WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:02.799 And now for our weekly visit with our good friend 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:04.000 and host, doctor Watson. 3 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:05.839 Good evening, doctor, Good. 4 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:07.679 Evening, mister bout heels A bit late. 5 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:10.640 I've been keeping some dinner hot fire here, pull up 6 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:12.240 your chair and join me. 7 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:14.720 That's very nice of you, thanks doctor. How are you 8 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:15.800 all set with the nice story? 9 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.440 Yes, my bar, I'm all set, as you call it. 10 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:20.079 As a matter of fact, I was going. 11 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.359 Over my notes on the case just before you arrived, 12 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.160 and last week you hinted that a beautiful girl figured 13 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.519 prominently in your adventure. I have to quite right, mister Bartell, 14 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.160 an extremely beautiful girl. In fact, I often used to 15 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:31.920 say to Sherlock Holmes that if I had been a 16 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.359 little younger at the time, I might Oh well, you 17 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:38.439 haven't come here to listen to my personal reminiscences. You 18 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:41.240 want to hear the story that I called the Problem 19 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.560 of toll Bridge. That's what you promised this doctor. 20 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:44.759 How did it begin? 21 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:49.320 On a window morning in October in eighteen nineties, was 22 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.119 as I was dressing I observed how a last remaining 23 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.880 leaves were being whirled away from the solitary plane tree 24 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:58.399 which graced the yard behind our Baker Street house. 25 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:01.000 I descended to break. I was prepared to find my 26 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:05.560 companion into pressed spirits, for like all great artists, he 27 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:09.799 was easily impressed by surroundings. But to my surprise he 28 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.439 was in an unusually gay mood. 29 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.400 As I answered the room, he looked up at me 30 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.640 and with her with a smile. 31 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.239 Hope except well splendidly, Hank Term, I'm so glad. 32 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.799 Were you versileist us this morning? I think he was 33 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:24.959 to have got a new case? 34 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:25.840 Am I right? 35 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.400 The faculty of deductionist set in their contagious Yes, I 36 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.799 have a new case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation, 37 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:32.359 the wheels revolved once more. 38 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.680 Good tell me all about it. Well, yet, there's much 39 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.680 to tell. Have you ever had of Neil Gibson. Neil Gibson, 40 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:39.920 who else has something to do with gold mining? 41 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.719 Isn't he a great deal to do with the boy there, fellow? 42 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.280 In fact, he's considered the greatest mining magnet in the world, 43 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:46.439 not by us. Go he bought a largest state in 44 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.959 Hampshire that you've read of the tragic death of his wife, of. 45 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.079 Course, I remember the case now. 46 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.879 She was murdered by jealous governess who was in her employee, 47 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:54.239 wasn't you. 48 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.560 That point will be decided, and the lady in question, 49 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.760 Grace Dunbar, I believe her name is, comes up a 50 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:02.120 try that the forthcoming winches to the sizes. In any case, 51 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.000 it's hard for me to see what I can do 52 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:05.239 for my tent at this late date. 53 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.760 Your client, Oh, yes, I forgot. I hadn't told you why. 54 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.280 I'm getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards. 55 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:12.039 That'll read. This letter came this morning. 56 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:13.520 So look. 57 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:18.919 Here, mister Sherlock Holmes, Missus Dunbar is innocent. I can't 58 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.719 see the finest woman in the world go to her 59 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.560 death without doing everything possible to save her. 60 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.520 I shall call on you at ten thirty tomorrow morning 61 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:28.479 to discuss the matter. 62 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:31.560 Yours faithfully, Neil Gibson gets me. 63 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:33.840 Hey, you have it, Watson, that is the gentleman. 64 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:36.479 I wait, do you know anything about his dead wife? 65 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.280 Only what I've been reading in the papers. 66 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.400 Apparently she was past her prime, which was the more 67 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.400 unfortunate as this Miss Dunbar, who superintended the education of 68 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:46.520 the two young children, is reputed to be a very 69 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:47.479 attractive young lady. 70 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.159 The eternal trianglar. Well, where did the murder take place. 71 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.280 On Gibson's estate in Hampshire. His wife was. 72 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:54.840 Found in the grounds, nearly half a mile from the 73 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.639 manor house, late at night, clad in her dinner dress, 74 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.919 with a shawl over her shoulders and a revolver bullet 75 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:01.560 through her brain. 76 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:03.159 Any weapon foul near her? 77 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.080 Oh? No clues found that the scene of the crime. 78 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:06.800 What made them suspect the governess. 79 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.639 Well, in the first place, there was some very incriminating evidence. 80 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.159 A revolver with one discharged chamber, the caliber corresponding with 81 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.680 a bullet in the dead woman's head was found on 82 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.520 the floor in missus Dunbar's wardrobe. 83 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.719 Oh was it pretty damaging evidence homes till. 84 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.319 The coroner thought, And to make the case even blacker 85 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:26.159 against miss Dunbar, the dead woman had a note on 86 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.039 her making an appointment of that very spot, and the 87 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:30.879 note was signed by the Governess. 88 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.639 It seems obvious that the girl's guilty and the motives clear. 89 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.800 Gibson be a great catch for a young girl. 90 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:41.280 Love, fortune, power, all dependent. 91 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.520 On one life, possibly Watson, But circumstantial evidence can be 92 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.360 very misleading at times. AH As a gentleman in question 93 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.039 of this, I'm very much mistaken considerably before his time. 94 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.479 I can see him from the window here, formidable looking 95 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:56.120 for her. Must be well over six foot. 96 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.199 Tall, judging by the way he's renting at that door 97 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:00.479 bell is a man with a temper. 98 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.240 Missus Hudson's opening the door to him. 99 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.240 Now meet him on the stairs. When he won't happen, 100 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.199 you'll say, Missus Hudson, the journey. 101 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:12.800 Joe appear, sir. Thank you all right, are you, mister 102 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:13.400 Sherlock holme? 103 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.759 No, no, indeed, I Miss Polly, Doctor Watson come along in, won't. 104 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:19.199 You, Mister Neil Gibson. I presume that's right. 105 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:20.759 See all the great Sherlock owned. 106 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:23.920 The adjective is your own, mister Gibson, he said that, 107 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.600 won't you bither way? You miss speak quite freely. 108 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:27.560 I'm trying to doctor Watson. 109 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.000 Well, I may as well begin by telling you that 110 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.879 money means nothing to me in this case. You can 111 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:33.399 burn it if it's any use to you in lighting 112 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:35.839 the truth. Miss Dunbar is innocent and it's up to 113 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:37.759 you to prove it. Just name your feet, and. 114 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:41.079 Mister Gibson, my professional charges I'm on a fixed scale. 115 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:43.920 I don't vary them except when I omit them altogether 116 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:44.560 very well. 117 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.040 I imagine that you read the newspaper reports of the coroner's 118 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:47.439 in quest. 119 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:48.439 Yes, very thoroughly. 120 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:50.160 I don't see that I can add anything that will 121 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.360 help you, But if there any questions you'd like to ask, 122 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:54.199 I'll answer them. 123 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:54.519 No, thank you. 124 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.120 First, What are the exact relations between you and miss Dunbar? 125 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.959 I suppose you're within your right in asking such question, 126 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:01.920 mister Hone, we. 127 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:03.680 Will agree to suppose, so, shall we? 128 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.680 Then I can assure you that my relations with Miss 129 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:08.199 Dunbar were always those of an employer to ord the 130 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.240 young lady with whom he never conversed or even saw 131 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:11.800 except in the company of his children. 132 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.879 Oh, another a busy man, mister Gibson. I have no 133 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.199 time or taste for aimless conversation. I wish a good morning. 134 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:19.000 What the devil do you mean by this, mister Home. 135 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.680 My dear sir, The case is difficult enough without your 136 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.360 giving him a false information that I I was trying 137 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.079 to express it as difficultly as possible. That if you 138 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:29.279 insist on the word, I won't contradict you. Why you 139 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.319 can found not being noisy, mister Gibson, Please don't denoise you. 140 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.000 I find that after breakfast evehen, the smallest argument is unsettling. 141 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.199 I suggest that a stoll in the morning air and 142 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:38.399 a little quiet thought. 143 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:39.560 Will be great to deal at Dantee. 144 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.600 I suppose I can't make you take the case. But 145 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.279 you've done yourself low good this morning, mister Holmes. I've 146 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.040 broken stronger men than you. No man never crossed me, and. 147 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:48.600 It was the better word carning. Mister Gipson, you have 148 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.879 a great deal yet to learn. 149 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:54.720 On mysel home. You run useless severe with him. 150 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.800 I just like liars Watson, and I cannot tolerate arrogance, 151 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:00.680 particularly when it's coupled with great Now. 152 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.519 How did you know about his relations with the governor? 153 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:02.839 I didn't. 154 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:04.759 It was pure bluff, bluff. 155 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:06.959 It certainly worked. I think you've come back. 156 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:09.680 Of course he will. He needs my help too badly. 157 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.199 He'll probably change his mind for his halfway down the stairs. 158 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:17.720 Come in, ah, mister Gibson, just saying to Dr Watson 159 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:18.759 that I was certain you'll be back. 160 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.319 I've been thinking it over, mister Holmes, and I feel 161 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:25.199 that perhaps I was hasty and taking your remarks amiss. 162 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:27.839 Just to say I can assure you that the relations 163 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.399 between Miss Dunbar and me really don't affect this case. 164 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.759 Surely that is for me to decide. Mister Gibson, you. 165 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:34.600 To give him. My friend is like a doctor. 166 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.920 He wants every symptom before he can give his diagnosis. 167 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:38.720 Far away. 168 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.199 Mister Holmes, what is it you want to know? 169 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:41.319 The truth? 170 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:43.240 I can give it to you in very few words. 171 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.120 To begin with, I met my wife when I was 172 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:46.160 gold mining in Brazil. 173 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:46.680 Uh. 174 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.439 Your wife was positioned by birth, wasn't you, sir? Yes, doctor, 175 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:51.319 and very beautiful. 176 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.000 Well, to make a long story short, I fell in 177 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:56.160 love and married her and brought her to England. 178 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.759 Half a few years, I realized that we had nothing, 179 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:00.759 absolutely nothing in common. 180 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.199 And then I suppose this young governess, Miss Dunbar, arrived 181 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:03.600 on the scene. 182 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.800 That's right, mister Holmes. Well, the story should be obvious 183 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.560 to you. From there you will fall in love with 184 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.120 this girl. I suppose who could help it that you'd 185 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.600 suggest marriage to her? Yes, though I knew that my 186 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:15.759 wife would never divorce me. 187 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.439 I see, And then you made an utterly insincere proposition 188 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.120 to her. Now look here, mister Holmes, I came to 189 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.199 one a question of evidence, not of morals. 190 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:23.920 I'm not asking for your criticism. 191 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.120 It's only the young lady's sake. Fit turn forces me 192 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.800 to touch your case at all. Now tell me, sir, 193 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.360 what is your own opinion as to Miss Dunbar's guilt. 194 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.600 It's very black against her. I can't deny. 195 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:38.240 That one explanation of the tragedy did come. 196 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.079 Into my head. Mister Holmes. I give to you for 197 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:40.680 what it's worth. 198 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:43.319 Pray continue, Miss Gibson. 199 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.519 My wife was bitterly jealous. She was half crazy with hatred. 200 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.279 She might have planned to murder Miss Dunbar, or we'll say, 201 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.759 to threaten the girl with the revolver and so frighten 202 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.199 her into leading us. There might have been a struggle 203 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.319 in which the gun exploded and gone off and shot 204 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.000 my wife who was holding it. 205 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.639 On that possible, It has already occurred to me. It's 206 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:03.759 the only obvious alternative to deliberate murder. 207 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.560 Harbor Holmes was found on the floor the Governess's wardrobe. 208 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:08.800 Mister Gibson, I should like to examine your house in. 209 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:10.319 The scene of the murder as soon as possible. 210 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.600 Siftly, mister Holmes, sudden coventry. 211 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.480 The local police is still down there. He'll give you 212 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:15.279 any help you may need. 213 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.120 Excellent, what's the old foe out of the time table. 214 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:33.440 We're catching the next past train to Winchester. 215 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.720 So if I have to someone else on the case, 216 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.679 I'd rather have you, mister Elmes. The yard gets called 217 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.679 in and then we local police loses all credit for success, 218 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.200 generally gets blamed for the failures. Though I've heard that 219 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:51.120 you play straight. 220 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.080 I appear in a matter at all, Sergeant Coventry, if 221 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:56.720 I can clear it up. 222 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:58.679 I don't ask you. You even have my name mentioned, say 223 00:08:58.799 --> 00:08:59.080 some of you. 224 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.600 I'm sure I know your friend doctor Watson can be 225 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:02.159 trusted too. 226 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.360 I don't worry, my dear fellow. We won't steal any 227 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:05.159 of your thunder. 228 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.039 It's nice and friendly of you, doctor. But come on, gentlemen, 229 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:10.200 I'll walk get down to the bridge. That's where we 230 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.840 found missus Gibson's body. It's not far from the house here. 231 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.039 Well, I must say, mister Gibson has a beautiful estate. 232 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.399 It must be sixty or seventy. 233 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:20.399 Acres or nearly twice. 234 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:21.000 That doctor. 235 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.519 The what's back of the us there belongs to him too, 236 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.639 mister Dolms, Yes, Hutgen, there's a question I'd like to 237 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.840 ask you question. I wouldn't ask anyone else, and please 238 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.039 ask it. Don't you think there might be a case 239 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:38.080 against mister Gibson hisself? Sir, I've been considering that possibility, 240 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:40.519 But they're miss dunboss a bit of all right, if 241 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.200 you ask me. Wanted his wife out of the way. 242 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.120 In the pistol she was shot with? Was his pistol? 243 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:44.399 You know? 244 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:44.759 Oh? 245 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:49.120 Was that factor, Pruben? Yes, doctor, it was one. 246 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.639 Of a pair that he had one a pair. Where's 247 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:51.879 the other? 248 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.360 Well, mister Gibson has a lot of firearms. We never 249 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:58.600 quite matched that particular pistol, but the box was made 250 00:09:58.639 --> 00:09:58.919 for two. 251 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:00.639 Well, if it was one of a pair, surely you'd 252 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:01.480 be able to mention it. 253 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.919 Well, we have them more laid out at the house 254 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:04.799 if you want to look him. 255 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:08.559 Over, and we'll do that later. Ah. This I presume 256 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:09.960 is toll Bridge. That's right, sir. 257 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.159 Found missus Gibson's body lying right here at the approach 258 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:13.679 to the bridge. 259 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:14.000 I see. 260 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.000 I gathered from the newspaper reports the shop was started 261 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:17.080 very close quarters, Yes. 262 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.120 So very close in the right temple. Wasn't it just 263 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:19.679 behind itsself? 264 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.559 How did the body lie sergeant, we inspect doctor. No 265 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.879 trace of a struggle, no march, no weapon. The note 266 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.759 from miss Dunbar was clutched in her left hand. Clutched, 267 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:30.639 you say, yes, so we could already open the fingers 268 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.080 to get at it. 269 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.960 Ah, that's the greatest importance. 270 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.240 It excludes the idea that anyone could have placed the 271 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:39.600 note there after death in order to furnish a false clue. 272 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:40.399 What did the note say? 273 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.480 Little enough? Doctor just said I will be at toll 274 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.639 Bridge at nine o'clock and it was assigned Grace Dunber. 275 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.200 Miss Dunbar admit writing it. 276 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:48.840 Oh, yes, sir. 277 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:50.159 What was her explanation? 278 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.039 She wouldn't say nothing. Said she was saving her defense 279 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:53.679 for the trial. 280 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:57.080 Yes, it seems odd that missus Gibson was still touching 281 00:10:57.120 --> 00:10:57.600 that note. 282 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:58.919 Seems perfectly natural to me. 283 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.960 Come over, fellow, give the thing out. Logically, if the. 284 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.720 Letter is genuine, it was certainly received sometime before the tragedy, 285 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:06.519 see an hour or two. And why then, was the 286 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:10.000 dead woman still clasping it in her left hand? Why 287 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.919 should she carry it so carefully? She certainly didn't need 288 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:14.679 to refer to a note at all at the interview. 289 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.159 Doesn't it strike you as rather strange. 290 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.080 Well, are you put it that way? It does seem 291 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:20.120 a little peculiar. 292 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.159 Hello, did you notice this, Gargeant? 293 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.360 Oh, you mean that chip out of that stone on 294 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:27.960 the under side of the parapet. 295 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:28.039 Of the bridge. 296 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.600 Sir, Yes, I noticed it. Didn't think nothing. 297 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.840 Of it, though it's a very large chip. 298 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:36.919 Yes, but it's been on recently the stone work. It's 299 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:38.919 quite just yet it took some balance to do that, 300 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:39.960 Ami a king once man. 301 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:41.320 Thanks. 302 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:50.120 Yes, the hard knuck and in a curtious place too, 303 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.480 But it's fifteen feet from where we found the body 304 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:52.919 misted out. 305 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.759 Yesters, I don't see how it could have any connection. 306 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:58.399 With missus Gibson, and it hasn't, but it's a point 307 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.559 worth noting. There were no footprints, who says sergeant. 308 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.360 No, mister Elms. The ground was as odd as are 309 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:04.840 and he's been a very dry summon. 310 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:05.240 We have no. 311 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:09.679 Argent, how much obliged you? And now I think we'll 312 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:10.200 get back to the. 313 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.519 House, says our share where the firearms are? 314 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:12.759 Sir? 315 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.960 Oh, who says I. 316 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.399 Funny kind of a bloke Brazilian here Brasiliona like this is, 317 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.960 Gibson asked mister Elms. Because from the same time that 318 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.639 she does, as a matter of fact, something very fishy 319 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.279 about him, if you ask me. Now, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, 320 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:27.120 I'm going to take a little stroll around the grounds. 321 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:28.919 You started me on a new train of thought in 322 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:29.720 this case, mister. 323 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.960 Ellmers, I'm the right head, Sergeant. Get back to the house. 324 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.720 I see, and these are. 325 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.000 All the firearms in mister Gibson's possession. 326 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.120 He says I, except for the revolver that is missing 327 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:54.799 from the kiss. 328 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:56.360 Yes, I see him. 329 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.919 I've never seen such a collection of guns and revolvers 330 00:12:58.960 --> 00:12:59.480 in my life. 331 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.759 Mister Gibson had many enemies, Senor. He always sleep with 332 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.519 a laudid pistol beside his bed. She is a man 333 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.159 of great violence. There have been times when all of 334 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.480 us were afraid of him. 335 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.679 If you have witness physical violence towards missus Gibson. 336 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.279 No, Senor, I cannot say that I have. But I 337 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.200 have heard him saying many terrible things to her. She 338 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:21.639 would taunt her in front. 339 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:22.600 Of we servants. 340 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.639 I have heard them do it many times. 341 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:25.559 Thank you, says I. 342 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:29.639 That will be all go inter vain, Senor. You know, Holmes, 343 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:33.240 I do think the case against miss Dunbar looks very black. 344 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:35.120 I should agree with you if it were not for 345 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:38.559 one fact, the finding of the rabota in her wardrobe. 346 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.200 So Holmes, that seems too MESI the strongest evidence. 347 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:43.080 Of all I think, not, old Chap. 348 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.519 We must look for consistency where there is a want 349 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:51.279 of it. We must suspect deception. 350 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:52.600 I know quite follow you. 351 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:54.759 Suppose for a moment that we've visualized you in the 352 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.720 character of a woman who, in cold premeditated fashion, is 353 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.840 about to murder a rival. You've planned it, a note 354 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:04.039 has been written, the victim has come. You'll have a weapon. 355 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.200 The crime is well done. There's been workmen I can complete. 356 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:09.480 You need to tell me that, after carrying out their craft, 357 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.120 your crime, you would be so stupid as to forget 358 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.440 to bring the incriminating revolver at the bottom of the stream, 359 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.840 or perhaps in the dense read that border it would 360 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.080 you carefully carry it home and put it in. 361 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.960 The first place that would be searched your wardrobe. 362 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.240 Wer perhaps in the excitement of the moment. 363 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.600 One, my dear Chap, I won't admit that's even possible. 364 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.120 When a crime is coolly premeditated, then the means of 365 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:32.279 covering it are coolly premeditated or so? 366 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.480 Then if miss Dunbar didn't shoot missus Gibson, who the 367 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:34.960 devil did? 368 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.039 I hope I can give you the answer to that question, Watson, 369 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:38.480 when we've made one further visit. 370 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.039 Oh Lord, where are we going now? 371 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:41.600 To prison? Old chap Prison. 372 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.320 Yes, We're going to Winchester Prison to call on miss Dunbar. 373 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:48.039 I'm certain that the key to this strange mystery lies 374 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:53.480 in her hands. 375 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.399 You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just 376 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.360 a few seconds, Just time enough for me to remind 377 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.320 you that the easiest way to make good food taste 378 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.240 better is to serve that good food with a good 379 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.039 Petree wine. If you like a red wine, well you 380 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.200 want a Petree California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a 381 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.519 white wine, then you want a Petrie California So Turned. 382 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:21.600 But red or white. 383 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.320 Petrie Burgundy or Petrie so Turned. 384 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.159 You're choosing a dinner wine that sure to turn a 385 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.960 simple meal into a feast. Your whole family and all 386 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.720 your friends will love Petrie, the wine that. 387 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.759 Makes good food tastes better. 388 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.120 And now back to doctor Watson and tonight Sherlock Holmes adventure, 389 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.440 the problem of tour Bridge. Well, doctor, did you go 390 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.080 to Winchester Prison and see miss Dunbar? 391 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.320 We did just about. And how later if I'm the 392 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.039 two of us. 393 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.399 Sitting in a cold gloom yourself talking to one of 394 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.759 the most beautiful girls that I've ever seen. Her bright 395 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:11.000 flashing eyes and her air of quiet confidence seemed sadly 396 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.879 out of place in such a setting. Holmes spoke to 397 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:18.279 her quietly, Bob. 398 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.120 The hilloth of your true relations with the dead woman. 399 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.600 She hated me, mister Holmes. She hated me with all 400 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.120 the passion of her distorted mind. 401 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.240