.
Speaker 5: Understand now at last to meet the policeman have tradition, undoubtedly,
Speaker 5: and you would best send for them at once, doctor Watson,
Speaker 5: and I will be leaving you in bed tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Morning, and authorities will no doubt wish to take our
Speaker 4: teath immediately.
Speaker 5: I shall see it for him.
Speaker 4: We shall wait here for their arrival.
Speaker 5: Oh, this candle, it will rate the mu season. Mister Holt,
Speaker 5: you have seen Heinrich kill me?
Speaker 4: Could he so terrible a teen have done? And that's
Speaker 4: mister Langer, is a question we're deafly to the police.
Speaker 2: I fetched him at once.
Speaker 4: A curious problem, Watson. The solution is, of course obvious solution.
Speaker 4: This murder you mean murder. There's been no murder, Watson.
Speaker 2: There will remain homes with the cops that were staring
Speaker 2: us in the face from inside, that were voting our statue.
Speaker 4: If you will examine the corpse for a moment, my
Speaker 4: dear Watson, you'll notice that it exhibits no signs whatsoever. Brigard,
Speaker 4: I as save you you're right.
Speaker 2: Health.
Speaker 4: Does it mean simply that this poor woman was dead
Speaker 4: long before herbart was put into the Iron Maiden. I've
Speaker 4: no doubt that the police will quickly be able to
Speaker 4: establish that a corpse is missing from the morgue or
Speaker 4: one of the local hospitals.
Speaker 2: What can be the purpose of so phenix and so
Speaker 2: horrible a plot. I hardly expect you to tell me
Speaker 2: it's merely a practical joke.
Speaker 4: Far from it. Madness lay at the bottom of those
Speaker 4: letters that Lunger showed us at. Madness placed this body
Speaker 4: within the statue. But the difficulty, Watson will be to
Speaker 4: reveal the madmen behind these eggs.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll rejoin Sherlock Holmes as he
Speaker 1: endeavors to solve the mystery of the Iron Maiden men.
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Speaker 1: did Scherlock Holmes do to uncover the madmen behind the
Speaker 1: strange deed in the Five Cornered Tower of Nuremberg.
Speaker 2: Well, by the times the police had finished reversive this
Speaker 2: late in the afternoon, slumperly shake him by the events.
Speaker 4: Of the day.
Speaker 2: We returned to our cowl, where the two ladies whould
Speaker 2: Spencer Grimmer morning with us, we also stopping after a
Speaker 2: tub and whiskey and soda. I don't know which was
Speaker 2: more welcome. I came back into our room to find
Speaker 2: homes in conversation with young Heinrich Schiller.
Speaker 4: Anything I can do, mister Hants, I will.
Speaker 6: I know that the police suspect me of these letters,
Speaker 6: and how can I prove that I did not write them?
Speaker 4: Elsa's father shows clearly that he.
Speaker 6: Thinks it is I behind all this horror.
Speaker 4: If you will carry out my instructions, mister Sheller, I
Speaker 4: think we may succeed in clearing up this matter. This
Speaker 4: evening hen't blessed you, mister Holts.
Speaker 6: If only your camera moved, the shadow that hangs over
Speaker 6: Elsa and myself.
Speaker 4: Ears and now goodbye until later with fire general reversion.
Speaker 2: The young fellow looks as though well woods end.
Speaker 4: If the police, the father of the girl you loved,
Speaker 4: and even the girl herself suspected you of being an
Speaker 4: anonymous letter writer with the latent streak and sane, I
Speaker 4: don't quickly doubt that even you could maintain your usual poise.
Speaker 2: Possible, but I wouldn't write anonymous letters or put copses
Speaker 2: in iron maidens.
Speaker 4: I trust not well.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to do to do good justice to a
Speaker 2: great dinner and then a good night's sleep before we
Speaker 2: start our trip down the Rhine tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I hope that the dinner will be good, but I'm
Speaker 4: sorry to tell you that your chances of a good
Speaker 4: night's sleep look extremely poor. H Why because by ten
Speaker 4: o'clock this evening, you and I must be securely hidden
Speaker 4: in the torture room of the castle. Oh quite, and
Speaker 4: before we dine, I'd be obliged if you would unpack
Speaker 4: your service revolver and make certain that it's loaded. We
Speaker 4: may well be depending upon you before the night is out.
Speaker 4: Just a moment, where are you off to I'm going
Speaker 4: downstairs to see miss Adebury. I'll meet you in the
Speaker 4: dining room.
Speaker 2: That grim faced old trod. Don't tell me you're going
Speaker 2: to ask her and that massive little companion hers to
Speaker 2: dine with us.
Speaker 4: Not at all, my dear fellow. I want miss adabury
Speaker 4: his assistance in baiting a trap. So there, Miss Aderbury,
Speaker 4: you have a frank statement of my problem.
Speaker 3: I understand, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4: The difficulty, you see, is that although the man in
Speaker 4: question is undoubtedly as mad as a hatter. There's no
Speaker 4: way in the world by which I can prove it.
Speaker 4: And what I fear is that, having begun with threatening
Speaker 4: letters and graduated to stolen bodies, his mania may at
Speaker 4: any time break out in an even more violent form.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a home.
Speaker 3: You don't mean murder. Don't be idiotic, Victoria, of course,
Speaker 3: mister Holmes means murder.
Speaker 4: Oh, if you are willing to take the risk, Miss Anderbury,
Speaker 4: it is my belief that a sudden and violent shock
Speaker 4: may serve to bring his madness into the open. But
Speaker 4: I'll not disguise from you the fact that, although doctor Watson,
Speaker 4: then I will take every precaution, you may still be
Speaker 4: running a considerable personal risk.
Speaker 3: Do it, e media, This is no concern of yours.
Speaker 3: Think what the dear Vicar would say. The Vicar will
Speaker 3: probably saint I, however, am made a stern of stuff.
Speaker 3: Mister Holmes. I shall be glad to assist you to
Speaker 3: the best of my ability.
Speaker 4: Capital then I shall see you at about eleven o'clock tonight,
Speaker 4: Miss Adbury. Although you will not see us.
Speaker 2: From the eleven o'clock Holmes, I feel as though we've
Speaker 2: been here most of the night, cold dampness of this
Speaker 2: infernal torture chambers like a breath.
Speaker 3: From a tool.
Speaker 4: I only hope, Watson, that my estimate of our man's
Speaker 4: psychology have been accurate. I'd hate to think that I'd
Speaker 4: put Miss Adderbury into jeopardy unnecessary.
Speaker 2: She looked to me the sort of female who could
Speaker 2: take care of herself if she were charged by a
Speaker 2: mad elephant.
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with her courage, though there are not many
Speaker 4: women who will. Do you hear that, Watson? Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: yes I haven't. Now you understand why I point the
Speaker 4: hour of eleven. The moon has risen, and enough of
Speaker 4: her light comes through that narrow embrasures so that you
Speaker 4: can shood straight. If the media rising I have therevolve
Speaker 4: already hard once they're in this room, you shan't be late.
Speaker 5: You are sure, Miss the Berry, that no one knows
Speaker 5: about this visit.
Speaker 3: I made a point.
Speaker 5: Only because you have shown such great interest and been
Speaker 5: so understanding. Would I fool the power I owe you
Speaker 5: at night when the museum is closed.
Speaker 3: It's too good of you, my dear mister Langer, and
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how much I appreciate it, but
Speaker 3: I did so want to see it by moonlight. When
Speaker 3: I get back to England, I know I shall be
Speaker 3: the envy of all my friends.
Speaker 5: It's because the proper spirit you show to the memories
Speaker 5: of the old Dace that I bring you here now
Speaker 5: it is past at night. Those who have once screamed
Speaker 5: aloud in this hoom almost you'll mentioned that in the
Speaker 5: moonlight you can see them, won't hear them?
Speaker 3: Really, mister Lana, you have the most remarkable ability for
Speaker 3: summoning up the ghosts of the past. When I think
Speaker 3: of what this room must have known, it makes the
Speaker 3: cold shivers run down my spine.
Speaker 5: It is because you have the imagination that you shall
Speaker 5: feel it is but right and proper.
Speaker 3: I was so disappointed today when you were unable to
Speaker 3: complete your description of all these fascinating devices.
Speaker 5: There is no reason why now you should not them
Speaker 5: all be seen.
Speaker 3: That pair of objects hanging on the wall there they
Speaker 3: look almost like gloves hanging at the end of those
Speaker 3: iron chain.
Speaker 5: Hey, they are gloves, but of a variety most strange.
Speaker 5: Come to the wall here do you I show them?
Speaker 5: It is most ingenious. So iron gloves. Open into them
Speaker 5: with the hands of the prisoner.
Speaker 3: Put they may I try them it would all make
Speaker 3: it seem so real.
Speaker 5: But why not here your hands you place inside like this,
Speaker 5: Yeah on, then.
Speaker 3: You close them. Yeah, most interesting. It's rather uncomfortable standing
Speaker 3: here against the wall with my hands change over my head.
Speaker 3: So if you don't mind, that is only.
Speaker 4: Half of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, you have not yet seen.
Speaker 5: I pulled back its levers, and slowly, slowly the stones.
Speaker 4: That they flow on your feet.
Speaker 5: Move away, I'll tell you, hanging above a pit that
Speaker 5: goes down all into the deepest depths.
Speaker 2: Of the castle.
Speaker 3: And you shall lie.
Speaker 2: Or shall hear you already?
Speaker 5: I am to pull the lever that the change will
Speaker 5: release adown you will.
Speaker 4: Go reaching for it star, But what button? Just in time?
Speaker 4: It's everything, all right, Lester Holmes. I watched the corridor
Speaker 4: and as you told me, all right, just traverse that
Speaker 4: in funnel device and let's release miss Edbury much. Are
Speaker 4: you all right, miss Dbury?
Speaker 3: Although it's nothing experience, I should care to peace.
Speaker 4: I can well believe that. But there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 4: your courage, madam.
Speaker 3: I believe I'd like a cup of tea.
Speaker 2: Well, better get this fellow at the hospital homes. I
Speaker 2: got him through the shoulder and having fatal but he's
Speaker 2: losing a lot of blood.
Speaker 4: Well, I will carry him. Mister Holmes hasn't taken him
Speaker 4: through the hospital. Go ahead, Missbury the torch.
Speaker 2: I realized, Homes that the man was mad. The trap
Speaker 2: you set finally brought his madness out into the open.
Speaker 4: But there was on away Watson, a long shot, but
Speaker 4: the successful one.
Speaker 2: I can't understand what Langer was attempting to gay.
Speaker 4: I imagine Watson, that his mind had become prested by
Speaker 4: his many years among his gruesome exhibits of the past,
Speaker 4: and his hatred of young Sheller, both as a prospective
Speaker 4: son in law and as a successor to his own position,
Speaker 4: must have hatched this mad plot.
Speaker 2: Well, it all ended well due to your foreside, Homes
Speaker 2: and to your pluck. Very good show, I must sir,
Speaker 2: it is a pleasure kill.
Speaker 3: Me, doctor Watson. I believe that mister Holmes said that
Speaker 3: you and he are leaving tomorrow morning for a trip
Speaker 3: down the Rhine for your return to England. Ron not
Speaker 3: by any chance going aboard the steamer Earl Kearney.
Speaker 4: Are you well who we are?
Speaker 3: How very fortunate mister Simpson and I are going on
Speaker 3: the same boat, so we shall all reachiptates for a
Speaker 3: delightful week.
Speaker 2: Delightful?
Speaker 3: Are you a bachelor, doctor Watson?
Speaker 4: A bachelor? Yes? Is I am?
Speaker 3: The rhyme scenery they say is nurse from.
Speaker 2: So I've heard just a moment, Homes Swatton, My shoelace
Speaker 2: has come up.
Speaker 4: Done.
Speaker 2: Are you going ahead? Miss Audray? You catch up with
Speaker 2: you in a minute, I say, Holmes, you take her
Speaker 2: back to the teller. I got something else to do.
Speaker 4: I'm going to change our tickets. Watson, Huh, how do
Speaker 4: you know? I thought you might be thinking of giving
Speaker 4: up the Rhine trip and getting out of Germany by
Speaker 4: the fastest train. Brilliant deduction homes the elementary idea Watson,
Speaker 4: Elementary