Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, what about the adventure of the
Speaker 1: East End Strangler.
Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris, it began in September eighteen ninety eight,
Speaker 2: exactly ten years after Jack the Ripper had left his
Speaker 2: blood drenched trail through the squalid dives of White Chapel
Speaker 2: and Spittlefields. The memory of Jack the Ripper was growing
Speaker 2: deep when a new nocturnal power, a shadowy terror, began
Speaker 2: to haunt the dark streets of London. A woman was
Speaker 2: straddled to death in Shedwell, another in Wapping, and soon
Speaker 2: the name of the East End Strangler was enough to
Speaker 2: strike terror in every heart. The official police were helpless
Speaker 2: against this cruel, pitiless and devilishly shrewd Maraller. And then,
Speaker 2: one foggy night in Ratcliffe, near the Thames, a lady
Speaker 2: came running through the fog when.
Speaker 3: Constable Constable, lady, what's up, stranger?
Speaker 4: He just accostantly on Rutlet Highway.
Speaker 3: Now, ma'am, easy does it? You're assure it with the stranger?
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes, comfortable, I'm sure he ran after me
Speaker 5: in the pug. I lost him just a moment ago.
Speaker 3: Listen, you see that lane there.
Speaker 4: A dark little street right.
Speaker 6: You just go down it till you come to Commercial
Speaker 6: Road East. You'll be able to get a cab.
Speaker 7: There, constable. No, don't leave me.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 6: Don't worry about now, ma'am. You just followed my instructions.
Speaker 6: I'm going back and look for this East End strangler.
Speaker 6: There isn't a man on the force who hasn't been
Speaker 6: itching to get him.
Speaker 7: Who's that?
Speaker 8: Who's standing there in the park?
Speaker 7: Who are you?
Speaker 3: What the evening, my dear you. That's a lovely.
Speaker 8: Throat you have, my dear, so graceful and white like
Speaker 8: a swan's. Yes, my dear, the strangler, the yeast End strangler,
Speaker 8: and your throat, yes, your throat is smooth, so smooth
Speaker 8: like silk, and graceful, so graceful. It's a pity, such
Speaker 8: a pity tomorrow, the whiteness of that throat. But what
Speaker 8: can I do? What else can I do? How it
Speaker 8: yields to the caress of my hands. Don't cry out,
Speaker 8: my dear, don't fight and struggle. The others have tried
Speaker 8: to cry out too, but it was useless.
Speaker 9: In a moment, you will feel no pain.
Speaker 8: Ah, Now it is all over, my dear, And it's
Speaker 8: such a pity, such a pity. But then, my dear,
Speaker 8: what else could I do, mister.
Speaker 10: Holmes, doctor Watson, this affair of the East End stranger,
Speaker 10: I'm forced to admit his got out of hand.
Speaker 2: So we have observed in the newspapers.
Speaker 4: They home, Yes, Pike Watson, quite, I must say, Inspector
Speaker 4: the start. It's rather late in the game to summon
Speaker 4: my colleague and myself. The official police have bungled this
Speaker 4: a fair bad thing, I should.
Speaker 2: Say, Lady Wyndham, last night was his third victim. I've
Speaker 2: no doubt he's plotting the fall.
Speaker 9: Doctor Watson. The man's uncanny, a genius, I might say.
Speaker 9: He moves about like a shadow, strikes and banishes.
Speaker 4: You've doubled the constables, Yes, but the beggar seems to
Speaker 4: be on to the police every step of the way.
Speaker 9: He's eluded every trap we've set for him.
Speaker 4: Over then we must bake the hook with a more
Speaker 4: subtle year, My dear Lustan, now supposed to examine the facts. Eh, First,
Speaker 4: the strangler chooses only women as victims. We know that
Speaker 4: these women are of high breeding and good circumstance.
Speaker 2: Yes, what are they doing in the slums of the
Speaker 2: East End? Home?
Speaker 4: That's an excellent question, my dear Watson, in a curious
Speaker 4: circumstance which will bear investigation. But now let us examine
Speaker 4: the exact geographical area to the Strangler's operations. You have
Speaker 4: a map of London, Nostrand.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, mister, right here on my desk.
Speaker 3: Capital.
Speaker 4: Now, then, gentlemen, observe the first victim was found in
Speaker 4: Shadwell here, the second in Wapping here, the third and
Speaker 4: latest Lady Wyndham, here at in Ratcliffe. Now let us
Speaker 4: draw a circle around these points.
Speaker 9: By jove, they are all in the borough.
Speaker 4: Of Stepney, precisely, Lestride. The Strangler, for some pertinent reason,
Speaker 4: has limited his activities to Stepney in the East End.
Speaker 4: A whim perhaps, but I'm more inclined to believe it's
Speaker 4: either design or circumstance. Now then let us proceed with
Speaker 4: our investigation. But now, hope, now, Watson, we shall examine
Speaker 4: Lady Wyndham's body in the mortuary. Extraordinary, Watson is East
Speaker 4: ten Stranglers not only wanton and cruel, but infernally clever.
Speaker 4: He struck and left no clue on the body. Yes,
Speaker 4: Inspector Lestrade, a question.
Speaker 9: Yes, Miss Hams.
Speaker 4: I note Lady Wyndham's purse is torn open and empty.
Speaker 4: Was this true in the case of the previous victims. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: ostensibly the motive is simple robbery. But I have an
Speaker 4: idea there's much more to this than meets the eye. Watson, Yes,
Speaker 4: homes afraid we're in for some rather routine investigation for
Speaker 4: a day or two. We must investigate the personal lives
Speaker 4: of the stranglers, three well to do victims, and ascertain
Speaker 4: why they went to Stepney in the dead of night.
Speaker 9: A suggestion for myself, mister.
Speaker 4: I have indeed lesstride. I suggest that you place a
Speaker 4: curfew upon all of Stepley Borough, order all residents to
Speaker 4: be indoors by nine o'clock.
Speaker 5: Lady Margaret, Lady Margaret, ma'am.
Speaker 7: Oh, oh it's you, Mary.
Speaker 5: What you're all dressed? My lady, Surely you're not going
Speaker 5: out at this time of night alone.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I must have hit urgent.
Speaker 5: But it's dangerous, ma'am, what with the strangler walk in
Speaker 5: the streets and all.
Speaker 7: I got to take the chance.
Speaker 6: Mary.
Speaker 7: It's a foggy night outside. I don't think anyone will
Speaker 7: see me.
Speaker 5: Lord love us, ma'am. But it's all too much for
Speaker 5: a poor girl like me. Why should you be going
Speaker 5: out on a night like this and all alone?
Speaker 7: Mary? You remember my confiding in you about George. You mean, yes,
Speaker 7: the man I almost married twenty years ago. I just
Speaker 7: got a letter from him this.
Speaker 5: Morning, Lady Margaret. Then he's alive. He's come back to London.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, but he's in desperate straits. Mary, are you understand,
Speaker 7: hiding in the slums of Stepney. The police are pursuing
Speaker 7: him for something he didn't do, and he needs money,
Speaker 7: money to get away. I must bring it to him tonight,
Speaker 7: alone and Mary.
Speaker 5: Yes, Lady Margaret.
Speaker 7: You're not read a single word of this to anyone.
Speaker 7: Everything I've told you now and before is in the
Speaker 7: strictest confidence. You understand, Yes, ma'am, very well. I'll go
Speaker 7: back to the servants, chorters and go to bed. I
Speaker 7: won't be back until early this morning. George. George opened
Speaker 7: the doors, Margaret, George, how this house seems dark, deserted?
Speaker 7: I who?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: I am afraid you won't find anyone home, my dear?
Speaker 3: Who who are you? Don't you know, Lady Margaret?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, yes.
Speaker 8: My dear, Such a lovely throat, such a pretty white throat.
Speaker 1: Such a soft lawn throat.
Speaker 3: What can I do? What can I do? Hell?
Speaker 8: Then, my lady, first the letter from George, and then
Speaker 8: the money and we'll be off.
Speaker 9: Oh here we are, wish ah.
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Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson. Doctor Watson, you were telling us
Speaker 1: of the adventure of the East End Strangler.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris, I was Holmes and I were at
Speaker 2: Baker Street late that night going over the results of
Speaker 2: our routine investigation, when we received an urgent message from
Speaker 2: Inspector Lestrut The east and strangler had been abroad on
Speaker 2: the dark streets of stepnear Gay. It struck again, and
Speaker 2: it vanished like a ghost in the fog, leaving his
Speaker 2: dead and mangled victim behind him, this time Lady Margaret Blencock. Naturally,
Speaker 2: Holmes and I lost no time in getting to the scene.
Speaker 2: Then Holmes asked.
Speaker 4: Who discovered the body.
Speaker 10: Inspecting Lestrade, why one of my men heard a scream?
Speaker 10: Mister M's Constable Wilson. He ran up, but the strangler
Speaker 10: took to his heels and made up in the park.
Speaker 9: Constable Higgins joined.
Speaker 10: Wilson a moment later, and the two of them searched
Speaker 10: the area and found nothing in the strand Oh nothing,
Speaker 10: the words the strangler banished like a fandom. I still
Speaker 10: don't see how he got through my priest guard Bob
Speaker 10: with kurpew and all.
Speaker 3: Eh.
Speaker 4: A remarkably clever fellow, the strangler, Lestrade. I do not
Speaker 4: admire his calling, but I I must confess a certain
Speaker 4: grudging respect for his ingenuity.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, the fellow is almost fiendishly clever. What next?
Speaker 4: Hos a careful examination of the body? Watson, the same
Speaker 4: wanton attack as you see, and one moment? What is it?
Speaker 3: Miss Arms?
Speaker 4: I note that the contents of Lady Margaret's purse are untouched.
Speaker 4: It contains two hundred pounds and a letter.
Speaker 2: Strangler must have been surprised for he could make away
Speaker 2: with the money I hold.
Speaker 4: Cried Watson quite bitutes this letter that interests me at
Speaker 4: the moment hum the request for funds from some one
Speaker 4: named George, an old admirer. According to the text.
Speaker 9: Oh do you think that letter is bogus?
Speaker 4: Inspector? And so is George? Obviously a pretext to lure
Speaker 4: the victim into this area?
Speaker 2: Ah, what is it?
Speaker 11: Her?
Speaker 4: Lork Watson? You Toolistard observed that are some small blue
Speaker 4: threads touched in the fist of the victim, both.
Speaker 2: Who considered them significant.
Speaker 4: Her I do, indeed very But come whattson? It's late,
Speaker 4: Let us find a cabin, return to Bicker Street. There'll
Speaker 4: be time enough tomorrow to track our men down.
Speaker 2: Holmes. I must confess I'm completely baffled by this strangler.
Speaker 4: Fellow, are you Watson? I cannot say the same for myself.
Speaker 4: Consider the results of our investigation today, what about them?
Speaker 4: We found that each victim, on the day of her murder,
Speaker 4: had withdrawn a large sum of money from the bank.
Speaker 4: We know that the killer lured his victims to the
Speaker 4: slums of the East End, and specifically to Stepney, through
Speaker 4: the use of bogus letters purporting to be from old
Speaker 4: friends or lovers.
Speaker 2: What about it, Holmes.
Speaker 4: Obviously this fellow who's taken the mantle of Jack the
Speaker 4: Ripper must have had access to intimate and personal information
Speaker 4: concerning his intended victims.
Speaker 2: That seems reasonable, Home.
Speaker 4: Might and therefore our next step is to pay a
Speaker 4: visit to the home of the latest victim, Lady Margaret Blencroft,
Speaker 4: and question her personal maid.
Speaker 2: Our homes. All the maid could tell us was that
Speaker 2: she was asleep. Didn't hear Lady Margaret go out? I'm
Speaker 2: afraid we didn't get very far here.
Speaker 4: On the contrary, Watson, we did, Eh, what do you
Speaker 4: mean the contents of her sewing basket? They were significant,
Speaker 4: they're there. But come, let's be off to Scotland Yard.
Speaker 2: Scotland Yard.
Speaker 4: By I wish to talk to inspect a lestride and
Speaker 4: then to inspect the police who will be on the
Speaker 4: lookout for the strangler to night. So these are the
Speaker 4: lists of the Metropolitan Police assignments a lustrand that.
Speaker 9: Is correct, mis Ms.
Speaker 10: As you see, London is divided into police areas and
Speaker 10: the names of the constable the sign of each area
Speaker 10: are listed.
Speaker 4: Yes quite. I cannot say that I'm impressed by our
Speaker 4: techniques of criminal investigation, my Deearnstrand, but I must say
Speaker 4: these police records are in excellent order.
Speaker 2: Homes What the devil does always mean? Why are you
Speaker 2: taking such an extraordinary interest in the affairs of the
Speaker 2: police here the Coswatson.
Speaker 4: It is only by way of the official police that
Speaker 4: we can hope to arrest the East End strangler.
Speaker 9: Woh, now there's the Holmes.
Speaker 10: I'm glad to know you're going to require our close
Speaker 10: cooperation for once.
Speaker 4: Quite now in the Strand, I understand you've requested a
Speaker 4: special inspection of the police constables before they venture into
Speaker 4: Stepney tonight. Yes, come, Watson, let's view this inspection. You
Speaker 4: may find it most interesting.
Speaker 9: Well, here we are, gentlemen. As you see, the men
Speaker 9: are waiting for inspection.
Speaker 2: Catch fine looking squad of men find us on the post.
Speaker 9: Doctor Watcher.
Speaker 4: Suppose we review the constables now as durant.
Speaker 2: As you Wishmas Holmes after you, Yeah, I must say, Holmes.
Speaker 2: This reminds me of the old days with the Army.
Speaker 2: I recall one day the General reviewed my brigaded bomb.
Speaker 4: You bear. What is your name, Constable? You mean me, sir,
Speaker 4: I do indeed? What is your name Higgins? Sir Edward Higgins? Oh, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: I read your report Higgins on what happened last night,
Speaker 4: very neat, very concise.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: I cannot say the same for your personal appearance. However,
Speaker 4: what do you mean, mister? Your tunic, man, your tunic,
Speaker 4: it's been torn in the color and resown with new thread.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you can playing the reason for this?
Speaker 3: Oh no, you don't, homes.
Speaker 2: Constable Higgins is running away.
Speaker 9: What's the reading of his comeback?
Speaker 8: That man?
Speaker 4: Stop him?
Speaker 9: He's running straight to that big windle.
Speaker 2: There he goes, Hoss. He's made good as a scale.
Speaker 4: He hasn't deep it only for the moment. He must
Speaker 4: anticipate the moments from now on, Come Watson. There's no
Speaker 4: time to look right.
Speaker 5: Edward Edward Higgins shut the door, Mary Quick Heywood, what
Speaker 5: are you doing here?
Speaker 8: You're supposed to.
Speaker 5: Be on duty.
Speaker 3: It Holmes, Mary, he's found me off. The game's up.
Speaker 3: I got to get out, get away to the hideaway
Speaker 3: on the continent.
Speaker 5: Then I'll go with your life were arranged.
Speaker 12: We go together.
Speaker 5: Wait till I pack my bag?
Speaker 3: Father, Mary, what do you mean the East End strangler
Speaker 3: still has another job to do, another neck to twist?
Speaker 5: What what do you mean?
Speaker 3: Who is yours?
Speaker 12: My dear? No, you know too much about me in
Speaker 12: our little game. You know where I'm going to hide
Speaker 12: out from here? This detective home will be sure to
Speaker 12: worm it from you. Besides, why should I share all
Speaker 12: the money I took from those fine ladies with you?
Speaker 12: I got plans of my own, dearie, such a lovely throat,
Speaker 12: so graceful, so smooth.
Speaker 3: A pity berry. But what can I do? What can
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 4: Take your hands on her? Higgins is going to rush
Speaker 4: you ill? Did you do it a prepose? I teach
Speaker 4: you a little jiujitsu, Higgins? Where you go?
Speaker 2: And you flung him right over your shoulder?
Speaker 4: Well he's unconsciousness quite Watson. He made the mistake of
Speaker 4: being off balance on the attack. Now, while this constable
Speaker 4: lies here, Watson, suppose you go out and find another
Speaker 4: constable to arrest him, and this woman as his accessory.
Speaker 2: I see, So marry the maid. Through the gossip of
Speaker 2: other servants, learned of those women with past love affairs,
Speaker 2: and then told the strangler precisely.
Speaker 10: But how did you know that he was a member
Speaker 10: of the official pleas mister.
Speaker 4: Her obvious the stard. Remember, Constable Higgins had an intimate
Speaker 4: knowledge of police strategy and therefore was able to elude
Speaker 4: the patrols. Furthermore, Lady Margaret Blencroft was strangled during a
Speaker 4: curfew when only police constables were allowed on the streets.
Speaker 4: Recall to that Higgins buy at curious coincidence, was close
Speaker 4: to Lady Margaret when she was murdered.
Speaker 10: Ah, and Higgins's patrol area had always been the Stepney district.
Speaker 2: Quite But the blue threads and Lady Margaret's clenched head,
Speaker 2: what about them?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, the blue friend, Watson. They were the
Speaker 4: same color as the tunic's own by the London Bobbies.
Speaker 4: She tore Higgins's collar in the struggle, and he had
Speaker 4: into his accomplished Mary to have it prepared. I had
Speaker 4: only to inspect the police line and pick out a
Speaker 4: man with a ripped collar newly resown omes.
Speaker 10: I must say you conducted a rather sound investigation here,
Speaker 10: very professional.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Lestrade h I appreciate the compliment, and I
Speaker 4: hope you will not hesitate to call on me in
Speaker 4: the future. It's always a pleasure to rescue the official
Speaker 4: police from their own mistakes. He Watson.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, that was some adventure.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris. And I'm happy to say that while
Speaker 2: the personal made Merry received a live sentence for her part,
Speaker 2: the East End strangler was hoisted by his own fetads
Speaker 2: on his speak on a rope and prison.
Speaker 1: I say, and now, doctor Watson, what adventure will you
Speaker 1: relate to us next week?
Speaker 2: Next week, mister Harris, I shall tell you of an
Speaker 2: adventure which I have entitled murder on a Wager. It
Speaker 2: concerns two dead bodies floating in the Mediterranean, an unbelievably
Speaker 2: odd wager that made history at Monte carl