Sherlock Holmes - Thor Bridge

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<v Speaker 2>Good evening, doctor, good evening.
<v Speaker 4>It's about hell late. I've been keeping some dinner hot
<v Speaker 4>for you here, pull up your turn join me.
<v Speaker 2>That's very nice. Good thanks doctor. Are you all set
<v Speaker 2>with the night story?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, my boy, I'm all set, as you call it.
<v Speaker 3>As a matter of fact, I was going over my
<v Speaker 3>notes from the caves just you arrived last week.
<v Speaker 1>You hitted that a beautiful girl figured prominently in your adventure.
<v Speaker 3>That's quite right, mister Bartell, an extremely beautiful girl. In fact,
<v Speaker 3>I often used to.
<v Speaker 4>Say Sherlock Holmes as if I'd been a little younger
<v Speaker 4>at the time, I might, oh, well, you haven't come
<v Speaker 4>here to listen to my personal reminiscences. You wanted to
<v Speaker 4>hear the story that I called the Problem of toll Bridge.
<v Speaker 2>That's which apprised us darting how did it begin?
<v Speaker 5>On a window morning in October in eighteen eighteen nineties,
<v Speaker 5>was as I was dressing, I observed how the last
<v Speaker 5>remaining leaves were being whirled away from the solitary plane
<v Speaker 5>tree which graced the yard behind our Baker Street house.
<v Speaker 4>I descended to breakfast, prepared to find my companion into
<v Speaker 4>pressed spirits. For like all great artists, he was easily
<v Speaker 4>impressed by his surroundings. But to my surprise, he was
<v Speaker 4>in an unusually gay mood. As I entered the room,
<v Speaker 4>he looked up at me and with her with a smile. Hope,
<v Speaker 4>you said, well, splendid, I think so so glad we.
<v Speaker 3>Are very list this morning. I think you must have
<v Speaker 3>got a new case, Am I right?
<v Speaker 1>The faculty of the Kars set in the contagious Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I have a new case.
<v Speaker 6>After a month of trivialities and stagnation, the wheels revolved
<v Speaker 6>once more.
<v Speaker 1>Tell me all about it? Well, yet there's much to tell.
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever heard of Neil Gibson?
<v Speaker 3>You? Who is this has something to do with gold mining?
<v Speaker 3>Isn't he a great deal to.
<v Speaker 2>Do with the video follow In fact, he's considered the
<v Speaker 2>greatest mining magnet in the world.
<v Speaker 6>Not buy us go he bought largest state in Hampshire
<v Speaker 6>that you've read of the dicto his wife.
<v Speaker 3>Of course, I remember the case now. She was murdered
<v Speaker 3>by jealous governess who was in her employee.
<v Speaker 6>Wasn't it that pint will be decided and the lady
<v Speaker 6>in question, Grace Dunbar, I believe her name is, comes
<v Speaker 6>up for pilot the forthcoming winches to decide this. In
<v Speaker 6>any case, it's hard for me to see what I
<v Speaker 6>can do from my tent at this late date.
<v Speaker 2>Your client, Oh yes, God, I hadn't told you.
<v Speaker 6>I'm getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards.
<v Speaker 2>That'll read this letter ken this morning, So love.
<v Speaker 3>Here, mister Sherlock Holmes. Missus Dunbar is innocent.
<v Speaker 4>I don't see the finest woman in the world go
<v Speaker 4>to her death without doing everything.
<v Speaker 3>Possible to save her. I shall call on.
<v Speaker 4>You at ten thirty tomorrow morning to discuss the matter,
<v Speaker 4>yours faithfully, Neil Gibsons.
<v Speaker 3>We have it.
<v Speaker 1>Watson is the gentleman. I wait, do you know anything
<v Speaker 1>about his dead wife? Only what I've been reading in
<v Speaker 1>the papers.
<v Speaker 6>Apparently she was past her prime, which was the more
<v Speaker 6>unfortunate as this Miss Dunbar, who superintended the education of
<v Speaker 6>the two young children, is reputed the very attractive young.
<v Speaker 4>Lady, the eternal trianglar. Where does the murder take place?
<v Speaker 2>On Gibson's estate in Hampshire?
<v Speaker 6>His wife was found in the grounds nearly half a
<v Speaker 6>mile from the manor house, late at night, pad in
<v Speaker 6>her dinner dress, with the shawl over her shoulders and
<v Speaker 6>a revolver bullet through her brain.
<v Speaker 3>And a weapon found near her.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, though no clues found it the scene of the crime.
<v Speaker 3>What made them suspect to Governess Well in first place?
<v Speaker 2>There was some very incriminating evidence.
<v Speaker 1>A revolver with one discharged chamber the caliber corresponding with
<v Speaker 1>a bullet in the dead woman's head, was found on
<v Speaker 1>the floor in missus Dunbar's wardrobe.
<v Speaker 3>Oh was it pretty damaging evidence.
<v Speaker 6>Home till the coroner thought, And to make the case
<v Speaker 6>even blacker against miss Unbar, the dead woman had a
<v Speaker 6>note on her making an appointment at that very spot,
<v Speaker 6>and the note was signed by the Governess.
<v Speaker 4>He's obvious if the girl's guilty and the motive's clear,
<v Speaker 4>Gibson be a great catch for a young girl, love, fortune, power,
<v Speaker 4>all dependent on one.
<v Speaker 2>Life, possibly Watson.
<v Speaker 1>But circumstantial evidence can be very misleading at times.
<v Speaker 2>Nah as a.
<v Speaker 6>Gentleman in question, as I'm very much mistaken considerably before
<v Speaker 6>his time.
<v Speaker 3>I can see him from the window here, formidable looking
<v Speaker 3>for her. Must be well over six foot four.
<v Speaker 1>Judging by the way he's wrenching at that door bell.
<v Speaker 2>Is a man with the violent temper.
<v Speaker 3>Is Hudson's opening the door to him?
<v Speaker 6>Now meet him on the stairs where he won't happen.
<v Speaker 6>He'll say, missus Hudson, the journey Joe.
<v Speaker 2>Up here her?
<v Speaker 3>Thank you? All right you, mister she'll like home? No, no, indeed,
<v Speaker 3>I miss.
<v Speaker 1>Polly, don't go up and come along in, won't you,
<v Speaker 1>mister Neil Gibson. I presume that's right. See all the
<v Speaker 1>great she'll like old. The adjective is your own, Mister
<v Speaker 1>Gibson said that, won't you? By the way, you miss
<v Speaker 1>be quite freely in front of Dr Orbson, Well, I
<v Speaker 1>may as well begin by telling you that money means
<v Speaker 1>nothing to me in this case. You can burn it
<v Speaker 1>if it's any use to you. Inviting the truth, Miss
<v Speaker 1>Dunbar is innocent and it's up to you to prove it.
<v Speaker 3>Just name your fee, and.
<v Speaker 6>Mister Gibson, my professional charges are on a fixed scale.
<v Speaker 6>I don't bury them except when I omit them altogether.
<v Speaker 1>Very well, I imagine that you were the newspaper reports.
<v Speaker 2>Are the coroner's in quest? Yes, very thoroughly.
<v Speaker 1>I don't see that I can add anything that'll help you,
<v Speaker 1>But if there any questions you'd like to ask, I'll
<v Speaker 1>answer them.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.
<v Speaker 6>First, what are the exact relations between you and miss Dunbar?
<v Speaker 1>I suppose you're within your rights in asking such question,
<v Speaker 1>Mister Hone, we will.
<v Speaker 2>Agree to suppose, so, shall we?
<v Speaker 1>Then I can assure you that my relations with Miss
<v Speaker 1>Dunbar were always those of an employer towards a young
<v Speaker 1>lady with whom he never conversed or even saw except
<v Speaker 1>in the company of his children.
<v Speaker 6>Oh, I'll busy man, Mister Gibson. I have no time
<v Speaker 6>or taste to aim this conversation. I wish you goold Mont.
<v Speaker 2>What the devil do you mean by this?
<v Speaker 6>Mister Home, My dear sir, the case is difficult enough
<v Speaker 6>without your giving me a false information that I lie.
<v Speaker 6>I was trying to express it as delicately as pass
<v Speaker 6>that if.
<v Speaker 2>You insist on the word, I won't contradict you.
<v Speaker 6>Why you can't found not been noisy, mister Gibson, Please
<v Speaker 6>don't denise you. I find that after breakfast, Evehen's smallest
<v Speaker 6>argument is unsettling.
<v Speaker 2>I'd suggest that it's.
<v Speaker 6>Toll in the morning air and a little quiet thought
<v Speaker 6>will be great to the other Auntie.
<v Speaker 1>I suppose I can't make you take the case. But
<v Speaker 1>you've done yourself low good this morning, mister Holmes. I've
<v Speaker 1>broken stronger men than you.
<v Speaker 3>No man ever crossed me.
<v Speaker 2>It was the better word running. That's getting you a
<v Speaker 2>great deal yet to learn.
<v Speaker 3>On myrsel home. You were unuseless to there with him.
<v Speaker 6>I just like liars Watson and I cannot tolerate arrogance,
<v Speaker 6>particularly when he's coupled with great wealth.
<v Speaker 3>Now, how did you know about his relations with the government.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't.
<v Speaker 3>It was pure bluff bluff. It certainly worked needs to
<v Speaker 3>come hack.
<v Speaker 2>Of course he will.
<v Speaker 6>He needs my help too badly. He will probably change
<v Speaker 6>his men for his halfway downstairs, come in, ah, mister Gibson,
<v Speaker 6>just saying to doctor Watson that I.
<v Speaker 2>Was setting you'll be back.
<v Speaker 1>I've been thinking it over, mister Holmes, and I feel
<v Speaker 1>that perhaps I was hasty in taking your remarks, and
<v Speaker 1>miss us to say, I can assure you that the
<v Speaker 1>relations between.
<v Speaker 2>Miss Dunbar and me really don't affect his case. Surely
<v Speaker 2>that is for me to decide. Mister Gibson, you.
<v Speaker 3>Sho to give him my friends.
<v Speaker 4>Like a doctor, he wants every symptom before he can
<v Speaker 4>give his diagnosis.
<v Speaker 2>Fire away, mister Holmes. What is it you want to know?
<v Speaker 2>The truth? I can give it to you in very
<v Speaker 2>few words. Inn with. I met my wife when I
<v Speaker 2>was gold mining.
<v Speaker 3>In brasbol H. Your wife was Brasian by birth, wasn't you?
<v Speaker 2>A yes, doctor and very beautiful.
<v Speaker 1>Well, to make a long story short, I fell in
<v Speaker 1>love and married her and brought her to England. For
<v Speaker 1>a few years, I realized that we had nothing, absolutely
<v Speaker 1>nothing in common. And then I suppose this young governess,
<v Speaker 1>Miss Dunbar, arrived on the scene.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>Well the story should be obvious to you from mayor
<v Speaker 1>you will fell in love with his girl, I suppose her.
<v Speaker 1>Who could help it that you suggest marriage to her? Yes,
<v Speaker 1>though I knew that my wife would never divorce me
<v Speaker 1>and I see then you made an utterly insincere proposition
<v Speaker 1>to her. Now look here, mister Holmes, I came to
<v Speaker 1>one a question of evans, not of morals. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>asking for your criticism.
<v Speaker 2>It's only the young lady's sake.
<v Speaker 6>Fifturn horses me to touch your case at all. Now
<v Speaker 6>tell me, sir, what is your own opinion as to
<v Speaker 6>Miss dunbars gilt.
<v Speaker 2>It's very black against her. I can't deny that.
<v Speaker 1>When exploration of the tragedy did come into my head,
<v Speaker 1>mister Holmes, I give to you for what it's worth,
<v Speaker 1>Ray continued Miss Gibson. My wife was bitterly jealous. She
<v Speaker 1>was half crazy with him. Should have planned to murder
<v Speaker 1>Miss Dunbar, or, we'll say, to threaten the girl with
<v Speaker 1>the revolver and so frighten her into leading us. There
<v Speaker 1>might have been a struggle in which the gun exploded
<v Speaker 1>and gone off and shot my wife who was holding
<v Speaker 1>it on. That possibility already occurred to me. It's the
<v Speaker 1>only obvious alternative to deliberate murder.
<v Speaker 3>Harbur Holmes was found on the floor the Governess's wardrobe.
<v Speaker 1>Mister Gibson, I should like to examine our house.
<v Speaker 2>On the scene of the murder as soon as possible safely.
<v Speaker 1>Mister Holmes, certain Coventry, the local police is still down there.
<v Speaker 2>He'll give you any help you may need, Excellent Watson.
<v Speaker 1>Alf out of the time, Jable. We're catching the next
<v Speaker 1>past train to Winchester, so if.
<v Speaker 2>I have to have someone else on the case, I'd
<v Speaker 2>rather have you, mister Elmes.
<v Speaker 1>The yard gets called in then then we local police
<v Speaker 1>loses all credit for success, generally gets blamed for the failures.
<v Speaker 2>Though I've heard that you play straight. I know pure,
<v Speaker 2>no matter. It's all Sergeant Coventry.
<v Speaker 6>If I can tear it out, I don't ask if
<v Speaker 6>you even have my name engined, i'd.
<v Speaker 2>Say some of you, I'm sure not. I know your friend,
<v Speaker 2>doctor Watson can be trusted to follow.
<v Speaker 3>We won't steal any of your thunder.
<v Speaker 7>It's not friendly of you, doctor. But come on, gentlemen,
<v Speaker 7>I'll packet down to the bridge. That's where we found
<v Speaker 7>missus Gibson's body stuff far from the house here.
<v Speaker 4>Well, I must say, mister Gibson has a beautiful state.
<v Speaker 4>It must be sixty or seventy acres.
<v Speaker 7>Or nearly twice that doctor the witch back at us.
<v Speaker 7>There belongs to him too, mister Elmes, Yes, sugeant, there's
<v Speaker 7>a question I'd like to ask you question I wouldn't
<v Speaker 7>ask anyone else, simp please ask it. Don't you think
<v Speaker 7>there might be a case against missus Gibson. I've been
<v Speaker 7>considering that possibility that there, miss dunbarss a bit of
<v Speaker 7>all right. He asked me wanted his wife out of
<v Speaker 7>the way. And the pistol she was shot with was
<v Speaker 7>his pistol?
<v Speaker 3>You know? Was that factor proven?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, doctor, it was one of a pair.
<v Speaker 3>That he had.
<v Speaker 2>One of a pair. Where's the other?
<v Speaker 7>Well, mister Gibson has a lot of fire armsrey never
<v Speaker 7>quite matched that particular pistol.
<v Speaker 2>But the box was made for two.
<v Speaker 3>Well, if it's one of a pair, surely you'd be
<v Speaker 3>able to mention it.
<v Speaker 2>Well, we have them more laid out at the house
<v Speaker 2>if you want to look him over, and we'll do
<v Speaker 2>that later. Ah, this I presume it is Tall Bridge.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, sir, Good. Missus Gibson's body line right here
<v Speaker 2>at the approach to.
<v Speaker 6>The bridge, I see I gathered from the newspaper the
<v Speaker 6>parts the shop was part of Vertic CLO's quarters.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, sir, vertic clost in the right temple, wasn't it
<v Speaker 2>just behind it?
<v Speaker 7>So how did the body lie? Sergeant inspect doctor. No
<v Speaker 7>trace of a struggle, no march, no weapon. The note
<v Speaker 7>from miss Dunbar was clutched left hand, you said, yes,
<v Speaker 7>so we could hardly open the things to get at it.
<v Speaker 2>Ah, that's the greatest importance.
<v Speaker 6>It excludes the idea that anyone could have placed the
<v Speaker 6>note there after death in order to furnish a false clue.
<v Speaker 7>What a little doctor just said, I will be a
<v Speaker 7>toll bridge at nine o'clock and it was assigned Grace Dunbar.
<v Speaker 2>It's done by admit writing.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yes, sir.
<v Speaker 2>What was her explanation? She will say nothing. Said she
<v Speaker 2>was setting her defense for the trial.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it seems odd that missus Gibson was still touching
<v Speaker 1>that note. Seems perfectly natural to me, Come now, fellow
<v Speaker 1>arguing the thing out. Logically, the letter is genuine. It
<v Speaker 1>was certainly received sometime before the tragedy.
<v Speaker 2>Cnraco.
<v Speaker 1>Why then, was the dead woman still clasping it in
<v Speaker 1>her left hand? Why should she carry it so carefully
<v Speaker 1>if she certainly didn't need to refer to a note
<v Speaker 1>at all the interview doesn't.
<v Speaker 2>Strike you as rather strange?
<v Speaker 3>Well, are you put it that way? It does seem
<v Speaker 3>a little peculiar.
<v Speaker 7>Helloll gard Oh you mean that chip out of that
<v Speaker 7>stone on the under side of the poaper of the bridge.
<v Speaker 3>Sir, yes, I noticed it.
<v Speaker 2>Didn't think nothing of it though.
<v Speaker 8>Very large tip, yes, but it's been on recently work.
<v Speaker 8>It's quite just yet it took some to do that,
<v Speaker 8>and your king, Yes, a hard knock.
<v Speaker 7>And in a curious place too, but it's fifteen deep
<v Speaker 7>from where we found the body.
<v Speaker 4>Mister Dout, Yeah, terms, I don't see how it could
<v Speaker 4>have any connection with missus Gibson's murder.
<v Speaker 1>It hasn't, but it's the point worth noting. There were
<v Speaker 1>no footprints, who says.
<v Speaker 2>Sergeant and mister the ground was as odd as are
<v Speaker 2>and it's been a very dry summon. We have no
<v Speaker 2>range of how much obliged doing.
<v Speaker 9>Now.
<v Speaker 2>I think we'll get back to the house.
<v Speaker 7>So I says, our show with the firearms, I sir, oh, who,
<v Speaker 7>he says, A funny kind of a bloke, Brazilian. He
<v Speaker 7>is Brasilia like this is Gibson's mister Elms. It's from
<v Speaker 7>the same term that she does, as a matter of fact,
<v Speaker 7>something very fishy about him, if you ask me. Now,
<v Speaker 7>if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I'm going to take a
<v Speaker 7>little stroll around the grounds you started. We are a
<v Speaker 7>new train of thoughtless case, mister.
<v Speaker 2>Dan, I'm the lighted sergeant. I get back to the house.
<v Speaker 1>I see and these are all the firearms in mister
<v Speaker 1>Gibson's possession.
<v Speaker 2>He says, I except for the revolver that is missing
<v Speaker 2>from the kuss. Yes, so, I say, I see him.
<v Speaker 3>I have never seen such a collection of guns involvers
<v Speaker 3>in my life.
<v Speaker 9>Mister Gibson have many enemies, Senor. He always sleep with
<v Speaker 9>a lauded pistol besides his bed. She's a man of
<v Speaker 9>great violence. There have been times when all of us
<v Speaker 9>were afraid of him.
<v Speaker 6>Did you have this physical violence towards missus Gibson, No, Senor,
<v Speaker 6>I cannot say that I have.
<v Speaker 9>But I have heard him say many terrible things to her.
<v Speaker 9>She would taunt her in front of we servants. I
<v Speaker 9>have heard them do it many times. Thank you, sir,
<v Speaker 9>I that will be all will into vain, Senor you Holmes.
<v Speaker 9>I do think the case against miss Dunbar looks very black.
<v Speaker 1>I should agree with you if it were not for
<v Speaker 1>one fact, the finding of the revolver in her wardrobe.
<v Speaker 3>So Holmes, that seems to me easy the strongest evidence
<v Speaker 3>of all.
<v Speaker 1>I think, not old Chef huh. We must look for
<v Speaker 1>consistency where there is a want of it. We must
<v Speaker 1>suspect deception. I quite fire suppose from what we've visualized,
<v Speaker 1>you in the character of a woman who, in cold
<v Speaker 1>premeditated fashion, is about to murder a rival.
<v Speaker 2>You've planned it, and it has been written. The victim
<v Speaker 2>has come.
<v Speaker 1>You'll have a weapon. The crime is well done. There's
<v Speaker 1>been workmen I can complete.
<v Speaker 6>You need to tell me that after carrying out her craft,
<v Speaker 6>your crime, you'd be so stupid as to forget the thing,
<v Speaker 6>the incriminating revolver, at the bottom.
<v Speaker 2>Of the stream, or perhaps in the dense reeds that
<v Speaker 2>border it.
<v Speaker 6>Would you carefully carry it home and put it in
<v Speaker 6>the first place that would be searched.
<v Speaker 2>Your wardrobe have in the excitement of the moment, One,
<v Speaker 2>my dear Chap.
<v Speaker 6>Won't admit that's even possible when the crime is coolly
<v Speaker 6>premeditated and the means of covering it are coolly permitiated
<v Speaker 6>and if.
<v Speaker 3>Miss Dunbar didn't shoot missus Gibson, who the devil did?
<v Speaker 1>I hope I can give the answer to that question, Watson,
<v Speaker 1>when we've made one further visit.
<v Speaker 3>Oh Lord, we'll be now to prison prison.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, we're going to Winchester Prison to call on Dunbar.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sutain. But the key to this strange mystery lies
<v Speaker 1>in her hands. You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's
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<v Speaker 1>And now back to doctor Watson and tonight Sherlock Holmes Adventure,
<v Speaker 1>The Problem of tour Bridge.
<v Speaker 2>Well, doctor, did you go to Winchester Prison and see
<v Speaker 2>miss Dunbar.
<v Speaker 3>We did, mister Bartel, And now later I found the
<v Speaker 3>two of us.
<v Speaker 4>Sitting in a dank and gloomy cell talking to one
<v Speaker 4>of the most beautiful girls that I've ever seen. Her
<v Speaker 4>bright flashing eyes and her air of quiet confidence seems
<v Speaker 4>sadly out of place in such a city. Homes spoke
<v Speaker 4>to a quietly.
<v Speaker 2>Tell us of your true relations with the dead woman.
<v Speaker 10>She hated me, mister Holmes. She hated me with all
<v Speaker 10>the passion of her distorted mind.
<v Speaker 1>Please tell us exactly what happened on the evening of
<v Speaker 1>missus Gids since death.
<v Speaker 10>Well, I I received a note from her in the morning,
<v Speaker 10>a note imploring me to meet her at the bridge
<v Speaker 10>after dinner that night. She said she had something important
<v Speaker 10>to say to me. Did you keep that note with
<v Speaker 10>no doctor?
<v Speaker 2>She well?
<v Speaker 10>She asked me to destroy the note, so I burned
<v Speaker 10>it in the schoolroom grade. I saw no reason for
<v Speaker 10>such secrecy.
<v Speaker 1>But when I did as she asked, hmm, and yet
<v Speaker 1>she kept you up applying her a carefully.
<v Speaker 2>It's interesting, I mean, what happened when you met her
<v Speaker 2>that night?
<v Speaker 10>When I reached the bridge, she was waiting for me.
<v Speaker 10>I won't tell you what she said, but she poured
<v Speaker 10>out her whole wild fury and burning horrible words. I
<v Speaker 10>didn't answer.
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't.
<v Speaker 10>It was dreadful even to look at her. She was
<v Speaker 10>like an insane woman standing there screaming disgusting insults at me.
<v Speaker 10>I put my hands to my ears and rushed away.
<v Speaker 3>Well if she's staring when you left.
<v Speaker 10>Her within a few yards of a spot where her
<v Speaker 10>body was found later.
<v Speaker 2>And yet presuming she met her death shortly after you
<v Speaker 2>left her, you heard no.
<v Speaker 10>No, no, I heard nothing. But I was so upset,
<v Speaker 10>mister Holmes that I rushed straight.
<v Speaker 2>Back to my room. Did you leave it again that night?
<v Speaker 9>Yes.
<v Speaker 10>When the alarm came that missus Gibson was dead, I
<v Speaker 10>ran up with the others.
<v Speaker 3>Did you see mister Gibson?
<v Speaker 10>Yes, doctor he had just returned from the bridge when
<v Speaker 10>I saw him. He had sent for the doctor and
<v Speaker 10>the police.
<v Speaker 2>This pistol that you found in your room, have you
<v Speaker 2>ever seen it before?
<v Speaker 10>Never, mister Humes, I sweat. When was the fire in
<v Speaker 10>the next morning when the police did their search, it
<v Speaker 10>was on the floor of my wardrobe, where I'd keep
<v Speaker 10>my shoes.
<v Speaker 2>You had no idea how long it had been there?
<v Speaker 10>But it hadn't been there the morning before?
<v Speaker 2>How do you know?
<v Speaker 10>Because I had tidied up the wardrobe that day.
<v Speaker 1>I see, then someone must have come into your room
<v Speaker 1>and placed the piscol there in order to incriminate your
<v Speaker 1>and certain nothing well, and.
<v Speaker 3>Could they have done there?
<v Speaker 1>Well?
<v Speaker 10>It could have been at meal time or when I
<v Speaker 10>was in the school room, mister children.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Miss dunbar On Exena was gone missus Gibson's death.
<v Speaker 1>I noticed that a piece of stone work on the
<v Speaker 1>underside of the telepate of the bridge had been broken away?
<v Speaker 1>Can you suggest any possible explanation for that?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 10>Surely it must have been a mere coincidence.
<v Speaker 1>Possibly, But why should it appear at the very time
<v Speaker 1>of the tragedy and at the very place?
<v Speaker 2>Could it possibly be the why? Yes, of course, idiot?
<v Speaker 2>Why didn't I think it did before? Come wrong? Watson?
<v Speaker 3>Where are we going?
<v Speaker 6>Homes back to Fort Bridge o'feller as fast.
<v Speaker 2>As we can get there.
<v Speaker 1>What have you found out, mister Holmes the answer to
<v Speaker 1>this mystery?
<v Speaker 6>I hope, my dear young lady, he will get news
<v Speaker 6>before the day is out. And meanwhile, take my assurance
<v Speaker 6>the clouds are lifting.
<v Speaker 2>And that the life of truth is breaking through. Well,
<v Speaker 2>mister Rols still back here? What if your found on
<v Speaker 2>a few moments now you've got my message? Yes, sir,
<v Speaker 2>here you are all a twice what you wanted for
<v Speaker 2>a cordilation.
<v Speaker 6>You soon see, Sergeant Watson, I have some recollection that
<v Speaker 6>you usually go armed on these excursions of ours.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm carrying my voval.
<v Speaker 2>Give it to me, old Chap, No thanks.
<v Speaker 1>I believe your revolver may have a very intimate connection
<v Speaker 1>with the mystery we're investigating.
<v Speaker 2>N't I very serious? A test to make?
<v Speaker 6>The test is successful, Miss Dunbar will be free before nightfall,
<v Speaker 6>and the test will depend on the conduct of this
<v Speaker 6>revolver of yours.
<v Speaker 2>Take the precaution of unloading it.
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 2>There we are now, targeant ball twine please shall be
<v Speaker 2>what you was up to, sir.
<v Speaker 6>I tie one into the twine like this to the
<v Speaker 6>handle of the revolver. So starge and see if you
<v Speaker 6>can find me a heavy stone?
<v Speaker 2>Will you want to ruck?
<v Speaker 9>Your sir?
<v Speaker 1>What are you doing trying to reconstruct.
<v Speaker 2>The king of Thissus Gibson that you've seen me?
<v Speaker 1>Miss the mark before, Watson, I have an instinct for
<v Speaker 1>such things, and yet it has sometimes played me false.
<v Speaker 2>It seemed a certainty when it first clashed. Course my
<v Speaker 2>mind it was dunbar cell.
<v Speaker 6>But one drawback of an active mind is that one
<v Speaker 6>can always conceive alternative explanations which would make us sense
<v Speaker 6>a false swam.
<v Speaker 2>And yet, oh well we can but try, is my
<v Speaker 2>stillest rose? Thank you, sergeant.
<v Speaker 1>Now I tie the other end of the twine to
<v Speaker 1>the stone. Wait a minute, like that, splend it, sargeant.
<v Speaker 1>Will you please take the stone and stretch the twine
<v Speaker 1>across the parapet of the.
<v Speaker 6>Bridge there so that the stone will swing just tail
<v Speaker 6>to the water on the other side of the bridge. Right, yes,
<v Speaker 6>I'll stand the pot where Missus Gibson's body was found,
<v Speaker 6>adds a sergeant over the parapet.
<v Speaker 3>Out, said mister Rowse. The stone swing about eight feet.
<v Speaker 2>A bog of water. Splend it now, Watson, watch closely.
<v Speaker 2>I raised the revolver to my head.
<v Speaker 3>Careful, homes, careful, nobody.
<v Speaker 6>Old Jeb's not loaded. Now let us imagine I am
<v Speaker 6>late Missus Gibson. I raised the revolver to my head
<v Speaker 6>and fire it instantly. Think us release that Gribbin.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks you answer, Watson, great comfort of all.
<v Speaker 4>The flash back out of your hand struck the parap's
<v Speaker 4>bridge and then the way till the stone slipped it
<v Speaker 4>over into the water.
<v Speaker 2>However, I'm more exact demonstration.
<v Speaker 6>Come on o'cofditi, misters, that's.
<v Speaker 3>What you wore.
<v Speaker 1>Served the second ship on the stonework, the caliphate here same.
<v Speaker 3>Size as the first. And the murder Missus basont murder
<v Speaker 3>at all.
<v Speaker 2>It was suicide. But we can follow the various steps
<v Speaker 2>quite clearly.
<v Speaker 6>A note was extracted very cleverly from Miss Dunbar, a
<v Speaker 6>note which made it appear that she had chosen the
<v Speaker 6>scene of the crime. Missus Gibson, in her anxiety that
<v Speaker 6>the note should be discovered somewhat overdid it by holding
<v Speaker 6>it in her hand to the last. That alone should
<v Speaker 6>have excited my suspicions earlier than it did.
<v Speaker 3>She stole one of her husband's revolvers, was it the
<v Speaker 3>other one?
<v Speaker 2>Miss Dunbar's water jacta.
<v Speaker 6>After discharging one of the cartridges, which she could easily
<v Speaker 6>do in the woods without attracting suspicion, she then went
<v Speaker 6>down to the bridge, where she contrived the succeedingly ingenious
<v Speaker 6>method of getting rid of her weapon. When miss Dunbar appeared,
<v Speaker 6>she used her last breath in pouring out.
<v Speaker 1>Her hatred, and then, when the girl had left, carried
<v Speaker 1>out her terrible purpose.
<v Speaker 3>In this reform.
<v Speaker 1>You'll find it with the aid of a grappling hook
<v Speaker 1>at the bottom of the stream, and also the stone
<v Speaker 1>in the.
<v Speaker 2>String with which this vindictive woman added it. To the
<v Speaker 2>guys are own crime and fast the charge.
<v Speaker 1>Of murder on an innocent victim, youre, sergeant, And don't
<v Speaker 1>forget while you're at it, that my revolver was down
<v Speaker 1>there too.
<v Speaker 2>Don't worry, doctor, I'll get some grappling.
<v Speaker 3>Hooks right away. I must say, homes, you saw this
<v Speaker 3>case dimply quite brilliant.
<v Speaker 9>Blur ah.
<v Speaker 6>I disagree, old chef, and I fear that you will
<v Speaker 6>not improve my reputation by heading the case of the
<v Speaker 6>toll bridge mystery to your animal.
<v Speaker 3>Oh nonsense, was that ridiculous?
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, it is, no boy.
<v Speaker 6>I've been sluggish in my mind and wanting in that
<v Speaker 6>mixture of imagination and reality which is the very basis
<v Speaker 6>of my art. I confess that the chip in the
<v Speaker 6>stonework was a sufficient clue to suggest the fools, so Lucien.
<v Speaker 2>And I blame myself. I'm not having attained it sooner.
<v Speaker 3>Well I was personally. I agree with the sergeant's opinion
<v Speaker 3>on you.
<v Speaker 2>Oh what was that over?
<v Speaker 3>You're a blooming magician, Mistrobes. That's what you are, a
<v Speaker 3>blooming magician.
<v Speaker 2>Well, doctor Holmes really was a magician. That is if
<v Speaker 2>you did find missus Gibson's revolver and your own.
<v Speaker 9>It wants to be.
<v Speaker 3>Fun of all right, don't think i'll tell you the
<v Speaker 3>story otherwise, don't you what do you take before? Anyway? Well,
<v Speaker 3>now that you ask, I'll tell you.
<v Speaker 1>I thank you for a very charming gentleman, a wonderful storyteller,
<v Speaker 1>and a fine hole. Well you are a gentleman of
<v Speaker 1>the old school, tell a fine story, and you are
<v Speaker 1>a perfect toast. That year we had tonight was wonderful
<v Speaker 1>it was. And that that wine, what kind was it?
<v Speaker 3>It was Petri wine, and you know it. And I
<v Speaker 3>should have known that you were leading up to something.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Boto, you should be ashamed of yourself. You will
<v Speaker 3>do anything to get a chat. Petrie. I can't say
<v Speaker 3>I blame.
<v Speaker 1>You, honestly, doctor, I meant everything I said, but you
<v Speaker 1>don't really want me to stop talking about Petrie wine.
<v Speaker 1>After all, it's worth talking about, isn't it. What other
<v Speaker 1>wine is made with a loving care that goes into
<v Speaker 1>Petrie wine? Forget Petrie wine is made by the Petrie family.
<v Speaker 1>Wine making is their business. Why they've been making wine
<v Speaker 1>for generations, handing down from father to son, from father
<v Speaker 1>to son, all their skill and knowledge and experience.
<v Speaker 2>You can be sure Petrie.
<v Speaker 1>Family really knows plenty about the fine art of turning
<v Speaker 1>luscious grapes into delicious wine. That's why, whether you want
<v Speaker 1>a wine for before dinner, with dinner, or for any time,
<v Speaker 1>you can't go wrong with a Petrie wine because Petrie
<v Speaker 1>took time to bring you good wine. And now, doctor Watson,
<v Speaker 1>what new story are you planning to tell us next week?
<v Speaker 4>Well, next thing it's about tell I'm good telling an
<v Speaker 4>adventure that Holmes and I had him in the audiential
<v Speaker 4>magnificence Ramaharaj just peedas.
<v Speaker 3>In India India.
<v Speaker 2>Sounds intriguing.
<v Speaker 3>What were you and Sherlock Homes doing out there?
<v Speaker 1>Doctor?
<v Speaker 3>We will have to wait until next week we answer
<v Speaker 3>that question.
<v Speaker 4>We were, but I can tell you that it was
<v Speaker 4>one of the weirdest problems that we ever have to solve.
<v Speaker 3>I call the story The Vanishing Elephant Tonight.
<v Speaker 1>Sherlock Holm's Adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony
<v Speaker 1>Boucher and is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle story
<v Speaker 1>The Problem of tour Bridge. Mister Rathbone appears through the
<v Speaker 1>courtesy of Metro Goldwen Mayor and mister Bruce through the
<v Speaker 1>courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
<v Speaker 1>the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petree Wine Company of San Francisco,
<v Speaker 1>California invites you to tune in again next week, same time,
<v Speaker 1>same station.
<v Speaker 3>The Petree family took the time to bring you such
<v Speaker 3>good wine. Cool when you eat, and when you cook,
<v Speaker 3>remember Petree wine.
<v Speaker 2>To make good food taste better.
<v Speaker 1>Remember Hurt Hurty. This is Harry Martell saying good night
<v Speaker 1>for the Petrick family. Sherlt Holmes comes to you from
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