WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:03.480 And now doctor Watson, to return to your specialty, the 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.240 Adventures of mister Sherlock Holmes. 3 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:08.199 Thank you, mister Harris. Yes, I must say it's an 4 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:11.160 enthusiasm I seem to share with a great many friends 5 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.240 and critics. As you'll probably know, there's a collection of 6 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.719 Erludyk gentlemen all over the United States of America who 7 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:21.760 are ardent Sherlock Holmes and Matters, and who call themselves 8 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.760 the Baker Street Irregulars. Why would you believe it? They 9 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:28.480 even argue with me about the accuracy of some of 10 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:29.320 my stories. 11 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:31.960 Do they ever win the arguments? Doctor Watson? 12 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.640 You know Holmes always said I had a weakness for 13 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:39.520 embroidering a tale. But that's neither here nor there. So 14 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.759 here's tonight's adventure, the sixth Napoleons. 15 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.640 Six Napoleons. Why, good grief, doctor, I should think one 16 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.079 gentleman of that Carol caliber was all the world could 17 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:50.520 stand at the time. Or is it the name of 18 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:51.640 an acrobatic troop. 19 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:55.840 No, mister Harris, it's something even more than usual, as 20 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.520 you may have gathered. Inspect of Lestrade of Scotland Yard 21 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.719 was a frequent visitor of ours in the old Baker 22 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.799 Street days. Between him and Sherlock Holmes, there was a 23 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.920 friendly rivalry. His calls were welcome because they enabled us 24 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.959 to keep in touch with things at Scotland Yard. In 25 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.560 return for this news, her Holmes were sometimes able, or 26 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.239 without any active interference, to give some valuable hint on 27 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:19.599 the solution of a crime. 28 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.959 The word isn't sometimes, doctor Watson, it's frequently. 29 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.879 Possibly On the particular evening I'm referring to, Lestart had 30 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:31.000 come in wearing a preoccupied look. He spoke casually of 31 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:35.840 the weather and the newspapers. Then he fell silent, puffing 32 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:36.760 thoughtfully on one. 33 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:55.159 Of his atrocious cigars. Holmes looked at him keenly. Nothing 34 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:57.840 remarkable on hand, I suppose, Restrande. 35 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:01.519 No, no, nothing in particular. Then tell me about it. 36 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.560 But there's no use denying. 37 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.800 There is something on my mind. And see that quiet Watson. Well, 38 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:10.560 the start out with it? Has the Bank of England 39 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.319 been threatened? Or has someone stolen the doormat at Scotland Yard. 40 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.840 Well, as a matter of fact, the business is so 41 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.800 absurd that I hesitate to. 42 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:18.759 Bother you about it. 43 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.199 On the other hand, though trivial, it is undoubtedly queer 44 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.360 and I know you have a taste for anything that's 45 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.240 out of the common. In my humble opinion, it comes 46 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.840 more in doctor Watson's line than in ours. You mean disease, well, 47 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.360 madness anyway, and a queer sort of madness too. You'd 48 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.319 hardly think anyone living in this day and age would 49 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.840 have such a hatred of Napoleon that he felt compelled 50 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:43.800 to break any image of him that he saw. 51 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.199 Is that all that sort of nonsense is no business 52 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.000 of mind exactly, That's just what I said. 53 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:51.919 But when the man commits burglary in order to satisfy 54 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.479 his craving for breaking images, that takes it out of 55 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.479 the doctor's problems and into ours. 56 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.280 Burglary. Eh, that's more interesting. Give us the detail. That's 57 00:02:59.319 --> 00:02:59.759 a good chap. 58 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.759 So far, there have been four cases, numbers one and 59 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.639 two reported four days ago. It was at the shop 60 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.439 of Mosse Hudson, who sells pictures and statues in the 61 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:12.280 Kennington Road. The assistant had left the shop for a 62 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.000 few moments when he heard a loud crash, hurried back 63 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:18.879 and found two plaster busts of Napoleon lying shimmered into fragments. 64 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.479 He rushed out into the road, but couldn't find the cuntrite, 65 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.199 although several passers by declared they had noticed. 66 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:25.639 A man run out of the shop. How much were 67 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:27.520 the busts worth? Only a few shillings And. 68 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:29.560 I thought you said there was a robbery. That's just 69 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:32.319 one of the senisterus acts of hooliganism which are becoming 70 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:33.439 more and more prevalent. 71 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:36.639 The third and fourth cases were more serious. Yes, yes, 72 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.599 they occurred only last night. In Kennington Road and within 73 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.120 a few hundred yards of moss Hudson's shop lives Doctor Barnicot, 74 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.000 a well known medical practitioner. 75 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.639 Thank you, Yes, I've heard of him. He has one 76 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.240 of the largest practices on the south side of the Thames. 77 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:52.599 Interrupts well. 78 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:56.240 His residence and principal consulting rooms are in Kennington Road, 79 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.599 but he has a branch surgery at Lower Buxton Road, 80 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:02.759 two miles away. Doctor Barnicot's an enthusiastic admirer of Napoleon 81 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.360 and had recently purchased from Moss Hudson two duplicate plaster 82 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.960 casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French 83 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.000 sculptor Leavin. One of these he placed in his home 84 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.280 and one in the surgery in Buxton Road. Well, well, 85 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.040 when doctor Barnicot came down to breakfast this morning, he 86 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.360 was astonished to find that the house had been broken 87 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.240 into during the night, and still more astonished to discover 88 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.920 that the only thing taken was the pasta head of Napoleon. 89 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.160 It had been carried out and shattered against the garden wall. 90 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.839 This is beginning to be interesting. And the fourth case. 91 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.879 At twelve o'clock and doctor Barnicut arrived at his surgery, 92 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.839 he found the window broken and fragments of the fourth 93 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:39.079 bust strewn. 94 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.160 All over the room. And there's no clue as to 95 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.720 the criminal's identity. Those are the facts, mister Roads. 96 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:48.600 Singular, not to say grotesque. Were the two bus smashed 97 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.560 in doctor Barnicot's rooms exact duplicates are the ones destroyed 98 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:52.519 in Moss Hudson's shop. 99 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:54.040 They were taken from the same mode. 100 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.759 That's a coincidence, yes, And it tells against the theory 101 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.600 that the man who breaks these bus is influenced general 102 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.160 hatred of Napoleon. How do you make that out, mister Rowes, 103 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.399 considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor 104 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:07.839 must exist in London. It's too much to suppose that 105 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:11.439 a promiscuous iconoclast would chance to begin with four specimens 106 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.360 from the same mold. 107 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:14.920 I thought that way myself at first. 108 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.639 But on the other hand, this mors Hudson's the only 109 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.000 purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these 110 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:21.959 four were the only ones of Napoleon that have been 111 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 in his shop for years. Therefore it seems logical that 112 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.040 a local fanatic would begin with them. What do you think, 113 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:28.959 doctor Watts. 114 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.360 Well, there are no limits to the possibilities of monomania Lestrade. 115 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.759 For example, there is the condition which the Finis psychologists 116 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.399 called the Eda fix, which may be trifling in character 117 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:42.120 and accompanied by a complete senate in every other way, 118 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.199 the man who had read deeply about Napoleon might conceiva reform, 119 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.279 such a need a fix, and under its influence be 120 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.360 capable of any fantastic outrage. 121 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.199 No it won't do, my dear Watson, it won't do. 122 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:54.879 Why not? 123 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.639 No Eda fix would enable your interesting monomaniac to find 124 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.199 out where these busts are sitch. All right, then, how 125 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.800 do you explain it? I don't attempt to do so yet, 126 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.759 but one thing is obvious. There's nothing abnormal about this 127 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.959 bust smasher. There's too much method in its eccentric proceedings 128 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.360 for that. In what way to consider? In the Barnicott house, 129 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.160 where any sound might arouse the family, the bust was 130 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.439 taken outside before being broken, whereas in the surgery, where 131 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:22.720 there was less danger of an alarm, it was smashed 132 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.279 where it stood. The affair scenes absurdly trifling, And yet 133 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.399 some of my most classic cases have had the least 134 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:29.360 promising beginnings. 135 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.000 You'll remember, Watson, how the dreadful. 136 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.319 Business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my 137 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.959 notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into 138 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.800 the butter on a hot day. I can't afford to 139 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.000 smile at your broken bus Lestrada. On the contrary, I Hello, 140 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:43.959 what's that the. 141 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.959 Front door bell? Of course, for a great detective, you 142 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:48.879 do have your obtuse moments home. 143 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:50.680 Naturally, I know it's the front doorbell. What I want 144 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:51.759 to know is why it's bringing in the middle of 145 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:52.040 the night. 146 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.600 Come in. Hello, Missushudson wants the. 147 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:59.279 Matter A policeman downstairs, Sir says, mister Lestrade is wanted 148 00:06:59.360 --> 00:06:59.920 right away. 149 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:01.439 What's up now? He said? 150 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:03.480 As how I was to tell you there'd been another 151 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.040 bust busted, he said, you'd. 152 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.839 Know what he meant, becoming an epidemical sounded right, couldn't 153 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:10.040 They waited till morning to. 154 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:10.600 Rub me out? 155 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:13.720 He says, you're to come right away, because this time 156 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:14.839 there's a murder. 157 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.439 Well, mister Harris, naturally, Holmes and I threw on our hats, 158 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.600 I picked up my service revolver and we dashed down 159 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.800 the stairs, with Lestrada panting behind us. Fortunately a policeman 160 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.839 had a cab waiting. We piled in hurriedly and drove 161 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:40.600 off to Pitt. 162 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:41.879 Street, to the scene of the crime. 163 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.759 Holmes, Lestrada and I dismissed our cab at the corner 164 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.040 of the street. It was obvious that news of the 165 00:07:53.199 --> 00:08:06.439 murder had got around here. 166 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:09.759 We are Elms number one three one Pitt Street. That 167 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:11.800 must be the house where the crime was committed. 168 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:13.839 Yes, and a first class murder. It must have been 169 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:15.839 nothing less would drawn such a crowd in the middle 170 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.279 of the night. Notice the look of qualified delight in 171 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:19.560 that messenger boy's face. 172 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.920 He let us through, Let us through. I say, we're 173 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:24.079 from Scotland Yard. 174 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.519 Come in, gentlemen, Come in, mister Lestrade, thank heaven you 175 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:32.440 got here at last. 176 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:36.200 Well, if it is mister Dorris Arker of the Central 177 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:37.440 Press Syndicate. 178 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.080 It's an extraordinary thing, Lestrade. All my life I've been 179 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.799 collecting other people's news, and now that a real piece 180 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.120 of music come my own way, I'm so confused and 181 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.799 bother that I can't put two words together. If I'd 182 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.039 come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed 183 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.600 myself and had two columns in every evening page. You 184 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:57.039 remember when the stand fell in Doncaster. Well, I was 185 00:08:57.080 --> 00:08:59.720 the only journalist in the stand, and my journal was 186 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.879 the only one that had no account of it, for 187 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.120 I was too shaken to write it. And now i'll 188 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.720 be too late again with that terrible murder done. 189 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.399 On me on doorship, you'd better tell us just what happened. 190 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:10.840 Wait a minute, I'll call my wife. 191 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:11.480 She was with me. 192 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.840 Many many the police have come. 193 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.519 God be praised, What a night we've had. I was 194 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.120 just saying to Horas, this is what comes up staying 195 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.600 up late. If we'd been safe in our bed whenever 196 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:25.320 should have heard. 197 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:29.399 The Commotionsrker, mister Arker, May I present my friends Dr 198 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.360 Watson and Sherlaco. 199 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:37.120 Holmes. That is all that you see, Horace, I told you. 200 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.279 Next thing, you know, he'll be suspecting you of the murder. 201 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.120 I assure you, mister Harker, I am only here unofficially 202 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:46.279 inspects has charged this case. 203 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:48.240 Well that's a relief anyway. 204 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.799 Oh well, I mean, well, you see, mister Mistrad knows Horace, 205 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:57.919 and that's something I mean, well you understand that is 206 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:58.559 our course. 207 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.000 As a matter of fact. Thing that interests me most 208 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.200 of all isn't the murder. No, No, it's the broken 209 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:05.200 bust of Napoleon. 210 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:08.840 Yes, that's it. It all started with that bust. 211 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.519 I never did like the man Napoleon, I mean, and 212 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.879 why Horace wanted a bust of him sitting in the 213 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:14.399 living room. 214 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:19.000 But perhaps i'd better tell the gentleman just what did happen? 215 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.159 Yes, I suppose that would be a good idea. 216 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:24.320 As many were saying, it all seems to center around 217 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.279 that bust of Napoleon. 218 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.080 That I bought for this very room about four months ago. 219 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:30.240 Where did you purchase it was to Hawker from the. 220 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:34.200 Moss Huts and shopmer Storms in Kennington Road. Well, as 221 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:35.600 you may know, gentlemen. 222 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.000 A great deal of a journalist work at night. I 223 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:39.440 opened write until the early. 224 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:40.879 Morning, just ruining his head. 225 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.080 Mother, Well, tonight. 226 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.320 I was sitting in my den, which is at the 227 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.960 top of the house at the back. I'd almost finished 228 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.960 my work, and many was trying to get me to 229 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:49.840 come to bed. 230 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:07.200 Just a few minutes. Mother, I'm almost true. 231 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:10.200 But here it is after twelve again. What must the 232 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:13.200 neighbors think seeing your light burning all hours. 233 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:13.360 Of the night. 234 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.039 What does it matter what they think? 235 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.440 Besides, you're ruin your eyes? Oh mother, what is it 236 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:19.440 You've got to sit up for? 237 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:20.200 This time? 238 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.879 It's a new column we're running, Mother, Advice to the 239 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.639 Love Lawn by Gwendolen Desmond. 240 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.759 Advice to the Love Lawn for that. That's indecent a 241 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:34.559 man writing things like that, I know, Mother, but. 242 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.639 Better a married man than a single man. If I 243 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:40.879 don't do it, they probably get that young whipper snapper Jones, 244 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.000 and lord only those the things he'd think up with. 245 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.519 What's that Burglars? 246 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.159 I know it's Burglars, nonsense, Mother, probably just the catch 247 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.080 is not something off the mantlepiece. 248 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.039 No, I'm sure it's Burglars. Very well, I'll go down 249 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:58.480 and see. 250 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.320 Oh, how are you you're not going down there? 251 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.399 How else can I find out? If it's the cat 252 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.080 or burglar that made that noise, they'll kill you. No, 253 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:12.559 give me the po dear, I wish you wouldn't you 254 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.000 stay here, I'll be right back. 255 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.919 Stay here, No, sir, I'm coming too. 256 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.519 All right, mother, but let go my coattails. 257 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:21.759 I can't. 258 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:23.919 Men are all of a tremble. 259 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:29.159 Don't go so fast, doorish, whether they don't talk so loud? 260 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:30.960 If it is burglar, you'll scare them off. 261 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:32.519 That's just what I'm trying to do. 262 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.799 Well, here we you see, it's just something that fell 263 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:39.679 out the mantelpiece. 264 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:45.480 Oh, the hand painted bon bondage that Aunt Susie gave 265 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:49.279 us for a wedding present, smashed. 266 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:53.480 The bits you see look for us? 267 00:12:53.559 --> 00:13:02.759 Look the windows open, and that bust of Napoleon it's gone. 268 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:08.759 Horace, Horace? Did you hear that shouted? Like someone falling 269 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:13.559 against the front door. It's terrible. Don't go. 270 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:15.759 I've got to find out just a minute till I 271 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:21.919 get the door over. Hello, something that impressing against it? 272 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.080 Headn't us. 273 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:25.879 Ratted? 274 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:34.639 Some man lying on the doorstep and throat is slipping. 275 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:35.720 From here to me? 276 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.440 Will it, Where will it be comfortable? Is it correctly styled? 277 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.600 Clipper Craft clothes answer these questions emphatically by delivering, even today, 278 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.200 in this era of high prices, the most amazing values 279 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.320 you've ever seen. You'll wonder how it's done well. It's 280 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.679 the Great clipper Craft Plan, which concentrates the buying power 281 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.919 of ten hundred thirty six stores from coast to coast, 282 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.240 and delivers to you these beautifully styled, beautifully tailored clothes, 283 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:19.159 including long wearing worsteds, at a friendly local store you 284 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.960 can trust. Fine clipper Craft suits that look much more 285 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.559 costly are only forty and forty five dollars. Top coats 286 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:29.519 and fine coverts in worsted gabardine are only forty and 287 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:34.000 forty five dollars, and sport jackets are only twenty six fifty. Yes, 288 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:38.120 selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's 289 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:42.480 finest independent stores is the great, big idea behind the 290 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.039 clipper Craft Plan. That's why men who know insist on 291 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.159 clipper Craft clothes, so be sure to visit the clipper 292 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:50.480 Craft store in your city. 293 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:54.519 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 294 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.360 add their names to Clippercraft and your suit, top coat 295 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:00.799 and overcoat. In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty 296 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.399 four John Wallamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eight and sixty 297 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:08.440 seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark, 298 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:12.039 New Jersey, Bulevard Men's Shop, Creskin, Newark. And in Jamaica 299 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.960 the B and D Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh 300 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.240 eight Jamaica Avenue. 301 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.799 And now suppose we returned to the house of Horace Harker, 302 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.799 where Holmes is helping in speculus stride to solve a 303 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:35.240 bloodthirsty murder. Did you know the meurdered man, mister Hacker. 304 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.039 No, mister Holmes, I did not. They've taken the body 305 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:38.879 to the mortuary. 306 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:39.720 What did he look like? 307 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:44.720 Tall, dark and powerfully built, fully dressperty didn't have the 308 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.000 hands of a laborer. A horn handled knife was lying 309 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.519 in a pool of blood beside him. But whether it 310 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.200 was his or whether it was the knife that did 311 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:53.039 the deed, I don't know. 312 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.519 Anything in his pockets, No card or letters. 313 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:59.399 Of identifications, that's what you mean. Just an apple, some 314 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:03.759 stre a shilling and maple London and a photograph here. 315 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:08.960 It is excellent, my rather simian continents. Hey Watson, an. 316 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.120 Ugly looking brute and vicious too. I should say yes. 317 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.720 But look here, Holmes, what's become of the bust ah 318 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.200 the bust, Yes, of course, the bust. He wouldn't dare 319 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.039 carry it very far. Someone might see him and identify him. 320 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:22.159 Are there any empty houses around here. 321 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:24.759 Mister Harker, there's one right next door. No, that wouldn't do. 322 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:26.320 Too dark. He had to have light. 323 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.360 Doctor Barnicott's statue was found smashed in the passageway with 324 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.159 a light from his front door illuminated it. 325 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.799 There's just one other vacant house in this black mister Holmes, 326 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:36.600 fit to the right under the street light. 327 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.320 Excellent, that must be the one. Come Onson, let's see 328 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.960 what we can find. Wait a minute, I'm coming too, very. 329 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.559 Well, but you must come back, mister Holmes, all of you. 330 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.159 You must be famished. 331 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:49.639 Dear me, where's my sense of hospitality? 332 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:51.240 I'll go and put the kettle. 333 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:51.759 On right away. 334 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:53.639 Splendid will be back before he's had a chance to 335 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:54.240 come to a boil. 336 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.480 Fifth to the right end of the street light. That 337 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:03.679 was what Parker said, wasn't it. 338 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:05.920 Yes, But I, Mercy Holmes, I don't see what you 339 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.119 can expect to find. It seems to me. 340 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.519 As I thought, just as I thought, there's the fifth 341 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.240 bust lying shattered in shards upon the grass. 342 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:17.519 Destructive brute, and give a great. 343 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:18.759 Deal to know if he found what he was looking 344 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:21.880 for me. I can't explain now, but suppose we all 345 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.599 meet at Baker Street tomorrow night, directly after dinner, and 346 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:26.400 I think I can promise you an exciting evening. 347 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.559 You're you're on the murderer's trail. 348 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.359 Quite in the meantime, you les tried see if you 349 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.319 can discover the dead man's identity, while I inquired into 350 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:36.599 the manufacturing of those bus and see if I can 351 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:37.960 trail the ruffian in the photographs. 352 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.440 Oh that's right, pick the most exciting chow for yourself and. 353 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.359 The most dangerous. Don't forget that, Arsen. 354 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:44.759 Don't quibble. 355 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:46.319 We have a long way to go, and yet we've 356 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.240 discovered some rather significant facts. 357 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.119 And I say I don't see anything particularly significant. 358 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.640 In the first place, breaking the bust was not the 359 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:55.720 sole object of to Night's criminal, or how do you 360 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:57.799 know if it had been, he'd have broken it inside 361 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.759 the house or immediately outside. Second place, the possession of 362 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.839 this trifling bust was worth more in his eyes than 363 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.359 a human life. Yes, I think I'm beginning to understand 364 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:28.440 what he was after. Well, the strand how about another 365 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.079 cup of coffee? No, thanks to cups is enough for 366 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.519 any man. I'm not the coffee addict you are. 367 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.400 What a pity it might stimulate the brain. Now looks. 368 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:39.799 You may think you see your way clear in this matter, 369 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.920 but I have my own ideas. Yes, yes, the dead 370 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.440 man was Pietro Venucci. They knew him down at the 371 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.000 yard all right. He was one of the greatest cutthroats 372 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.160 in London. A member of an Italian black hand society too. 373 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:56.000 How reprehensible a society that punishes its offending members by death. Well, 374 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:58.359 this chap in the photograph was probably a member two. 375 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.720 The whole thing's just one of those hues. 376 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.160 How simple. But where do the buss come in? 377 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:06.680 And was it just a coincidence that the murdered man 378 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.240 was working in the shop of Moss Hudson. 379 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.960 I don't see why the busts have to be brought 380 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:10.240 into the. 381 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.799 Question of the murder or but they do, lestrade, those 382 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:14.720 bus contain the motive for the murder. 383 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.480 That sounds like plain uness if you ask me, No, 384 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:18.519 it's really quite simple. 385 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.480 I found this morning at mister Moss Hudson's shop that 386 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.680 the murdered man had been an employee of his for 387 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.559 the last six months, previous to which time he'd worked 388 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.039 for the firm of Gelder and Company, the firm which 389 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.400 molded those busts of Napoleon which someone had been so 390 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:32.200 abbot the smashing. 391 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.200 Yes, but Geldern Company or an old firm, they must 392 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:37.319 have made thousands of busts of Napoleon. 393 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.759 Quite but it's only the six of this particular batch 394 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:40.680 with which we're concerned. 395 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:44.039 I must say, I still don't see naturally well. 396 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.680 One afternoon, over a year ago, the very afternoon those 397 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:48.480 six bus had come from the mold. 398 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.640 And while they were still wet. 399 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.400 In fact, Beppo, another employee, was chased in the workshop 400 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:54.079 by the police. 401 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.920