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Speaker 2: Good evening, doctor, good evening.
Speaker 4: It's about hell late. I've been keeping some dinner hot
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Speaker 2: That's very nice. Good thanks doctor. Are you all set
Speaker 2: with the night story?
Speaker 3: Yes, my boy, I'm all set, as you call it.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I was going over my
Speaker 3: notes from the caves just you arrived last week.
Speaker 1: You hitted that a beautiful girl figured prominently in your adventure.
Speaker 3: That's quite right, mister Bartell, an extremely beautiful girl. In fact,
Speaker 3: I often used to.
Speaker 4: Say Sherlock Holmes as if I'd been a little younger
Speaker 4: at the time, I might, oh, well, you haven't come
Speaker 4: here to listen to my personal reminiscences. You wanted to
Speaker 4: hear the story that I called the Problem of toll Bridge.
Speaker 2: That's which apprised us darting how did it begin?
Speaker 5: On a window morning in October in eighteen eighteen nineties,
Speaker 5: was as I was dressing, I observed how the last
Speaker 5: remaining leaves were being whirled away from the solitary plane
Speaker 5: tree which graced the yard behind our Baker Street house.
Speaker 4: I descended to breakfast, prepared to find my companion into
Speaker 4: pressed spirits. For like all great artists, he was easily
Speaker 4: impressed by his surroundings. But to my surprise, he was
Speaker 4: in an unusually gay mood. As I entered the room,
Speaker 4: he looked up at me and with her with a smile. Hope,
Speaker 4: you said, well, splendid, I think so so glad we.
Speaker 3: Are very list this morning. I think you must have
Speaker 3: got a new case, Am I right?
Speaker 1: The faculty of the Kars set in the contagious Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a new case.
Speaker 6: After a month of trivialities and stagnation, the wheels revolved
Speaker 6: once more.
Speaker 1: Tell me all about it? Well, yet there's much to tell.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Neil Gibson?
Speaker 3: You? Who is this has something to do with gold mining?
Speaker 3: Isn't he a great deal to.
Speaker 2: Do with the video follow In fact, he's considered the
Speaker 2: greatest mining magnet in the world.
Speaker 6: Not buy us go he bought largest state in Hampshire
Speaker 6: that you've read of the dicto his wife.
Speaker 3: Of course, I remember the case now. She was murdered
Speaker 3: by jealous governess who was in her employee.
Speaker 6: Wasn't it that pint will be decided and the lady
Speaker 6: in question, Grace Dunbar, I believe her name is, comes
Speaker 6: up for pilot the forthcoming winches to decide this. In
Speaker 6: any case, it's hard for me to see what I
Speaker 6: can do from my tent at this late date.
Speaker 2: Your client, Oh yes, God, I hadn't told you.
Speaker 6: I'm getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards.
Speaker 2: That'll read this letter ken this morning, So love.
Speaker 3: Here, mister Sherlock Holmes. Missus Dunbar is innocent.
Speaker 4: I don't see the finest woman in the world go
Speaker 4: to her death without doing everything.
Speaker 3: Possible to save her. I shall call on.
Speaker 4: You at ten thirty tomorrow morning to discuss the matter,
Speaker 4: yours faithfully, Neil Gibsons.
Speaker 3: We have it.
Speaker 1: Watson is the gentleman. I wait, do you know anything
Speaker 1: about his dead wife? Only what I've been reading in
Speaker 1: the papers.
Speaker 6: Apparently she was past her prime, which was the more
Speaker 6: unfortunate as this Miss Dunbar, who superintended the education of
Speaker 6: the two young children, is reputed the very attractive young.
Speaker 4: Lady, the eternal trianglar. Where does the murder take place?
Speaker 2: On Gibson's estate in Hampshire?
Speaker 6: His wife was found in the grounds nearly half a
Speaker 6: mile from the manor house, late at night, pad in
Speaker 6: her dinner dress, with the shawl over her shoulders and
Speaker 6: a revolver bullet through her brain.
Speaker 3: And a weapon found near her.
Speaker 2: Oh, though no clues found it the scene of the crime.
Speaker 3: What made them suspect to Governess Well in first place?
Speaker 2: There was some very incriminating evidence.
Speaker 1: A revolver with one discharged chamber the caliber corresponding with
Speaker 1: a bullet in the dead woman's head, was found on
Speaker 1: the floor in missus Dunbar's wardrobe.
Speaker 3: Oh was it pretty damaging evidence.
Speaker 6: Home till the coroner thought, And to make the case
Speaker 6: even blacker against miss Unbar, the dead woman had a
Speaker 6: note on her making an appointment at that very spot,
Speaker 6: and the note was signed by the Governess.
Speaker 4: He's obvious if the girl's guilty and the motive's clear,
Speaker 4: Gibson be a great catch for a young girl, love, fortune, power,
Speaker 4: all dependent on one.
Speaker 2: Life, possibly Watson.
Speaker 1: But circumstantial evidence can be very misleading at times.
Speaker 2: Nah as a.
Speaker 6: Gentleman in question, as I'm very much mistaken considerably before
Speaker 6: his time.
Speaker 3: I can see him from the window here, formidable looking
Speaker 3: for her. Must be well over six foot four.
Speaker 1: Judging by the way he's wrenching at that door bell.
Speaker 2: Is a man with the violent temper.
Speaker 3: Is Hudson's opening the door to him?
Speaker 6: Now meet him on the stairs where he won't happen.
Speaker 6: He'll say, missus Hudson, the journey Joe.
Speaker 2: Up here her?
Speaker 3: Thank you? All right you, mister she'll like home? No, no, indeed,
Speaker 3: I miss.
Speaker 1: Polly, don't go up and come along in, won't you,
Speaker 1: mister Neil Gibson. I presume that's right. See all the
Speaker 1: great she'll like old. The adjective is your own, Mister
Speaker 1: Gibson said that, won't you? By the way, you miss
Speaker 1: be quite freely in front of Dr Orbson, Well, I
Speaker 1: may as well begin by telling you that money means
Speaker 1: nothing to me in this case. You can burn it
Speaker 1: if it's any use to you. Inviting the truth, Miss
Speaker 1: Dunbar is innocent and it's up to you to prove it.
Speaker 3: Just name your fee, and.
Speaker 6: Mister Gibson, my professional charges are on a fixed scale.
Speaker 6: I don't bury them except when I omit them altogether.
Speaker 1: Very well, I imagine that you were the newspaper reports.
Speaker 2: Are the coroner's in quest? Yes, very thoroughly.
Speaker 1: I don't see that I can add anything that'll help you,
Speaker 1: But if there any questions you'd like to ask, I'll
Speaker 1: answer them.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: First, what are the exact relations between you and miss Dunbar?
Speaker 1: I suppose you're within your rights in asking such question,
Speaker 1: Mister Hone, we will.
Speaker 2: Agree to suppose, so, shall we?
Speaker 1: Then I can assure you that my relations with Miss
Speaker 1: Dunbar were always those of an employer towards a young
Speaker 1: lady with whom he never conversed or even saw except
Speaker 1: in the company of his children.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll busy man, Mister Gibson. I have no time
Speaker 6: or taste to aim this conversation. I wish you goold Mont.
Speaker 2: What the devil do you mean by this?
Speaker 6: Mister Home, My dear sir, the case is difficult enough
Speaker 6: without your giving me a false information that I lie.
Speaker 6: I was trying to express it as delicately as pass
Speaker 6: that if.
Speaker 2: You insist on the word, I won't contradict you.
Speaker 6: Why you can't found not been noisy, mister Gibson, Please
Speaker 6: don't denise you. I find that after breakfast, Evehen's smallest
Speaker 6: argument is unsettling.
Speaker 2: I'd suggest that it's.
Speaker 6: Toll in the morning air and a little quiet thought
Speaker 6: will be great to the other Auntie.
Speaker 1: I suppose I can't make you take the case. But
Speaker 1: you've done yourself low good this morning, mister Holmes. I've
Speaker 1: broken stronger men than you.
Speaker 3: No man ever crossed me.
Speaker 2: It was the better word running. That's getting you a
Speaker 2: great deal yet to learn.
Speaker 3: On myrsel home. You were unuseless to there with him.
Speaker 6: I just like liars Watson and I cannot tolerate arrogance,
Speaker 6: particularly when he's coupled with great wealth.
Speaker 3: Now, how did you know about his relations with the government.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: It was pure bluff bluff. It certainly worked needs to
Speaker 3: come hack.
Speaker 2: Of course he will.
Speaker 6: He needs my help too badly. He will probably change
Speaker 6: his men for his halfway downstairs, come in, ah, mister Gibson,
Speaker 6: just saying to doctor Watson that I.
Speaker 2: Was setting you'll be back.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking it over, mister Holmes, and I feel
Speaker 1: that perhaps I was hasty in taking your remarks, and
Speaker 1: miss us to say, I can assure you that the
Speaker 1: relations between.
Speaker 2: Miss Dunbar and me really don't affect his case. Surely
Speaker 2: that is for me to decide. Mister Gibson, you.
Speaker 3: Sho to give him my friends.
Speaker 4: Like a doctor, he wants every symptom before he can
Speaker 4: give his diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Fire away, mister Holmes. What is it you want to know?
Speaker 2: The truth? I can give it to you in very
Speaker 2: few words. Inn with. I met my wife when I
Speaker 2: was gold mining.
Speaker 3: In brasbol H. Your wife was Brasian by birth, wasn't you?
Speaker 2: A yes, doctor and very beautiful.
Speaker 1: Well, to make a long story short, I fell in
Speaker 1: love and married her and brought her to England. For
Speaker 1: a few years, I realized that we had nothing, absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing in common. And then I suppose this young governess,
Speaker 1: Miss Dunbar, arrived on the scene.
Speaker 2: That's right, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: Well the story should be obvious to you from mayor
Speaker 1: you will fell in love with his girl, I suppose her.
Speaker 1: Who could help it that you suggest marriage to her? Yes,
Speaker 1: though I knew that my wife would never divorce me
Speaker 1: and I see then you made an utterly insincere proposition
Speaker 1: to her. Now look here, mister Holmes, I came to
Speaker 1: one a question of evans, not of morals. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking for your criticism.
Speaker 2: It's only the young lady's sake.
Speaker 6: Fifturn horses me to touch your case at all. Now
Speaker 6: tell me, sir, what is your own opinion as to
Speaker 6: Miss dunbars gilt.
Speaker 2: It's very black against her. I can't deny that.
Speaker 1: When exploration of the tragedy did come into my head,
Speaker 1: mister Holmes, I give to you for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: Ray continued Miss Gibson. My wife was bitterly jealous. She
Speaker 1: was half crazy with him. Should have planned to murder
Speaker 1: Miss Dunbar, or, we'll say, to threaten the girl with
Speaker 1: the revolver and so frighten her into leading us. There
Speaker 1: might have been a struggle in which the gun exploded
Speaker 1: and gone off and shot my wife who was holding
Speaker 1: it on. That possibility already occurred to me. It's the
Speaker 1: only obvious alternative to deliberate murder.
Speaker 3: Harbur Holmes was found on the floor the Governess's wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Mister Gibson, I should like to examine our house.
Speaker 2: On the scene of the murder as soon as possible safely.
Speaker 1: Mister Holmes, certain Coventry, the local police is still down there.
Speaker 2: He'll give you any help you may need, Excellent Watson.
Speaker 1: Alf out of the time, Jable. We're catching the next
Speaker 1: past train to Winchester, so if.
Speaker 2: I have to have someone else on the case, I'd
Speaker 2: rather have you, mister Elmes.
Speaker 1: The yard gets called in then then we local police
Speaker 1: loses all credit for success, generally gets blamed for the failures.
Speaker 2: Though I've heard that you play straight. I know pure,
Speaker 2: no matter. It's all Sergeant Coventry.
Speaker 6: If I can tear it out, I don't ask if
Speaker 6: you even have my name engined, i'd.
Speaker 2: Say some of you, I'm sure not. I know your friend,
Speaker 2: doctor Watson can be trusted to follow.
Speaker 3: We won't steal any of your thunder.
Speaker 7: It's not friendly of you, doctor. But come on, gentlemen,
Speaker 7: I'll packet down to the bridge. That's where we found
Speaker 7: missus Gibson's body stuff far from the house here.
Speaker 4: Well, I must say, mister Gibson has a beautiful state.
Speaker 4: It must be sixty or seventy acres.
Speaker 7: Or nearly twice that doctor the witch back at us.
Speaker 7: There belongs to him too, mister Elmes, Yes, sugeant, there's
Speaker 7: a question I'd like to ask you question I wouldn't
Speaker 7: ask anyone else, simp please ask it. Don't you think
Speaker 7: there might be a case against missus Gibson. I've been
Speaker 7: considering that possibility that there, miss dunbarss a bit of
Speaker 7: all right. He asked me wanted his wife out of
Speaker 7: the way. And the pistol she was shot with was
Speaker 7: his pistol?
Speaker 3: You know? Was that factor proven?
Speaker 2: Yes, doctor, it was one of a pair.
Speaker 3: That he had.
Speaker 2: One of a pair. Where's the other?
Speaker 7: Well, mister Gibson has a lot of fire armsrey never
Speaker 7: quite matched that particular pistol.
Speaker 2: But the box was made for two.
Speaker 3: Well, if it's one of a pair, surely you'd be
Speaker 3: able to mention it.
Speaker 2: Well, we have them more laid out at the house
Speaker 2: if you want to look him over, and we'll do
Speaker 2: that later. Ah, this I presume it is Tall Bridge.
Speaker 2: That's right, sir, Good. Missus Gibson's body line right here
Speaker 2: at the approach to.
Speaker 6: The bridge, I see I gathered from the newspaper the
Speaker 6: parts the shop was part of Vertic CLO's quarters.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, vertic clost in the right temple, wasn't it
Speaker 2: just behind it?
Speaker 7: So how did the body lie? Sergeant inspect doctor. No
Speaker 7: trace of a struggle, no march, no weapon. The note
Speaker 7: from miss Dunbar was clutched left hand, you said, yes,
Speaker 7: so we could hardly open the things to get at it.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's the greatest importance.
Speaker 6: It excludes the idea that anyone could have placed the
Speaker 6: note there after death in order to furnish a false clue.
Speaker 7: What a little doctor just said, I will be a
Speaker 7: toll bridge at nine o'clock and it was assigned Grace Dunbar.
Speaker 2: It's done by admit writing.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 2: What was her explanation? She will say nothing. Said she
Speaker 2: was setting her defense for the trial.
Speaker 1: Yes, it seems odd that missus Gibson was still touching
Speaker 1: that note. Seems perfectly natural to me, Come now, fellow
Speaker 1: arguing the thing out. Logically, the letter is genuine. It
Speaker 1: was certainly received sometime before the tragedy.
Speaker 2: Cnraco.
Speaker 1: Why then, was the dead woman still clasping it in
Speaker 1: her left hand? Why should she carry it so carefully
Speaker 1: if she certainly didn't need to refer to a note
Speaker 1: at all the interview doesn't.
Speaker 2: Strike you as rather strange?
Speaker 3: Well, are you put it that way? It does seem
Speaker 3: a little peculiar.
Speaker 7: Helloll gard Oh you mean that chip out of that
Speaker 7: stone on the under side of the poaper of the bridge.
Speaker 3: Sir, yes, I noticed it.
Speaker 2: Didn't think nothing of it though.
Speaker 8: Very large tip, yes, but it's been on recently work.
Speaker 8: It's quite just yet it took some to do that,
Speaker 8: and your king, Yes, a hard knock.
Speaker 7: And in a curious place too, but it's fifteen deep
Speaker 7: from where we found the body.
Speaker 4: Mister Dout, Yeah, terms, I don't see how it could
Speaker 4: have any connection with missus Gibson's murder.
Speaker 1: It hasn't, but it's the point worth noting. There were
Speaker 1: no footprints, who says.
Speaker 2: Sergeant and mister the ground was as odd as are
Speaker 2: and it's been a very dry summon. We have no
Speaker 2: range of how much obliged doing.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: I think we'll get back to the house.
Speaker 7: So I says, our show with the firearms, I sir, oh, who,
Speaker 7: he says, A funny kind of a bloke, Brazilian. He
Speaker 7: is Brasilia like this is Gibson's mister Elms. It's from
Speaker 7: the same term that she does, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 7: something very fishy about him, if you ask me. Now,
Speaker 7: if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I'm going to take a
Speaker 7: little stroll around the grounds you started. We are a
Speaker 7: new train of thoughtless case, mister.
Speaker 2: Dan, I'm the lighted sergeant. I get back to the house.
Speaker 1: I see and these are all the firearms in mister
Speaker 1: Gibson's possession.
Speaker 2: He says, I except for the revolver that is missing
Speaker 2: from the kuss. Yes, so, I say, I see him.
Speaker 3: I have never seen such a collection of guns involvers
Speaker 3: in my life.
Speaker 9: Mister Gibson have many enemies, Senor. He always sleep with
Speaker 9: a lauded pistol besides his bed. She's a man of
Speaker 9: great violence. There have been times when all of us
Speaker 9: were afraid of him.
Speaker 6: Did you have this physical violence towards missus Gibson, No, Senor,
Speaker 6: I cannot say that I have.
Speaker 9: But I have heard him say many terrible things to her.
Speaker 9: She would taunt her in front of we servants. I
Speaker 9: have heard them do it many times. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 9: I that will be all will into vain, Senor you Holmes.
Speaker 9: I do think the case against miss Dunbar looks very black.
Speaker 1: I should agree with you if it were not for
Speaker 1: one fact, the finding of the revolver in her wardrobe.
Speaker 3: So Holmes, that seems to me easy the strongest evidence
Speaker 3: of all.
Speaker 1: I think, not old Chef huh. We must look for
Speaker 1: consistency where there is a want of it. We must
Speaker 1: suspect deception. I quite fire suppose from what we've visualized,
Speaker 1: you in the character of a woman who, in cold
Speaker 1: premeditated fashion, is about to murder a rival.
Speaker 2: You've planned it, and it has been written. The victim
Speaker 2: has come.
Speaker 1: You'll have a weapon. The crime is well done. There's
Speaker 1: been workmen I can complete.
Speaker 6: You need to tell me that after carrying out her craft,
Speaker 6: your crime, you'd be so stupid as to forget the thing,
Speaker 6: the incriminating revolver, at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Of the stream, or perhaps in the dense reeds that
Speaker 2: border it.
Speaker 6: Would you carefully carry it home and put it in
Speaker 6: the first place that would be searched.
Speaker 2: Your wardrobe have in the excitement of the moment, One,
Speaker 2: my dear Chap.
Speaker 6: Won't admit that's even possible when the crime is coolly
Speaker 6: premeditated and the means of covering it are coolly permitiated
Speaker 6: and if.
Speaker 3: Miss Dunbar didn't shoot missus Gibson, who the devil did?
Speaker 1: I hope I can give the answer to that question, Watson,
Speaker 1: when we've made one further visit.
Speaker 3: Oh Lord, we'll be now to prison prison.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're going to Winchester Prison to call on Dunbar.
Speaker 1: I'm sutain. But the key to this strange mystery lies
Speaker 1: in her hands. You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's
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Speaker 1: And now back to doctor Watson and tonight Sherlock Holmes Adventure,
Speaker 1: The Problem of tour Bridge.
Speaker 2: Well, doctor, did you go to Winchester Prison and see
Speaker 2: miss Dunbar.
Speaker 3: We did, mister Bartel, And now later I found the
Speaker 3: two of us.
Speaker 4: Sitting in a dank and gloomy cell talking to one
Speaker 4: of the most beautiful girls that I've ever seen. Her
Speaker 4: bright flashing eyes and her air of quiet confidence seems
Speaker 4: sadly out of place in such a city. Homes spoke
Speaker 4: to a quietly.
Speaker 2: Tell us of your true relations with the dead woman.
Speaker 10: She hated me, mister Holmes. She hated me with all
Speaker 10: the passion of her distorted mind.
Speaker 1: Please tell us exactly what happened on the evening of
Speaker 1: missus Gids since death.
Speaker 10: Well, I I received a note from her in the morning,
Speaker 10: a note imploring me to meet her at the bridge
Speaker 10: after dinner that night. She said she had something important
Speaker 10: to say to me. Did you keep that note with
Speaker 10: no doctor?
Speaker 2: She well?
Speaker 10: She asked me to destroy the note, so I burned
Speaker 10: it in the schoolroom grade. I saw no reason for
Speaker 10: such secrecy.
Speaker 1: But when I did as she asked, hmm, and yet
Speaker 1: she kept you up applying her a carefully.
Speaker 2: It's interesting, I mean, what happened when you met her
Speaker 2: that night?
Speaker 10: When I reached the bridge, she was waiting for me.
Speaker 10: I won't tell you what she said, but she poured
Speaker 10: out her whole wild fury and burning horrible words. I
Speaker 10: didn't answer.
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 10: It was dreadful even to look at her. She was
Speaker 10: like an insane woman standing there screaming disgusting insults at me.
Speaker 10: I put my hands to my ears and rushed away.
Speaker 3: Well if she's staring when you left.
Speaker 10: Her within a few yards of a spot where her
Speaker 10: body was found later.
Speaker 2: And yet presuming she met her death shortly after you
Speaker 2: left her, you heard no.
Speaker 10: No, no, I heard nothing. But I was so upset,
Speaker 10: mister Holmes that I rushed straight.
Speaker 2: Back to my room. Did you leave it again that night?
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 10: When the alarm came that missus Gibson was dead, I
Speaker 10: ran up with the others.
Speaker 3: Did you see mister Gibson?
Speaker 10: Yes, doctor he had just returned from the bridge when
Speaker 10: I saw him. He had sent for the doctor and
Speaker 10: the police.
Speaker 2: This pistol that you found in your room, have you
Speaker 2: ever seen it before?
Speaker 10: Never, mister Humes, I sweat. When was the fire in
Speaker 10: the next morning when the police did their search, it
Speaker 10: was on the floor of my wardrobe, where I'd keep
Speaker 10: my shoes.
Speaker 2: You had no idea how long it had been there?
Speaker 10: But it hadn't been there the morning before?
Speaker 2: How do you know?
Speaker 10: Because I had tidied up the wardrobe that day.
Speaker 1: I see, then someone must have come into your room
Speaker 1: and placed the piscol there in order to incriminate your
Speaker 1: and certain nothing well, and.
Speaker 3: Could they have done there?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 10: It could have been at meal time or when I
Speaker 10: was in the school room, mister children.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miss dunbar On Exena was gone missus Gibson's death.
Speaker 1: I noticed that a piece of stone work on the
Speaker 1: underside of the telepate of the bridge had been broken away?
Speaker 1: Can you suggest any possible explanation for that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: Surely it must have been a mere coincidence.
Speaker 1: Possibly, But why should it appear at the very time
Speaker 1: of the tragedy and at the very place?
Speaker 2: Could it possibly be the why? Yes, of course, idiot?
Speaker 2: Why didn't I think it did before? Come wrong? Watson?
Speaker 3: Where are we going?
Speaker 6: Homes back to Fort Bridge o'feller as fast.
Speaker 2: As we can get there.
Speaker 1: What have you found out, mister Holmes the answer to
Speaker 1: this mystery?
Speaker 6: I hope, my dear young lady, he will get news
Speaker 6: before the day is out. And meanwhile, take my assurance
Speaker 6: the clouds are lifting.
Speaker 2: And that the life of truth is breaking through. Well,
Speaker 2: mister Rols still back here? What if your found on
Speaker 2: a few moments now you've got my message? Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: here you are all a twice what you wanted for
Speaker 2: a cordilation.
Speaker 6: You soon see, Sergeant Watson, I have some recollection that
Speaker 6: you usually go armed on these excursions of ours.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm carrying my voval.
Speaker 2: Give it to me, old Chap, No thanks.
Speaker 1: I believe your revolver may have a very intimate connection
Speaker 1: with the mystery we're investigating.
Speaker 2: N't I very serious? A test to make?
Speaker 6: The test is successful, Miss Dunbar will be free before nightfall,
Speaker 6: and the test will depend on the conduct of this
Speaker 6: revolver of yours.
Speaker 2: Take the precaution of unloading it.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: There we are now, targeant ball twine please shall be
Speaker 2: what you was up to, sir.
Speaker 6: I tie one into the twine like this to the
Speaker 6: handle of the revolver. So starge and see if you
Speaker 6: can find me a heavy stone?
Speaker 2: Will you want to ruck?
Speaker 9: Your sir?
Speaker 1: What are you doing trying to reconstruct.
Speaker 2: The king of Thissus Gibson that you've seen me?
Speaker 1: Miss the mark before, Watson, I have an instinct for
Speaker 1: such things, and yet it has sometimes played me false.
Speaker 2: It seemed a certainty when it first clashed. Course my
Speaker 2: mind it was dunbar cell.
Speaker 6: But one drawback of an active mind is that one
Speaker 6: can always conceive alternative explanations which would make us sense
Speaker 6: a false swam.
Speaker 2: And yet, oh well we can but try, is my
Speaker 2: stillest rose? Thank you, sergeant.
Speaker 1: Now I tie the other end of the twine to
Speaker 1: the stone. Wait a minute, like that, splend it, sargeant.
Speaker 1: Will you please take the stone and stretch the twine
Speaker 1: across the parapet of the.
Speaker 6: Bridge there so that the stone will swing just tail
Speaker 6: to the water on the other side of the bridge. Right, yes,
Speaker 6: I'll stand the pot where Missus Gibson's body was found,
Speaker 6: adds a sergeant over the parapet.
Speaker 3: Out, said mister Rowse. The stone swing about eight feet.
Speaker 2: A bog of water. Splend it now, Watson, watch closely.
Speaker 2: I raised the revolver to my head.
Speaker 3: Careful, homes, careful, nobody.
Speaker 6: Old Jeb's not loaded. Now let us imagine I am
Speaker 6: late Missus Gibson. I raised the revolver to my head
Speaker 6: and fire it instantly. Think us release that Gribbin.
Speaker 1: Thanks you answer, Watson, great comfort of all.
Speaker 4: The flash back out of your hand struck the parap's
Speaker 4: bridge and then the way till the stone slipped it
Speaker 4: over into the water.
Speaker 2: However, I'm more exact demonstration.
Speaker 6: Come on o'cofditi, misters, that's.
Speaker 3: What you wore.
Speaker 1: Served the second ship on the stonework, the caliphate here same.
Speaker 3: Size as the first. And the murder Missus basont murder
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 2: It was suicide. But we can follow the various steps
Speaker 2: quite clearly.
Speaker 6: A note was extracted very cleverly from Miss Dunbar, a
Speaker 6: note which made it appear that she had chosen the
Speaker 6: scene of the crime. Missus Gibson, in her anxiety that
Speaker 6: the note should be discovered somewhat overdid it by holding
Speaker 6: it in her hand to the last. That alone should
Speaker 6: have excited my suspicions earlier than it did.
Speaker 3: She stole one of her husband's revolvers, was it the
Speaker 3: other one?
Speaker 2: Miss Dunbar's water jacta.
Speaker 6: After discharging one of the cartridges, which she could easily
Speaker 6: do in the woods without attracting suspicion, she then went
Speaker 6: down to the bridge, where she contrived the succeedingly ingenious
Speaker 6: method of getting rid of her weapon. When miss Dunbar appeared,
Speaker 6: she used her last breath in pouring out.
Speaker 1: Her hatred, and then, when the girl had left, carried
Speaker 1: out her terrible purpose.
Speaker 3: In this reform.
Speaker 1: You'll find it with the aid of a grappling hook
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the stream, and also the stone
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: String with which this vindictive woman added it. To the
Speaker 2: guys are own crime and fast the charge.
Speaker 1: Of murder on an innocent victim, youre, sergeant, And don't
Speaker 1: forget while you're at it, that my revolver was down
Speaker 1: there too.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, doctor, I'll get some grappling.
Speaker 3: Hooks right away. I must say, homes, you saw this
Speaker 3: case dimply quite brilliant.
Speaker 9: Blur ah.
Speaker 6: I disagree, old chef, and I fear that you will
Speaker 6: not improve my reputation by heading the case of the
Speaker 6: toll bridge mystery to your animal.
Speaker 3: Oh nonsense, was that ridiculous?
Speaker 2: Oh no, it is, no boy.
Speaker 6: I've been sluggish in my mind and wanting in that
Speaker 6: mixture of imagination and reality which is the very basis
Speaker 6: of my art. I confess that the chip in the
Speaker 6: stonework was a sufficient clue to suggest the fools, so Lucien.
Speaker 2: And I blame myself. I'm not having attained it sooner.
Speaker 3: Well I was personally. I agree with the sergeant's opinion
Speaker 3: on you.
Speaker 2: Oh what was that over?
Speaker 3: You're a blooming magician, Mistrobes. That's what you are, a
Speaker 3: blooming magician.
Speaker 2: Well, doctor Holmes really was a magician. That is if
Speaker 2: you did find missus Gibson's revolver and your own.
Speaker 9: It wants to be.
Speaker 3: Fun of all right, don't think i'll tell you the
Speaker 3: story otherwise, don't you what do you take before? Anyway? Well,
Speaker 3: now that you ask, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I thank you for a very charming gentleman, a wonderful storyteller,
Speaker 1: and a fine hole. Well you are a gentleman of
Speaker 1: the old school, tell a fine story, and you are
Speaker 1: a perfect toast. That year we had tonight was wonderful
Speaker 1: it was. And that that wine, what kind was it?
Speaker 3: It was Petri wine, and you know it. And I
Speaker 3: should have known that you were leading up to something.
Speaker 3: Mister Boto, you should be ashamed of yourself. You will
Speaker 3: do anything to get a chat. Petrie. I can't say
Speaker 3: I blame.
Speaker 1: You, honestly, doctor, I meant everything I said, but you
Speaker 1: don't really want me to stop talking about Petrie wine.
Speaker 1: After all, it's worth talking about, isn't it. What other
Speaker 1: wine is made with a loving care that goes into
Speaker 1: Petrie wine? Forget Petrie wine is made by the Petrie family.
Speaker 1: Wine making is their business. Why they've been making wine
Speaker 1: for generations, handing down from father to son, from father
Speaker 1: to son, all their skill and knowledge and experience.
Speaker 2: You can be sure Petrie.
Speaker 1: Family really knows plenty about the fine art of turning
Speaker 1: luscious grapes into delicious wine. That's why, whether you want
Speaker 1: a wine for before dinner, with dinner, or for any time,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with a Petrie wine because Petrie
Speaker 1: took time to bring you good wine. And now, doctor Watson,
Speaker 1: what new story are you planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 4: Well, next thing it's about tell I'm good telling an
Speaker 4: adventure that Holmes and I had him in the audiential
Speaker 4: magnificence Ramaharaj just peedas.
Speaker 3: In India India.
Speaker 2: Sounds intriguing.
Speaker 3: What were you and Sherlock Homes doing out there?
Speaker 1: Doctor?
Speaker 3: We will have to wait until next week we answer
Speaker 3: that question.
Speaker 4: We were, but I can tell you that it was
Speaker 4: one of the weirdest problems that we ever have to solve.
Speaker 3: I call the story The Vanishing Elephant Tonight.
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holm's Adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Speaker 1: Boucher and is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle story
Speaker 1: The Problem of tour Bridge. Mister Rathbone appears through the
Speaker 1: courtesy of Metro Goldwen Mayor and mister Bruce through the
Speaker 1: courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
Speaker 1: the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petree Wine Company of San Francisco,
Speaker 1: California invites you to tune in again next week, same time,
Speaker 1: same station.
Speaker 3: The Petree family took the time to bring you such
Speaker 3: good wine. Cool when you eat, and when you cook,
Speaker 3: remember Petree wine.
Speaker 2: To make good food taste better.
Speaker 1: Remember Hurt Hurty. This is Harry Martell saying good night
Speaker 1: for the Petrick family. Sherlt Holmes comes to you from
Speaker 1: our Hollywood Studios.
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