Speaker 1: Now, when you've finished copying the map, I want you
to write in the names of the cities I've marched
with crosses.
Speaker 2: I'll start you off, you yall, now you do the rest,
and no cheating.
Speaker 1: If you both have the same wrong answers, this time
I shall be burying mister Gibson.
Speaker 3: A word with you, Miss Dunbar, of course out here.
Speaker 1: Very well, carry on quietly, please, children, what are you.
Speaker 4: Two staring at? Get back to work.
Speaker 5: That's better now here.
Speaker 3: You're not the only one playing with maps.
Speaker 2: How long would you been watching me?
Speaker 1: And besides, we are certainly not.
Speaker 3: Playing neither am I look at it? The new hospitals,
all six of them, from Aricaju to the San Antonio Falls.
The Gibson clinics satisfied now.
Speaker 1: Because of course, not six isn't enough. Sixty wouldn't be enough.
Speaker 3: You want to bankrupt me?
Speaker 1: You could cover South America with hospitals and hardly missussent
that what you want?
Speaker 3: Is that all you want?
Speaker 2: It would do for a start?
Speaker 3: Well, I dare say something can be arranged.
Speaker 1: Now, you know perfectly well you have only to say
the word.
Speaker 5: And when will you say the word, Senator?
Speaker 3: My word has been said, and I've told you how
things stand.
Speaker 5: If I were free.
Speaker 2: You're not free, are you?
Speaker 1: So things miss stay as they are for the present.
If I can accept that, surely you can. No, he can't,
Missus Gibson, good morning man.
Speaker 6: He can't accept it because he's never known what it's
like to go without have you kneel?
Speaker 2: Not like you, not like me, at least not until now.
Speaker 5: You should be.
Speaker 1: Flattered, Miss Dunbar.
Speaker 6: You're the first thing he's ever wanted that he's not
been able to buy.
Speaker 7: The Problem of thor Bridge by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
dramatized for Radio by Bert Cools, with Clive Medicine as
Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Doctor John Watson, and
featuring William Hootkins as j Neil Gibson and Charlotte Attenborough
as Grace Dunbar. The Problem of thor Bridge.
Speaker 6: On on.
Speaker 5: Tell me again.
Speaker 4: You're like no woman I've never known.
Speaker 5: Marry me? Why?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Because it's one? What?
Speaker 6: What about?
Speaker 5: What I want? What you want?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 5: Whow are you all right?
Speaker 9: Ma'am?
Speaker 6: Mam Missus Gibson, mister I didn't see.
Speaker 4: You your pardon my say so, but you didn't seem
to see much of anything.
Speaker 5: You near ended up inside the house.
Speaker 6: Would you help me down please?
Speaker 5: Of course, ma'am.
Speaker 4: I'll get one of the lads to see to your horse.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Fine.
Speaker 4: Creature like this has to be locked after and I've
seen too many things on this estate whither or away
for one of attention.
Speaker 6: You're a good man, mister Bates. Make sure that you're
not also a foolish one.
Speaker 5: I know where my loyalty is.
Speaker 6: Loyalty is like love. Giving it to the wrong person
can't be dangerous.
Speaker 2: Thank you, game.
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: What's wrong?
Speaker 5: Nothing?
Speaker 4: Have you hurt your arm?
Speaker 5: No, it's nothing to show me. How did you come
by these.
Speaker 6: I see, mister forget what you have seen, mister Bates.
But remember what I said.
Speaker 10: He was expecting you at eleven, mister Ferguson. Not everything
in life can be reduced to a cut and dried timetable.
I can't run his st tight the way you run
his office.
Speaker 11: So I noticed you keep your clever remarks to yourself.
We shouldn't be enemies, Bates. We're both wrapped up in
this damned situation, and we've both got plenty to lose.
But that you make us and what the devil you
have to lose everything?
Speaker 5: Do you think I've slaved away for him for all
these years to finish up running a charitable society.
Speaker 10: That damn governess is bleeding the guts out of him.
So who's gonna change things? Then you something's got to happen, well,
perhaps something well, and it has to be soon.
Speaker 5: Below wims and craft your cheeks rays. Below you'll tatterac
Santanotatos moring home spout telling you drenched us steeples drowned
the clock.
Speaker 4: Yes, I thought I heard the person.
Speaker 5: Oh cleaving thunderbolts sings my white head, you've got a
case at last. Then I didn't realize the faculty of
deduction must say, contagerous, it wasn't much of a deduction.
When you're not working, your mood goes up and down
with the weather. And that explains the cautious way you
put your head around the door, expecting room away dark
clouds and occasional eruptions of thunder. I certainly wasn't expecting
recitations from the classics. Let the great gods find out
that enemies now tremble with a wretch that hast within
the young, divulged, crimes are whipped of justice high the loud,
bloody Dan, Please not before breakfast? Ah, yes, breakfast. I
hope you're feeling strong? Have everyone the family herald? I
observed the coffee on the hall table, Well so did I?
When you cook? I assumed, what's that got to do
with breakfast? Even so trivial a matter as the boiling
of an egg demands a degree of attention. So Mariah's
new Master homes, Why don't we ever have a straightforward conference?
Mariah's New Master A love romance in five installments, final
installment today? Oh as the egg just came au pour
second on a frame? Are they think of them as challenging?
When does missus Hudson returned two weeks? Next Friday? Would
be a walking skeleton mass? How's the coffee? His? I have
a case? After a month of stagnician the wheels move
once more? Have you heard of Neil Gibson here, mister
Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3: I can't see the best woman God ever made go
to her death without doing all that.
Speaker 5: It's possible to save her. Well, of course I have
the American Senator. I think I'll risk it ex Senator Yep, yes,
lives over here. Huh, I'll what a huge state five
years ago? Anything else? Neil Gibson, the gold King, ridiculous
nickname is accurate. His fortune is supposed to beyond calculation.
Speaker 3: I can't explain things. I can't even try to explain them.
But I know beyond all doubt that missus Dunbar is innocent.
Speaker 5: What do you know about his wife? What the whole
rest of the country knows. She's just been murdered by
her own government. You've seen the report, ah, I cold
only miss them true enough, but did you read them?
I glanced through the one in the Times. It seemed
pretty much cut and dry.
Speaker 3: It's the damned injustice of it all that makes me mad.
That woman has a heart that wouldn't let her.
Speaker 5: Kill a fly, cut and drive. The interesting personality of
the accused does not obscure the clearness of the evidence.
That was the view of the colonists jury and the
police cord. So it's gone to a site Winchester next week.
I just thank as a business I can discover fact
once and I can't change them as new ones come
to light. As that likely, well, I don't see what
else my client can hope for your client being. I'm
getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards.
Here a royal missive from the palace of the Gold King.
Oh see, thank you, sau plays Hamshell. All I know,
and all I have, and all I am for your use.
Speaker 3: If only you can't save her, If ever in your
life you showed your powers, put.
Speaker 5: Them now into this case fullsome sort of chap, isn't
he then? Interestimate him?
Speaker 12: Watson.
Speaker 5: He's a formidable character and a violent one. Violent so
it's said, he's quite definite about this Miss dunn Bar's
innocence without offering a shred of evidence in her favor.
Maybe I have a clue and don't know it. I
have no idea the case was coming my way. I'd
have had the sorted out and ready horrible murder on
historical English estate. One or two useful facts urian to
half a page of relurid speculation. Most of these others
are even worthy. I'll give it you in a Mutchell,
thank you. Then you'll be able to take an intelligent
interest in the proceedings. You're two kinds. J. Neil Gibson,
ex Senator of some western state and now one of
the greatest financial powers in the world if he married
a wife, the victim of this tragedy. I knew nothing
about her. Say that she was past her crime, which
was unfortunate as Yes, the couple's two young children were
superintended by a Miss Gris Dunbar, a governess of some attractiveness.
Ah ah, not miss the place, and I'm setting his
full bridge half a mile from the house. That's where
the body was founding fans late at night, clad in
her dinner dress, with a shawl over her shoulders and
a bullet through her brain.
Speaker 12: Why suspect the governess.
Speaker 5: Shut upping, get out of my way, Give me the lamp, sick,
no pistol close range? One shot.
Speaker 4: Watch that in a hand, her left hand. I'll leave
it based. I'm sure I can get it.
Speaker 5: It was just a bit of paper.
Speaker 4: Give it to me, some sort of note baits.
Speaker 5: Give it to me, I said.
Speaker 4: Come to Thorbridge at nine this evening, and it's signed
Grace Dunbar.
Speaker 5: Was it her handwriting? Oh yeah, Apparently she doesn't deny that,
if the papers can be believed. What's more, she was
seen at the bridge on the evening of the murder
a reliable witness. A passing local is the best description
of I found. That could be the village idiot or
the village of Parsing. She has no alibi for any
of the rest of that evening. She stayed in her
bedroom up and was seen by no one and the
strongest of all, Yes, strongest of all. Well, stop this
is intolerable, sergeant. Just stay quiet and let us go
on with our workness.
Speaker 2: If you'll tell me what you're looking for, I could say,
your men, this effect nothing.
Speaker 5: In the cabinet, sir, or on the shelves, to.
Speaker 2: The wardrobe, my clothes in that wardrobe, nothing else.
Speaker 5: Do it?
Speaker 2: You'll pay for this damaged sergeant. I swear whatever you
saying is did you patronize me?
Speaker 5: Serge?
Speaker 4: What you got Jennings here?
Speaker 2: I've never seen that before.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's loaded too with five bullets.
Speaker 13: One's been fired.
Speaker 3: Money is nothing I have of your bottom. This woman
is innocent and has to be cleared. Money is nothing.
You can burn it if it'll light you.
Speaker 4: To the truth.
Speaker 5: Name your fank you my professional charges on a fixed scale.
Speaker 3: You don't vary them, only when I remit the law together. Well,
if dollars make no difference to your think of the reputation.
If you pull this off, every paper in England and
America will be booming you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Gibson.
Speaker 12: But I don't.
Speaker 5: But I'm in need of booming. What perhaps if we
could just get down to the facts, mister Gibson.
Speaker 3: Well, you'll find all the main ones in the press reports.
Speaker 5: Can't you add anything that will help us?
Speaker 3: I don't know that I can. But if you have
any specific questions and ask away, there is just one point.
Speaker 5: What is it? What were the exact relations between you
and miss Dunbar.
Speaker 3: I suppose you're within your rights and asking such a question.
Speaker 5: We'll agree to suppose.
Speaker 3: So then I assure you that my relations were entirely
those of an employer to a young lady on his staff.
Speaker 5: I only ever spoke to her.
Speaker 3: I only ever saw her when she was in the
company of my children.
Speaker 5: I'm a busy man, mister Gibson. If now have the
time all the taste for aimless conversations, good morning. What
the devil do you mean? Are you dismissing my case? Mary,
mister Gibson, I'm dismissing you. This matter is quite complicated
enough without the added difficulty of pulse information.
Speaker 3: Meaning that I'm lying.
Speaker 5: Well, I was trying to put it as delicate as
I could, but you insist on the word. I won't
contradict you, the insufferable scoundrel.
Speaker 3: I ought to teach you.
Speaker 5: On that's and being noisy. It's too soon after breakfast.
Speaker 3: You've done yourself no good this morning, mister Holmes. No
man ever crossed me and was the better for it.
Speaker 5: I've broken stronger men than you. So many have said so,
and yet here I am mm hmm. Any views a
man used to giving his own way, whatever obstacles may
be in his past. Do you think he'll come back?
He's sure to come back. He must come back.
Speaker 12: Dinner.
Speaker 5: Oh no, you say just where you are there.
Speaker 1: It looks disgusting.
Speaker 4: You don't want it.
Speaker 5: Say the word is. Others will be grateful for the extra.
Speaker 2: I do want it. But when I get out of here,
I shall see that something is done about these conditions.
Speaker 5: Well you know, well, I look forward to that.
Speaker 2: Shallock Combs is working on my case.
Speaker 14: Do you hear me? Shallock Homes, These are more like you?
Speaker 9: No family herald this morning after zoom, Well, you're not
eating really is very good, and I'll come on bad enough.
Speaker 5: He was starving, So when you have a case, I
had a case after four miserable weeks of bored him
and decay. And what did that do? I threw it away?
Speaker 12: They might still come back.
Speaker 5: I misread the man completely. These things happen not to me,
to everyone. I was sure he wouldn't let the case
drop everything about himself. So what's the matter with me?
Nowhing's a bit more breakfast and a little less self
ditty wouldn't remedy? You're right, I know I am. Shall
I ring for another kip? Did you hear that? What
the post? I'll get it. I'll get it. Good news,
thank god from four places.
Speaker 12: Sure you didn't misread.
Speaker 5: Him, of course?
Speaker 4: Hmmm, well done?
Speaker 12: Well what does he say.
Speaker 5: Nothing? What do you mean it's not from.
Speaker 13: Him, mister Holmes, mister Cummings, my friend and partner, doctor Watson.
Speaker 15: Pleasure, sir r ries, mister Cummings, I have a trap
waiting to take us to four place, un mister Holmes,
I'm fred not.
Speaker 5: Not yet. So mister Gibson didn't authorize your letter, now,
mister Holmes, does he even though you wrote it?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 15: The Senator engaged my services to defend miss Dunbar. He
told me he wanted the best defense money could buy.
I've done no more than follow his.
Speaker 5: Instruction by sending for us exactly against the wishes of
your employers.
Speaker 15: Really, Watson, understand your concern, doctor, But I'm sure I
can persuade mister Gibson that this is the best course. Frankly, gentlemen,
at the moment, all the cards are against us. My
client needs all the help.
Speaker 5: She can get.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you anything you.
Speaker 5: Want to know. Good, start with this. What was your
relationship with mister Gibson's wife.
Speaker 2: That's not an easy question to answer. Until this terrible
business happened, I would have said that she liked me
well enough. Well, perhaps tolerated me would be a better phrase.
Speaker 4: My client was in sole charge of the children, after all.
Speaker 10: Missus Gibson would hardly have permitted that if she didn't
think she was a fit person.
Speaker 5: Did she know of your relationship with her husband?
Speaker 2: She knew I had some influence over him.
Speaker 5: Did she know the nature of that influence? Do you
not an exact detail?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: Then perhaps I should furnish you with exact detail.
Speaker 5: If you consider the matter to per phase do.
Speaker 2: I was able to make him understand and that one
man's fortune shouldn't be built on the ruined lives of
ten thousand others, that all his power and his strength
could be made to work for good purposes and not
just material ones. I made him see past the dollars
to something more lasting.
Speaker 5: You're claiming to have changed the entire direction of his life.
Speaker 2: That is precisely what I did, sir.
Speaker 5: What was missus Gibson's reaction?
Speaker 2: The subject was never mentioned. I don't believe she was
capable of understanding the ties that bound her husband too.
Speaker 5: Surely she understood completely.
Speaker 2: The mental and spiritual ties.
Speaker 5: What was your attitude towards her?
Speaker 2: I pitied her? Why because mister Gibson treated her very badly.
A woman shouldn't be afraid of her own husband. It
isn't right.
Speaker 5: Did she know how you felt? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, I often reproached mister Gibson for the way he
behaved towards her.
Speaker 5: In public, Miss Dunbar, before the other servants.
Speaker 2: Certainly, doctor, I'm not in the habit of concealing my
beliefs as if I were ashamed of them.
Speaker 5: You said, until this terrible business happened? How's missus Gibson's
death changed your mind?
Speaker 2: It wasn't her death, it was what happened just before it.
Speaker 6: Or schemingdeedlore defeat was scheming a lion.
Speaker 2: She was like a mad woman. I think she might
actually have been insane. First, you see my chest, my husband?
Speaker 5: What more did you want? What's next? You want my choice,
my momy, my glass? Well tell me just a moment, what,
mister hurms? Well, exactly did this meeting take place?
Speaker 2: When on the night of the murder at nine o'clock
on thor Bridge?
Speaker 5: So you were at the bridge that evening.
Speaker 4: My client has never denied it.
Speaker 5: Have you asked missus Gibson to meet you there?
Speaker 2: No? No, of course not.
Speaker 5: Oh that's the impression we gained from the newspapers.
Speaker 2: Missed on doctor Watson. A lowly governess does not summon
the wife of her employer to meetings. It was the
other She asked you, yes, doctor, She asked.
Speaker 5: Me, mister bar you mean that literally? What did you say? No?
Speaker 2: She didn't speak to me. She sent me a note.
Speaker 5: Oh where is this note?
Speaker 2: I destroyed it? Why?
Speaker 5: Star?
Speaker 2: Because she asked me too. All this has been gone
over before, not by me?
Speaker 5: What did this note say? The exact wording she asked
me to meet? No? No, No, the exact wording.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the exact wording she asked me. No,
she implored me to meet her at the bridge after dinner.
Speaker 5: Did you say why?
Speaker 2: Because she had something important to say to me, something
that had to be said in private. I was to
leave an answer on the sun.
Speaker 5: Dial in the garden. Didn't astrike?
Speaker 2: It was odd, of course it did, But she said
that secrecy was vital, that no one must see us
discussing anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 5: Did that explanation satisfy you? No?
Speaker 2: But I thought I knew the real reason.
Speaker 5: She didn't want her husband to know about the.
Speaker 2: Meeting exactly, So I did as she asked and destroyed
the note, whereas she kept your reply very carefully.
Speaker 5: Yes, I was surprised to hear that you didn't notice
in her hand when you met him.
Speaker 2: I was rather too distracted by what she was saying.
Speaker 5: That cause, when she made these accusations, what did you answer? Nothing?
You didn't try to defend yourself.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't have heard me. I don't think she even
noticed when I left.
Speaker 5: How long did you stay with her not more than
a few minutes, so you left her at say, five
past nine of the latest. What time did death occur?
Speaker 4: Coming the police doctor couldn't be sure if you never care?
Speaker 8: Did he venture an educated guess two to three hours
before he examined the body, which was well eleven thirty
of that night, So she was.
Speaker 5: Killed not long after you left her, Miss Dunbar, you
see anyone else in the area as you walked away? No, mister,
did you hear a shot? No? But but what.
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 2: I'm ashamed to say that I was so agitated after
the things she said, I was hardly capable of noticing anything.
Speaker 5: A considerable pity, I'm aware of it now. The vital
point this pistol that was found in your room? Had
you ever seen it before? What the devil? Senator? If
you'll just let me explain what my god, I'll have
you despard for mister Gibson, please listen to reason. I
don't know why you think you're here anyway. It's Holmes
who's the detective? Is I am mister Holmesy's partner. We
worked together, not for me. You don't I thought I'd
made that clear. You said, have made several things abundantly clear.
What the devil is that supposed to me? I thought
I was acting for the best answer me, sir, No,
mister Gibson, you answer me. Do you socerely want to
see miss Dunbar say from the gallows? This sort of
question is the short I should care to have answered.
Of course I do, man, But then you stand in
need of my services. There are other detectives. You came
to me in the first face because you were told
that I was the best. You were not missing fault.
Speaker 3: I wasn't told that you were damnably rude, and no
respect of privacy.
Speaker 5: I respect only the facts, the clue, and what is
the truth that Grace Dunbar is no murderer? Can you
prove that? Yes? I can.
Speaker 3: I'll see you in my office at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5: Good timing, mister Cummings. Another half hour and the light
will be gone. Forgive me, but it is there.
Speaker 4: Likely to be anything to see after all this time?
Speaker 5: Probably not, But Holmes likes to get a feel for
the scene of the crime. Soak up the atmosphere, you understand.
Speaker 8: Ah, well, mister hums, she was found.
Speaker 5: Oh sorry, that's very good.
Speaker 4: Are you saying the body was found just over there?
The police marked the spot with those stones.
Speaker 5: Very good. I was lying on the back any traces
of a struggle? Na, don't tell me about the note.
Speaker 8: It was clutched in missus Gibson's left hand clutched so
I understand they had to prize open her fingers.
Speaker 12: To get it.
Speaker 5: You know something about that note that had been bothering me?
Me too?
Speaker 16: Carry on, well, assuming that the reports were accurate, it
said come to thor Bridge.
Speaker 5: At nine this evening that spot on Dotter, But miss
Dunbar insists that it was a reply. Hardly reads like
a reply, now, does it? Excellent Watson?
Speaker 8: But Miss Dunbar swears that what she wrote was I
shall come to Thorbridge. I've been working on the assumption
that part of the sheet was lost when it was removed.
Speaker 5: Ah, so one edge of the paper was tall? Well,
actually no it wasn't. It's interesting, interesting, peculiar or like
some great It's a paper do tear and a clean
straight line? True enough? What the devil homes.
Speaker 11: Come here?
Speaker 5: What were you doing ruining a perfectly good walking cane?
I can see that whife I haven't seen I was
trying to ship the stone work to see if I
could reproduce this. Let's see, Oh yeah, gooded a chip
out of the balustrade. M looks fresh. Curious, isn't it.
Speaker 8: You've probably done by a passer, by a rambler, or
sometimes you think so.
Speaker 5: You must have some interestingly violent ramblers in this district.
Speaker 3: Are you sure you won't have one of these?
Speaker 5: Quite all right? Just as you like. Now, where's your
pardner talking to the stuff delegation? Eh?
Speaker 3: I never believed in it. I suppose you were quite
justified in wanting the facts. But I can assure you
that my relationship with miss Dunbar doesn't have any bearing
on this case.
Speaker 5: Just for me to decide.
Speaker 3: I guess most men have a little private reserve in
some corner of their souls where they don't welcome intruders.
I'd say you knew all about that.
Speaker 5: By discussing you, not me, and you burst right into
that area.
Speaker 3: I'm not used to being treated like that. Now, now
the barriers are down and you can explore where you will.
What do you want to know the truth? Well, I
met my wife when I was gold hunting in Brazil.
She was rare wonderful and passionate, tropical, very different from
the American women I've known. I loved her, and I
married her. It was only when the romance had passed
that I realized we had nothing, I mean, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5: In common your love.
Speaker 3: Fitted I'm not pretending to be any better than I am.
You've seen miss Dunbar. She's a very beautiful woman. I
couldn't live under the same roof as her and not
feel the way I did. Do you blame me, Holmes?
I said that I'd marry her if I could, indeed,
but since that wasn't possible, I offered to do anything
in my power to make her.
Speaker 5: Happy if she would do the same for you.
Speaker 3: I told her money was no object.
Speaker 5: Very generous, I'm sure I see here, Holmes.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking for your criticism.
Speaker 5: It's only for the young lady's sake that I touched
your case at all. Nothing she's accused of is worse
than what you've just admitted. You try to ruin at
a fastless girl who was under your protection. Some of
you rich men have to be taught that all the
world can't be bribed into condoning your offenses. Fine beast,
mister bitch.
Speaker 4: Here is that daughter, missus Gibson. You were good ana
moment she saw one.
Speaker 5: He was hurt. Oh yes, how did missus Gibson get
on with the start?
Speaker 4: You won't find anyone with a word to say against.
Speaker 5: Her, including miss Dungbar.
Speaker 4: I don't know how she met her death, but this
I do know. We all liked her, and we all
hated him for the way he treated her. He's a villain,
doctor Watson, a damned villain. A strong language, Mister Bates, well,
I have nothing to lose now by speaking my mind.
I've given him notice. Two more weeks and I'll be
free of his slavery. I was going with Your family's
worked on this land for generation. My great grandfather was
the first estate manager, and it's been father to son
ever since. But not anymore. I want you to give
mister Holmes a message.
Speaker 5: Will you do that?
Speaker 4: M What is the message? Gibson's not what he seems.
All these good works and charitism, the rest, it's all fake.
He's plausible, and he's coming, and he's not to be trusted.
Speaker 3: I believe my wife was planning to murder Miss Dunbar.
Think he Maria was bitterly jealous of grace and of
the influence she had over me.
Speaker 5: Oh, I asked the hospital's the charity work of famine relief.
Cummings furnished me with a list. Most impressive.
Speaker 3: Well, my wife had never been able to turn my
mind in that direction. And sir, she was jealous, mister Holmes,
she was crazy with hatred, and.
Speaker 5: That fact since of eluded Miss Dunbar for at least
until their final meeting.
Speaker 3: Maria was a clever woman, well able to keep her
feelings hidden except from you.
Speaker 5: Seemingly, you don't get.
Speaker 3: Far in this life unless you can see under the
skin of people.
Speaker 5: Very true.
Speaker 3: I think that there was a scuffle, the gun went
off and shot the woman who was holding it.
Speaker 5: But miss Dunbard de eyes any such thing.
Speaker 3: That's not necessarily final, is it?
Speaker 5: What do you mean? I mean?
Speaker 3: She would have been bewildered in shock. She could easily
have hurried home and hidden the gun, not knowing what
she was doing.
Speaker 5: And now she's trying to lie her way out of it. Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 12: Here you are, doctor the gun room.
Speaker 5: Very impressive, mister Ferguson.
Speaker 12: There are over three hundred handguns in the collection.
Speaker 13: The earliest is forteen century Chinese, a rich man's poppy.
Speaker 14: I supose, and the murder weapon an eighteenth century Spanish revolver.
Speaker 12: I identified it for the.
Speaker 5: Police as part of this collection.
Speaker 4: I knew it at once.
Speaker 5: You're familiar with all these guns, and part of my
duties as private secretary an unusual part.
Speaker 4: Mister Gibson is an unusual man.
Speaker 5: Where is it kept?
Speaker 4: Oh, cabinet number ten?
Speaker 5: You don't keep these cabinets locked, mister Gibson's orders? What
about ammunition? Is that more secure?
Speaker 16: Most of the collections kept beloaded at old times?
Speaker 5: Good God? Do you approve of that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: One does not disapprove of the senator, not openly.
Speaker 4: The police still have the gun, of course, But I
can show you the case here.
Speaker 5: Thank you. This case is made for two guns. Yet
then where's the other one? I'm afraid I don't know.
The second gun is missing? Might interest you? This is
an interesting case around. But what else do you discover?
I'll tell you when we get to where we're going.
What is this place? It's mister Bates private firing range.
It's the entire household obsessed with duns. Your gold king
suddenly is he has his own range, indoors, mechanical targets,
soundproof shields, all the latest gadgets, whereas mister Bates and
uses himself to empty bottles perched on a wall. Intriguing contrast.
Why are we here because it's a good way from
the house, we can talk and observedly unremarked, and a
suppose many visitors that thor place end up here. I
thought of that. I borrowed these from Baits, not as
exotic as anything from the Gibson collection. But just as
he think he wasn't surprised, I tell him the target
practice helped you think he believed you. Why shouldn't he.
It's no stranger than playing the violin, starving yourself, or
sending up all night smoke. A devotee of the Strand
magazine is in. I have my followers just as you
have yours. Now the Governess, Missus Dunbar, the estate manager,
mister Bates, the private secretary, mister Ferguson, and mister j
Neil Gibson. I say, we've been thinking on parallel line.
Choose your weapon, mister Holmes, thank you, Doctor Watson. Bullets
already loadly, Clark, Shall we lead on that wanted to
be got twenty paces and turn them five. Yes, how's
about riding? Miss Dunbar is innocent your reasoning, imagine yourself
and her claric all right, in a cold, pre meditated fashion.
You're about to get rid of a ripe. I planned it.
I've written the note. Until you're heard to the bridge,
I have my gun face and you shoot, workman like
and complete. What do you do next? I get rid
of the murder weapon by the quickest, cleanest method. I
throw it in the stream. Of course you do. You're
not going to do anything so stupid as take it
home and hide it carefully in the first place where
anyone's being to search it. Blew in your reputation as
a criminal, perhaps in that he's the most or a
deliberate ploy who throws on the set. Miss Dunbar is
in the sun. H good shooting. Thank you, And as
it happens, I agree with you. Man. Now, once your
point of view changes, so does everything else. The one
thing that was so dabbing becomes our strongest clue. Someone
put the gun in the wardrobe to incriminate Miss Dunbar.
But who mister Bates Holmes was next on your list.
I think, I'm not sure. Perhaps he doesn't have one.
Tell me about him, well, he hates Gibson. Indeed, that's
hardly surprising. Really, Bates family have managed this estate for generations,
and now he is this upstart American making sweeping changes left,
right and center. Does Bates hate him enough to kill
his wife and frame the woman he loved? Oh? I
don't think so. For one thing, he was very fond
of Maria Gibson, he told you so, he didn't need to.
And for another, how could killing her change anything anyway?
And he couldn't getting rid of Grace Dunbar might a
gold king with nothing to live for set sail back
to America. That part's plausible, but not killing a woman
to do it. I don't believe it. Besides, Bates has resigned.
If you were right, he'd stay in the job long
enough to see if his plan worked. Be my guests,
and dang kill I've stayed in practice. He's got a joke.
Certainly not good, mister philperson.
Speaker 16: He's a sort of Gibson in training. General opinion in
the servants hall is that he thinks his master can
do no wrong. I rather got the impression that things
have changed, disapproves of the new direction the charity worked, and.
Speaker 5: Told me then Ferguson isn't as good at hiding his
feelings as he thinks he is. That's a strong motive.
Remove Miss Dunbar and the old days may welcome back again. Unfortunately,
Gibson also told me that Ferguson was in London on
the night of the murder. Provable, ironically enough, he was
collecting a charity award on Gibson's behalf several hundred witnesses
of impeccable honistone.
Speaker 16: Your turn, I think, thank you, which leaves us with
the gold king himself.
Speaker 5: Motive remove the obstacle to happiness with Miss Dunbar, opportunity
ample and their face cheaked enormous. Oh it put me
the first time I've been retained by a murderer to
solve his end crime. What asked the pistols, who has
better place to take them? And Holmes?
Speaker 16: The second gun, the one that's missing, That was the
murder weapon, not the one the police found at all.
Gibson fired off one round from that one, then hid
it in the wardrobe and used the matching weapon to
kill his wife.
Speaker 5: Afterwards, he just threw it in the river. Very sound reasoning.
But why implicate the woman he loves? I don't know.
A blind man'll be carrying bare face cheek too far,
I think, even for him. Well, then why do I
keep seeing that chip in the stomach? I unfortunately another
why why? Oh, my dear Watson, you've got it. With
the help of the God of justice, I'll give them
a case that'll make England ring. And it was Gibson,
Jay Neil Gibson, Oh no, my friend, it was someone
quite different. Very well, the clouds are listening, and the
light of truth.
Speaker 3: Is I hope you have more than offer than second
rate poetry.
Speaker 5: Holmes, I believe I have, mister Cummings, string.
Speaker 4: If you please, you are, But I really don't see spatials.
Speaker 5: Watson. Your revolver excellent solid firearm. It sounds that to
compare with the murder weapon, mister.
Speaker 3: Gibson, I'd say it was a touch.
Speaker 5: Smaller, probably a touch lighter. Say well, no matter, it
will serve mister Cummings. Take charge of the diasel. Would
you go, Holmes? If you know who killed my wife,
why can't you just come out and say that knowing
is one thing proving is quite another. Watson here has
seen me miss my mark before, and is he about
to again. Well, I try find me a stone. That's
a good chap. I beg your stone round reasonably small,
about so big? There are plenty over there. Now. If
I tie one end of the string gun and the
other'll come a long Senator, it's a simple enough. I
pretend you're looking for gold. This is hardly a time
for levity homes. No, you're crist right now. If you
will hold the stone for a moment, then I can
get my string securely around it.
Speaker 4: The holmes, what are you suggesting?
Speaker 5: No, don't anticipate the climax. Thank you doctor. Now, mister Gibson,
if you'll relinquish your stone to Watson with pleasure, thank
you doctor. If you walk straight across to the other
edge of the bridge and lower the stone over the side.
If I gaze the length of string correctly, it should
stop just above the water level.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right ready to take the strain. Ready, I'm
letting go now, I'm standing missus Gibson stone and I've
done everything that Missus Gibson did, the string, the stone,
the gun, the shot, ah, I fall backwards and the
goal of the gun.
Speaker 16: Now, if you are examining the stonework, a new chip
not two inches from the.
Speaker 5: Old one, as your gun may have been righter than hers,
doctor and just pulled over that balustrade with just as
much force. Drag the river Cummings, and you will find
Missus Gibson's suicide weapon dying right next to Watson's pistol.
Was there ever a more exact demonstration? Senatory?
Speaker 12: Oh God, oh your gun? All right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, seemed far worse than a quick dip in a string.
I didn't think we've ever come across a stranger example
of what perverted love can bring it back.
Speaker 12: Hmm.
Speaker 5: I agree with you. Apply it all out like that
markable subtlety of mind, the late Missus Gibson extracting that
note from a victim and changing it the way she did.
I believe that's human. Well you should know.
Speaker 12: Yes, yeah, God is new splendid.
Speaker 5: Until the next time I suppose m a drink.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 5: You know I was very impressed with miss Dunbar. We've
helped a remarkable woman a formidable mass. Yes, indeed, do
you suppose they'll join forces in the future? It seems
likely powerful combination. Why would will make its mark on
the world? Yeah, no question, thank you. Two very different people,
of course, it is more in common than is visible
to the naked eye. A recipe for success is that
a fact? Uh, your very good health and yours.
Speaker 7: In the Problem of Thorbridge, Sherlock Holmes was played by
Clive Medrison and Doctor Watson by Michael Williams, with William
Hootkins as Jane Neil Gibson and Charlotte Attenborough as Grace Dunbar.
Maria Gibson was played by Jilly Bond, Joyce Cummings by
Charles Simpson, Marlow Bates by Michael Tudor Barnes, Ferguson by
Mark Straker, the police Sgt. By George Parsons, the Policeman
by David Antrobus and Joshua Tubb, and the warder by
Don McCorkindale. Other parts were played by members of the cast.
The violinist was Leonard Friedman.