WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.480 And now, doctor Watson, just what was the frightened bookkeeper 2 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:09.000 afraid of? 3 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:12.800 This story, mister Harris begins shortly after nine in the 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:17.039 morning on Lombard Street. The customary swarm of office workers 5 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:20.399 was dashing about, but no one was hurrying quite as 6 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:25.039 quickly as our bookkeeper, mister Humphrey Littleton. He scurried across 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.480 the street like a startled rabbit and ran into the overseas. 8 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:33.479 Back he raced across the marble flaws to his cubital 9 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:36.840 in a park corner. There he hastened to hang his 10 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.640 coat on a hook and wipe his perspiring brow. Then 11 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:45.119 he mounted his toes tools and opened a huge lender. 12 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.359 Mister Littleton, Yes, mister Mason, I presume you realize that 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.280 you are late. Yes, mister Mason, I'm terribly sorry to 14 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.079 beat precise mister Littleton. You are eighteen minutes late. Yes, 15 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.039 I believe, mister Littleton, this is the first time in 16 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:01.960 twenty one year that you have been late. That is correct, instimation. 17 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.439 The bank is shut. I know, sir. I presume there 18 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:10.079 is some reasonable explanation for this some pastionist parents. There is, sir. 19 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:12.599 It's the bill. What ben if you step to the 20 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:15.599 window with me, sir, then I can explain the window please, 21 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.959 Oh very well, now, sir, if you look across the 22 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.760 way of the crowd in front of the Merchant's building, 23 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:23.040 what of it? It's the old bell, the bill on 24 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:25.280 top of the building. It didn't ring this morning, the 25 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.799 first time in years. And what concern is it of 26 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:29.599 yours when you see this? The bason I always stopped 27 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:31.879 for my breakfast down the street. I always tie myself 28 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:34.120 by listening to the bell. But it didn't ring this morning, 29 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.359 and that's why I was late. We missed. Oh I say, 30 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.799 what on earth have those policemen doing? It appears as 31 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:43.200 though they are carrying something, doesn't it. It's a man. 32 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.120 They're carrying someone out of the building on a stretcher. 33 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.920 An accident, no doubt. Oh see they're covering his face 34 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.760 with the blanket. He must be dead, indedn't they have 35 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.799 inspected Lestrada, Cottle and yard out there? I have never 36 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.879 met the gym of it is. He's coming into the 37 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:09.840 bank now you should see what what and who's been killed? Mister? Yes, 38 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:14.240 miss may I present Inspector Lestrade Scotland John, happy to 39 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.800 make your acquaintance Inspector, how do you do, mister Lytton? 40 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.479 You were late this morning because the bell on the 41 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.439 top of the Merchants building failed to strike the hour 42 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.439 of nine. Yes, Inspected Lestrade informs me that the bell 43 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.879 did not strike because something had fallen into the mechanisms. 44 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.719 Do you know what it was? I hadn't noticed. It 45 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.560 was a dead body. It was the body of the 46 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:41.199 mister Henry Bennett. Henry Mister Bennett was murdered. You committed 47 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.960 the murder, mister little You were late because you did 48 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.319 not simply stop for breakfast. You also stopped to do 49 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:52.240 away with Henry Bennett. I'm belittled and no. 50 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:52.960 No I didn't. 51 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.080 You can't arrest me give or, Inspector. Thank you the 52 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.360 gun there? I have the gun. Now out of my 53 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.080 way about. 54 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.599 If you haven't a chance, Littleton, we'll find I don't. 55 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:05.120 Think so, Inspector. I'll take my course. If you don't mind, 56 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.319 don't call to your man. I can still see you 57 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:07.919 very well. 58 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.360 If you budge or say a word, I shall kill you. 59 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:12.080 I never thought he had it in mister. 60 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.240 Now we'll have to search all London for the rascal. 61 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:27.599 Stop that man, Stop him, I say, am off I'll 62 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:34.840 answered homes the morning. The mornings, Well, that's hard. What 63 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.360 information you wished to impart aside from the fact that 64 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.400 you've found a cadaver in a small, inaccessible area, that 65 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.879 you've lost a prisoner, and that you're desperately anxious to 66 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.800 discuss the case homes? The inspector's hardly said a word. 67 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.479 How do you know what this is all about? He's 68 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:49.639 hardly said a word, my dear Watson, but his appearance 69 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.120 is most eloquent, is. 70 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:52.319 It, mister Holmes? 71 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.280 You've dust on the knees of your trousers and the 72 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.199 elbows of your coat, indicating clearly that you've been squirming 73 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.680 about in an area that's fairly accessible. You on the corpse, 74 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.520 since a considerable number of woolen threads are on your jacket. 75 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.919 They are the distinctive colored threads found on the blankets 76 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:11.039 used by the coroner when placing dead bodies in his wagons. Markably, 77 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.080 your confection is livid, and your breathmits you have therefore 78 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.639 been running, surely not in haste to pay us a 79 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.800 social call, rather than I should say, in pursuit of someone, 80 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.439 and the manner in which you're nervous it singling your 81 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.399 notebook inspector can only signify that you are impatient to 82 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:27.759 disgust the case prediscuss it. 83 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:31.800 Then, understand, mister Home, I'm telling you this because you 84 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.600 have been somewhat helpful on previous occasions, a masterpiece of understand. 85 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.439 I'm not asking your assistance, It's just if you. 86 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.319 Should come across anything that you'll be brought to by attention. Now, 87 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:46.879 then our information is fragmentary, the hepsimy and delicious. We've 88 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.399 found a corpse lying across the mechanism of the gigantic 89 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.560 bell on top of the Merchant's building. 90 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.360 On Lombard Street. Who was the dead man? 91 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:56.959 A mister Henry Bennett. 92 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.759 Bennett Bennett, Yes, I have a card on him. Who 93 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.079 is it Home or a petty thief? Tiresome record of 94 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.759 criminal trivial and served a few short prison terms bit 95 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:06.839 of flotsam on the sea of a London underworld. Then 96 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:08.399 its skull was split open. 97 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.839 We found the weapon, but the walking stick with a 98 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.199 cast iron tops of walking stick. We couldn't have them 99 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.439 where it came from, but a girl in the crowd 100 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.480 recognized this. He's the secretary of the Overseas Bank. Tocross 101 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.240 the way. The bank had presented the walking stick to 102 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:25.399 one of its bookkeepers, a memento of twenty years service 103 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:27.519 and the bookkeeper's name, Humphrey Littleton. 104 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:28.800 Find anything out here. 105 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.079 There's a letter on the body, obviously a blackmail note 106 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.000 addressed to Humphrey Littleton. 107 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.000 For the note reads U. 108 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:42.040 It said, merchants buildings Tuesday mornings, bring usual payments. 109 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:43.639 Be sure you keep mums. 110 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:47.160 The scrawled in pencil wasn't signed, of course, any eyewitness. 111 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.720 Two of his fellow employees saw Littleton. 112 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.720 Leave the merchant's building. You then crossed the streets and 113 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.800 entered the bank and attempted to arrest Humphrey Littleton, but 114 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:59.480 he the sticks am I correctness from a. 115 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:01.240 Mister Holmes, he banished. 116 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.600 He took, got guns from the cashier's door, forced his 117 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:06.639 way past us. Evidently the little bookkeeper was tired of 118 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.360 being blackmailed by Bennett, so he did away with him. 119 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.360 As but the house dies. The body get into. 120 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.040 The mechanism of the bell instead of the down. 121 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.600 Little had met his man in the building this morning, 122 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:17.879 struck him on the head, killing him. Instantly dragged the 123 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.199 body to the roof. He intended to push it off, 124 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.399 so we'd believe Bennett and fallen or committed suicide. And 125 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:26.199 that's all very well, but you still coming to. 126 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:27.079 That, doctor Watson. 127 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:29.160 The killer must have been startled by. 128 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.879 A noise and believed he was about to be caught 129 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.920 seen by someone on the roof a chimney, sweet fat 130 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:36.480 as a trap door on. 131 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:37.519 The roof at least the bell. 132 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.800 Littleman must have dropped him there when he became afraid, 133 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:42.800 lest he wouldn't have time to push him off the roof. 134 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.199 Anything further you wish to stay for stan Oh, no, 135 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.160 now I must be offered. I don't suppose you'll have 136 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:49.879 occasion to. 137 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.199 Do so, mister Holmes, but if you should come across 138 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.399 the crew as the whereabout of Littleton, you might tell 139 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:55.839 the odds. 140 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:59.480 The's time I need the solution of this case entirely 141 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:00.800 in your capable hand. 142 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.040 It will rest well there, mister hum. 143 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.639 I've no doubt last time, Good morning, good morning, Well 144 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.040 confounded homes. You're not just going to sit there while 145 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.439 Inspector's drums steals the march on you a bit of it, 146 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.240 my dear Watson. I'm merely giving him time to leave, 147 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.600 the moment he sufficiently far away, We're off to the 148 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.319 overseas bank. We shall see if we come to locate 149 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.160 mister Humphrey Littleton, the frightened bookkeeper. Perhaps we may shake 150 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:26.759 the saws on the tail of this bird who's flown 151 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:36.720 the cage. This is the photograph of mister Littleton, mister 152 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.759 Holmes from mars Field as Math, and this is a 153 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.839 cage where he works. Yes, Doc Watson, I said, Holmes, 154 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.480 what are you doing crawling about on the floor. Mister 155 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.279 Mason when he made his escape, you say, he sees 156 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.639 the revolver from the drawer, then his coat hanging on 157 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.879 that hook, then left the bank exactly. I don't know 158 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.040 how an earthy lever be found in all of London. 159 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.759 Ah hah. Hunting home. This pink pill it roll under 160 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:04.439 the desk, and this microscopic bit of green paper. Note 161 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.639 the geometric design of the paper. Both items are most 162 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.720 informative green papers. That copy of the Evening Star on 163 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.720 the death Watson, Oh wirst you find a pill and 164 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.079 then you want to read the newspaper? What are you 165 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.439 up to the homes? Huh there we are this page. 166 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.959 Mm hmm, excellent, Come Watson, mister Mason. We shall have 167 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.319 the killer in a jiffish, but no time, no time. 168 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:29.160 Good morning, mister. 169 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.920 Mason, Yes, good morning. 170 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.240 Where we are to homes Victoria Station as quickly as 171 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.559 a campbell carriers sons? Why may I ask the cause, 172 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.159 my dear Watson. It's there we shall find mister Humphrey Littleton. 173 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:39.879 If they're not too late. We shall find him with 174 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.759 the aid of this pink pill and the geometrically designed 175 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:55.679 speck of green paper. The most fortunate Watson. The train 176 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:58.039 mister Littleton has chosen for his departure to the continent 177 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:00.519 is still here in the station. Come on, I searched 178 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.879 his tickets for us. We was caught it. What train? 179 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.399 How do you know all this? The answer is the 180 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.440 pink pill I'd have scovered in his cage at the bank. 181 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.279 I recognize it immediately. Its mate is missing. The pink 182 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.919 pill and the brown pill ingredients a form of utile 183 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.559 alcohols higher seene, bromide and caffeine, more commonly known as 184 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:21.840 sea sick pills. I see the pill pails from Littleton's 185 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.399 pocket when he lifted his coat from the hook pill 186 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.919 by George. He was preparing for a sea voyage. Positively 187 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.879 brilliant by dear Watson, yes, our bookkeeper was prepared to 188 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.080 boast from the clutches of his blackmailer to abandon his 189 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.919 position at the bank. He was preparing for sea voyage, 190 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.039 timid soul that he is by securing pills. 191 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.120 Mis Kate Watson, all right, but why did you read 192 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:44.039 the Evening. 193 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.919 Star to Adamone? The channel section got a single passengership 194 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.440 sails today for a par off pot that are simply 195 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:52.759 the regular daily sailing across the channel to front. Of course, 196 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:55.679 I had to fortify this clue with more tangible evidence. 197 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:59.559 The particle of green paper easily identifiable. It was a 198 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.919 familiar green paper utilized for the printing of railway tickets. 199 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.360 As for the neat pattern of it, it was definitely 200 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.279 the portion punched out by the ticket seller. The railways 201 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.840 maintain an infallible system of tracing those punch marks. What 202 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.200 each punch has a peculiar design of its own. I 203 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.440 was quite correct in surmising that Littleton was headed across 204 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:20.480 the channels via Victoria Station his tickets for the train 205 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.639 to Dover. The train we're about to board, Choey of 206 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.080 this compartment, said the agent said, I say, Holmes, do 207 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.759 you expect the killer in this compartment. Yes, I realize 208 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:32.559 it emply now, but he'll arrived most assured. Day. All right, 209 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:34.399 step in? What you step in? Thank you? 210 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:36.840 Oh, by the bye. 211 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:38.799 While I was waiting at the gate, eye glances at 212 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.440 the newspaper Homes, there's a night of about this crime. 213 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.600 The eminent counselor mister Fencer's Ridgeway, upon being informed of it, 214 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.879 has volunteered to defend litism without a fee. Really, you 215 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.039 know this is an extremely dangerous method of dealing with 216 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.559 the killer. Homes were leaving and he isn't the board. 217 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.960 You must have made an error in your deduction. Impossible. 218 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.960 We're moving, Yes, and someone's out there trying to jump 219 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:04.919 on open the door up. 220 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.159 Thank you, thank you. I thought i'd never make it. 221 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:17.320 Uh. Are you gentlemen going to Dova, Yes? And you 222 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.559 to dover the the tennel Steama, well ell. Since we 223 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:23.759 have the journey of two hours together, perhaps we should 224 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.240 introduce ourselves. This is doctor John Watson. How do you know? 225 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.399 My name is shummuck Home? What is your name, sir? 226 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:38.440 What is your name? Time? Bucky George Buck? I beg 227 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.120 your pardon. Your name is Humpter Littleton and you want 228 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:42.679 it in London for committing murders. 229 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.960 Well, Dr Watson, mister Holmes is brazenly inviting disaster in 230 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.519 challenging the arm killer, wasn't he? 231 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:01.679 He certainly love as dead headed. 232 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.960 But at this point I've an invitation for you concerning 233 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.480 a much more pleasant topic. Won't you tell us more 234 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.480 about Clippercraft clothes. Well, I accept the invitation gladly. Doctor. 235 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.039 One of these days, you're going to walk into the 236 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.360 Clippercrafts store in your community and walk out wearing a 237 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:23.799 happy smile and a handsome suit by Clippercraft. You'll pay 238 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.879 only forty or forty seven fifty, depending on your choice, 239 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.120 but you'll deserve all the admiration your friends will voice, 240 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.159 because yours will be an investment in one of America's 241 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:37.519 greatest clothing values. Yes, Clippercraft is just about the finest 242 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.840 clothing value America can offer you. You see, more than 243 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:44.720 twelve hundred fine stores from coast to coast have concentrated 244 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.759 their enormous buying power to really put the brakes on 245 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:51.039 your high cost of living. Why it's clearest daylight that 246 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:55.320 a project of Clippercraft's code keeps Clippercraft's great tailoring plants 247 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.320 operating at full speed the full year round, you get 248 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:03.320 the savings that money saving plan makes possible. Yes, Clippercraft 249 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.080 suits are phenomenal values at only forty and forty seven fifty. 250 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.360 That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes. 251 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.240 So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in 252 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:14.799 your city. 253 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:19.639 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 254 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:22.879 add their names to Clippercraft and your suits, top coats 255 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.600 and sports jackets. In Manhattan, John wanna make Amend's Stores 256 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.519 Broadway at eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street, Sacks, thirty 257 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:34.279 fourth Broadway at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss 258 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.559 in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop, Presley Ewarck, And 259 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.639 in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty 260 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.799 four oh eight Jamaica Avenue. 261 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.559 Now shall we return to the frightened booking on as heircraft. 262 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:55.799 We can't return to that train fast enough for me, 263 00:13:55.919 --> 00:14:04.919 doctor Watson. Well, you remember that Holmes and I were 264 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.039 in the compartment of the Dover train face to face 265 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.240 with Humphrey Littleton, the murderer. Holmes had just identified him. 266 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.960 What makes you think that I'm Littleton because you answer 267 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.399 one question, Sir, would you leave this train and return 268 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:20.559 to London in our custerday or do you choose to 269 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.399 be stubborn. I'll not return to London. I'll take better barber. 270 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:26.919 Mister Littleton, you'll not take me back? I repeat, no, 271 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:30.720 you're behaving like an idiot. London's most brilliant criminal attorney, 272 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.840 mister Francis Bridgeway, has announced he will defend you greatest. 273 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:38.759 He has never lost the case. You've an excellent chance. No, No, 274 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.600 I won't. I won't. Oh, don't be silly man. You've 275 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.879 no possible avenue of his cape. Scott and Yard are 276 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:48.840 surely telegraphed the French surinity. I'm waiting, mister Littleton. Once 277 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.000 I saw rendered to you, I'm finished. I'd rather kill 278 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:52.559 both of you. Once you're out of the way, I 279 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.600 can jump off the train. Then what dashing from village 280 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.080 to village? How long can you hide out on the 281 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.399 downs like a stricken an? You shunt swad. My mind 282 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:02.440 is made up. I'll take my chances very well. You 283 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:06.759 insist him. He missed. It's gone and I haven't home. 284 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.759 I regret the necessity of using my hunting crop on 285 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.080 your hand, mister Biddleton, but you are rather obstinate. I 286 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.159 shall stop the training. We shall return to London. Then 287 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.840 I shall have the pleasure of turning you over to 288 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:21.879 inspect a mistrand as a gift with the compliments of 289 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:36.879 mister Shellock hone while homes the morning newspaper say that 290 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:40.519 Littleton is safely locked in prison, I must say, you 291 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.960 handle that case with a dnasing speed. I've hardly even 292 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.039 a time to catch my breath, and it's over. It's 293 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:46.840 not over. 294 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.480 What what do you mean it isn't over? 295 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.559 I'd say from the moment the murder was committed. Events 296 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:55.639 moved with a relentless logic and hardly employedabord logic, my 297 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:57.919 dear wants. And that's what disturbs me. So hurry finish 298 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:00.399 your breakfast. We're after the merchants buildings. But why to 299 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.360 visit mister Francis Ridgeway Council for Littleton's defense? Why to 300 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.240 ascertain how he plans to defend the bookkeeper. But it 301 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.440 should be a simple, speedy trial, shouldn't it. 302 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:20.240 Perhaps I'm delighted that you've dropped in here to my office, 303 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:21.960 mister Holmes and doctor Watts. 304 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.559 Oh, thank you as the Ridgway. It is an incredibly 305 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:32.679 exclusive office. Those draperies, magnificent drugs, most striking, don't you agree, Holmes? Yes, yes, quite. 306 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.840 May I ask mister Ridgway what sort of defense you 307 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:37.159 plan for Humphy Littleton. 308 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.600 Well, there isn't a scrap of evidence on his behalf, 309 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.679 mister Holmes, and he admits he was being blackmailed by 310 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.200 the dead man. You see, Littleton once needed money desperately 311 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.399 for his wife, who with ill. He took some from 312 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.320 the bank and juggled his books to cover up. Bennett 313 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.679 knew about it, but Littleton denies committing the murder, said 314 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.120 he was never on the roof of the merchant's buildings, 315 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:00.159 said his walking stick was stolen from his platt. No 316 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.679 one will believe him. I'm afraid. I don't suppose you've 317 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:05.359 learned anything that would help me, have you? 318 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.039 No, I had not to make matters worse. He bought 319 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:08.920 that ticket to France. 320 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:11.559 He claimed he wanted to chuck his position and run 321 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.519 away just to avoid the blackmailer, but the jury will 322 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.680 interpret it as a plan for escaping after committing murder. 323 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.319 Oh I saw painters tarring a picture as I can 324 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:23.400 of the miserable creature hounded by a petty thief. He 325 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:25.319 he became fed up. That's about all. 326 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.400 I shall fight every inch of the way. But confidentially, 327 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.240 this may be the first case I've ever learnt. 328 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.119 It's true. In the morning, homes, where the dickens have 329 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:42.720 you been? I couldn't wait for you to return from 330 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:44.599 a hospital, Watson. My mission was urgent, he is, But 331 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:46.799 where were you? I've been searching for evidence that might 332 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.839 interest was the ridgeway or did you go on this 333 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.799 urgent mission carrying that pair of shoes under your arm? 334 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.119 I did not start out on the mission that way. No, really, 335 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:57.720 you do perform the most extraordinary antics. Why the trial 336 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.160 begins tomorrow? You mean you've got something that might ac 337 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.759 quit the bookkeeper, the grim fascination of a trial for homicide, 338 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.799 watching because the results as unpredictable. 339 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.240 Light til the car. 340 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.920 Here you are held two seats. There's littles in the docks, 341 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.319 and fences which were in the park corner. The talk 342 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.640 of your size about to me the indictment of the journey. 343 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:35.119 Gentlemen of the Jewey. The prisoner at the bar, Humphrey 344 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:39.559 little Ton is indicted, and the charge against him is murdered. 345 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:44.759 Upon this indictment, he has been arranged. Upon his arraignment, 346 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.599 he has pleaded that he is not guilty, and has 347 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:52.240 put himself upon his country. Which country you are, It 348 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:54.799 is for you to inquire whether he be guilty or not, 349 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:59.319 and to hearken to the evidence the Crown God is. 350 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.759 On the morning of July nineteenth, Henry. 351 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:07.319 Bennett was ruthlessly attacked and died instantaneously when he was 352 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:08.839 struck upoun the skull. 353 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:18.000 Mister Fancis Ridgeway, Mister Holmes, what is the reason for 354 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.559 these disturbance? May peace, your lordship. Gentlemen of the jury, 355 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.440 Henry Bennett was not murdered by Humphy Littleton, the prisoner 356 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.480 in the dock, but by mister Francis Bridgeway, Council for 357 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:32.640 the Defense, May peace, your lordship. 358 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.319 I do not know why mister Holmes has chosen to 359 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:36.079 interject this fantastical. 360 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:42.599 Mister w Mi lord, you have, on many previous occasions 361 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:46.200 made a substantial contribution to the inportment of law and honor. 362 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:51.599 Will entertain I protest your logic, homes, tell them, tell 363 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:52.359 them I didn't do it. 364 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:54.680 I didn't God help me. 365 00:19:54.839 --> 00:20:00.599 I didn't know the court will in to pain the 366 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:08.680 statement by mister Thurler. Come, mister Ridgway. It originally struck 367 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.799 me as curious that the council possessing your perfect record 368 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.279 should volunteer for a case so obviously doomed to defeat. 369 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:18.359 Could it have been that you wanted to have the 370 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:22.599 case because you wanted to lose it? Idle speculation. I 371 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.880 visited your office to develop my theory, Doctor Watson. Admired 372 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.839 your draperies, but I noticed a black spot on your rug. 373 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.359 It was tar. Although you may have vigorously cleaned the 374 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.200 remainder of your office, you neglected to remove that once Beckon, 375 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.279 for go on, homes go on. Where did the tar 376 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:42.880 come from, mister Ridgway. Well, the murder was committed on 377 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.759 an extremely hot day on the roof of the merchants building. 378 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:48.880 The tar melted, it came off on your shoes. After 379 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.480 killing Bennett on the roof, you returned to your office, 380 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.599 soiling your rug. Preposterous conjecture on your path. Last night, 381 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.079 I was on the roof of the Merchant's building. I 382 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:01.000 made plaster crusts at the killer's footprints. I then paid 383 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.759 a midnight visit to your deserted office, mister Ridgeway, I 384 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:08.200 found a pair of your shoes in a closet the 385 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.319 class which I'm prepared to submit his evidence match your 386 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:16.759 foot prints perfectly inconclusive evidence, utterly inconclusive. In addition, in addition, 387 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:18.720 I took a sample of a tar from that same 388 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:20.640 roof and compared it with a sample from the tar 389 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:23.559 on your rug. I have here a report based on 390 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:27.559 experimentation at home to the affected. Both samples matched perfectly 391 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:29.839 in chemical content. Proof. I demand proof, sir, that I 392 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:33.400 actually committed the murder, and you shall have it. There 393 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.039 is a young gentleman waiting outside at my request. His 394 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:39.160 name is Bob Dexter. What is most important about this 395 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.200 young gentleman, however, is not his name. It is his occupation, 396 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:47.000 mister Dexter, is a chimney sweep. My friend in spector 397 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.640 of Strade thesis was correct. There was a noise that 398 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:55.799 startled the killer. It was a chimney sweek you now, 399 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.240 in a moment, my lord, I made inquiries. I found 400 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.079 this young gentleman his home and set me. I persuaded 401 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:04.839