Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, just what was the frightened bookkeeper
Speaker 1: afraid of?
Speaker 2: This story, mister Harris begins shortly after nine in the
Speaker 2: morning on Lombard Street. The customary swarm of office workers
Speaker 2: was dashing about, but no one was hurrying quite as
Speaker 2: quickly as our bookkeeper, mister Humphrey Littleton. He scurried across
Speaker 2: the street like a startled rabbit and ran into the overseas.
Speaker 2: Back he raced across the marble flaws to his cubital
Speaker 2: in a park corner. There he hastened to hang his
Speaker 2: coat on a hook and wipe his perspiring brow. Then
Speaker 2: he mounted his toes tools and opened a huge lender.
Speaker 2: Mister Littleton, Yes, mister Mason, I presume you realize that
Speaker 2: you are late. Yes, mister Mason, I'm terribly sorry to
Speaker 2: beat precise mister Littleton. You are eighteen minutes late. Yes,
Speaker 2: I believe, mister Littleton, this is the first time in
Speaker 2: twenty one year that you have been late. That is correct, instimation.
Speaker 2: The bank is shut. I know, sir. I presume there
Speaker 2: is some reasonable explanation for this some pastionist parents. There is, sir.
Speaker 2: It's the bill. What ben if you step to the
Speaker 2: window with me, sir, then I can explain the window please,
Speaker 2: Oh very well, now, sir, if you look across the
Speaker 2: way of the crowd in front of the Merchant's building,
Speaker 2: what of it? It's the old bell, the bill on
Speaker 2: top of the building. It didn't ring this morning, the
Speaker 2: first time in years. And what concern is it of
Speaker 2: yours when you see this? The bason I always stopped
Speaker 2: for my breakfast down the street. I always tie myself
Speaker 2: by listening to the bell. But it didn't ring this morning,
Speaker 2: and that's why I was late. We missed. Oh I say,
Speaker 2: what on earth have those policemen doing? It appears as
Speaker 2: though they are carrying something, doesn't it. It's a man.
Speaker 3: They're carrying someone out of the building on a stretcher.
Speaker 2: An accident, no doubt. Oh see they're covering his face
Speaker 2: with the blanket. He must be dead, indedn't they have
Speaker 2: inspected Lestrada, Cottle and yard out there? I have never
Speaker 2: met the gym of it is. He's coming into the
Speaker 2: bank now you should see what what and who's been killed? Mister? Yes,
Speaker 2: miss may I present Inspector Lestrade Scotland John, happy to
Speaker 2: make your acquaintance Inspector, how do you do, mister Lytton?
Speaker 2: You were late this morning because the bell on the
Speaker 2: top of the Merchants building failed to strike the hour
Speaker 2: of nine. Yes, Inspected Lestrade informs me that the bell
Speaker 2: did not strike because something had fallen into the mechanisms.
Speaker 2: Do you know what it was? I hadn't noticed. It
Speaker 2: was a dead body. It was the body of the
Speaker 2: mister Henry Bennett. Henry Mister Bennett was murdered. You committed
Speaker 2: the murder, mister little You were late because you did
Speaker 2: not simply stop for breakfast. You also stopped to do
Speaker 2: away with Henry Bennett. I'm belittled and no.
Speaker 3: No I didn't.
Speaker 2: You can't arrest me give or, Inspector. Thank you the
Speaker 2: gun there? I have the gun. Now out of my
Speaker 2: way about.
Speaker 3: If you haven't a chance, Littleton, we'll find I don't.
Speaker 2: Think so, Inspector. I'll take my course. If you don't mind,
Speaker 2: don't call to your man. I can still see you
Speaker 2: very well.
Speaker 3: If you budge or say a word, I shall kill you.
Speaker 2: I never thought he had it in mister.
Speaker 3: Now we'll have to search all London for the rascal.
Speaker 2: Stop that man, Stop him, I say, am off I'll
Speaker 2: answered homes the morning. The mornings, Well, that's hard. What
Speaker 2: information you wished to impart aside from the fact that
Speaker 2: you've found a cadaver in a small, inaccessible area, that
Speaker 2: you've lost a prisoner, and that you're desperately anxious to
Speaker 2: discuss the case homes? The inspector's hardly said a word.
Speaker 2: How do you know what this is all about? He's
Speaker 2: hardly said a word, my dear Watson, but his appearance
Speaker 2: is most eloquent, is.
Speaker 3: It, mister Holmes?
Speaker 2: You've dust on the knees of your trousers and the
Speaker 2: elbows of your coat, indicating clearly that you've been squirming
Speaker 2: about in an area that's fairly accessible. You on the corpse,
Speaker 2: since a considerable number of woolen threads are on your jacket.
Speaker 2: They are the distinctive colored threads found on the blankets
Speaker 2: used by the coroner when placing dead bodies in his wagons. Markably,
Speaker 2: your confection is livid, and your breathmits you have therefore
Speaker 2: been running, surely not in haste to pay us a
Speaker 2: social call, rather than I should say, in pursuit of someone,
Speaker 2: and the manner in which you're nervous it singling your
Speaker 2: notebook inspector can only signify that you are impatient to
Speaker 2: disgust the case prediscuss it.
Speaker 4: Then, understand, mister Home, I'm telling you this because you
Speaker 4: have been somewhat helpful on previous occasions, a masterpiece of understand.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking your assistance, It's just if you.
Speaker 4: Should come across anything that you'll be brought to by attention. Now,
Speaker 4: then our information is fragmentary, the hepsimy and delicious. We've
Speaker 4: found a corpse lying across the mechanism of the gigantic
Speaker 4: bell on top of the Merchant's building.
Speaker 2: On Lombard Street. Who was the dead man?
Speaker 3: A mister Henry Bennett.
Speaker 2: Bennett Bennett, Yes, I have a card on him. Who
Speaker 2: is it Home or a petty thief? Tiresome record of
Speaker 2: criminal trivial and served a few short prison terms bit
Speaker 2: of flotsam on the sea of a London underworld. Then
Speaker 2: its skull was split open.
Speaker 4: We found the weapon, but the walking stick with a
Speaker 4: cast iron tops of walking stick. We couldn't have them
Speaker 4: where it came from, but a girl in the crowd
Speaker 4: recognized this. He's the secretary of the Overseas Bank. Tocross
Speaker 4: the way. The bank had presented the walking stick to
Speaker 4: one of its bookkeepers, a memento of twenty years service
Speaker 4: and the bookkeeper's name, Humphrey Littleton.
Speaker 2: Find anything out here.
Speaker 4: There's a letter on the body, obviously a blackmail note
Speaker 4: addressed to Humphrey Littleton.
Speaker 2: For the note reads U.
Speaker 4: It said, merchants buildings Tuesday mornings, bring usual payments.
Speaker 2: Be sure you keep mums.
Speaker 4: The scrawled in pencil wasn't signed, of course, any eyewitness.
Speaker 4: Two of his fellow employees saw Littleton.
Speaker 2: Leave the merchant's building. You then crossed the streets and
Speaker 2: entered the bank and attempted to arrest Humphrey Littleton, but
Speaker 2: he the sticks am I correctness from a.
Speaker 3: Mister Holmes, he banished.
Speaker 4: He took, got guns from the cashier's door, forced his
Speaker 4: way past us. Evidently the little bookkeeper was tired of
Speaker 4: being blackmailed by Bennett, so he did away with him.
Speaker 2: As but the house dies. The body get into.
Speaker 3: The mechanism of the bell instead of the down.
Speaker 4: Little had met his man in the building this morning,
Speaker 4: struck him on the head, killing him. Instantly dragged the
Speaker 4: body to the roof. He intended to push it off,
Speaker 4: so we'd believe Bennett and fallen or committed suicide. And
Speaker 4: that's all very well, but you still coming to.
Speaker 2: That, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: The killer must have been startled by.
Speaker 4: A noise and believed he was about to be caught
Speaker 4: seen by someone on the roof a chimney, sweet fat
Speaker 4: as a trap door on.
Speaker 2: The roof at least the bell.
Speaker 4: Littleman must have dropped him there when he became afraid,
Speaker 4: lest he wouldn't have time to push him off the roof.
Speaker 2: Anything further you wish to stay for stan Oh, no,
Speaker 2: now I must be offered. I don't suppose you'll have
Speaker 2: occasion to.
Speaker 4: Do so, mister Holmes, but if you should come across
Speaker 4: the crew as the whereabout of Littleton, you might tell
Speaker 4: the odds.
Speaker 2: The's time I need the solution of this case entirely
Speaker 2: in your capable hand.
Speaker 3: It will rest well there, mister hum.
Speaker 2: I've no doubt last time, Good morning, good morning, Well
Speaker 2: confounded homes. You're not just going to sit there while
Speaker 2: Inspector's drums steals the march on you a bit of it,
Speaker 2: my dear Watson. I'm merely giving him time to leave,
Speaker 2: the moment he sufficiently far away, We're off to the
Speaker 2: overseas bank. We shall see if we come to locate
Speaker 2: mister Humphrey Littleton, the frightened bookkeeper. Perhaps we may shake
Speaker 2: the saws on the tail of this bird who's flown
Speaker 2: the cage. This is the photograph of mister Littleton, mister
Speaker 2: Holmes from mars Field as Math, and this is a
Speaker 2: cage where he works. Yes, Doc Watson, I said, Holmes,
Speaker 2: what are you doing crawling about on the floor. Mister
Speaker 2: Mason when he made his escape, you say, he sees
Speaker 2: the revolver from the drawer, then his coat hanging on
Speaker 2: that hook, then left the bank exactly. I don't know
Speaker 2: how an earthy lever be found in all of London.
Speaker 2: Ah hah. Hunting home. This pink pill it roll under
Speaker 2: the desk, and this microscopic bit of green paper. Note
Speaker 2: the geometric design of the paper. Both items are most
Speaker 2: informative green papers. That copy of the Evening Star on
Speaker 2: the death Watson, Oh wirst you find a pill and
Speaker 2: then you want to read the newspaper? What are you
Speaker 2: up to the homes? Huh there we are this page.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, excellent, Come Watson, mister Mason. We shall have
Speaker 2: the killer in a jiffish, but no time, no time.
Speaker 2: Good morning, mister.
Speaker 3: Mason, Yes, good morning.
Speaker 2: Where we are to homes Victoria Station as quickly as
Speaker 2: a campbell carriers sons? Why may I ask the cause,
Speaker 2: my dear Watson. It's there we shall find mister Humphrey Littleton.
Speaker 2: If they're not too late. We shall find him with
Speaker 2: the aid of this pink pill and the geometrically designed
Speaker 2: speck of green paper. The most fortunate Watson. The train
Speaker 2: mister Littleton has chosen for his departure to the continent
Speaker 2: is still here in the station. Come on, I searched
Speaker 2: his tickets for us. We was caught it. What train?
Speaker 2: How do you know all this? The answer is the
Speaker 2: pink pill I'd have scovered in his cage at the bank.
Speaker 2: I recognize it immediately. Its mate is missing. The pink
Speaker 2: pill and the brown pill ingredients a form of utile
Speaker 2: alcohols higher seene, bromide and caffeine, more commonly known as
Speaker 2: sea sick pills. I see the pill pails from Littleton's
Speaker 2: pocket when he lifted his coat from the hook pill
Speaker 2: by George. He was preparing for a sea voyage. Positively
Speaker 2: brilliant by dear Watson, yes, our bookkeeper was prepared to
Speaker 2: boast from the clutches of his blackmailer to abandon his
Speaker 2: position at the bank. He was preparing for sea voyage,
Speaker 2: timid soul that he is by securing pills.
Speaker 3: Mis Kate Watson, all right, but why did you read
Speaker 3: the Evening.
Speaker 2: Star to Adamone? The channel section got a single passengership
Speaker 2: sails today for a par off pot that are simply
Speaker 2: the regular daily sailing across the channel to front. Of course,
Speaker 2: I had to fortify this clue with more tangible evidence.
Speaker 2: The particle of green paper easily identifiable. It was a
Speaker 2: familiar green paper utilized for the printing of railway tickets.
Speaker 2: As for the neat pattern of it, it was definitely
Speaker 2: the portion punched out by the ticket seller. The railways
Speaker 2: maintain an infallible system of tracing those punch marks. What
Speaker 2: each punch has a peculiar design of its own. I
Speaker 2: was quite correct in surmising that Littleton was headed across
Speaker 2: the channels via Victoria Station his tickets for the train
Speaker 2: to Dover. The train we're about to board, Choey of
Speaker 2: this compartment, said the agent said, I say, Holmes, do
Speaker 2: you expect the killer in this compartment. Yes, I realize
Speaker 2: it emply now, but he'll arrived most assured. Day. All right,
Speaker 2: step in? What you step in? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Oh, by the bye.
Speaker 2: While I was waiting at the gate, eye glances at
Speaker 2: the newspaper Homes, there's a night of about this crime.
Speaker 2: The eminent counselor mister Fencer's Ridgeway, upon being informed of it,
Speaker 2: has volunteered to defend litism without a fee. Really, you
Speaker 2: know this is an extremely dangerous method of dealing with
Speaker 2: the killer. Homes were leaving and he isn't the board.
Speaker 2: You must have made an error in your deduction. Impossible.
Speaker 2: We're moving, Yes, and someone's out there trying to jump
Speaker 2: on open the door up.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I thought i'd never make it.
Speaker 2: Uh. Are you gentlemen going to Dova, Yes? And you
Speaker 2: to dover the the tennel Steama, well ell. Since we
Speaker 2: have the journey of two hours together, perhaps we should
Speaker 2: introduce ourselves. This is doctor John Watson. How do you know?
Speaker 2: My name is shummuck Home? What is your name, sir?
Speaker 2: What is your name? Time? Bucky George Buck? I beg
Speaker 2: your pardon. Your name is Humpter Littleton and you want
Speaker 2: it in London for committing murders.
Speaker 1: Well, Dr Watson, mister Holmes is brazenly inviting disaster in
Speaker 1: challenging the arm killer, wasn't he?
Speaker 3: He certainly love as dead headed.
Speaker 2: But at this point I've an invitation for you concerning
Speaker 2: a much more pleasant topic. Won't you tell us more
Speaker 2: about Clippercraft clothes. Well, I accept the invitation gladly. Doctor.
Speaker 1: One of these days, you're going to walk into the
Speaker 1: Clippercrafts store in your community and walk out wearing a
Speaker 1: happy smile and a handsome suit by Clippercraft. You'll pay
Speaker 1: only forty or forty seven fifty, depending on your choice,
Speaker 1: but you'll deserve all the admiration your friends will voice,
Speaker 1: because yours will be an investment in one of America's
Speaker 1: greatest clothing values. Yes, Clippercraft is just about the finest
Speaker 1: clothing value America can offer you. You see, more than
Speaker 1: twelve hundred fine stores from coast to coast have concentrated
Speaker 1: their enormous buying power to really put the brakes on
Speaker 1: your high cost of living. Why it's clearest daylight that
Speaker 1: a project of Clippercraft's code keeps Clippercraft's great tailoring plants
Speaker 1: operating at full speed the full year round, you get
Speaker 1: the savings that money saving plan makes possible. Yes, Clippercraft
Speaker 1: suits are phenomenal values at only forty and forty seven fifty.
Speaker 1: That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes.
Speaker 1: So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
Speaker 1: your city.
Speaker 5: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
Speaker 5: add their names to Clippercraft and your suits, top coats
Speaker 5: and sports jackets. In Manhattan, John wanna make Amend's Stores
Speaker 5: Broadway at eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street, Sacks, thirty
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Speaker 5: in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty
Speaker 5: four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.
Speaker 2: Now shall we return to the frightened booking on as heircraft.
Speaker 2: We can't return to that train fast enough for me,
Speaker 2: doctor Watson. Well, you remember that Holmes and I were
Speaker 2: in the compartment of the Dover train face to face
Speaker 2: with Humphrey Littleton, the murderer. Holmes had just identified him.
Speaker 2: What makes you think that I'm Littleton because you answer
Speaker 2: one question, Sir, would you leave this train and return
Speaker 2: to London in our custerday or do you choose to
Speaker 2: be stubborn. I'll not return to London. I'll take better barber.
Speaker 2: Mister Littleton, you'll not take me back? I repeat, no,
Speaker 2: you're behaving like an idiot. London's most brilliant criminal attorney,
Speaker 2: mister Francis Bridgeway, has announced he will defend you greatest.
Speaker 2: He has never lost the case. You've an excellent chance. No, No,
Speaker 2: I won't. I won't. Oh, don't be silly man. You've
Speaker 2: no possible avenue of his cape. Scott and Yard are
Speaker 2: surely telegraphed the French surinity. I'm waiting, mister Littleton. Once
Speaker 2: I saw rendered to you, I'm finished. I'd rather kill
Speaker 2: both of you. Once you're out of the way, I
Speaker 2: can jump off the train. Then what dashing from village
Speaker 2: to village? How long can you hide out on the
Speaker 2: downs like a stricken an? You shunt swad. My mind
Speaker 2: is made up. I'll take my chances very well. You
Speaker 2: insist him. He missed. It's gone and I haven't home.
Speaker 2: I regret the necessity of using my hunting crop on
Speaker 2: your hand, mister Biddleton, but you are rather obstinate. I
Speaker 2: shall stop the training. We shall return to London. Then
Speaker 2: I shall have the pleasure of turning you over to
Speaker 2: inspect a mistrand as a gift with the compliments of
Speaker 2: mister Shellock hone while homes the morning newspaper say that
Speaker 2: Littleton is safely locked in prison, I must say, you
Speaker 2: handle that case with a dnasing speed. I've hardly even
Speaker 2: a time to catch my breath, and it's over. It's
Speaker 2: not over.
Speaker 3: What what do you mean it isn't over?
Speaker 2: I'd say from the moment the murder was committed. Events
Speaker 2: moved with a relentless logic and hardly employedabord logic, my
Speaker 2: dear wants. And that's what disturbs me. So hurry finish
Speaker 2: your breakfast. We're after the merchants buildings. But why to
Speaker 2: visit mister Francis Ridgeway Council for Littleton's defense? Why to
Speaker 2: ascertain how he plans to defend the bookkeeper. But it
Speaker 2: should be a simple, speedy trial, shouldn't it.
Speaker 6: Perhaps I'm delighted that you've dropped in here to my office,
Speaker 6: mister Holmes and doctor Watts.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you as the Ridgway. It is an incredibly
Speaker 2: exclusive office. Those draperies, magnificent drugs, most striking, don't you agree, Holmes? Yes, yes, quite.
Speaker 2: May I ask mister Ridgway what sort of defense you
Speaker 2: plan for Humphy Littleton.
Speaker 6: Well, there isn't a scrap of evidence on his behalf,
Speaker 6: mister Holmes, and he admits he was being blackmailed by
Speaker 6: the dead man. You see, Littleton once needed money desperately
Speaker 6: for his wife, who with ill. He took some from
Speaker 6: the bank and juggled his books to cover up. Bennett
Speaker 6: knew about it, but Littleton denies committing the murder, said
Speaker 6: he was never on the roof of the merchant's buildings,
Speaker 6: said his walking stick was stolen from his platt. No
Speaker 6: one will believe him. I'm afraid. I don't suppose you've
Speaker 6: learned anything that would help me, have you?
Speaker 2: No, I had not to make matters worse. He bought
Speaker 2: that ticket to France.
Speaker 6: He claimed he wanted to chuck his position and run
Speaker 6: away just to avoid the blackmailer, but the jury will
Speaker 6: interpret it as a plan for escaping after committing murder.
Speaker 2: Oh I saw painters tarring a picture as I can
Speaker 2: of the miserable creature hounded by a petty thief. He
Speaker 2: he became fed up. That's about all.
Speaker 6: I shall fight every inch of the way. But confidentially,
Speaker 6: this may be the first case I've ever learnt.
Speaker 2: It's true. In the morning, homes, where the dickens have
Speaker 2: you been? I couldn't wait for you to return from
Speaker 2: a hospital, Watson. My mission was urgent, he is, But
Speaker 2: where were you? I've been searching for evidence that might
Speaker 2: interest was the ridgeway or did you go on this
Speaker 2: urgent mission carrying that pair of shoes under your arm?
Speaker 2: I did not start out on the mission that way. No, really,
Speaker 2: you do perform the most extraordinary antics. Why the trial
Speaker 2: begins tomorrow? You mean you've got something that might ac
Speaker 2: quit the bookkeeper, the grim fascination of a trial for homicide,
Speaker 2: watching because the results as unpredictable.
Speaker 3: Light til the car.
Speaker 2: Here you are held two seats. There's littles in the docks,
Speaker 2: and fences which were in the park corner. The talk
Speaker 2: of your size about to me the indictment of the journey.
Speaker 7: Gentlemen of the Jewey. The prisoner at the bar, Humphrey
Speaker 7: little Ton is indicted, and the charge against him is murdered.
Speaker 7: Upon this indictment, he has been arranged. Upon his arraignment,
Speaker 7: he has pleaded that he is not guilty, and has
Speaker 7: put himself upon his country. Which country you are, It
Speaker 7: is for you to inquire whether he be guilty or not,
Speaker 7: and to hearken to the evidence the Crown God is.
Speaker 3: On the morning of July nineteenth, Henry.
Speaker 7: Bennett was ruthlessly attacked and died instantaneously when he was
Speaker 7: struck upoun the skull.
Speaker 2: Mister Fancis Ridgeway, Mister Holmes, what is the reason for
Speaker 2: these disturbance? May peace, your lordship. Gentlemen of the jury,
Speaker 2: Henry Bennett was not murdered by Humphy Littleton, the prisoner
Speaker 2: in the dock, but by mister Francis Bridgeway, Council for
Speaker 2: the Defense, May peace, your lordship.
Speaker 6: I do not know why mister Holmes has chosen to
Speaker 6: interject this fantastical.
Speaker 2: Mister w Mi lord, you have, on many previous occasions
Speaker 2: made a substantial contribution to the inportment of law and honor.
Speaker 2: Will entertain I protest your logic, homes, tell them, tell
Speaker 2: them I didn't do it.
Speaker 3: I didn't God help me.
Speaker 2: I didn't know the court will in to pain the
Speaker 2: statement by mister Thurler. Come, mister Ridgway. It originally struck
Speaker 2: me as curious that the council possessing your perfect record
Speaker 2: should volunteer for a case so obviously doomed to defeat.
Speaker 2: Could it have been that you wanted to have the
Speaker 2: case because you wanted to lose it? Idle speculation. I
Speaker 2: visited your office to develop my theory, Doctor Watson. Admired
Speaker 2: your draperies, but I noticed a black spot on your rug.
Speaker 2: It was tar. Although you may have vigorously cleaned the
Speaker 2: remainder of your office, you neglected to remove that once Beckon,
Speaker 2: for go on, homes go on. Where did the tar
Speaker 2: come from, mister Ridgway. Well, the murder was committed on
Speaker 2: an extremely hot day on the roof of the merchants building.
Speaker 2: The tar melted, it came off on your shoes. After
Speaker 2: killing Bennett on the roof, you returned to your office,
Speaker 2: soiling your rug. Preposterous conjecture on your path. Last night,
Speaker 2: I was on the roof of the Merchant's building. I
Speaker 2: made plaster crusts at the killer's footprints. I then paid
Speaker 2: a midnight visit to your deserted office, mister Ridgeway, I
Speaker 2: found a pair of your shoes in a closet the
Speaker 2: class which I'm prepared to submit his evidence match your
Speaker 2: foot prints perfectly inconclusive evidence, utterly inconclusive. In addition, in addition,
Speaker 2: I took a sample of a tar from that same
Speaker 2: roof and compared it with a sample from the tar
Speaker 2: on your rug. I have here a report based on
Speaker 2: experimentation at home to the affected. Both samples matched perfectly
Speaker 2: in chemical content. Proof. I demand proof, sir, that I
Speaker 2: actually committed the murder, and you shall have it. There
Speaker 2: is a young gentleman waiting outside at my request. His
Speaker 2: name is Bob Dexter. What is most important about this
Speaker 2: young gentleman, however, is not his name. It is his occupation,
Speaker 2: mister Dexter, is a chimney sweep. My friend in spector
Speaker 2: of Strade thesis was correct. There was a noise that
Speaker 2: startled the killer. It was a chimney sweek you now,
Speaker 2: in a moment, my lord, I made inquiries. I found
Speaker 2: this young gentleman his home and set me. I persuaded
Speaker 2: him that accepting your bribes to keep silent, mister Ridgway
Speaker 2: was a disgraceful crime. He is prepared to testify that
Speaker 2: he overheard your angry conversation with Bennett upon the roof
Speaker 2: mister her what conversation, mid Odd? The conversation revealed that
Speaker 2: while Bennett was in prison, he secured information from his
Speaker 2: fellow prisoners. From your victims, mister Ridgeway, your dukes who
Speaker 2: served while your clients was cut free once released. Bennett's
Speaker 2: patiently gathered canceled checks, no photographs, overwhelming evidence upon your career.
Speaker 2: Your brilliant career was founded upon a tissue of lives,
Speaker 2: primary forgery, coercions. You invited Bennett to the building to
Speaker 2: purchase his collection, but you killed him with Littleton's walking sticks,
Speaker 2: with Jude stolen. To be sure, the evidence pointed to
Speaker 2: the Helplet bookkeeper. Now shall we call mister Dexter who
Speaker 2: saw you do away with Bennette Matt Please, your lordship,
Speaker 2: I should like to make a request, okie, mister Ridgeway.
Speaker 6: I moved that the indictment against mister Humphrey Littleton was
Speaker 6: stricken from the record and a new indictment be drawn
Speaker 6: up by the grand jury charging the murder of Henry Bennett.
Speaker 2: Mister Francis Ridgeway by Jeromes, Now that you're relexed in
Speaker 2: your chair with your pipe, you must take the time
Speaker 2: to tell me precisely what did happen on the morning
Speaker 2: of the murder.
Speaker 3: I confess I'm still a bit puzzled, and.
Speaker 2: It's painfully obvious. Watson Bennett was blackmailing both the bookkeeper
Speaker 2: and the Bridgeway. Ridgeway knew it, Littleton didn't. Ridgeway sent
Speaker 2: a message to the bookkeeper enticing him to the merchant's
Speaker 2: building that morning. He'd previously stolen.
Speaker 3: The walking stick, I say, but.
Speaker 2: Before the bookkeeper was due to arrive, Ridgeway killed Bennett
Speaker 2: with Lilyttleton's walking sticks. Then Littleton came along innocently announced,
Speaker 2: expecting me only to make his regular insignificant con payment
Speaker 2: to Bennett. He saw a crowd, became frightened, and dashed
Speaker 2: off to work at the bank. When I'm still amazed
Speaker 2: at how you arrived at the proper solution, confounded Homes,
Speaker 2: how do you do these things? Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.
Speaker 1: Questor doctor Watson, the case of the frightened bookkeeper was
Speaker 1: really very surprising. I'm sure you've an equally startling adventure
Speaker 1: plan for next week as the hell as I have.
Speaker 2: It's called the Adventure of the Guy Fawk Society, a
Speaker 2: secret count whose membership consisted entirely of phonetics, devoted to
Speaker 2: one of the most horrible purposes imaginable. Of course, nothing
Speaker 2: on earth could keep Holmes from joining the society. Well,
Speaker 2: doctor Watson, we shall be standing impatiently at the door
Speaker 2: of your study next week for the Adventure of the
Speaker 2: Guy Fox