WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:08.679 Well, doctor Watson, who rode in Doctor Winthrop's notorious carriage. 2 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:11.679 Well, mister Harris. This adventure with homes occurred in the 3 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:15.279 early nineteen hundreds. It began backstage at one of London's 4 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:18.000 most famous theaters. It was in the dressing room of 5 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.440 Margaret Ashley, an exquisite and very popular young actress. 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:24.079 Her performance for that evening. 7 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:28.280 Had ended, and Margaret had a visitor, a doctor Charles Winthrop. 8 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:31.800 I made up my mind, Charles. 9 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:32.880 I'm going to your wife. 10 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:34.479 I'm going to see Elizabeth. 11 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:35.719 Are you, Margarets. 12 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:37.719 I shall tell her that I adore you, that you 13 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:40.280 and I have been sweethearts all these months. I shall 14 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:42.759 ask her to give you your freedom. I think she 15 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:43.280 will too. 16 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:48.280 Well. It's very touching and very foolish. Why do you 17 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.719 say that, my words, You have an appalling self centered mind, Margarets. 18 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.880 Like many women, you believe it's simply because you want something, 19 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:59.200 you'll automatically get it. My wife would not be struck 20 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.719 at all by the magic of our romance. To her, 21 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.480 this would be a rather cheap, sordid business, an insult 22 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.200 to her ego. Being a mature and poised woman, she'd 23 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.680 take this with an air of dignity and tolerance, but 24 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.760 in her heart of hearts. 25 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.959 I'm afraid she'd be furious for the letter be Are 26 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.480 you satisfied with these desperate, dangerous meetings. You're coming to 27 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:24.439 my flat if and when you can find the time, 28 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.040 if and when you can somehow lie to. 29 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.400 Elizabeth it has been difficulty has I'm sick of it. 30 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:29.239 I sha'n't tolerate. 31 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.359 We must face it, Margaret. We must do as best 32 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:32.840 we can. 33 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.040 I'll tell you are tired of her, that you love me, 34 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:38.120 that you see her only as a dowdy, bedraggled housewife, 35 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.560 that your marriage was wrong to begin with. It's nothing 36 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.480 more or less than an exercise in boredom. 37 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.799 Now look, Margaret, I want you to control yourself, control. 38 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.439 Myself, and Heaven's name why I want you? And I'm 39 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.040 going to fight to keep you. When a thing is wrong? 40 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:52.760 Must you go on and on and on with it? 41 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.959 I said, you will not tell Elizabeth. 42 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:57.319 Nothing on earth could stop me. 43 00:01:58.920 --> 00:01:59.400 I will. 44 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:01.680 What do you mean? 45 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.000 You knew I was married, Margaret, You knew the terms 46 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.920 of the bargain, you accepted them gladly. But we love 47 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:12.199 each oille, do we? I listened to me. You made 48 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.840 a great romance out of this. I didn't you wanted 49 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.520 to believe I was in love with you, that I 50 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.919 couldn't live without you, simply to please yourself, to cover 51 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:23.159 up the truth, what truth, that this has all been 52 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.800 just a lock for me. That I was attracted to 53 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.759 you because you're very beautiful, and that's all, and that 54 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.719 is all, Margaret. It begins and ends there. 55 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:33.599 I don't think it does. 56 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.560 Oh yes, It's taken years for me to become a 57 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.439 reputable physician, Margaret. It's taken every ounce of strength, in 58 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.039 every moment of time I had to achieve a position 59 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:47.319 in my profession, end in society. I'm a well ordered household. 60 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.560 I've a decent, honest wife who who loves me. You're 61 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:54.360 not going to place a bomb under that structure? 62 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.240 Oh yes I am, Charles. Now that you've told me 63 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.240 how you really feel, I'll give your taste of my vengeance. 64 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:03.520 I'll wreck your home, in your life, and I don't 65 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:05.080 think for one moment that I can. 66 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.080 You'll do nothing of the sort. And you know why, 67 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.400 do you know why you won't say a word to 68 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.840 my wife? Go on tell me, because if you do, 69 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.400 I'll kill you. 70 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.680 He'll never do that. You could never get away with it. 71 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:26.000 You underestimate me, Margaret. I haven't an ordinary mind. I 72 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.919 have a way, a wonderful way. Remember that, and remember 73 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:45.319 if you go to Elizabeth, I'll murder you. 74 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:46.680 I believe me, Miss Ashley. 75 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.439 Shall I call a cab for you? 76 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:48.960 Miss? 77 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.479 Yes, Peter, it might be a bit difficult, misssorwfully late. 78 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.840 You're the last to believe in this. Hte it. 79 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:56.759 I want to avoid the crowd that's always here at 80 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.520 the stage door of Peter. I'm exhausted. I couldn't possibly 81 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:03.240 write an autographer smile at anyone. 82 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.120 Your gentleman. Coola hasn't been here in a few days. Amen, No, 83 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.800 he hasn't answered to your fine gentlemen. I certainly miss 84 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:14.120 those tips of his art. 85 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.399 Cab people, please, I. 86 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:20.480 Heard a carriage coming down. It's a cab and. 87 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.519 You'll be having a talk with a Bobby will rubbing 88 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:24.199 down the alley. 89 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:24.839 And that's mere. 90 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:34.600 Look at miss, he's at answer. You got to stop. 91 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.079 Come back here, you stop. 92 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:36.759 Stop. 93 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:38.800 Who's killed her? 94 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:40.879 Who's killed. 95 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:58.279 Elizabeth? I must speak to you. Yes, it's about this 96 00:04:58.399 --> 00:04:59.399 item of the newspaper. 97 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:05.680 One of your patience in trouble read that please? Oh yes, yes, 98 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.399 I heard about that terrible accident. And Margaret Ashley was 99 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:13.000 such a lovely young actress. It was a horrible premature 100 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:14.439 of death for Elizabeth Darling. 101 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.079 I I don't know how to tell you this, but 102 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.759 I must. I what should to try to understand? 103 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:25.759 Understand what? Charles Darling? You seem so distraught? What's wrong 104 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:26.040 with you? 105 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.160 But there'll be an investigation. The police will be after 106 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.000 the driver of that carriage, the man who locked her 107 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:31.839 down and then drove off. 108 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:33.399 Well, yes, of course they will, and I hope they'll 109 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.839 find them too insane brutal to drive so carelessly. 110 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.399 Will the police suspect that it wasn't an accident? The 111 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:41.879 doorman testified that the driver of the carriage seemed to 112 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:42.720 go deliberately out of. 113 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:43.519 His way to hit her. 114 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:45.560 They suspect murder? 115 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:51.000 Yes, yes, they'll pro very deeply. The most intimate details 116 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.439 of Margaret Ashley's life will be exposed to public. Hue, 117 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.800 And so, Elizabeth, before you find out some other way, 118 00:05:58.600 --> 00:05:59.319 I must tell you. 119 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.120 Tell me what, dear I. 120 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.879 Knew Margaret Ashley. Oh yes, it wasn't a passing acquaintance. 121 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.160 I was seeing her regularly. I visited her flat whenever 122 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.759 I heard the chance she was in love with me. 123 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:20.600 Oh you were sweetheart's child? 124 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:21.920 Is that it? 125 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:22.959 Yes? 126 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:30.480 I I've no excuse. It's it's just just some mysterious 127 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.959 element in the chemistry of a marriage that does that 128 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:36.560 to a man. I'm prepared to do whatever you say, Elizabeth. 129 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.800 Well, Charles, it's sir, it's quite hard for me to 130 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:45.240 say anything at all. It's very difficult for me to 131 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:45.560 face it. 132 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:46.600 Dear I. 133 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:52.600 I I'm so sorry, Elizabeth, terribly sorry. 134 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:54.720 Have you any idea who might have killed her? 135 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:03.319 I know, Charles, Yes, Charles, did you kill Margaret Ashley? 136 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:05.519 Of course not. 137 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:07.879 How could you think such a thing? 138 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:09.839 Child, don't lie. Don't try to live with a lie 139 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.000 like that. You you've told me some of the story. 140 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.160 Please tell me the rest. I've got to know, Charles, Please, please? 141 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:15.800 Did you kill her? 142 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:17.480 Did you drive the carriage that awful light? 143 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:18.839 No? 144 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:19.480 No, I did not. 145 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:22.199 I did not listen to me. 146 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.079 I might try to forgive an escapade of yours, but 147 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:25.079 I couldn't forgive murder. 148 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:26.240 Now you must tell me. 149 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:27.360 You cald me. 150 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.079 You're out of your mind accusing me you did kill her. 151 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:31.720 I can sense it in your eyes. 152 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:35.240 Your hands are trembling. I've never seen an expression on 153 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:36.160 your face like that before. 154 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.199 I get hold of yourself. Don't ever say that again. 155 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.360 Is that clear? If you ever say that again, you 156 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.240 won't live to say another word. 157 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:59.800 I had to tell you my story in mister Holmes, 158 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:02.480 I quite understand, Missus Wintrop. My husband has lost his 159 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.319 love for me. He's betrayed me. I have no reason 160 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.680 to defend him, and lately he's been impossible. He behaves 161 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:10.399 like a sadistic lunatic. 162 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.279 Why haven't you told the police, Missus. 163 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:15.199 Winter Because doctor Watson, I have no formal charge to make. 164 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:16.079 I can't prove a thing. 165 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.839 It's it's just my instinct. I feel that he killed 166 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:21.839 that poor girl, and I will not harbor a killer. 167 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:24.639 I need your help, mister Holmes. 168 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.279 Well, the secondstances of the accident, Missus Wintrup, make it 169 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:31.279 almost impossible to prove wilful homicide. Where does your husband 170 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.919 say he was On the evening of Margaret Ashley's death, He'd. 171 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.120 Had a call an emergency quite far out of town. 172 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:38.399 He claims that he left the carriage at home and 173 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.080 took a cab. He was too tired to drive himself. 174 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.200 He claims that when he reached the address given him, 175 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.480 there was no such place, so he came home aty. 176 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:49.000 It's very flimsy. 177 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:50.759 Did you give you the name of the patient who 178 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:52.200 had called him on this wild goose? 179 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:57.279 Chase Perkins, Missus Thomas Perkins. I did some investigating on 180 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.080 my own. I telephoned every Thomas Perkins in the directory. 181 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.320 None of them ever heard of doctor Winthrop. 182 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.200 Did your husband mention this supposed patient to vanish? 183 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:08.840 Not a word. But mister Holmes, you must find the 184 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.559 evidence quickly. He knows I suspect him, and I am 185 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:12.559 afraid of what he might do. 186 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.919 I shall move as quickly as possible. Missus Winthrop, come, Watson. 187 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.399 We shall speak first with Peter the dorman, the witness 188 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:21.960 to the accident. I'm ready, hope we shall move very cautiously, Watson, 189 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.240 if we var you our own lives. But this is 190 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.320 an allusive murderer of Greek talent, a talent for slaughter 191 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.519 in a sudden and surprising way. 192 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.960 With June just around the corner, you can expect a 193 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.320 sudden heat wave any day, and that means many men 194 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:51.480 will rush into Clippercraft's stores for new, smart, cool lightweight suits. 195 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:55.360 So to get the very best in service, the widest selection, 196 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.600 and prompt attention. It's smart to come in now for 197 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.720 your clipper Craft summer suit, and it's smart at any 198 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.559 time to buy your suits from the fine local store 199 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.399 that sells famous clipper Craft lightweight suits at only thirty 200 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:09.720 three seventy five. 201 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:10.919 To forty two fifty. 202 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.320 The exceptional quality of clipper Craft clothes is guaranteed by 203 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.840 the clipper Craft label in every suit in sport jacket. 204 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.200 The trade mark derived from the staunch Clipper ships that 205 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.120 established honest New England quality everywhere in the world. You 206 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.240 can always rely on clipper Craft clothes and the store 207 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:32.039 that proudly sells them. That's why men who know insist 208 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:35.639 on clipper Craft clothes bearing the clipper Craft label. So 209 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.120 be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city. 210 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.799 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 211 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.039 add their names to clipper Craft in your suits, fort 212 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.519 jackets and tropicals. In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at 213 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:52.759 thirty fourth John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and 214 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.919 sixty seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraman Strauss in Newark, 215 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.919 New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop Cresgy, Newark, and in jam 216 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.919 Maker the B and B Clothes Shop, one six four 217 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.759 oh eight, Jamaica Avenue. 218 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.120 Dr Watson, Doctor Watson, you and mister Holmes were racing 219 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.320 to speak with Peter the dormond backstage of the theater 220 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:19.000 where Margaret Ashley died. 221 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.559 There's mister Harris for the enchanting. Margaret was killed by 222 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.519 a passing carriage that night. Holmes and I stood in 223 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.039 the dark custed valley by the stage door, under a 224 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.000 pale moon, talking with the door. 225 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:34.519 You say, Peter, you had a glimpse of the driver 226 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.799 of that carriage, Yes, mister Jones, I did. 227 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.639 He was wearing an eye at in the cape. 228 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.639 The cape was purple. I could see it flying in 229 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:43.080 the wind. 230 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:44.120 Did you see his face? 231 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:44.600 Now? 232 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.919 It was too dark and he passed like fury? 233 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:49.799 Did you recognize the carriage? 234 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:50.639 At first? 235 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:51.559 I didn't you mean that? 236 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:52.240 You remember it? 237 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.440 Now we're in a way, Dr Watson. 238 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:59.000 He looked to me that, well, it isn't very discreet 239 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.720 of me, but this is so serious a matter. It 240 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.000 looked to me like the carriage of a certain gentleman 241 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.240 were often comes to see miss Ashley. 242 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.360 Oh you know the gentleman, Peter. 243 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:11.720 No, I'm sorry, doctor, you never told me his name. 244 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.799 And whenever he stepped out of the carriage, he was 245 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:16.679 carrying all kids for miss. 246 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:19.240 Ashley, and he yelled them up in front of his face, 247 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:19.840 you see. 248 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:21.320 And he held the cape up. 249 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.080 Too, a purple cape sometimes miss Jones. 250 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.519 Yet he didn't want anyone to recognize. 251 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.200 In my guess it must have been one of those 252 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.679 romances what you read about in the papers. You know, 253 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.960 maybe he was a cabinet minister or sam I Makim 254 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:36.759 Mack who was in love with Miss Ashley. 255 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:38.960 Yes, that's quite would you know the gentleman were you 256 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:39.519 to see. 257 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.559 Him, not by his face, mister Ums. It's even more 258 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:43.600 difficult at homes. 259 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.600 More than you would imagine, Watson. Even if the dorman 260 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.000 here did recognize our men, that wouldn't prove the accident 261 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.919 was deliberate. Peter, After the accident, did you notice anything 262 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.399 curious about the body, or the street, or any of 263 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:56.559 the other circumstances. 264 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.840 I found a flower fell out of the carriage and 265 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:01.600 all kids. 266 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.639 Well, again an indication of our man. 267 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.080 I say it's him all right, he sirr, I don't 268 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.279 like to send a man to the gallows just on 269 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:08.840 my face. 270 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.480 No, no, no, thank you, Peter, you've been rather helpful. 271 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.000 We're tons every forest. 272 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.480 In the district. Watson, we have the rope. We must 273 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:22.600 now draw the noose tighter and tighter. 274 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.480 That's the draw to doctor Winthrop's house, hose. 275 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:34.639 Let's just keep an eye on it. 276 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:35.240 Missus. 277 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:38.320 Winthrop said he'd be leaving about this. Ah. Once he's gone, 278 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:39.759 we can speak to her and look at the house 279 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:42.000 and search for crews. But we must have him out 280 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:42.360 of the way. 281 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:46.240 First, Homes at Florest he recognized the photograph of doctor Winthrop, 282 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.279 so he always bought flowers there. But he wasn't there 283 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.000 the night of Margaret Ashley's death. You seem very impressed, 284 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:53.159 homes confounded was. 285 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.120 Look, Watson, there he goes. He's leaving his wife. Now 286 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:57.600 see this. 287 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.360 Is going down the street. She's waving goodbye to him 288 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:04.200 from the door. Attractive bland, isn't she? Why should he 289 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:07.000 lose interest in her the sake of their actress. 290 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.840 Fascinating as that province may be, Watson, it is not 291 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.039 within the bounds of my territory. Now come across the 292 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.200 streets out of side. 293 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:22.399 I'll ring Holmes. 294 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.039 Well, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, he's just left. 295 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:30.919 Will you return shortly? 296 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:32.519 No, No, we've time. Come in. 297 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.759 Well, lovely home, Missus Winthrop. 298 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.679 It was doctor Watson until the shadow fell across it. 299 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.080 But I've been living in this house with a man 300 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:43.279 I know as a murderer. 301 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.879 That is your husband's consulting room, Missus winterrom. 302 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.000 Oh, yes, yes, he does all his work down here. 303 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:51.840 The drawing room and the bedrooms are upstairs. Maybe go up, yes, certainly, 304 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.279 But mister Holmes, you must find the evidence. 305 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.879 I can't stand it. I'm so afraid all the time he's. 306 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.720 Going to kill me too. You know, I saw him 307 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.919 alone in his office last night. He didn't know that 308 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.240 I could see him in the mirror. He'd a scalpel 309 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.879 in his hand and he was fingering it sight like. 310 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:11.360 Then there's another thing. 311 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:13.399 The night before we took the underground to go to 312 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:15.840 the theater, I was on the edge of the platform. 313 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.679 I realized that just in time, he was standing directly 314 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.039 close behind me. He could easily have pushed me in 315 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:25.120 front of the train. Then there are poisons here in 316 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.039 this cabinet. He opened the cabinet just before he left. 317 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:30.320 He must have stood gazing at it for a full 318 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.559 five minutes. He'd never done that before. 319 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.200 Mister calmly, Missus Winsford, calmly, from along Watson, we shall 320 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:37.799 search every inch of these quarters. 321 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.279 By George hosebyth We've gone through every room. No letters 322 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.039 from miss Ashley, nothing at all on a scrap of evidence. 323 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:56.120 Missus Winthrope, in which wardrobe does your husband keep his clothes? 324 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:56.360 Oh? 325 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.039 Here, mister Holmes, but you'd better hurry. This has taken 326 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.080 a great deal of time in back soon looking. 327 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:03.279 For the altfit you while the night he drove the 328 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:03.919 carriage house. 329 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:09.240 Ah, the purple cake trousers, double breasted jacket to match, 330 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.759 and on this shelf a high silk hat. 331 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.000 So please be careful. I never touch his things. 332 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:16.320 If he suspects that anyone's been in his wardrobe, you 333 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:17.519 have another one of his fits. 334 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:21.600 I see well. I believe this concludes the search. Missus Winthrop. 335 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.240 Yes, but have you found anything? 336 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.399 We'll discuss it downstairs. Then we can slip out of 337 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:25.960 the back door. 338 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:28.960 Should we risk Missus Winthrop's life again for another night? 339 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.679 Wouldn't you advise her to leave on some pretense until 340 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.200 you have the facts that you want. 341 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:39.279 I have the facts, Watson, facts which prove I killed 342 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:40.440 Margaret Ashley. 343 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.480 Doctor Wintlop, Charles, I didn't hear you come in. I 344 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.440 came in very quietly through the front door, Elizabeth. I 345 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:52.399 heard voices upstairs. I kept very still and waited for you. You 346 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.440 steaming conliving you break my eyes. I just want to 347 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.399 keep you close to me, that's all. If you move, 348 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.759 mister Holmes or doctor Watson, I'll take his scalpel I 349 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.080 have in my other hand, and I'll drive it into 350 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:03.840 my wife's back. 351 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.079 Charles, please listen to me. It won't help to kill me. 352 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:08.119 Mister Holmes will see that you die for it, because 353 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:09.440 he knows how you send. 354 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.680 For him, didn't you You wouldn't believe my story. I'd 355 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:17.319 like to kill you slowly, Elizabeth. You should suffer a bit, 356 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:22.359 need strokes of the scalpel to cause unbearable pain, but 357 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.079 a slow death, the same slow death you've given me, 358 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:28.680 with your suspicion, your accusations. 359 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.880 Killing your wife now would accomplish nothing, Doctor Winthrop. 360 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:32.440 It would to me. 361 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:34.720 I don't care about the consequences. 362 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.640 I said, killing your wife would not be necessary, Doctor Wintrop. 363 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:42.400 His majesty's hangman will do that. What I said, his 364 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.440 Majesty's hangman will do that? 365 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.480 Well, I I don't know what you mean. 366 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.119 He dropped his scalpel. Watson quickly pick it up. I 367 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:51.680 I wanted to be sure you didn't pick it up 368 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:55.279 missus Winthrop, since you drove doctor Winthrop's notorious carriage, since 369 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.200 you killed Margaret Ashley I did. 370 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.599 Mister Holmes, that's preposterous both at all and got it well, yes, right, 371 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.680 elizit why my wife killed Margaret? 372 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:09.279 Precisely? Doctor. When Watson and I visited the forest where 373 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.240 you regularly purchased orchids for Margaret, he told us that 374 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:13.759 you hadn't been in his shop on the night of 375 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.599 her death. It struck me as odd. Perhaps you purchased 376 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:19.079 the orchids elsewhere. Eh. 377 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.559 Of course Holser doesn't prom Watson. 378 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:24.519 The driver of the carriage dropped an orchid on the 379 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:28.119 cobblestones to the alley. The dorman told us that would 380 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.759 a man stop to purchase orchids for miss Ashleigh when 381 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.880 he knew he wouldn't see her, but intended to run 382 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.839 her down with the carriage. Definitely not but you accused 383 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:39.240 me exactly who else would have borrowed your husband's carriage 384 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:41.480 in the bedroom. You told us that you never touched 385 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.240 your husband's things, but you had, Missus Winthrope. 386 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.079 You're guessing, mister Holmes, you're unable to prove one. 387 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:50.640 I open your husband's purple cape, identified by the dorman, 388 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:52.640 was draped over his double breasted jacket. 389 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:54.839 The jacket was neatly buttoned. 390 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.319 You see it was buttoned, Missus Winthrop, to the left, 391 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:02.279 not to the right, where a woman wears such a jacket. Elizabeth, 392 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.039 You out of blonde, Missus Winthrop, and in the lining 393 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.799 of your husband's high silk hat, I noticed a long 394 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.039 blonde hair. You called your husband that night, Missus Wintrop, 395 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.240 to get him out of the house. You were a 396 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:17.640 non existent Missus Thomas Perkins. You gave him a false 397 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.240 address far on the outskirts of London. Then you put 398 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:22.039 him into a cab, convincing him that he was too 399 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.279 tired to drive himself. You put on his clothes, You 400 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.319 took his carriage. You purchased orchids. You killed Margaret Ashley, 401 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:32.079