Speaker 1: Beginning of this broadcast, the makers of G. Washington Coffee
will bring you each week at this time a dramatization
of one of the famous stories of Ferrot Conan Doyle.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many.
Speaker 1: Of our listeners will agree, but for us this is
a red letter day because it marks the beginning of
another series of visits to the comfortable firelet study of
Dr Watson to hear his hair raising reminiscences of Sherlock
Holmes's adventures to drink his delicious gea Washington Coffee. Doctor
Watson was not with us last water because he was
taking what he called his sabbatical years. It seems that
he spent a great deal of that time with a
certain travel worn and battered, dispatched spot in the vaults
of Posting Company private Bankers, and carrying cross out of it.
He has an Earth's papers containing notes on Sherlock holmescases which.
Speaker 2: Have not been told previously on the air.
Speaker 1: So now we roll down the quiet tree lined streets. Yes,
here's the house with its Scotch curtains. We turn in
the neat little past the familiar door with its brightly
polished brass knocker, open to welcomer, sine, and we find
ourselves in doctor Watson's well remembered settings, easy chairs, the
rolls of worn books, the kettle steaming cozily on the hearth,
everything just to say seven mills doctor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, well this is like old times, isn't it,
Mister Sagoe, no idea how I've missed these little sessions
of ours to hear? What more appropriate way to celebrate
out a union than by preparing a.
Speaker 2: Cup of our old favorite G. Washington coffee. That's what
I've been looking forward to, doctor Watson. So you have
everything ready to make it?
Speaker 3: Oh, it was very easy.
Speaker 2: You're only preparation necessary. It was to heat the water.
Then I'll take the lid off again. Peaspoonful of G.
Speaker 3: Washington coffee crystals in your cup and one in mine.
Speaker 2: Had the hot water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, help a shut.
Speaker 2: The cream and sugar. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Mine. That's good.
Speaker 2: You're a perfect host, doctor watchon.
Speaker 3: No, no, you're pulling my legs being a good host
with G. Washington's coffee. Mister Bell's no trouble at all.
It only takes a minute, and it's as easy to
make us a slice of.
Speaker 2: Toast or it's easy to use as granulated juggers.
Speaker 3: How's that for freshness inconvenience?
Speaker 1: And I'd say, like Sherlock Holmes, it couldn't be beaten.
Speaker 3: Another hint, mister Bell. Well, yes, we'd better get on
with our story first.
Speaker 1: What adventure are we to start off with tonight? Doc Watson?
Speaker 3: How to be if I tell you how Shellock's homes
called the case of the head Break breastplay to break breastplate. Yes,
it was quite a famous museum piece. Several policies went
so fast to say it had been worn originally by
King Solomon himself. Deny ate it was supposed to have
a curse attached. To form my own personal knowledge, it
caused the death of two men and nearly robbed an
eminence color of his good name.
Speaker 1: That sounds sufficiently ominous for anyone doctor one as well
those the bell it was. Why now when I recall
that night in the darkness dirted halls of the Belmore
Street Museum with a moonlight, gliding slowly from one of
those incredible mummy cases.
Speaker 2: To the other.
Speaker 3: But there I go, anticipating myself as usual anticipation, and
all You're starting chills running up and down my spine,
Have I indeed inconsidered of me? Wonder there plenty of
time of that later on. In any event, the whole
thing started one foggy afternoon in March of the year
eighteen ninety four. Another sort of day we have in
London of that season, A yellowish pods blue in cold
Bank waves down Baker Street.
Speaker 2: There was no day for venturing abroad.
Speaker 3: And yet that was just what I was planning to do.
As I entered the sitting room of our lodgings in
search of my pop hat, I found the place in
even wild at disordered. A new in the midst of
this chaos sat home, his long, tapering fingers and his
hawk like nose, intent on a singularly unsavory mess of
chemical Labrecadabra retorts seas and boiled. The weird blue flame
of a Bunsen burner was reflected in his eyes.
Speaker 5: Pay hon one of tent Pad Watson, absolute, Brad, don't breathe.
Speaker 4: A man's life depends on his death. And he received
this lead to retort and then SHOs the appearance of
here water.
Speaker 5: It is clear water, Watson, but the addition of an
infinitesimal amount of an unknown substance extracted from a small
stain on a man crusts. There is that substance blood
with human blood.
Speaker 4: That's the important question. Now we've had a few white
crystals quite when wait for the reactions?
Speaker 2: Who who the waters changing color?
Speaker 3: It turned a dumb handing.
Speaker 5: Yes, and there's a distinct brownish just precipitated at the
bottom of the retort. Magnificent, positively, magnificent.
Speaker 4: Watson.
Speaker 5: The old ye common microscopic tests for the blood proposals,
which comes and uncertain. But this test, the Shellot Holmes tests,
is infallible.
Speaker 4: The prisoner is guilty. Watson, guilty as.
Speaker 5: The devil that brownish sprecipitate for Hang him, Homes, You
know you're scientific cold blood in this gives me the
cree and announce Watton nonsense. You won't hesitate to shoot
down a hawk that has been praying on your.
Speaker 4: Live stock with you?
Speaker 5: Why hesitated to destroy the criminal who has been fatting
on the blood of human beings?
Speaker 2: Must you be so graphic in your descriptions?
Speaker 3: Homes goes my hat, my hat, my top hat. Course
I left it in him, and I came in fromating
my pats this morning. How anyone can expect to find
anything in all this little watching if.
Speaker 5: You can't keep track of your own wearing apparel. I'm
sure that I got oh where that that wouldn't be
it by energy square there on the floor of the day,
or I stay home.
Speaker 2: If you used this as a waste paper bars.
Speaker 4: Sorry watch them.
Speaker 5: Sorry, But if you will leave it about what do
you want for the hat this late in the afternoon.
Speaker 4: Surely I'm not thinking of venturing out of.
Speaker 3: This foulweller I am, I most certainly am. Furthermore, it
may interest you to know the speech would become involved
in this tup hop case.
Speaker 2: The house that.
Speaker 3: Molt like a cross between a crater of distinctly senile.
Speaker 2: Eggs and the bare pit. The weather may be powell, but.
Speaker 3: It's not as powell as the atmosphere of this room.
Speaker 4: Had no idea he was so delicate, be guide.
Speaker 3: I've just received an invitation from my friend Ward Mortimer
to go around to the Belmore Street Museum and view
the collections. Mortimer is about to take over the curatorship,
I believe, and.
Speaker 5: What's become of the old curator, Professor Andrews. He can't
be much over fifty five and the reputation of his
management and lecture courses was excellent.
Speaker 3: And he turned in his resignation at the last meeting
the Board of teste Assembling. Yes, for what reason or
something about failing eyesight, so they should have a younger
man in charge of a valuable collection. Comes to accompany
mister Mortimon his first two of inspection this afternoon, they say,
the professor's a wonder. That's why I'm particularly anxious to go.
Speaker 5: So now what Mortimer is trying to fill the Professor's shoes?
I thought he was still excavating near.
Speaker 4: Thieves in the Valley of the King.
Speaker 3: Oh No. After Mortimer Humes was believed to be the
money of clear Pasture in the inner room of the
Temple of Horns at Highly, he decided to come home.
Speaker 4: So his fonder did it.
Speaker 5: And as I thought him, Matt, wats the night. Can
I'll join you in your visit to the Belmont speak Museum, But.
Speaker 2: To Kia homes you want inside?
Speaker 4: Didn't matter?
Speaker 5: What's no matter what? Mortimer would be delighted to see me.
It was I who suggested to him that he should
dig at finally for Cleopotter's remain Besides, now that you
mentioned it. The air in this room is a bit daendered. Yes,
it might be as well to go elsewhere until the
romance clears away.
Speaker 2: Well, oh, this is an unexpected pleasure and delighted.
Speaker 4: To see you again, mister Mortimer.
Speaker 5: So you will found the lady where I told you
to look for Hong Kong Cleopatra.
Speaker 2: Indeed I did the current. The world you knew she
was there is beyond me.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I keep telling him he's lucky he wasn't born A
few says.
Speaker 2: Enter his back.
Speaker 5: These have be burnt for witchs announsense. The whole matter
is extreme, is simple, merely the correct interpretation of an
awful priortist that has never been correctly translated before. So
that's described the point.
Speaker 4: I believe we're here to see the treasures of the museum.
Speaker 6: Of course I'm a very exactful host of the phrase.
I don't believe you met Professor Andrews with the whole doctor.
Speaker 3: W How do you do gentlemen here?
Speaker 4: This is a great privilege, Professor Andrew.
Speaker 1: You're a very kind gentlemen, and this is I value assistance.
Speaker 3: Catain Wilson's who mister Mortimer has been.
Speaker 1: Fined the phrase to stay on. But Wilson has been
invited to join in this edition that is intent on
digging up gusty ridrics inn Asia minors.
Speaker 5: We feel we have a last located the site of
the ancient city of Troy. Just think what would mean, gentlemen,
it see the very hole where Helen lives, to walk
the streets where Achilles Hector.
Speaker 1: There you are. It's what I call the digging and
fever all archeologist stuff at the McCurley attackstocking the coin.
Let us begin out sort of in section or free.
This is a front of crowd and a staed o case.
Who such illemy events. My love of the collection is
I wrote brig up in any personal regrets.
Speaker 2: This museum needs.
Speaker 1: The supersition and protection of a man in full possession
of all his tackle gen and my failing fighter.
Speaker 2: However, enough of death. There are fifteen rooms in.
Speaker 1: This mudium, gentlemen, all given over to the pleasures of
the audience. A fifth hall in which we are now standing,
which contains the Jewish an Egyptian collection, is undoubtedly the
pick of the lost. Now let us take the Jewish side,
for here's what I believe to be the only authentic
uplicate of the famous seven brock scandle stick of the temple,
which was brought to Rome, as you know, by tigers,
and the which is lying of this instance somewhere in
the mud and the bed of the river Tiber. And
here in this case is that the most valuable article
in the entire museum. Now, friend that.
Speaker 7: Could see to say it is abusive, whatever it is,
Twelve enormous tones, all different colors like plaints in the
paint pots, and certain girls.
Speaker 3: Each term has some fun in looking stretches on its surface.
Speaker 1: Those are ancient people, hydrodistic doctor opt it. This is
the jurym and Thummim.
Speaker 5: The hurm and wan Murim and Thummim was the name
given to the jewiled plate which lay on the breast
of the high priest of the Jews, which fact you
would remember watching if you'd paid better attention than your
Sundays words.
Speaker 2: Really hums the homes incorrect, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: The Jewels best state of the high preach was billed
in official reverence by the ancient Hebens somewhat as Ditibligne
books for regarding in the capital of Rome. This particular
ury of Thumim is the most like beauticant in distance,
in fact of higli, and correcting things that it belonged
originally to Solomon himself. At any of those heireaglyphics.
Speaker 2: Are the foods to be the curse.
Speaker 4: Of Solomon curses from.
Speaker 1: Yes, this beast age is supposed to bring death to
anyone who lays the liver, and tanda by that that,
if I know one the captain root in myself have
been allowed to handle.
Speaker 4: See. In other words, something has occurred which leads you
to believe the curse is still in a trick.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not what you would call this supersticious man myself,
and yet within a whisk of the time we're not
tap first games of this museum, the night Button were
found dead by morning, with the best stage in his
hands remain he'd attempted to see a property Dura. The
magnificance be are bound to be a great temptation. However,
I must say you just think the first canaanity became known,
it has been left entirely unbelifted.
Speaker 4: Yes, the stones are remarkably large and mercy.
Speaker 1: The more posative are you that you were probing with
the whole If I've seen too cautious, but I would
rather you detached interest with THEE. I would like to
bring my relationship to a close without taking further up.
Speaker 5: If this is quite understandable, I'm sure I only wish
to determine the passification.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that coming from the soft left
hand corner, the stones are Carnelian said federals Ruby. Lets
it as you leave police Staphia, edit amitic, Jope, Daniel
and Jack. Captain Wilson, who is a practical apology about
put stole, will tell you that he's out is lovely
pure award and the gold work is at the word
vocation if you look word to the tiny.
Speaker 6: Probably Tom, but you'll find a primary example of the
Jewish gold work in the candeltrick in the next case.
Speaker 1: Are quite two wisome quite though, and that we can
all handle that quite feel it. Come gentlemen Wilson, you
will return the best state with cake if you deem
and make sure the case is locked or a pollute
the tea and the low gentlemen and less effective gold candlestick.
Speaker 5: One moment, Professor, this mummy case, this is a risks
of acquisition that the day us certainly, But how did
you know now there is a primate particle of acceptive
practicing still on the floor.
Speaker 1: So that is me, and I think the team woman
is getting carried again.
Speaker 4: How about this mummy case.
Speaker 5: Surely it is of Egyptian origin, and you have to
place to hear among the Judean relics.
Speaker 1: Very nice points. It's at the money piece is done
out with your Egyptian manufacturer, and yet it was on
earth to your name the Parliament temple, probably the last
resting tape of some high piece who admire the Egyptian culture,
these various audiential civilizations.
Speaker 2: Off and over left.
Speaker 4: Yes it does. The case still contain the money.
Speaker 1: I believe if it's been going to see, didn't the
high piece returns to watch over the jury and seeing
which he was from thousands of.
Speaker 4: Years ago, with the journey pers simple.
Speaker 2: No one can be.
Speaker 3: Too late, Professor Andrews, I'm afraid the poor chap's dead.
Speaker 4: It's not entirely a Professor M. D. Chapters. Something has
type in his right hand. Now let's find out what
it is.
Speaker 5: The broadinary rider as treading already. Yes, I can hardly
check the things up, breaking the fingers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is the thought, it's the Jewish breath.
Speaker 1: Bate for the lover doesn't get it leave because something happy.
Speaker 5: To all commers or Professor the cursor spent itself, at
least for the.
Speaker 4: Time being to that breath day.
Speaker 1: I wish I'd never lea eyes on your cutty thing,
or we'll horrible end tonight about.
Speaker 4: This Professor ANDREWS. Wilson's death.
Speaker 5: If I am not greatly mistaken, there's not an end
to anything.
Speaker 4: It's just the beginning.
Speaker 3: It's here, homes.
Speaker 2: Do you have to eat all the kippers.
Speaker 5: And merely journey that prevents you from blowing up Watson
and the wastelands. It is grace he have come out
another couple of copy days a jet.
Speaker 3: Quite sad that you are utterly and irrevocably spoiled, sad
as tragic the sudden death of that for young cappyest
of the afternoon, me and Jptain Robson, Well.
Speaker 2: Who do you think I'm meant?
Speaker 4: Hunted?
Speaker 2: Dumpty? Who'd have thought to look at him? The fellow
had a bad high.
Speaker 4: And wasn't as hard because he's dead. Watson.
Speaker 5: It was Solomon Skerl.
Speaker 2: Now you're being fantastic there is.
Speaker 5: Nothing fantastic about that test made Watson.
Speaker 4: It's very real and extremely efficacio.
Speaker 2: Are you babbling about how.
Speaker 5: The ancient Oriental poison in the little needle hidden in
the back of that Jewish breastley. No, the ancient orient
books he would read deal more about poisons and leaders.
Speaker 3: Thank Heaven men, Captain Wilson loose poison.
Speaker 4: What do you think? Who saw the tetanic invulsions? The
extreme post mortem writer?
Speaker 2: And you you may be right the first Maybe.
Speaker 5: I am right.
Speaker 4: Wilson was killed by the jolly little mechanism hitting at
the back of the breastley.
Speaker 2: Yes he did.
Speaker 3: That needle thing in the bob still works to warn
the authorities or.
Speaker 5: Something unnecessarily no use harrowing the poor old professor. But
the idea that the death of his god and his
assistant might have been prevented.
Speaker 3: What if someone else gets himself hunking and somebody likely watching.
Speaker 5: You see, I took the precaution of removing the little
pin before I handed the thing back to Professor Andrew.
Speaker 3: Well, and if the days is removed, what made you
say that Wilson's death.
Speaker 2: Was just the beginning of the trouble.
Speaker 5: I'll come in, come in, oh, missus Hudson, and in
the role of hermis if I'm not mistaken, who's she?
Speaker 4: He?
Speaker 5: Missus Hudson e Hermies was the messenger of the Greek guard.
Speaker 4: You mean the one with the feathers on his head
and on his feet. Yeah, I think you not to.
Speaker 2: Compare me with the likes of him, miss the House.
Speaker 1: I've got more clothes on I hope.
Speaker 4: Yes, just said.
Speaker 5: I was merely alluding to the lettyo having her hand
dressed to me, if I am not mistaken.
Speaker 1: If he's there, And what's more, it's he's urgent. Come
by and kid to make him just waiting in a
cab outside.
Speaker 4: And don't shave. We'll as she resolved by m Yeah,
mister phone, we have been robbed.
Speaker 5: Come at once, sign Ward Mortimer by watch them get
your hat.
Speaker 4: You will have to answer to your question, and I
hardly hope you will come so sooner.
Speaker 2: As you can see, mister Hope. The best place is
intended with. Someone must have done it during the night.
Speaker 6: Setting into the first six stones of rock and gage
is come one stay around them.
Speaker 3: Looks for me as if someone had been trying to
take out the stones their homes.
Speaker 6: My fear is that he not only tried, but succeeded
doctor Watton, and these six stones too. Imitation you may
put asure the appears in that scorns Motimer. I'll take
my reputation at all six of these stones as anyway, thank.
Speaker 3: Heaven for that.
Speaker 2: In what in the world is the people want?
Speaker 5: Or perhaps if we consult Professor Andrews in the matter,
we might.
Speaker 2: Might to get in touch with him. But it seems
that he left the cotton last night.
Speaker 5: Picky, didn't he watch me hear anything in the nat.
Speaker 2: I've questioned him thoroughly. I promised him. He made it
round four times as usual, but at no.
Speaker 1: Time did he see or hear anything in this and
he had this job.
Speaker 5: Has to take in a better part of eight hours
to complete.
Speaker 4: Now could receive prevented through the window.
Speaker 2: Possible or heavily bars.
Speaker 6: Furthermore, I myself attended to the locking and boating the
main door last day.
Speaker 2: All the locks and boats were intact this morning.
Speaker 4: And that the skyry light up there? Now where does
that be?
Speaker 2: That goes on to the lumber room, mister Hosey. But
it's remained unopened for years, which you will see by
the dots of it.
Speaker 4: Well, whatever openings are there to.
Speaker 2: The is in the door to my private room. But
even that is locked at night, and in order to
reach it everyone to retreat would have to open my out.
Speaker 4: Door as well.
Speaker 5: And neither Young nor the watchman had anything, not a
thing significant.
Speaker 4: There is significant.
Speaker 5: Yes, when I think a night spent in the lumberroom
much stairs is indicated the work is not finished.
Speaker 4: Six of the stones remain untouched.
Speaker 5: And I'm very anxious to see the intruder who can
slide to a locked door, and who is completely invisible
beyond night watchman.
Speaker 4: Mister Mortimer m.
Speaker 8: About that board watch and it creaks like a rusty hinge,
and it's as dark as the sad night pocket up here.
Oof stumble over something that, if I'm not mistaken as
the skylight we've discovered here, sir, if I can feel
the glass.
Speaker 3: Who covered with dust? You can't see your food? Don't
let me wipe it off.
Speaker 4: Stop stuff, Leave it alone. We don't want to be
visible to anyone from below.
Speaker 8: You said, howling, TI set off the people for you.
Speaker 4: And one for myself. Now, if you lie down on
the throne, puts either of that but in.
Speaker 3: My best trousers case is Percy.
Speaker 4: Well you hear some sacking I brought along?
Speaker 3: Oh right, but I must stay. Help come sound that dust?
Speaker 1: You sound like a twenty one guns little do you
want to frighten the feet?
Speaker 4: But I didn't do it on purpose? Show and moonlight
shining in through the window.
Speaker 9: Down there he the bright thing, moverything looks that light
money case seems almost too might see whose with that
curious need of blow directed the norse like many colored eyes?
Speaker 4: Those are the gems in the Jewish first place.
Speaker 2: It's only six of you seem to be on fire.
Speaker 4: As for the very good reason that only six of
them are wheel that's who's name?
Speaker 1: Are what I said?
Speaker 4: Because I am that best place.
Speaker 1: You let me knock.
Speaker 4: He won't be able to wait much stronger?
Speaker 3: Whose head when that mommy case look it's losing, but.
Speaker 4: Lots of it is.
Speaker 8: The lid that's riding back The mummy case is opening
up the hand Yoki white in the hand of the money.
But if it's the high priest homes, let's get out
of here.
Speaker 4: I don't know, watch me, don't breathe.
Speaker 5: It's not the mummy, it's a man a small thin
man eats feeling out the mummy.
Speaker 8: Case like the fuck up of his bottle, turns his
head quickly from left to right, come to see the face.
Speaker 9: Arms sink into the case. The case it contains. The
breastplate raises the lead vois pass in the moonlight.
Speaker 2: Good lord, it's Professor Andrews.
Speaker 4: That you can found it, just trying to get away.
Speaker 1: Wait it not butt them.
Speaker 6: We must stop, throw and catch him holding on but
the low No do you hold him that I'm coming?
Speaker 2: Have you got him dead again?
Speaker 4: I wasn't no fear, Good lawd it's Professor Andrews.
Speaker 5: Of course, I knew it from the first film. The
Thief your wrong model. My Professor Andrews is not the thief.
Speaker 4: The beef is dead.
Speaker 1: He get the whole life. Really, my conduct is entirely reprehensible.
I realized I have another teeth. In fact, I didn't
feel I the duo's had been stolen until I found
them and Captain Wood and to get top to his death.
Speaker 5: Yes, I knew there were faults when I saw him yesterday, Professor,
and I didn't want to spoil your last day another.
Speaker 3: No, let us take it kind of you was home
when Wilson told them, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You see, I have been failing for some time. And
although I used to be that he could judge of
pressure's toe.
Speaker 2: Let's but homes. You told me yourself this morning that
those jewels were real.
Speaker 5: Only the first six, my dear Mortimer, are only the
first six. Professor Andrews replaced those last night. Unfortunately, his
handed work was not as nap as Wilson's has been.
You probably tore his failing eye back and you were
able to detect it.
Speaker 2: It's the Professor Andrews, when you found the jewel. Why
didn't you improve the Please?
Speaker 1: What could the death have done? It was discredited my
whole regime and back in the name of Captain Wilson. No,
surely he's paid the punishment of his crime. Furthermore, I
owed it to him, after all I knew at that
point and legal. I thought the mechanism, but controller it wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Work if it's cool.
Speaker 1: But I stood a petty from proved, said.
Speaker 5: I'm playing itself to Seville, Professor the cause of Wilson's
death to his Further back then, many of us remember
back to the Curse of Solomon. After all, he had
laid profaning hands upon the breastplate of the High freet
on the rack of the Goddess Duds.
Speaker 4: Is enough to be taken lightly.
Speaker 1: The remarkable story, doctor Watching. But how did Chilock holmes
the juice that it was Professor Andrews who had tampered
with the breastplate?
Speaker 3: The Homes would say, animentary, mister Bell, elementary, Professor Andrews
the only person who knew the night watchman's.
Speaker 2: Routine and could therefore keep out of his ways.
Speaker 3: Besides, Homes figured that Professor Andrews could probably retain his
key to the curator's door, and could therefore slip in
and out of the museum at will. Simple, isn't it
when you know had guns?
Speaker 2: As simple as making a couple of gea watching his garbing.
They go pulling my leg again, mister Bell, it's the
solution of the crime. Mother, it's easy as making this coffee.
Why our poor, your old child could have solved it.
Speaker 3: But here I'm sure it like another cup, elementary, Doctor Watson, elementary, you.
Speaker 2: Can't go wrong on that deduction.
Speaker 1: Of course, I want another cup, But can I have
one of the new one cup services and make my
own pleasure.
Speaker 3: I see they fascinate you, as they do everyone her season.
Tear out in the top metal top hell. Empty the
fast crystals into your cup and add the hot water.
There's a cup of fragrant coffee. A fist fashion d There's.
Speaker 1: No enderg Washington Magic Doctor Watson. Next week, at the
same hour, Dr Watson will be with us again with
another of his famous stories of the adventures of Sherlock Holme.