Sherlock Holmes - Iron Box

<v Speaker 1>We return again to Phyllis White, who had some more
<v Speaker 1>delightful information about the shell Lockholmes radio broadcasts.
<v Speaker 2>Willis Rathbone and Bruce were making films and they had
<v Speaker 2>just one day off per week for the radio work.
<v Speaker 2>They received the scripts a couple of days early to
<v Speaker 2>look over if they had time, and they would turn
<v Speaker 2>up at the studio every the afternoon of broadcast day.
<v Speaker 2>The first reading would be rather slow and broken up
<v Speaker 2>as there was discussion and maybe a few changes. Then
<v Speaker 2>there would be a reading for timing to fit to
<v Speaker 2>the exact number, and then it's available. It was more
<v Speaker 2>likely to be too long than too short. Edna would
<v Speaker 2>flip over a few pages out a couple of words
<v Speaker 2>here and a couple on another page, and it would
<v Speaker 2>miraculously come out exact to a minute. And so they
<v Speaker 2>went through the rest of the afternoon. The tempo and
<v Speaker 2>pressure increase and the show sharpened up. At the end
<v Speaker 2>of the afternoon they went on the air for the
<v Speaker 2>Eastern United States. Then there was a couple of hours
<v Speaker 2>break and everybody would go out to dinner. Then they
<v Speaker 2>would come back and do it all over again for
<v Speaker 2>the West Coast.
<v Speaker 3>I feel very.
<v Speaker 2>Thankful now that these live and ephemeral shows were captured
<v Speaker 2>on disk and that they could now reach a new audience.
<v Speaker 1>Now he's going to listen. I as we listened to
<v Speaker 1>the Iron Box.
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<v Speaker 5>Good evening doctor.
<v Speaker 3>He was about out draw up your usual chair.
<v Speaker 5>Thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Well, did you enjoy the Christmas holidays?
<v Speaker 4>Well, I've I've had a whale of a time, thank you,
<v Speaker 4>but I don't think I can face a turkey or
<v Speaker 4>immense pie for at least another year.
<v Speaker 5>How about you?
<v Speaker 6>Doctor boy had a very pleasant week too, my boy
<v Speaker 6>Foxy's visitors.
<v Speaker 3>The fletching number of Christmas messages to.
<v Speaker 5>Say you got a new pipe?
<v Speaker 3>Is that a Christmas present? You pipe?
<v Speaker 6>You, tobacco pouch and a pound of my favorite tobacco,
<v Speaker 6>all of them sent me from London by old pounds
<v Speaker 6>and a friend of mine to Ian Dunbar.
<v Speaker 4>No, Pian, huh, Well do you mean he was one
<v Speaker 4>of your patients? Or was he someone that you in
<v Speaker 4>the Great shore CON's help.
<v Speaker 3>The latter, mister boutell. As a matter of fact, it
<v Speaker 3>was receiving this gift that reminded me of the spread.
<v Speaker 6>I decided to tell you tonight the story in which
<v Speaker 6>I and Dunbar played a prominent.
<v Speaker 5>Five and had ada up again.
<v Speaker 6>The day before New Year's Eve in eighteen hundred and
<v Speaker 6>ninety nine, Chilock Holmes and I sat in opposite corners.
<v Speaker 3>Of the first cast wor overcarriage.
<v Speaker 6>We sped towards Edinburgh in applying Scotsman, what's.
<v Speaker 3>Up to you?
<v Speaker 5>And slock Corn's up there?
<v Speaker 3>Doctor? It started off as a holidays botel.
<v Speaker 6>My old friend, Sir Walter Dunbar lasked Holmes and me
<v Speaker 6>to spend a few days with him at Dunbar Castle,
<v Speaker 6>about twenty miles outside Edinburgh.
<v Speaker 3>After we left King's.
<v Speaker 6>Cross Station, Holmes, his sharp, eager face framed in his
<v Speaker 6>dear'stocking cap, dipped into the bundle.
<v Speaker 3>Of fresh papers and she brought with him.
<v Speaker 6>We left Bedford far behind us before he thrust the
<v Speaker 6>last one of them under the seat, leaned across.
<v Speaker 3>And offered me his cigar.
<v Speaker 7>Care for the guy?
<v Speaker 8>What's no well, I'll stick to the pipe flying Scotsman's
<v Speaker 8>living up to its name, and they're going splendidly present
<v Speaker 8>three and a half miles an hour. I haven't noticed
<v Speaker 8>the quarter mile pot, nor have I but the telegraph
<v Speaker 8>first on this night, he adds passed to the aid
<v Speaker 8>of a watch.
<v Speaker 3>The calculation is.
<v Speaker 5>A simple one. What's in my dea p home? We
<v Speaker 5>have several hours ahead of us. Now, tell me more
<v Speaker 5>about the valse at Dunbar. I have a feeling that
<v Speaker 5>he is in some kind of trouble. If you haven't
<v Speaker 5>want to talk about him.
<v Speaker 6>It's not exactly trouble homes, but there's a strange problem
<v Speaker 6>that confronts the Dunbar The problem it will be settled
<v Speaker 6>at midnight.
<v Speaker 3>Tomorrow night, a New Year's even He is exactly.
<v Speaker 6>But to really appreciate the story, I have to begin
<v Speaker 6>by telling you the death of rol Sir Thomas Dunbar.
<v Speaker 5>The father of the present.
<v Speaker 6>He was severely wounded in Waterloo, though he managed to
<v Speaker 6>last that long enough to get back to Dunbar Castle.
<v Speaker 6>The story goes that as he lay there on his
<v Speaker 6>death said he told his wife of his plans.
<v Speaker 9>Didn't agree with last I touched the buron that's you
<v Speaker 9>home from Waterloo.
<v Speaker 5>But if I wound as well.
<v Speaker 9>Oh, I'm not afraid to die. All the niggles me
<v Speaker 9>is that I shall never see the child you bear.
<v Speaker 5>So what will Scott know? Coming here?
<v Speaker 9>Hey, Jenny, he visit the death spell of.
<v Speaker 1>His old friend.
<v Speaker 3>Now who's there? I didn't use handhimur Doc, it's me.
<v Speaker 9>I'm leaving an unburned senday handy when I die. I
<v Speaker 9>don't trust women, or children or thanks for that matter.
<v Speaker 9>But the best part of the wealth of gold in
<v Speaker 9>the big iron box you'll find under the bed. The
<v Speaker 9>money's there. I am something else for her any day.
<v Speaker 9>You have to keep that boxing. Trust for me, Sandy.
<v Speaker 9>You can turn it down to my boy and the
<v Speaker 9>New Year's eve before his twenty first birthday, and he'll
<v Speaker 9>be a man and wise.
<v Speaker 5>Enough to know how to use it.
<v Speaker 3>Do you understand? Tell me right?
<v Speaker 5>That was what's the Baron's a girl?
<v Speaker 1>Girl?
<v Speaker 9>I'll tell you to be a boy and we'll name
<v Speaker 9>him Walter rest my good friend.
<v Speaker 3>So Walter Scott.
<v Speaker 5>The interesting story Watson, and that child, of course is
<v Speaker 5>the gentleman we are going to see now? Is Walter
<v Speaker 5>done done?
<v Speaker 3>Exactly?
<v Speaker 5>And the first baronet was a friend of Subalter Scott.
<v Speaker 5>While his son conversed to your acquaintance. Why, sir, it's
<v Speaker 5>a family singular rich in literary friendship and it's not going.
<v Speaker 3>To at home continue. I suppose you can guess what happened.
<v Speaker 6>To Thomas Keff drew up a document to stressfy the
<v Speaker 6>New Year's eve before the Baronet's twenty first versay, and
<v Speaker 6>the poor child was born on February twenty ninth.
<v Speaker 5>The boys and Walter is waiting for his arm box
<v Speaker 5>for a goal.
<v Speaker 6>He'll be eighty four next year and yet legally the
<v Speaker 6>only one birthday every four years.
<v Speaker 3>And near as the law he.
<v Speaker 5>Was the most amazing situation, though I'm afraid Sir Water
<v Speaker 5>finds it far from entertaining. The lawyers must have been
<v Speaker 5>extremely scrupulous and abiding by the letter of the documentary.
<v Speaker 6>Though Sandy Murdock is dead now, of course, but he
<v Speaker 6>too is a great grandson, William Murdock, who still handles
<v Speaker 6>the Dunbar estate. He'll be at the castle tonight to
<v Speaker 6>formally hand over the iron buck.
<v Speaker 5>I'm delighted to accept the holiday in pertation so well
<v Speaker 5>that mandear hello, I've needed a rest but always loathed
<v Speaker 5>two stricter ones. This situation may pose a nice little
<v Speaker 5>problem from me.
<v Speaker 3>Problem.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, I'm reasonably certain the agents of water Dunbar will
<v Speaker 5>need to get his iron box full of gold on
<v Speaker 5>this New Year's Eve. There, but we will be old fellow.
<v Speaker 3>We shall see doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 10>I'm glad to see you and mister Malms here as
<v Speaker 10>the captain.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you, My boy Holmes is is Ian Dunbar Walters grands.
<v Speaker 5>How do you do, mister dun Dan.
<v Speaker 10>I'm very proud to meet you.
<v Speaker 4>Mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 5>I've heard those about you.
<v Speaker 10>My grandfather will be down in a few moments.
<v Speaker 5>Let's go into the library, shall we.
<v Speaker 6>I imagine the Wolters quite excited about that ceremony, isn't he?
<v Speaker 10>Wouldn't you be if you'd waited sixty three years too
<v Speaker 10>long for an inheritance back to the Lord. I have
<v Speaker 10>the force to be born on the prosaic date in
<v Speaker 10>August and twenty first.
<v Speaker 5>Even if your grandfather is dead, you were to the
<v Speaker 5>next donnet jayad Yes, mister Holmes, you see my father
<v Speaker 5>was killed two months ago at Mappati.
<v Speaker 3>Yes if I read about it in the papers, my boy,
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna sorry.
<v Speaker 5>Thank you.
<v Speaker 4>Doctor.
<v Speaker 10>The opening of the box isn't going to be the
<v Speaker 10>only ceremony At midnight, Dorothy and I are announcing an engagement.
<v Speaker 5>Dorothy small See and her father are staying here too.
<v Speaker 3>My congratulations is indeed indeed man too. Thank you.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's been quite sattle with a though he's a
<v Speaker 5>businessman and isn't impressed with titles.
<v Speaker 10>When they asked the company by a suitable income. When
<v Speaker 10>we told him about the inheritance, Peter len didn't give
<v Speaker 10>his consent. Ah, here's Dorothy now, Dorothy Darling, I want
<v Speaker 10>you to meet two friends of mine, mister Sherlock Holmes
<v Speaker 10>and doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 11>How do you do now?
<v Speaker 3>How have you been? Small? How are you, my dear?
<v Speaker 3>From what this young man's been telling us? I gather
<v Speaker 3>the congratulations in order thank you.
<v Speaker 11>I finally persuaded father that Ian would make a word
<v Speaker 11>of son in law. For a while I was afraid
<v Speaker 11>we'd have to look for gret the bee leave in
<v Speaker 11>a cottage on bread and cheese and law. But raise
<v Speaker 11>a torrental rash, just.
<v Speaker 5>As they do in the story books.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, sir Walter, there you are. What's the dear boy?
<v Speaker 11>How are you?
<v Speaker 5>And this must be your friends? That very well for
<v Speaker 5>a young nipper who twenty one at midnight. Oh gentlemen,
<v Speaker 5>may I introduce mister Herbert Small.
<v Speaker 6>I believe that we have congratulated you on the engagement
<v Speaker 6>of your daughter.
<v Speaker 12>That was the post to remain a secret undtle midnight
<v Speaker 12>the Dunbar box was finally helping. Gonna be grouty, Herbert.
<v Speaker 12>The children are in law and I'm going to settle
<v Speaker 12>money on Ian and it's New Year's Eve that sends
<v Speaker 12>her into the spirit of the occasion. Bring out the
<v Speaker 12>glasses in. I've had some bottles at my special pride
<v Speaker 12>put out. It's got kindest sport in Scotland. The cream
<v Speaker 12>of Dunbar. My father laid the first bottle down the
<v Speaker 12>year before it was born, and the drink of the
<v Speaker 12>brew will surely warm the cockers.
<v Speaker 3>Thet oh, my mouse working your will is wold? When
<v Speaker 3>is this the lawyer?
<v Speaker 12>Fellow young Murdock an here any moment her as soon
<v Speaker 12>as he arrives dinner that we'll be ready for the
<v Speaker 12>evening ceremony.
<v Speaker 5>You're bringing the famous iron box within some modern.
<v Speaker 12>If he doesn't, they won't get in the dinner homes
<v Speaker 12>Ian past the glasses around my boy ah, Herry, Oh
<v Speaker 12>you've got the box. We see now the party is complete. Oh,
<v Speaker 12>it means to reduce you.
<v Speaker 5>It's small her father, mister Small, my grandson Ian you know,
<v Speaker 5>Sherlock Holmes, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 12>I laid the world up my frame with delay. Oh
<v Speaker 12>that's all right, my doc. You're here and you brought
<v Speaker 12>the box. That's all that matters.
<v Speaker 4>Here.
<v Speaker 3>You are a young lawyer.
<v Speaker 5>Drink here.
<v Speaker 12>I'll help you for it.
<v Speaker 3>I must say that this is our exciting homes of
<v Speaker 3>famous ron box with its inheritance of gold. Yes, and
<v Speaker 3>from the size of the.
<v Speaker 5>Box of the rough yes, the estimated it's cubic content
<v Speaker 5>in gold at around five thousand pounds. Not about some
<v Speaker 5>perhaps a businessman like mister Small, but a windfall to
<v Speaker 5>an impecuniar Scotch that I do a strong young man,
<v Speaker 5>mister Murdoch, I'd have been strong home. A box that
<v Speaker 5>size full of golden sovereigns would weigh considerable amounts. And
<v Speaker 5>yet the lawyer carried it single handed. All that we're
<v Speaker 5>all assembled, I'm going to proposal.
<v Speaker 3>It's still summers off.
<v Speaker 5>Yet, let's drink to the new year means a lot
<v Speaker 5>to some of us.
<v Speaker 11>Nineteen we should chose more than just nineteen hundreds to water.
<v Speaker 11>We should drink to the new setue that's about to begin.
<v Speaker 3>Good idea.
<v Speaker 6>Oh, I'm afraid that wouldn't be quite appropriateness Small to
<v Speaker 6>the accurate.
<v Speaker 3>The prettieth century won't begin.
<v Speaker 6>Until January the first, nineteen hundred and one, not nineteen hundred.
<v Speaker 5>Of course, that's got they. I'm afraid your wedding can't
<v Speaker 5>take place some time.
<v Speaker 3>Yet, father, What are you talking about?
<v Speaker 4>I read an article to God in the other day
<v Speaker 4>that said just the same thing as you, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 4>And what's more, it said something even more important. It's
<v Speaker 4>said that nineteen hundred is not a leapia rubbish leapier
<v Speaker 4>comes every four years.
<v Speaker 5>There was one in eighteen ninety six, and obviously nineteen.
<v Speaker 3>Hundred is one.
<v Speaker 5>I think mister Small may be right, But you say,
<v Speaker 5>mister hous do you know well? I hope no one
<v Speaker 5>would bring up this point. But it's the little problem
<v Speaker 5>I referred to on the train. My dear what womber
<v Speaker 5>for heaven's sake?
<v Speaker 12>Answer it is nineteen hundred of a leap yer.
<v Speaker 5>No, I'm afraid it's not, sir Walter, No, because of
<v Speaker 5>a slight indalance that would otherwise and be produced in
<v Speaker 5>the calendar of the even century. Years and its divisible
<v Speaker 5>by four hundred are leap yeers. In other words, sixteen
<v Speaker 5>hundred with alypier, the year two thousand will be alypier,
<v Speaker 5>but eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred are not sleepiers.
<v Speaker 3>Then you have no birthday next year.
<v Speaker 5>So Walter, and I'm afraid I can't open the buck tonight.
<v Speaker 11>And the dun bars won't get their inhabitants.
<v Speaker 4>You, my dear, don't marry for a few more years
<v Speaker 4>if I won't alive with Merria.
<v Speaker 5>Mister Hornsey, you sure of your fact. I'm very much
<v Speaker 5>afraid that I am a man.
<v Speaker 3>Oh this is terrible.
<v Speaker 5>I kind of stud anymore.
<v Speaker 3>Nna, don't take it too badly. Smaller here, Yeah, think this,
<v Speaker 3>that's it, after all, you only have to wait it
<v Speaker 3>for four years.
<v Speaker 5>Another four years at my age, young man, at my age,
<v Speaker 5>I shall.
<v Speaker 9>Never live that long.
<v Speaker 5>What is it?
<v Speaker 3>Angles? So I got out of time, A miserable meal home,
<v Speaker 3>the walls has gone to his room, the young.
<v Speaker 6>Lovers a million tiers small, and the loyal Murder seemed
<v Speaker 6>to be positively gloating.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, mister Hales new Yeah, but got us at least
<v Speaker 5>make the best of it. I think I'll go and
<v Speaker 5>have a clock that, Sir Walter and you my dat chat.
<v Speaker 5>Why not try and cheer up the young folks some
<v Speaker 5>of your experiences.
<v Speaker 3>And quite no del join you in the library. Call
<v Speaker 3>me if you want them. Ah, there you are, my dear,
<v Speaker 3>all alone in front of the fire.
<v Speaker 10>I'm afraid we are not in very good spirits.
<v Speaker 6>Nevertheless, I'll sit down here and join you if you
<v Speaker 6>don't mind. Misery loves company.
<v Speaker 11>So very kind of IM just trying to persuade he
<v Speaker 11>and to elope with me. But he's doing most gallant.
<v Speaker 11>You won't even considerable?
<v Speaker 10>How can I, darling, I've got under two hundred pounds
<v Speaker 10>a year of my own right, how could we live
<v Speaker 10>on that?
<v Speaker 5>I was counting money the grandfather was going to give
<v Speaker 5>us to get me startled.
<v Speaker 3>Now now I'm as small. A little earlier you talked
<v Speaker 3>to break the green and bread and cheese and loving
<v Speaker 3>a cottage. Yes, there's a lot to be said for it,
<v Speaker 3>you know.
<v Speaker 5>I had to be said for it.
<v Speaker 10>Yes, but have you ever tried it?
<v Speaker 3>Not? Litom a boy?
<v Speaker 13>But I've married and my wife and I was married.
<v Speaker 13>I had a little money. In fact, my income was
<v Speaker 13>just about the sun that you mentioned, and we were
<v Speaker 13>very happy.
<v Speaker 1>Father.
<v Speaker 5>You have a profession, doctor, Look at me.
<v Speaker 10>I've been trained for nothing except to be lead of
<v Speaker 10>Dunbar Castle. I can't support a wife on tradition, but.
<v Speaker 11>You're young and you can get some kind of position.
<v Speaker 3>I should, of course. Of course, as a matter of fact,
<v Speaker 3>I think that what is it? What's wrong?
<v Speaker 5>The devil's work of Fort Watson? Come with me, Old
<v Speaker 5>Tom and you, mister Dunbar. Which was wrong? It was
<v Speaker 5>in darkness, but in the moon I saw two figures
<v Speaker 5>struggling by the open case. One of them was the water.
<v Speaker 5>As I entered, he disappeared from sight his attacker that
<v Speaker 5>pushed him out of the window into the moat. Okay,
<v Speaker 5>you have an angle away in the darkness. We just
<v Speaker 5>kept lanterns and go out for the most at once. Though,
<v Speaker 5>I'm very much afraid, mister Dunbar, that your grandfather is
<v Speaker 5>beyond our health.
<v Speaker 4>Doctor Watson will be back in just a second, so
<v Speaker 4>i'd just like to remind you that if you want
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<v Speaker 4>Now, to get back to our story, someone had pushed
<v Speaker 4>poor old Sir Walter out of his bedroom window and
<v Speaker 4>enter the moat below.
<v Speaker 5>Isn't that right, doctor Watson?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, of course, speak grab lanterns.
<v Speaker 6>As first we couldn't rush outside, but it was a
<v Speaker 6>hopeless cause the water was eight or ten feet deep,
<v Speaker 6>and it seemed obvious that the elderness of water wouldn't
<v Speaker 6>have a chance of saving himself. If you searched on
<v Speaker 6>the thicker bobbing lanterns, the cunning figures in the foster
<v Speaker 6>moonlight forming a weird.
<v Speaker 3>Bring you answer over here, sir? Can you see anything home?
<v Speaker 3>A thing?
<v Speaker 5>I don't see why your friend doesn't call the police.
<v Speaker 5>Doctor Watson's accomplishing nothing.
<v Speaker 6>You thought them out there chance of finding the old
<v Speaker 6>man alive, mister Small, he wants to void a scandal
<v Speaker 6>as possible.
<v Speaker 3>Forssake, Sir, as well as the Dunbar scandal.
<v Speaker 5>Can't touch me or Dorothy over this. Her engagement will
<v Speaker 5>never announced.
<v Speaker 3>And it's a big citicide to think some new blood
<v Speaker 3>in your family would be a great.
<v Speaker 6>Improvement or being poverty impressonedent and you be can panda
<v Speaker 6>hat the sir, well homes have you given up hope?
<v Speaker 5>And Pep will never find him in that dragness and
<v Speaker 5>wrapping hooks. I have to call the police. What time
<v Speaker 5>is it, sat Ian?
<v Speaker 3>You know the time? What did you call me, mister Holmes?
<v Speaker 6>So, yes, Hi, you're yours, just seem a bit your homes,
<v Speaker 6>But of course you're right. If your poor grandfather's dead,
<v Speaker 6>mister Dunbar, you're a baronet.
<v Speaker 5>Now and the time set in it's it's a court
<v Speaker 5>to the twelve, mister hark Quart out of an hour
<v Speaker 5>to the new year. So yeah, doesn't that thanks for
<v Speaker 5>guest something to you, Yes, yes it does. So I'm
<v Speaker 5>the new baronet hammer.
<v Speaker 10>They weren't. There'll be no more talk of the police
<v Speaker 10>for fifteen minutes. I want all of you to come
<v Speaker 10>back to the castle with as the last time of
<v Speaker 10>midnight brings out, I shall have a statement to me,
<v Speaker 10>a statement that I want you all to hear.
<v Speaker 3>What you bought it over here for home, something very
<v Speaker 3>funny going on.
<v Speaker 4>I'll tell you I.
<v Speaker 5>Don't like bollecoman, and I watched some like to look
<v Speaker 5>at it very much.
<v Speaker 3>If you wouldn't be said, that's mysterious. What are you
<v Speaker 3>up to? You haven't taken a stip yet towards finding
<v Speaker 3>the murderer.
<v Speaker 5>And I wonder what God is the He's the perspiration
<v Speaker 5>on this small brown molument.
<v Speaker 3>It's small.
<v Speaker 5>I wonder what pause is a singular look of apprehension
<v Speaker 5>on the face of murderch young lawyer. You remember, of course,
<v Speaker 5>on my remarking how easily he carried a large iron
<v Speaker 5>Boxers go.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and it took a strong man to throw the
<v Speaker 3>water out of the window.
<v Speaker 5>New Years approaching, ladies and gentlemen.
<v Speaker 10>In view of our recent tragedy, this is one New
<v Speaker 10>Year's Eve when none of us feels like song and
<v Speaker 10>jollocky but there still remains a ritual duty for me
<v Speaker 10>to perform.
<v Speaker 5>Mister Murdock, open the iron box please, but I can't
<v Speaker 5>do that. It was only to be open for your grandfather, No,
<v Speaker 5>mister Murder.
<v Speaker 10>The phrase was that it was to be opened on
<v Speaker 10>the New Year's Eve before the baronet's twenty first birthday.
<v Speaker 10>I am now the baronet, and I shall be twenty
<v Speaker 10>one next year on August twenty first.
<v Speaker 5>Open the box, please, mister Murder in Johning, how fast
<v Speaker 5>you can. I'm glad. I hope you think of it. Three, Murder,
<v Speaker 5>open that box very well. I'll tell you when I'm
<v Speaker 5>a prayer in for something of a shock.
<v Speaker 3>Scuty.
<v Speaker 5>The box is empty except for a sheet of notepaper
<v Speaker 5>in the bottom. What's the meaning of this murder? Read
<v Speaker 5>that paper, Serena, and you'll understand I owe you four
<v Speaker 5>thousand sovereigns.
<v Speaker 10>And it signed Alexander Murder on behalf of Murder Murder. Lawyers,
<v Speaker 10>you'd better explain this.
<v Speaker 7>It's the family skeleton, serene That notice signed from a
<v Speaker 7>great grandfather, the one that witnessed the original deconcern in
<v Speaker 7>the box as soon as the water was born on
<v Speaker 7>that February the twenty ninth. My great grandfather realized the
<v Speaker 7>money wouldn't have.
<v Speaker 5>To be produced for eighty four years, and so he
<v Speaker 5>stole it.
<v Speaker 12>He bothered it.
<v Speaker 5>He always intended to pick back, but he was never
<v Speaker 5>able to. When he died, he told my father of
<v Speaker 5>his secret.
<v Speaker 7>My father, in turn told me, We've always planned to
<v Speaker 7>put back the money, Seren, but we've never been able to.
<v Speaker 5>This is daylight robbery. You would prosecute me and the
<v Speaker 5>firm still in business. You can ruin them, You can
<v Speaker 5>sue them for every day there, mister Small, they've already
<v Speaker 5>shown a marked version from my family. I suggest you
<v Speaker 5>allow me to handle their affairs here.
<v Speaker 6>You got.
<v Speaker 10>No one's going to their room, no one's leaving here
<v Speaker 10>until the police arrives.
<v Speaker 5>I'm convinced that one.
<v Speaker 10>Of you murdered my grandfather tonight.
<v Speaker 3>If you ask me, it's obvious who that someone is.
<v Speaker 3>Who doctor, what's used to murder? You came here telling
<v Speaker 3>to kill Pearl to.
<v Speaker 6>Walter because you never intended to open that buff You thought.
<v Speaker 3>That your sid would die with him. That's a lie.
<v Speaker 7>I was going to tell him everything and then ask
<v Speaker 7>for time pay the money.
<v Speaker 5>I didn't kill Gorse he didn't. There's your murderer, You
<v Speaker 5>your Sophia father. What you say?
<v Speaker 4>I am saying that he and the murderer he saw
<v Speaker 4>that the buck wasn't going to be opened for another
<v Speaker 4>four years. He realized how the money couldn't marry Dorothy,
<v Speaker 4>so he killed his grandfather.
<v Speaker 5>And then order the box opened.
<v Speaker 3>You're trying to cover yourself.
<v Speaker 10>You push grandfather out of that window tonight. You thought
<v Speaker 10>that if he died, the box would never be opened.
<v Speaker 10>Dorothy couldn'trry me.
<v Speaker 6>You can't speak on.
<v Speaker 3>My soul homes. You seem remarkably calm, And I.
<v Speaker 5>Must say I'm absolutely fascinated by listening to three people
<v Speaker 5>and accusing each other of murder and each of them
<v Speaker 5>producing perfectly sound not it is. It's a remarkable example
<v Speaker 5>of the dangers of reasoning from motive alone. We should
<v Speaker 5>prop it by experience.
<v Speaker 11>What, mister Holms, how can you be so calm?
<v Speaker 5>There's a murderer in this room is getting the glaud
<v Speaker 5>of hand this small let's conclude it. You'll ta come
<v Speaker 5>out now.
<v Speaker 3>It's moving new year for your grandfather. So what am
<v Speaker 3>I sing?
<v Speaker 1>Go?
<v Speaker 5>And what kind of a game have you been playing
<v Speaker 5>in the bunny game that Holmes and I invented. You
<v Speaker 5>might call it forcing the issue.
<v Speaker 12>I was determined to have the box open before the
<v Speaker 12>next four years world, whilst there was still alive to
<v Speaker 12>look inside it. But the prickery of your family murder
<v Speaker 12>has made me a very happy.
<v Speaker 7>Mass Or what if I shall pay back some money
<v Speaker 7>in a few years, I swear.
<v Speaker 12>I will'll be too late to do me in a
<v Speaker 12>good but I'll take care of it in get it
<v Speaker 12>half a mind of passu, grandfather.
<v Speaker 5>The money isn't important now that you're all You were
<v Speaker 5>content on it just the same, my boy. So that
<v Speaker 5>you got married Dorothy, I know that she will never
<v Speaker 5>marry a pauper. I will allowed when.
<v Speaker 11>I'm twenty one.
<v Speaker 2>You can't start me, father, and I am going to
<v Speaker 2>marry me.
<v Speaker 4>Quiet what it's a very unsavory business. I think that
<v Speaker 4>you owe us an explanation of your behavior to night.
<v Speaker 3>You tell him, Holmes, I Farcy, we drew up a
<v Speaker 3>cream of dunbar.
<v Speaker 5>Watching your search from a body in the motor's made
<v Speaker 5>me perfectly. The explanation is a very simple one, Ladies
<v Speaker 5>and gentlemen. When you arrived here to night, mister Murdock.
<v Speaker 5>I knew from the way you handled the box that
<v Speaker 5>it could not contain the sum of gold the supposed to,
<v Speaker 5>and so.
<v Speaker 6>You suspected Paul and advised the plan to.
<v Speaker 3>Post the opening of the box.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, and sir Walter was an eager conspirator, of course
<v Speaker 5>I was ian Is twenty one next August. Supposing poison,
<v Speaker 5>I have died after he came of age and before
<v Speaker 5>my next birthday four years. Hence the box would never
<v Speaker 5>have been opened, and so we invented the faith Miti story.
<v Speaker 5>By the way, Ian Amis, congratulate you for grasping the
<v Speaker 5>possibilities of the situation so speedily. If you hadn't demanded
<v Speaker 5>the opening of the box, the Murdoch's secret might still.
<v Speaker 3>Be a secret. The clear of plan homes are too
<v Speaker 3>bad that it had to have such a miserable ending.
<v Speaker 5>I'm not sure that we have finished for the matter.
<v Speaker 5>And mister Murdoch, Yes, mister Holmes, you say that your
<v Speaker 5>family took four thousand pounds from that box. Yes, mister curious,
<v Speaker 5>I would have swarm from its size that it would
<v Speaker 5>hold closer to five thousand. And in your account of
<v Speaker 5>the legend, Watson, you told me that Sir Thomas Dundar
<v Speaker 5>stated on his deathbed that he had put something else
<v Speaker 5>in something for a rainy day?
<v Speaker 1>Is it?
<v Speaker 5>Did the Murdochs find that extra something? No, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 5>they found but the gold, and that's very odd. I
<v Speaker 5>can't take a closer look at that box has been online.
<v Speaker 11>Since this seems to be a night of telling secrets.
<v Speaker 11>I think you might as well know, father, But if
<v Speaker 11>you don't give your consent, you.
<v Speaker 5>Such thing my old resolution, young lady, and that I
<v Speaker 5>had that people have been necessary.
<v Speaker 3>What do you mean?
<v Speaker 5>Permit me to show you all the treasure of the
<v Speaker 5>Dundas What.
<v Speaker 3>Are your phone home?
<v Speaker 5>See something for a rainy day with old Sir Thomas?
<v Speaker 5>God you see, since the cubic contents of the box
<v Speaker 5>obviously differed from my calculations, I deduced the existence of
<v Speaker 5>a false bottom. I was correct, and in that space
<v Speaker 5>I found this.
<v Speaker 3>Manuscript.
<v Speaker 5>Fight So the manuscript of the book. Look at the
<v Speaker 5>title page and see the author's name his to the Dunbark.
<v Speaker 3>That's all Scott.
<v Speaker 5>I think, so, Walter, that an original and unpublished manuscript
<v Speaker 5>by your distinguished namesake would prove worth several times the
<v Speaker 5>go that is missing from that box. So you have
<v Speaker 5>spived the.
<v Speaker 3>Day for his homes my boy, Thank god, bless you.
<v Speaker 5>Oh this has been a stranger new year ever I.
<v Speaker 12>Knew, but it turned out to be a bunny one
<v Speaker 12>thanks to your home. Well, fill up their glasses. We're
<v Speaker 12>going to drink a toss to the new year.
<v Speaker 6>By Yes, Walter, this is really a happy occasion, and.
<v Speaker 3>Let's complete it.
<v Speaker 5>I singing the traditional song of the season, all zangs time,
<v Speaker 5>and in this case when we sing, should all acquaintance
<v Speaker 5>be for good? I feel the gna hearts. We should
<v Speaker 5>be thinking of Walter Scott. He died over sixty years ago.
<v Speaker 5>He's made us all very happy.
<v Speaker 4>Sure God, well, doctor, that turned out to be a
<v Speaker 4>very happy new year for all concerned. Yes, that's one
<v Speaker 4>new further, don'll never forget well, I's sure hope you'll
<v Speaker 4>always remember this one.
<v Speaker 3>So oh, this is taking my boy that goes for
<v Speaker 3>a class.
<v Speaker 6>Of porn fine the world to a to a happy
<v Speaker 6>new year, my boy, for you and for our many
<v Speaker 6>friends listening in and to.
<v Speaker 4>You, doctor, that's good. Doctor, hasn't d been a pleasant
<v Speaker 4>association for me? You're the best storyteller I've ever known,
<v Speaker 4>and the Patrie family makes the best wine I've ever tasted. Hope,
<v Speaker 4>just as they've been making wine for generations in the past,
<v Speaker 4>the Patrie family will continue to make fine wine.
<v Speaker 5>In the future.
<v Speaker 6>Oh, mister Bartel, I know that you'll always be here
<v Speaker 6>to tell us just how good that petty whine is.
<v Speaker 3>Well.
<v Speaker 4>I hope so, doctor, and I hope you'll always be
<v Speaker 4>right here beside me to tell another swell story about
<v Speaker 4>this doctor. What new adventure are you planning to tell
<v Speaker 4>us next week?
<v Speaker 6>Next week, mister Bartel, I'm going to tell you a
<v Speaker 6>weird story starts for the series of murders.
<v Speaker 3>On Hempstead Heat and then the battle to the death
<v Speaker 3>in the Burning Wexworks. I call it the Strange Case
<v Speaker 3>of the Murderer in Wex.
<v Speaker 4>Tonight's cherl O Corse adventure was written by Dennis Green
<v Speaker 4>and Anthony Boucher was suggested by an incident, and it's
<v Speaker 4>Arthur Conan Doyle story. The Silver Blazes music is by
<v Speaker 4>Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of Metro
<v Speaker 4>Golden Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Fictions,
<v Speaker 4>where they are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.
<v Speaker 4>The Petrie Wind Company of San Francisco, California invites you
<v Speaker 4>to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
<v Speaker 4>Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
<v Speaker 4>is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family
<v Speaker 4>for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every
<v Speaker 4>Monday on most of these same stations at eight o'clock
<v Speaker 4>to Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes. This is
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<v Speaker 14>I would like to thank for this White for taking
<v Speaker 14>the time to tell us a doctor fair husband Anthony
<v Speaker 14>much and also about this great and those wonderful times
<v Speaker 14>not too long ago when Holmes and Watson.
<v Speaker 3>Were played by Rathbone and Bruce.
<v Speaker 1>The two episodes you have just hearded are part of
<v Speaker 1>the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Are in Battle Rattone
<v Speaker 1>and Nigel Bruce, and are in nineteen eighty eight copyrighted
<v Speaker 1>production of two twenty one A Baker Street Associates. The
<v Speaker 1>Sherlockholms stories and the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor
<v Speaker 1>John H. Watson created by Sir er Curnan Doyle and
<v Speaker 1>are used with the kind.
<v Speaker 3>Formation of Dame Gene Colnan Doyle. This is ben right.
<v Speaker 1>Won't you join me again sometime soon for two more
<v Speaker 1>new adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you listening