Speaker 1: You can't be.
Speaker 2: That's all reason went into rooms.
Speaker 1: Wait is the frame.
Speaker 2: The furniture of us sit with any one share with sea.
Speaker 3: Frequently cases of my friend Charlock Holmes began quietly enough,
but let on the rather violent developments. My name is Watson,
doctor Watson, and it was my privilege to share the.
Speaker 4: Adventures of Charlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: I will tell you about the.
Speaker 3: Case of the stockbroker's clerk. After my marriage, I still
visited homes now and then to see what new case
he was engaged on, and even I become engaged on
it myself as uful here in a moment. Well, my dear,
what time.
Speaker 1: I'm likely to see you again?
Speaker 2: And I hope the care that your new practice hadn't
entirely obliterated the interest you used to take in my
little deductions problem.
Speaker 4: Far from it. Why only last night I was looking
over my own not I was.
Speaker 2: Satisfying some pass excellent, But I thought, you don't consider
your collection, No, not at all. There's nothing I like
better than they have some more experiences to add to.
Speaker 1: It today, for example, Yes, of.
Speaker 4: Course that's far off.
Speaker 1: Tas Burningham.
Speaker 2: Oh certain, listen, you're quite sure you're fit enough to travel.
Did I told you I never felt better?
Speaker 1: But you've not been too well late.
Speaker 4: I see now how on earth your slippers? Of course they're.
Speaker 1: Quite obvious in you. It's not more than a few
weeks old in tech, and it's just the souls. When
you were sitting up this miner soul, that's of course.
Speaker 4: For a moment I thought you must have got.
Speaker 2: Some wet and dried them a little too vigorous. Lift,
But near the insteps there's a little waif of paper
with the shopman paradgics on it. Damp would have had
that off.
Speaker 4: Obviously you've been sitting with your.
Speaker 2: Feet stretched out to the fire, and the man would
hardly sits so long in front of a far in
June if you were in these.
Speaker 1: Full self right as usual.
Speaker 2: Sometimes afraid I give too much of my methods away
when I explained things, results without causes are much more impressive.
But come along, my dear hello clad mister whole pipe
clock is waiting in the cab and we have to
catch the flames for Bury. Well now, mister Pyecroft, we
have a clear.
Speaker 1: Run of seventy minutes ahead of yes, son, I'd.
Speaker 2: Like you to tell doctor Watson, all the details of
your very interesting experience exactly as you gave it me,
and it'll be a pleasure. In even greater detail as possible.
Speaker 1: It'll be useful to me to get it all again.
Speaker 4: You'll appreciate this case Boson there good.
Speaker 2: Then let's care about it, mister Pyecroft. Well it goes
like this, then I'm a sottbroker clock. I used to
have a billet with cocks and and woods of Draper's gardens,
but they came a nasty cropper and we crafts were
turned to drift all twenty seven old Thank you, Old
Coxton did what he could. He gave me a ripping
good testimonial, but I couldn't get another place anywhere. Well,
I've been getting three pounds a week at Coxon's, and
I'd say it's about seventy of them. That didn't go
any farther. Well, then suddenly I saw vacant see as
Morton and Williams and Lambards. It's one of the best. Well,
you will had to apply by letter only, so I
sent my name and that was that, I thought him.
But back came an answer by return, said if i'd
turn up on Monday, and I looked all right for
them to bill it was mine.
Speaker 4: The unpredictable lethods of the city.
Speaker 2: I've often heard the manager just plunges his hand into the.
Speaker 1: Heat and takes the first the garden.
Speaker 2: Still, Morton's are the top terms of the Woston third,
so I suppose my reference must have done the trick. Anyway,
all that mattered was that my innings seems to have
come at last. The screw was a pounds a week
more than at Coxon's book. But here's where the queer
part out of the business begins. I was back in
my disks of Hampshire that night having a bit of
a smoke when my landlady came the thing you oh anyway,
I know, miss oh, I can't say, dear the card
pinner financial issues. Well, I don't know what it's about,
but you'd better ask him to step into Will.
Speaker 1: You come this way first, very girl?
Speaker 4: But oh Piecraft, I believe yes, Oh will you?
Speaker 1: Will you take a chair? Thanks?
Speaker 2: Mister and mister Pyecraft has Lacel and William Valley Williams.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: Well rather, I haven't started yet. I only got their
letters today taking me on.
Speaker 4: You know you haven't been to Otters yet.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't set eyes on them. I don't start
till Monday.
Speaker 4: You were formerly with Cockswall and Woodhouse.
Speaker 2: Yes, do you mind.
Speaker 1: If I ask row, mister Pycroft.
Speaker 2: The fact is I've heard some really extraordinary stories about
your financial ability, not me talking to Parker, you know,
used to be Coxton's manager.
Speaker 1: Can't say enough for you.
Speaker 2: That's a nice looking as Indeed he's a good Sollo Parker.
Speaker 4: Yes, first rate.
Speaker 2: Now look here, mister Piecroff. Have you kept in touch
with the market while you've been out of work?
Speaker 1: Every day I read the park Exchange list every morning.
Speaker 4: Duh, that's the way to get on my boy.
Speaker 2: Now let me see, I'm New Zealand Consolidated one hundred
and four airshes one hundred and five tw one hundred
and five and quarter.
Speaker 1: Wonderful.
Speaker 2: He's quite fitzy with all I'd heard, My dear boy,
you are much too good to be at Clark at Morton's.
Speaker 4: No, sir, bye Monday.
Speaker 2: You're the business manager of the Franco Midlands Hardware Company Limited,
with one hundred and thirty four branches in the towns
and villages of France and not counting well in Brussels
and one in San Remo. I'm afraid I've never heard
of it.
Speaker 4: Ah, very likely not. It's being kept very quiet, too
good to let the public in.
Speaker 2: Who you understand, my godter have is promoter? All the
capitals being privately subscribed as I see, how is managing
directoryss me if I could pick up the right man
for business manager Parker spoke of you and that's what
brought me here tonight. But mind you, I'll be honest.
Speaker 4: Harry asked me to get a man cheap.
Speaker 2: I can't pay more than five hundred to Yes, I'm
afraid that's all that. There's an overwriting commission of one
percent on all business done.
Speaker 1: By your agents.
Speaker 2: Take my word break that will come to more than
your Sorry, Yes, indeed.
Speaker 1: A great deal of mister.
Speaker 2: And I don't know anything about.
Speaker 4: Harder, but you do know about figures.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2: Well look here, mister Pinary, I can't deny that your
offer is a very good one.
Speaker 1: It's a splendid one.
Speaker 2: But I've been out of work long enough. And well,
Mawson's may only be offering two hundred, but they are
well known.
Speaker 1: They're safe.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell.
Speaker 1: You what I'll do. Then you take this note. It's
one hundred pimes.
Speaker 4: Now if you think.
Speaker 2: We can do business, you just slip that into your
pocket as an advance on your array. Now what do
you say? I say this, mister penn When do you
want to say? Splendid?
Speaker 4: Now, my company's offices are temporarily situated in Birmingham. If
you could go up there.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, pat certain man, Well, should we say one o'clock?
Then listen in and take this note to one hundred
and twenty six B Corporation Street and you'll sign my
brother there. Of course he'll have to.
Speaker 4: Confirm your engagement too, is of course that's between you
and me. It'll be all right.
Speaker 2: I hardly know how to thank you, mister, Not at all,
my boy.
Speaker 4: You've only got what you deserve at last.
Speaker 2: Oh, before I go, there are one or two small
details though, all maladies you know?
Speaker 4: Yes, have you a Pennant pepper handy?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's splendid.
Speaker 4: If you could just jump these few lines down bring
the thirm you know?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, of course.
Speaker 4: If he's write down, I agree to act as business manager.
Speaker 2: There's a Franco Middleland Hardware Company Limited m H. I
had a.
Speaker 4: Minimum salary of five hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: I put that in.
Speaker 2: Figures, Yes, hundreds, right? Is that all? That's all? If
I may have that? Oh? Yes, I think it's true.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 2: Oh, now there's just one more little thing. What do
you intend to do about Mowson's Why am I bet
all write and designs?
Speaker 1: Figure?
Speaker 4: See, my boy, I had a row over you with
Mawson's manager.
Speaker 2: I took the liberty of going to him to ask
about you. See, if he'd be willing to let you off,
then you know he was well.
Speaker 1: He was pretty offense here.
Speaker 4: Accuse me of coaxing you away from him, that sort
of thing. But I rather lost my temper with a fellow.
Told him if he wanted good men, he should.
Speaker 1: Offer them a good price. What he said, he said, we.
Speaker 4: Picked him out of a guver. Sobby came to leave us,
so quickly picked him out of the gut.
Speaker 5: He said, did you mind joke?
Speaker 2: Just what does he think? I am? No, you judge
for yourself. But I had the last word though. I said,
if the fellows what I think is, once he's heard.
Speaker 4: My offer, you'll never hear from him again. I'll tell
you well, I've heard him you that you're back me up, and.
Speaker 2: Sure m I was saying no more, mister Pinner, I
owe more than nothing. They can go hang. I won't
send them a work.
Speaker 4: Good ah Ye your head study. My brother will be
delighted to have you, I know tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Then at one hundred and twenty six being Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Have I missed anything out, mister Holmes, your memorycres feathers
and figures. Mister picker Well Watson, what do you think
of that extraordinary good fortunates him?
Speaker 4: What sort of a fellow was this?
Speaker 2: Pinnar Well? Middle sized blackbeard, a bit of a hook
to his nose, you know, risk sort of way with him? Yes,
I can see it. But now, mister Packard, tell what's
in What happened the next day when you got to
Birmingham to keep your of both well, One hundred and
twenty six B Corporation Street turned out to be a
passage between two big shots. It led to a flight
of stairs with the names of a lot of companies
painted on the wall of the bottom. I read them all,
but there wasn't a Franco Middland Hardware, company among them.
But while I was standing there wondering what to do next,
a man came up and introduced himself as Harry Pinners.
Oh we haven't got a name of yes, mister Percott,
as you see.
Speaker 1: Only temporary premises. Yes, we only got them last week.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, I.
Speaker 1: What about guys? Give me the empty rooms? Right it
is hard and low, mister pack Off. The wasn't building
a day?
Speaker 2: No, no, of course, one table, a ledger and the
way's favorite baskets.
Speaker 4: ESTI for the moments where the love for going on with? Oh,
by the way, I have nursed for you from your brother.
Speaker 1: It's gonna ah, yes, well we'll do that first day.
Speaker 2: Yes, you certainly made join impression.
Speaker 1: Un Arthur, he's a shrewd judge.
Speaker 2: Mister Pycrofs, you may consider yourself definitely engaged. Thank you
very much in the Finnis And now can I.
Speaker 1: Ask what my duties are to be?
Speaker 2: Of course your duties, mister Pycrofs.
Speaker 4: You will eventually manage Franco Midland's.
Speaker 1: Great depot in Paris.
Speaker 4: Yes, you'll be handling.
Speaker 2: They're a blood of English cropery, which will distribute to
the shops at one hundred.
Speaker 1: And thirty four agents throughout runs. The purchase will be
completed in the week.
Speaker 4: Here while I'd like you to the name in Birmingham and.
Speaker 1: Make yourself useful, certainly.
Speaker 2: Well, here's a directory of palace with the trades after
the names.
Speaker 1: Of the people. I want you to take it to
wherever you're taken.
Speaker 2: Where is that, Well, I'll find herself quite near here,
and I'm from Oh.
Speaker 4: Yes, plenty of plenty very visible too.
Speaker 1: Well, I want you to take this directly back there.
Don't need to work in this disc company.
Speaker 2: Take it back and mark off. All the hardware sellers
were their addresses. Figure out it, mister Bakoff, and that
they have the result by Monday at twelve.
Speaker 1: Hardly melagerial work, hard lips. But we're all pitching in
at whatever needs.
Speaker 2: Doing for the party. And then I found the cheap
hotel and settled down to do it.
Speaker 5: He don't, mister home.
Speaker 2: We're pretty mixed feelings, writer. Well, yes, indeed, on the
one hand I was destined to be engaged, and I
had one hundred pounds in my pocket. But on the
other hand, well, the look of those offices, I.
Speaker 5: Must say, I thought they'd fixed themselves up with something
of his bitter.
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I settled down to the job he'd given me.
I soon found it wasn't going to be done by
Monday either. By the time I went through with the
pennant again, I only got for the letter h. He
told me to go away cheap assistance with Wednesday and then.
Speaker 1: Come and see him again.
Speaker 4: Well I did.
Speaker 2: Thus the god still wasn't finished.
Speaker 1: Even then.
Speaker 2: Mister Penner told me not to worry, but to push
on with it still and see him again.
Speaker 4: Fred, So I did.
Speaker 1: It took me till this morning. I'd never have believed
there were half as many hardware tea that's in Paris.
Well there you get some idea that last of the
size of.
Speaker 4: Tree you're going to be handling too, Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: Well, the best thing is to ask you if you
wouldn't mind keeping at him until everything's clear at the
other end.
Speaker 1: But I've finished now.
Speaker 4: My boy, You just think for a moment.
Speaker 2: Doesn't anyone else sell crockery besides hardware for her?
Speaker 1: Well? I suppose yes, the furniture people do.
Speaker 4: Over here.
Speaker 2: I stay in front.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's just the brand of acumen forgetting to the top.
Thank you.
Speaker 4: So what I want you to do now is to
take away that.
Speaker 2: Invaluable director against and start marking at the furniture. Sir.
Speaker 1: It's very good. No, don't be down hard in my boys.
Speaker 2: I really want I may hear some news from London.
Speaker 1: By tomorrow morning. I'll be out and about all day.
But if you pop up here at with there seven
of them of evening.
Speaker 2: Oh may be ready to put you out of this
the spoke, and I'm very good inn and don't guess
tomorrow is Saturday, all work and no play.
Speaker 4: You know, how can you see me in the evening?
Speaker 1: Why not cut along for a couple of hours a
day's music hall.
Speaker 4: It's just the place for young blood like you. What
an extraordinary way to run.
Speaker 1: The business, nay home remarkable.
Speaker 2: Tell me, mister Pycrofts, on your visits to the offices,
have you ever seen times of any other business.
Speaker 1: Being done there?
Speaker 2: That's another funny thing. Every time the place has been
just the same, the waste paper about.
Speaker 4: It's still empty every time.
Speaker 2: It seems to me he only goes there to needs me.
But mister Pycroft's pause of observation right to even greater levels.
Speaker 4: Let's hear again what.
Speaker 1: Else you noticed at your last interview.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, when he added that bit about the
music for you know, he kept laughing, and I couldn't
help noticing that his second tooth on the left hand
side was a gold one. Er I don't quite follow,
but the point is, doctor watch when his brother, Arthur
Pinner that comes to my room in London, I noticed
exactly the same thing about him.
Speaker 3: Quite the straw.
Speaker 2: Still I don't quite see. Wait a moment, let this
to Pycroft tell us what else he has this about
the brother finish? Well, I told you what Arthur Pinner
looked like, middle size macbeard, hook nose and so on. Well,
apart from the beard.
Speaker 1: And made of the hair being a bit shorter, Harry.
Speaker 2: Pinner might have been his twinses, he is, Well, that's
what I thought, But you see it was the tooth.
Speaker 1: Was there anything?
Speaker 2: So their voices, the fawners, I can remember Arthur Pinner's voice.
They're almost exactly the thing for the voices.
Speaker 1: You'll remember again.
Speaker 2: Well, and mister Pyecroft, what was your concluse? Well, so,
I know it may sound so, but I thought back
in my hotel that night, these two brothers are one
and the same man. See, yes, But why I puzzled
out all the wires for myself so late that night?
God once? And why should the man approach me in London,
engage me in his firm, give me one hundred pounds
of grunt, send me to Birmingham, and then dash up
there himself, shave off his beard, cut his hair, and
go through all this pantomime with lists and directors in
empty offices. Indeed, Bitter rough me exactly, And that is
why watch were all three sitting in this trade. The
quich I observe is nearing the end of its journey,
isn't it? If my watch is not beleading me, we
shall be an ample time to conduct a joint interview
for mister Harry Finner Or is it Arthur that said maccustody.
That's the purpoge of one hundred and andy six b.
I'll impressed it well, I make it only one minute
to seven, so I suggest be go straight up. But homeow,
we didn't do this, I mean, who are we?
Speaker 1: You and I? If you see what I mean?
Speaker 4: You Watson are mister price of this time?
Speaker 2: You're a clock. I am mister Ferris of Boerman's. Since
my head the figure there's notably founded than yours.
Speaker 1: I shall be in the county.
Speaker 2: How shall I explain you to Pinner? We're both friends
of yours, yes, but I chance meeting this afternoon.
Speaker 1: You have a town hall. We're both in need of
a place.
Speaker 2: So the business manager elect to the Frank of Midland
Hardware Company. He's just the man to fire a word
on our behalf of this imp see Johnny good? Right?
Speaker 4: Then shall I leave it with with you? He try.
Speaker 1: Good easing with the Pinner? What is something the matter, sir?
Speaker 2: I'm not getting too good, mister Baker, not good at all.
Speaker 1: Who are these gentlemen?
Speaker 2: Well, this is the Harrison Burma's and this is this
is mister b plights of this time. So they're friends
of mine.
Speaker 1: Where you happen to meet this up? And then they're
both gentlemen have experienced in business, sir, but they've been
out of the places for some time, and I venture
to bring them for a word with you. So if
you'd be so kind, pride right, fad guy? What is
your particular? I am Harris. I'm an accountant there and
yours gosh, I'm a clark. Let you know a good
course And.
Speaker 4: Now I figured to go if I can't say to
leave because my you isn't there anything like you? Joan, No, no, boy,
I'm probably just them.
Speaker 1: I'm not well at all. I was just going to
the ruver a few minutes. I'll be all I'm doing.
Speaker 4: All I filed you.
Speaker 2: A little new doctor Watson, you can't be The door
leads into an into room. So I don't understand in
all this Headnare's feet part met with.
Speaker 1: Sipe those papers on the desk.
Speaker 2: Perhaps there's something.
Speaker 1: And let's see that's a newspaper here this evening.
Speaker 2: Great headden Watson his head eyed. I was only halfway
advanced by theory about this kid.
Speaker 4: But if I'm not mistaken, this completed for this.
Speaker 5: Wait plus the days the same.
Speaker 2: Furniture of that surnature. There's only one chair with a sea.
Speaker 4: Quickly he let me.
Speaker 1: Brief hundred a take his weight, riper that chair. What'sn't
his wipe up? All right?
Speaker 5: At least it's it's still breathing, right, it's all I
know to hunt where it was?
Speaker 1: Think?
Speaker 2: What do you think of it?
Speaker 1: Here's the window pick of us right, find more than
you can? Oh hmm, the new thing right?
Speaker 4: Sorry, all in.
Speaker 1: Good time, my dear fellow.
Speaker 2: It would be nice, I wouldn't it to let him
tell us all we need to know before that notebooks
get here.
Speaker 1: There's so little left to find out.
Speaker 4: So so little left to find out.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about you, not wasn't, but I
couldn't let further into dark.
Speaker 4: Well it's all quite simple really.
Speaker 2: After hearing mister pick Off admirably detailed, sorry, it seemed
to me that the events.
Speaker 1: Could only point to one conclusion. I deduced it from
two main points. What was this?
Speaker 2: After of why your written declaration was wanted?
Speaker 1: Not as a business matter?
Speaker 2: No, what was one? It was a specimin of your handwriting.
There was no other way of persuading you to give
one for what on earth form?
Speaker 1: And let us read that point for the moment.
Speaker 2: It's declared the obvious conclusion that.
Speaker 4: Someone wanted to imitate your style of writing.
Speaker 1: So now we come to the second point. This should
throw some life on the first point, and by the
venda hope.
Speaker 2: To Heaven does the second point by poor Watson is
financial question. Mister Pyecroft not to resign his place at
Mawson and Williams. If mister Pipecoff didn't send in any resignation.
The manager at Marston's would be still expect him to
turn up to start work on a Monday morning. You
mean home that some moment geded turn up in mister
Piecloff stated Morton's, pretending to be gile my dear.
Speaker 1: Wasson a glimmering at last.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course an imposser was to be counted into Marson's.
Speaker 1: Under the guys a Piecock.
Speaker 2: Yes, just in case anyone sad is a discrepancy between
his handwriting and that in which pipel after the price
of vacancy steps were taken to a cryptis pretender with
a copy of Piecoff's scriptus study. Ah, but I don't understand.
Speaker 1: That the home. Why should Pinner pretend to be his
own brother? I can't see that either, so I repot.
Speaker 2: It's pretty clear by now, But are evident did two
of them in the fiddle club?
Speaker 1: One is pretending to be.
Speaker 2: Mister Pipeloff, working every day at Morton's in London, the
other at his pipe flop's Engeeja, persuading him to come
and work into They had to be someone in Vermihim
to recede him and as his employer in order to
keep him here.
Speaker 1: For as well as was needed. Because Philitter's wife they
didn't want to let.
Speaker 2: Him his first person into that land, so Pinner had
to do the job himself. May and it might have worked,
but for that goal two sunds to pipe Offf's admirable
powers of observation. Well I'm blow, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: You've told me how it's been done.
Speaker 2: Can you tell me why this paper film was reading
when we came in? That's okay, Well, this is one
of today's London evening papers.
Speaker 1: Your answers on the front page, mister Pipelop.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 1: Great heavens above come on media.
Speaker 2: Final crime in the city, a desperate attempt and robbery
culminating in the death of one man and the capture
of the criminal, occurred today in the city. It appears
that last week a new clerk who had given his
name as all Piecraft, was engaged by the famous financial
house of.
Speaker 1: Morton and Williams. This person appears to have been.
Speaker 2: None other than Bedding Them, the famous cracksman and forger,
who with his brother only recently emerged.
Speaker 1: For a five year sella Pino servitude. So that's what
it's all being about.
Speaker 4: It's better means the big kire, isn't it a railer.
Speaker 2: Had the rest of them for Oh, it just means
it turn pay six con one.
Speaker 1: I haven't got paid bill, I have it it discuss
me at Morses and the car to leave.
Speaker 2: At midno Staday Argent, Houston and the city police was
surprised there to see a man with a coffee bag
come down.
Speaker 1: The steps of twenty first one. He arrested a man.
Speaker 2: After this this struggle nearly one hundred thousand pounds worth
of American Railway bonds with discus. In the day, the
body of the murdered watchman was found doubled up in one.
Speaker 1: Of the largest stakes.
Speaker 2: It seems like there abiding to menace to get locked
into the building after the other clocks to gone, and
was disturbed by the watchman while rifling the safe. His brother,
who usually works with him and not yet appeared in
his jobs of ours, get a prison dart the tin.
But the police are making inner getting inquiries as to
his whereabouts. Well, we can save the police some trouble
in that direction. But mister Holmes, why do you think
this one wanted to go and string himself up the
prospect of.
Speaker 1: Another long spill behind bars, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And then again, who knows it wouldn't be the first
time that even a villain had chosen to die rather
than taste the shame of having his brother executed for murder. However,
these are not considerations for us.
Speaker 1: May have no choices to our eg If you will
have the kindness to step.
Speaker 4: Out for the police to fight from oshide, will may
not die.
Speaker 2: The Case of the Stockbroker's Clark was one of the
Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My name,
my real name is Norman shellyf. My friend Carlton Hobbe
plays Sherlock Holmes, and I was Doctor wattson our skip
for this BBC production from London was by Michael Hardwick,
and need I.
Speaker 4: Say I look forward to the pleasure of your company
again very soon for more
Speaker 2: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.