Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, Will you go on with your story with.
Speaker 2: Pleasure, mister Stark, with pleasure. It was late one Saturday
Speaker 2: evening in May. Holmes, who had been promising.
Speaker 1: To get at it all day, was finally.
Speaker 2: Sorting out certain odds and ends of notes and papers.
Speaker 2: He sat at his desk, the lamplies shining up into
Speaker 2: his eyes, looking rather than like some gigantic bird of prey.
Speaker 1: I lay on the couch, enjoying my faithful briar Watson.
Speaker 2: You'd better put out your pipe if you're going to
Speaker 2: drop off to sleep.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wasn't sleeping. I was thinking. I always think
Speaker 1: better with my eyes closed. And when you're.
Speaker 2: Storing, I suppose I wasn't snoring. Perhaps not, But you
Speaker 2: were getting ready to nothing of the sort some people can't.
Speaker 2: You're seeing anyone else relaxed and at ease while they
Speaker 2: have a.
Speaker 1: Job of work to do.
Speaker 2: May I point out, my dear Holmes, as if you
Speaker 2: had got at your labors at a.
Speaker 1: Decent dour as I did, you, will.
Speaker 2: You sake wat from stopping so confounded?
Speaker 1: Smug? Hell? What's that the door bell?
Speaker 2: Of course you don't look still hopeful, Holmes, I don't
Speaker 2: imagine it's anything that will interrupt your labors. Probably a
Speaker 2: caller from missus Hudson or the green grocer to leave
Speaker 2: his weekly bill. It's not the green roser wantson. He
Speaker 2: rings once and slips the bill under the door.
Speaker 1: No, that is someone for us.
Speaker 2: Ah, whatever brought in here is sufficiently urgent to necessitate
Speaker 2: my postponing sorting these papers.
Speaker 1: Thank Heaven, Come in.
Speaker 2: Come in, mister Holmes, mister Shallock, Holmes Homes. It's mister Melliwether.
Speaker 2: You remember mister Merriwell, the chairman of the City and
Speaker 2: Suburban bang around the corner from Saxico dext Square. It
Speaker 2: with the trouble, isn't there but in the suburban branch
Speaker 2: this time Dr Watson the Chizzick brouse to be it
Speaker 2: sacked Chisick. It was originally pronounced Chiswick Watson, and it's
Speaker 2: still so spelled.
Speaker 1: It means cheese farm. I believe.
Speaker 2: However, I don't imagine mister Medweather has dropped into discuss
Speaker 2: the most frequently mispronounced of all means of communication, the
Speaker 2: English language.
Speaker 1: Good Lord, No, if mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: Something must be done to protect my bank messengers.
Speaker 1: I've had six in hospital.
Speaker 2: With concussion of the brain one a week for the
Speaker 2: last half dozen weeks. It's always on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: It happens year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was under the impression that Chriswick was a quiet,
Speaker 2: respectable suburb that rarely indulged in that sort of a
Speaker 2: Saturday night Nobody doesn't, at least it never has it
Speaker 2: or up to six weeks ago. And now every Saturday night,
Speaker 2: regular day, one of my bank messengers has been a
Speaker 2: tecked and robbed, robbed of a considerable sum of money. Oh,
Speaker 2: now we come to the crux of the matter. What
Speaker 2: exactly were your bank messengers doing with large sums of
Speaker 2: money on Saturday night carrying it from the Elephant and Castle,
Speaker 2: the famous old alehouse in Boston Yard to the bank.
Speaker 1: To be the positive. Isn't that a rather unusual procedure?
Speaker 2: It is, mister Holmes, it is, indeed, he But that's
Speaker 2: how we persuaded old mister Jeremy prior to the Elephant
Speaker 2: the Castle to bring us his account. You see, the
Speaker 2: elephant in Castle does its best business on Saturday night,
Speaker 2: not unusually wants in quiet, quiet peace. Oh, mister Jeremy
Speaker 2: is somewhat pidgity about having that much money lying around
Speaker 2: the place till the bank's open on Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Well, he's been.
Speaker 2: Robbed twice and it's made him Robin nervous.
Speaker 1: I'll blame him if so.
Speaker 2: Were you arranged to have a bonded bank messenger has
Speaker 2: sent over every Saturday night after closing hours.
Speaker 1: To gather up the money. So old, Jeremy, go eat
Speaker 1: in peace. Now. I wish we never made the offer.
Speaker 2: Once the bank messengers signed a receipt for the money,
Speaker 2: the bank is liable for any loss down to the
Speaker 2: last penny.
Speaker 1: Were jove Dan, you have had an expensive six weeks.
Speaker 2: Expensive so far it's cost us puts of three thousand pounds.
Speaker 2: Tell me, mister Medwa, when did the first of these
Speaker 2: robberies occur? Seven weeks ago?
Speaker 1: Tonight?
Speaker 2: It was shortly after closing hours when the policeman on
Speaker 2: the beat heard it, yelling and the shouting as he
Speaker 2: came down hook Off Lane. It's been missed.
Speaker 1: Rising off the river the first you can see nothing.
Speaker 2: For the Lord of Heaven help, I know what's a somebody.
Speaker 1: Help, somebody call him, but I can't see a blessed.
Speaker 2: So hallo, what's the trouble and where are you in
Speaker 2: here through the arch in Bosting, and how are you?
Speaker 1: And what's the difficulty?
Speaker 2: I'm Peddiejonavan caretaking of hook that host. There's a man
Speaker 2: lying lying on the storns, impared me to hip and tinging.
Speaker 1: Hand back as the inside of my pocket in here?
Speaker 2: What's happened to the light of the elephant in Castle
Speaker 2: cur has been.
Speaker 1: Put out this half hour?
Speaker 2: The elephant is a lower abiding house who will never
Speaker 2: see old Jeremy shove a man that drink half thad
Speaker 2: And there's he.
Speaker 1: I double for it.
Speaker 2: Now, don't try the white post, Jeremy, I know the
Speaker 2: old scanty?
Speaker 1: Do you answered? Over here?
Speaker 2: You best see what can be done for this court chap.
Speaker 2: He's in a bad way.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, let's have a look at it, Gord.
Speaker 1: It is a car.
Speaker 2: It's a bank messenger from the city in suburban and Roberly.
Speaker 2: That's what it says, I wanrant.
Speaker 1: When did it happen? I couldn't rightly say offically.
Speaker 2: All I know is that I was knocking up the
Speaker 2: front door of Hoggard's house previous to go into bed,
Speaker 2: when suddenly I heard his scople here in the yard,
Speaker 2: and a man called out like he was in mark Lagon.
Speaker 1: Yellow ran in the air at once, just so fast
Speaker 1: as evanly wooden leg would carry me here.
Speaker 2: I'm not so spry as I once was, you know,
Speaker 2: but I was in time to see a great shadow
Speaker 2: of a man drest calling black with a mask over
Speaker 2: his face.
Speaker 1: He was leaning over this poor fella here.
Speaker 2: When I came into the yard through the archway, I
Speaker 2: says to himself, Ah.
Speaker 1: I've got your trampy buckle.
Speaker 2: Of course, the archway is the only entrance to the
Speaker 2: yard or exit either except you go through into the
Speaker 2: elephant in castle, which I've been after telling he has
Speaker 2: been closed halfway hid. That says maybe, well, at any rate,
Speaker 2: the man shoved past you and out the archway.
Speaker 1: That he did not. I may not be so spraying
Speaker 1: the feet, but mephist is as good as ever.
Speaker 2: No man in Lave can come into a Peddy Donovan
Speaker 2: if he ventures within arms reached out.
Speaker 1: So he went in the elephant and castle he did not?
Speaker 2: Then I suppose you'll be telling me he disappeared into
Speaker 2: thin air. He did something changing, and let me lad
Speaker 2: he skinned up the wall and over it like a cat.
Speaker 2: That's impossible, that their wall is twelve feet dared, and
Speaker 2: there's nothing for footholds anywhere.
Speaker 1: Possible and not.
Speaker 2: That's what happened up he went and over like a cat,
Speaker 2: a great black cat. Give me the yea look at
Speaker 2: listeners explaining, wait, it's the leg of his head. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking there's blood. Who's he light in the pavement from
Speaker 2: behind his ear?
Speaker 1: Help me turn him over. We will have a look
Speaker 1: at the Lord love us. Who do you look at that?
Speaker 1: And nasty Bloyd must have been.
Speaker 2: Cool, but he's more than just an ordinary now lively,
Speaker 2: look here, Look at great bloody gashes when he's right
Speaker 2: down into his neck.
Speaker 1: Why he'd been it with a rake o god, by
Speaker 1: a giant cat.
Speaker 2: I saw this as well, mister Helmes, I promise you
Speaker 2: that's what they look like, the claw marks of a
Speaker 2: gigantic cat, the catman eh who scales twelve foot walls
Speaker 2: and whose blow these deep gashes? Interesting, mister Medwethne interesting
Speaker 2: and just a bit incredible. There is no such creature,
Speaker 2: mister Helms.
Speaker 1: There can't be. Oh I don't know. I saw one once.
Speaker 2: It was in that phrase music Hall, Remember whom the
Speaker 2: chad to end of the Smooth Child wall nearly.
Speaker 1: Sixteen feet high.
Speaker 2: I believe you have some sort of suction device attached
Speaker 2: to his hands and.
Speaker 1: Feet that credit count for it.
Speaker 2: I suppose it might occur for the fellow's disappearance over
Speaker 2: the wall, but not for the gashes. Another significant phenomena
Speaker 2: that is what interests me. Wats in those gashes? This
Speaker 2: man with a wooden leg?
Speaker 1: Donovan? I believe you said his name was Is he.
Speaker 2: A reliable witness, mister Melliwether, right, Yes, at least I
Speaker 2: suppose so. He's been caretaker at Hogarth House for over
Speaker 2: fifteen years. Hogarth Houses where they have the famous collection
Speaker 2: of Hogarth's Joys and the like. It's open to the public.
Speaker 2: It's set Sunday's for small fee. I'm afraid Donovan.
Speaker 1: Isn't kept over busy with visitors. He spends much of.
Speaker 2: His time at the Elephant House.
Speaker 1: Huh, that's it. He was drunk. Instead of seeing a
Speaker 1: pink elephant, he saw man sized black cat.
Speaker 2: Who was substantial enough to claw and rob.
Speaker 1: The bank's messenger.
Speaker 2: Oh well, if you're going to be technical, tell me,
Speaker 2: mister Mediwell, well, this fellow with a wooden leg and
Speaker 2: my host of the elephantant Castle on good terms. Jenivan
Speaker 2: and Jeremy have been cronies for years, mister Holmes, so
Speaker 2: then anything unusual that goes on at the Elephant Castle
Speaker 2: would be known.
Speaker 1: To both undoubtedly.
Speaker 2: In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if between them they'd
Speaker 2: cooked up a neat little scheme to do the bank
Speaker 2: out of a tidy summer money.
Speaker 1: Of course, homes, I see it all.
Speaker 2: Incredible, Old General falls, a messenger to me has just
Speaker 2: handed the day's profits out into a courtyard, bludgeons him
Speaker 2: and retires quickly with the money into his own premises.
Speaker 1: Then along hobbles mister.
Speaker 2: Donovan with a cock and bull story about seeing an
Speaker 2: incredible cat like creature. Gentlemen, it covers his days headings
Speaker 2: and is reimbursed by the bank as well, whereupon he
Speaker 2: has to slip the swag with mister Dunnovan and is
Speaker 2: consequently no better off. But if he'd saved himself the trouble.
Speaker 2: I see your point, mister Holmes. But there are people
Speaker 2: you know who enjoy making a crooked sixpence more than
Speaker 2: a straight shilling. Oh but good heavens is half to eleven,
Speaker 2: And I promised Jeremy I would be at the eleganting
Speaker 2: Castle my closing time. You mean you're undertaking the job
Speaker 2: of bank messenger yourself tonight, mister medical right? I well,
Speaker 2: I'm not a particularly brave man, but I don't feel
Speaker 2: I have the rights to ask an employee to take
Speaker 2: a risk. I would wish to assume myself.
Speaker 1: Oh loom.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, I'm not completely cool, Harvey. I
Speaker 2: think the danger would be considerably minimized if I'm assisted
Speaker 2: by mister Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Speaker 1: What do you say, Watson?
Speaker 2: Would you consider a possible encounter with a catman who
Speaker 2: robs bank messengers a sufficient excuse for postponing tidying up
Speaker 2: my papers?
Speaker 1: What do you think, Holmes? I've gone this.
Speaker 2: I's nevous with all the thank heavens is a moon
Speaker 2: tonight and no fog.
Speaker 1: But here we are, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Hogarth's name takes its name, of course, from him Hogar,
Speaker 2: whose country residence was here situated from seventeen forty nine.
Speaker 1: There, who are I mean? What was calm yourself? Wat?
Speaker 2: And it's merely a police officer on duty if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken. Yes, they stationed an officer at either end
Speaker 2: of the lane every Saturday night. Now they've never caught
Speaker 2: anyone off, prevented the numerous repetitions at the first crime.
Speaker 2: Not so far. Well tonight will be different because Copland's
Speaker 2: yard is personally taken over. Well well, if it isn't
Speaker 2: inspect to lustad my favorite watchdog of the public, Staf did.
Speaker 1: And what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 2: Heros endeavoring to stop the robbings and pluggetings which the
Speaker 2: minions of the law and order don't seem to be
Speaker 2: able to terminate.
Speaker 1: The yell at the one step nearer the scene of
Speaker 1: this crime.
Speaker 2: No one's allowed in busts and yard denied without their permit,
Speaker 2: which I have duly obtained for myself and body part.
Speaker 1: Here it is are you?
Speaker 2: Oh, allow me to introduce you as Cland this is
Speaker 2: mister Mellyweather, whose bank has suffered a considerable loss of
Speaker 2: six successive weeks due to the inefficiency of the police.
Speaker 1: You go to play with pleasure.
Speaker 2: I thought I'd have to rush off the strand, but
Speaker 2: I'm afraid you're making mister Mellyweather late for his appointment
Speaker 2: at the elephanted Castle. Come on, Watson, HM of a
Speaker 2: very well lighted not a fair homes well enough, I
Speaker 2: doubt that anything escaped my notice, conceit pure conceitant telling,
Speaker 2: mister Meadowether in the case of the succeeding Saturday night
Speaker 2: bank Robert is was the pattern of the crime similar
Speaker 2: to the first, almost identical, mister Holmes, except that policemen
Speaker 2: have been stationed at either end of this section of
Speaker 2: Hogarth's Lane to make sure that no one could leave
Speaker 2: or enter without being seen for the police. These so
Speaker 2: as skeptical as you are about a catman, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: And yet each week a messenger has been clawed on
Speaker 2: the back of the head and robbed without uttering a
Speaker 2: sound or putting up a struggle. Oh not without uttering
Speaker 2: a sound, mister Holmes. Each time the victim has cried out,
Speaker 2: but by the time that Donovan has reached the spot,
Speaker 2: the culprit was vanishing over the world. Then in each
Speaker 2: case Donovan was the first to reach the victim. Why, yes,
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 1: Interesting, but that's only natural.
Speaker 2: Donovan is in the habit of smoking his last type
Speaker 2: on the steps of Hogarth House, where where he is
Speaker 2: the caretaker. You see, you're over there. Hogarth House is
Speaker 2: almost directly opposite the entrance to Boston Yard, and consequently,
Speaker 2: after the cry was heard, he was able to reach
Speaker 2: the scene of the crime ahead of the police, who
Speaker 2: had to run some distance.
Speaker 1: Sounds reasonable in out their homes.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that must to the old boilverhead there sitting
Speaker 2: on the steps with one.
Speaker 1: Leg stuck out before him. Yes, he's noticed us. He's
Speaker 1: getting up. No, he's walking away the other direction. Ah,
Speaker 1: Chris God, it was.
Speaker 2: That put of the night's crime. Confounded.
Speaker 1: But that's impossible. Mister Merriwell is here with a lady.
Speaker 1: Wants me run there, go Glevan through the gate into
Speaker 1: into the yard. I say he's a strive for chaperd
Speaker 1: and the one good leg because he don't waste his
Speaker 1: breath that you do want. Here's the entrance, Grevin, what happened?
Speaker 1: I warned him not to do it?
Speaker 2: I warned him. Mister medi said that you were late,
Speaker 2: and he wanted to touch the money to the bank. Couldn't.
Speaker 2: Thought it's Jeremy for the legs best, So Jeremy, the
Speaker 2: money is safe.
Speaker 1: Not this time they didn't get it. I was waiting.
Speaker 1: I'm done for but the money's safe. Jeremy. You know
Speaker 1: who hit you. I suspect it for some time. Now
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: Oh he's going fast and he can't before he kills us.
Speaker 1: Mister Jeremy, who is the criminal? It's it's Peggy, Peggy.
Speaker 2: I he's gone, Jeremy, JEREMYE me, poor old Jeremy. Woman
Speaker 2: thunder is Peggy.
Speaker 1: It's do you know, Donovan? How should I know the cat?
Speaker 2: It must have been a woman all the time, a
Speaker 2: woman testing men's clothes, A woman who could give a
Speaker 2: man a blow hard enough to kill him and then
Speaker 2: disappear over the twelve foot wall. You saw her do that, Donovan,
Speaker 2: before we came in the yard, a minute after you
Speaker 2: got here. Well, what that is in Norman? Maybe tonight
Speaker 2: I didn't see the killer. Maybe tonight I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: I was that upset when I see it as Jimmy,
Speaker 2: I know what?
Speaker 1: So what's wrong here?
Speaker 2: Mister Jeremy has been bludgen the stud He is dead.
Speaker 1: Oh he is right under mister Sherlock.
Speaker 2: Elms says, no, let's start, whoever finish stop. Old Jeremy
Speaker 2: is still here in this courtyard. He couldn't have scaled
Speaker 2: the wall this time.
Speaker 1: We'd have seen him. But it wasn't a he Holmes.
Speaker 2: Mister Jeremy Tay's assailant's name was Peggy. I don't care
Speaker 2: what is her name was, if he or she is
Speaker 2: still here, I was here or you fellas touch the yard.
Speaker 2: That's what we've been doing, goodness, and I think we
Speaker 2: found something inter rested here behind the rain barrel.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: It's a man lie like it was drunk, somebody that
Speaker 2: was sprung out of the pub earlier leaving it's not.
Speaker 1: And who resented it?
Speaker 2: And to gain even with Jeremy, there's motive, had opportunity
Speaker 2: as well. Arrest him and think about to jail, and
Speaker 2: you donovant help him carry the body back into the
Speaker 2: elephant and council. Yes this three points carry em easy
Speaker 2: and with this step my poor Jeremy, Poor poor Jeremy.
Speaker 2: Well say, Scotland Yard is indicted with dispatch and efficiency,
Speaker 2: and but it's the usual packet intelligence and concerns for
Speaker 2: truth and justice. If this man isn't guilty, I suppose
Speaker 2: you can tell us it were quite. However, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: believe me. You see, I have no proof of my theory.
Speaker 2: It will take until next Saturday night to acquire that.
Speaker 2: I feel dash city homes, dressed up in this bank
Speaker 2: messenger outfit. What's the point to it all, Watson? We're
Speaker 2: dealing with a sly and devious criminal. The only way
Speaker 2: is to catch him red handed. During your service in
Speaker 2: the Far East, I believe you've taken part on a
Speaker 2: tiger hunt.
Speaker 1: Oh what are this?
Speaker 2: You know the procedure The hunter tell us a kid
Speaker 2: or a lamb to a tree and then retires to
Speaker 2: a nearby blind to wait for the tiger to attack.
Speaker 1: Kids pray, Only this time it's not a tiger. Whereafter
Speaker 1: it's a cat named Piggy, and I'm the goat.
Speaker 2: Quite yes, I think you may start on your journey
Speaker 2: across Boston yard Watson. It's raining tonight, lowers the visibility. However,
Speaker 2: perhaps that's just as Will or the killer might recognize you. Well,
Speaker 2: all open the door and out to go. You've got
Speaker 2: the earnings of the elephant and castle safe in your punches.
Speaker 1: And naturally you put them there.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck, Watson. Don't be too nervous. Remember the
Speaker 2: strad is hidden behind the rain. Berel five A lot
Speaker 2: of comfort, that is.
Speaker 1: Well, let's get it over with now. Two up, old boy,
Speaker 1: and whatever you do all sideways. When I call out.
Speaker 2: Into a mud huddle, probably he'll arguing too, as I say,
Speaker 2: your life may depend on it.
Speaker 1: Good lord, what a night team? Some dogs? Cats never
Speaker 1: cared much for cats. This isn't going to improve that.
Speaker 1: What's that shadow sleeping along the wall over there?
Speaker 2: Who compound this rain? A? What was that?
Speaker 1: Someone's coming this way? He's running through the gates. Hey, Jovan,
Speaker 1: what's up? He stopped? He snatched off his wooden.
Speaker 2: Leg, and Donovan, I'll take that wooden leg if you
Speaker 2: don't mind, one would put you bludgeon Seven people got you,
Speaker 2: mister Sherlock Holmes chumping told me this was my unlucky knight.
Speaker 2: You can come out the star and take criminal charging
Speaker 2: in crons.
Speaker 1: I saw the old day God your head ended this time.
Speaker 2: Yes, you've got the criminal and his weapon. Notice the
Speaker 2: spikes in the upper.
Speaker 1: End of this wooden leg.
Speaker 2: The wonder The victims looked as if they've been clawed
Speaker 2: by giant cat.
Speaker 1: Well, he's hanging about in his glass right. Come along, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: You slugged and robbed your last Remind me what's the
Speaker 1: where are you let on the ground in a puddle
Speaker 1: of course, look at me a nice mess.
Speaker 2: Ah, I say Holmes, I'm I'm still perplext.
Speaker 1: You know why, well, who was the man who screamed
Speaker 1: just now? Why did Deniman say the cat name is Peggy?
Speaker 1: And when did you first suspect Donovan was the criminal.
Speaker 1: The answers to those questions can wait, Watson, until I
Speaker 1: get you safely hold in a hot tub. That puddle
Speaker 1: is soaked you to the skin. And besides, this is
Speaker 1: Saturday night.