Sherlock Holmes - Well Staged Murder

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<v Speaker 1>the cheerful, firelit study of our old friend, doctor John Watson.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Harris, I'm surprised and delighted to hear you mention.
<v Speaker 3>My given name.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone of course knows that Holmes's fair's name is Sherlock,
<v Speaker 2>but to most people, and just Dr Watson, to hear
<v Speaker 2>them talk him, I think I'd never been christened.
<v Speaker 3>But to draw up your chair to the fire feels
<v Speaker 3>good to get him out of the web.
<v Speaker 1>Doctor, only as Sherlock Holmes's adventure could lure me out
<v Speaker 1>on a night like this.
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly what I used to say the old Baker
<v Speaker 2>Street days.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Harris, Yes, it brings to mind.
<v Speaker 2>A case that looked like a neat little murder.
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<v Speaker 3>And now doctor Watson to get back to the neat
<v Speaker 3>little murder in tough note park right this met.
<v Speaker 2>In fact, Holmes and I just missed being eyewitnesses to
<v Speaker 2>the shooting. It was a night when the century was
<v Speaker 2>very young, a night's very much like tonight, rain with
<v Speaker 2>a bit of mist mixed in for good measure.
<v Speaker 3>Holmes and I were.
<v Speaker 2>Taking a slight constitutional.
<v Speaker 3>You mean you went walking on a night like this
<v Speaker 3>for pleasure, doctor, which you were.
<v Speaker 2>Out walking, mister Harris to relieve the tension. It had
<v Speaker 2>been raining for four days from Monday to Thursday.
<v Speaker 3>I doubt whether it ceased for a moment when.
<v Speaker 2>For the fourth time, after pushing my chair back from
<v Speaker 2>the breakfast table, I saw the heavy brown swell condensing
<v Speaker 2>in oily drops on the window panes.
<v Speaker 3>I was ready to jump out of my skin. I
<v Speaker 3>can't say I'll blame you.
<v Speaker 2>Holmes nerves were, if possible, in worse shape than mine.
<v Speaker 2>He paced around our Lamplets sitting room like a caged animal,
<v Speaker 2>cursing under his breath in a fever of suppressed energy. Finally,
<v Speaker 2>as evening drew in, he proclaimed he was going out
<v Speaker 2>for exercise.
<v Speaker 3>If we had to swim in the gutters.
<v Speaker 2>We donned caps and ulsters, and after sat amount of
<v Speaker 2>acrimonious discussion, I persuaded Holmes into his overshoes and buffler.
<v Speaker 2>For half an hour, we stood the streets in silence.
<v Speaker 2>Little by little, our nerves relaxed.
<v Speaker 3>And our pace slackened.
<v Speaker 2>By the time we started across Tutnell Park Homes was
<v Speaker 2>feeling almost aible.
<v Speaker 1>Nothing of interest in today's papers.
<v Speaker 3>I suppose Watson.
<v Speaker 2>The only news of the revolution, the possible war and
<v Speaker 2>an impending change of government commonplace.
<v Speaker 3>Maria Watson. Yes, the London criminals. Certainly a dull fellow.
<v Speaker 1>The thief or murderer could roam London on a night
<v Speaker 1>like this as the tiger does his jungle, unseen to
<v Speaker 1>be punches, and there never the donated his victims.
<v Speaker 3>Well, there have been a few petty thefts.
<v Speaker 1>Headed theft, thick pockets and handkerchief snatches. The state you
<v Speaker 1>set for something somber, sinister, Violet.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I do wish you wouldn't run on like that, homes,
<v Speaker 2>at least until we reach the other side of the park.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's uncommonly dark in here tonight.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I was wondering if you've noticed that, Monson, there
<v Speaker 1>should be a street.
<v Speaker 3>Lamp along here somewhere, either of the lamplight has neglected
<v Speaker 3>to light it or.
<v Speaker 1>Flow. Here's a lamp post. This glass scattered on a pavement.
<v Speaker 1>The light's been put out. Watson, you heard that it
<v Speaker 1>sounded like someone shooting.
<v Speaker 3>Let's be accurate.
<v Speaker 1>Once and there were two gunshots. The second I think
<v Speaker 1>was particular homes homes.
<v Speaker 3>Here comes a woman. She's running along the path. She's terrified.
<v Speaker 3>Here someone only, madam, Can I be of assistance? I'm
<v Speaker 3>sureock closed, you're just the man I need.
<v Speaker 4>It's murder well ahead, there said an open circular space
<v Speaker 4>with a fountain.
<v Speaker 3>And a you head all around.
<v Speaker 4>I was walking towards it when I saw men rise
<v Speaker 4>up out of the bushes.
<v Speaker 3>He shot at.
<v Speaker 4>Someone sitting on a bench in front of the fountain.
<v Speaker 3>Disappeared in which direction. I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>Oh, please please see if the men sered, I'll get
<v Speaker 4>a doctor.
<v Speaker 3>I'll be right this.
<v Speaker 1>It won't be necess to say, my friend here is
<v Speaker 1>a medical man. And judging by your Captain Cape, you're
<v Speaker 1>not unacquainted with the medical profession yourself.
<v Speaker 5>No, matron, miss and thank Christ and firmly excellent.
<v Speaker 3>Come with us. We may need your assistance.
<v Speaker 4>That shouldn't someone go for the police.
<v Speaker 3>Mustn't let the murder get away.
<v Speaker 1>My dear missus, Missus Sydney, My dear missus Sydney.
<v Speaker 3>The first thing is to ascertain if it really is
<v Speaker 3>murder we're dealing with.
<v Speaker 2>Well, the first thing is, Holmes, if you'll pardon my
<v Speaker 2>saying so, is to save the victim's life if we.
<v Speaker 3>Can and hear Watson for once, I agree with you.
<v Speaker 3>Come on tell me so. I'm sure hideous Watson on the.
<v Speaker 1>Ground beside the bench, hoes that's a Messes, so I
<v Speaker 1>can have a note at him.
<v Speaker 4>Good Lord, it's Superintendent Jefferson.
<v Speaker 3>He's been shot. Yes, I'm afraid it's serious. Metro.
<v Speaker 5>Oh you I'm glad.
<v Speaker 3>Have them get me to them them. He's right, you'd
<v Speaker 3>have to operate. Howry missus Sidney, tell him to send
<v Speaker 3>the ambulance and a stretcher.
<v Speaker 1>What so rather, what happened?
<v Speaker 3>What have they done to you?
<v Speaker 5>Where were you? I waited, came quickly.
<v Speaker 3>As I could.
<v Speaker 6>They wouldn't let me off to No, No, never mind that,
<v Speaker 6>go get help.
<v Speaker 1>Tell them to ring the ambula.
<v Speaker 7>Oh no, no, I want to stay with him.
<v Speaker 3>What good would juve?
<v Speaker 1>Just a probation. I'm the one he needs now the
<v Speaker 1>love of hidden.
<v Speaker 3>Some one go.
<v Speaker 2>We've got to get the bullet.
<v Speaker 3>Out of him. He's beating in tall. No. Please, I
<v Speaker 3>think she's a nurse. What does she know?
<v Speaker 5>What does she know about anything?
<v Speaker 1>What's many more wounds beside the one of my neck?
<v Speaker 3>Please? Scott? No, that's enough, isn't it? But there were
<v Speaker 3>two shots.
<v Speaker 2>We heard two shots, Watson, don't bother me now, Holmes, consciously,
<v Speaker 2>I'm busy.
<v Speaker 3>He was sitting on the bench.
<v Speaker 1>The bullet entered from the front. The shot was fired
<v Speaker 1>from this direction.
<v Speaker 5>That's right, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>The men came out of the bushes from over there.
<v Speaker 4>He took two steps, and then I saw the flames
<v Speaker 4>spirt out a little bone.
<v Speaker 3>But once or twice. Well, I don't well that is once.
<v Speaker 4>I'm sure it was only once.
<v Speaker 5>It was so shortly. Oh, George McGowan, I thought it
<v Speaker 5>is in the dark over there, in handing me all afternoon.
<v Speaker 5>Thought i'd shaken him off.
<v Speaker 3>But I wouldn't have kept the appointment with Nellie.
<v Speaker 5>You know I was in danger minute I saw his
<v Speaker 5>cap come out of the bush.
<v Speaker 3>Did he say anything? Did he threatened?
<v Speaker 5>You didn't see anything?
<v Speaker 3>Just shot me. What did his face look like as.
<v Speaker 1>He came towards him?
<v Speaker 5>Leave him alone?
<v Speaker 3>Can't you leave him alone? That's sir, don't try to talk.
<v Speaker 3>Heave your thing. Here comes Cam to thank him for that.
<v Speaker 1>It won't be long now, been here as closest we could,
<v Speaker 1>with the past as much too narrow. Never mind the
<v Speaker 1>excuse is nelle bring the stretcher.
<v Speaker 3>Over here, Yes, right down, George.
<v Speaker 2>That's right boys now, easy, easy, and take the shoulders
<v Speaker 2>and the head.
<v Speaker 4>Oh I brought a lantern.
<v Speaker 3>You keep away from him.
<v Speaker 1>Already, Ron carry him to the ambulance.
<v Speaker 3>Careful, keep at his stiff.
<v Speaker 4>Oh he's hit, you fool. You've got his head lower
<v Speaker 4>than his.
<v Speaker 1>Watson when you finished operating, we sure have saved me
<v Speaker 1>the bullet.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not interested in adding to your grizzlys souvenir.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not asking for a subre what'sn't I'm demanding evidence.
<v Speaker 3>Be sure I get that bullet.
<v Speaker 7>So my fault. I shouldn't have said I'd meet him
<v Speaker 7>here tonight. I knew Old George it's Betton, doctor Jeffers
<v Speaker 7>when he was released today.
<v Speaker 1>Who is old George, miss Nellie And what did he
<v Speaker 1>have against the superintendent?
<v Speaker 3>Well?
<v Speaker 4>Nothing, really, George McGown is just a tragic old man
<v Speaker 4>who drank too much and couldn't get on with his family.
<v Speaker 7>His daughter stood it as.
<v Speaker 3>Long as she could, and then she had him committed.
<v Speaker 3>I see.
<v Speaker 4>The first few days were pretty bad. He had DT's,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and he kept yelling for his revolver to
<v Speaker 4>protect himself. Fortunately doctor Jeffers had taken the gun away
<v Speaker 4>from him when Old George arrived. That's when he first
<v Speaker 4>took a dislike to doctor Jeffers, and even after he
<v Speaker 4>was better, he went on hating him.
<v Speaker 3>Is doctor Jeffers generally disliked? Oh no, he's wonderful.
<v Speaker 4>That is well, I suppose it is stritch, But you
<v Speaker 4>have to be if you're in charge of a place
<v Speaker 4>to hit.
<v Speaker 1>Sim pancas you wouldn't buy any chance be prenjudiced.
<v Speaker 4>Well, I perhaps I am said this.
<v Speaker 3>It's a secret.
<v Speaker 4>But well, doctor Jeffers and I are engaged to be married.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I gathered as much. Tell me, miss Narame. Does
<v Speaker 1>anyone else suspect this attachment?
<v Speaker 4>Oh no, no, I'm sure no one does. Doctor Jefferson's
<v Speaker 4>most particular, none of the other nurses should find out.
<v Speaker 4>He said it would be bad for hospital discipline.
<v Speaker 3>I see.
<v Speaker 1>Tell me what did doctor Jeffers do with mister mc
<v Speaker 1>gowan's revolver when he took it away from him?
<v Speaker 4>Oh, he'd put it in the safe. That's what they
<v Speaker 4>always do with the patient's valuables when they arrive. They're
<v Speaker 4>handed back, of course, when the patient is discharged.
<v Speaker 3>You say, George McGowan was discharged today, Yes, sir, at
<v Speaker 3>ten o'clock this morning.
<v Speaker 1>Did doctor Jeffards return his revolver?
<v Speaker 7>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>No, sir, that was what they had to wrong about
<v Speaker 4>that an old George's cap.
<v Speaker 8>Hey, hey, yeah, I've been waiting this ha hoo for
<v Speaker 8>me discharge.
<v Speaker 9>Well here it is, George.
<v Speaker 1>And how many times do I have to tell you
<v Speaker 1>to take that cap off when you're in the house.
<v Speaker 1>I'm wearing a buy because I'm ready to go.
<v Speaker 3>Very well then, but see you go straight home. No
<v Speaker 3>dropping in at any pub on the way, mind you.
<v Speaker 5>Eh, well, what are you waiting for?
<v Speaker 1>Tell you yet to come a pack a pistol?
<v Speaker 5>Don't you think you're better off without it?
<v Speaker 3>Who's to be the judge on that?
<v Speaker 1>I brought it with me from Grasky.
<v Speaker 5>Well, you're not going to get it if you're going
<v Speaker 5>to stand here arguing take off that dirty cat.
<v Speaker 1>It's no dirty cat has my fine Scotch bonnet.
<v Speaker 3>Here's the mcgard canton it is.
<v Speaker 1>I've kept it on in the presence I've better men
<v Speaker 1>than you'll be that will do.
<v Speaker 3>George.
<v Speaker 5>I'm not allowed to talk to the superintendent like that.
<v Speaker 8>Oh matron here and your nurses maybe daft over this doctor,
<v Speaker 8>but he better look out for old George.
<v Speaker 1>I'll get even with mister Superintendent Jeffers.
<v Speaker 3>He was the last thing at all.
<v Speaker 4>I begged doctor Jeffers to be careful, but he just laughs.
<v Speaker 7>He said if the doctor was going to worry about
<v Speaker 7>all the patients that took a dislike to him, he'd
<v Speaker 7>better give up medicine. Do you think they'll be able
<v Speaker 7>to save his life, Doctor Jeffers.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, fortunately, my dear doctor Watson is a much
<v Speaker 1>better surgeon than he is a detective.
<v Speaker 3>Your friend is in good hand.
<v Speaker 4>Doctor Watson. Why then, then you must be the great
<v Speaker 4>mister Sherlock comes.
<v Speaker 3>Hadn't you guessed?
<v Speaker 4>Well?
<v Speaker 3>No, I suppose I was so upsets.
<v Speaker 4>And then the light here is so dim tonight? Oh
<v Speaker 4>I can rarely see?
<v Speaker 3>Is that peak cap of yours?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, doctor Jeffers says it would mister McGowan that shot him.
<v Speaker 1>But I suspect all he saw and this light was
<v Speaker 1>a Scottish bonnet. I rather imagine that was why the
<v Speaker 1>street lamp was extinguished.
<v Speaker 4>Of course, Old George hoped to get away without being
<v Speaker 4>recognized at all.
<v Speaker 3>I wonder what are you looking for, mister Holts. Confound
<v Speaker 3>this rain that's drowned my match.
<v Speaker 4>You'll try another here, I'll hold my cape all it?
<v Speaker 3>Thanks? Yes, that's better.
<v Speaker 1>No footprints on this gravel, confounded, Yes, shadow here we
<v Speaker 1>are just as I expected, right here on the ground
<v Speaker 1>under the yew head. A trifle waterlo but still recognizable.
<v Speaker 4>Why that's all George's care.
<v Speaker 3>He must have lost it in the excitement. And look
<v Speaker 3>here on the grass, mister Holmes, there's his revolver too.
<v Speaker 3>Don't touch it.
<v Speaker 1>Whatever you do, don't touch it. Don't want any unnecessary fingerprints.
<v Speaker 1>I'll handle it with my muffler. Good thing, Watson, bullet
<v Speaker 1>be into wearing. It comes in useful after all, although
<v Speaker 1>what fingerprints we have are probably badly smeared. The gun
<v Speaker 1>has recently been discharged. Yes, only one chamber has been emptied. Interesting,
<v Speaker 1>very interesting, And.
<v Speaker 4>Mister Holmes, doctor Jeffers, is only one move quit right?
<v Speaker 1>Two shots were fired. However, I heard them myself, but
<v Speaker 1>I don't understand. I'm not sure I do either. That
<v Speaker 1>is not entirely that. I have a few rather definite
<v Speaker 1>suspicions which I shall endeavor to confirm.
<v Speaker 3>How will you do that, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>By means of some experiments with this revolver and with
<v Speaker 1>a bullet. Doctor Watson is even now removing from the
<v Speaker 1>neighborhood of your fiances jugular vain. Yes, suppose you get
<v Speaker 1>along to St.
<v Speaker 3>Pancras infirmity.
<v Speaker 1>I'm counting on you to procure me some rather important information.
<v Speaker 4>Anything I could do, mister Holst, anything at all.
<v Speaker 1>You could look through the files and get me mister
<v Speaker 1>mc gowan's home address. I think a visit to his
<v Speaker 1>daughter is indicated. Let's see seventeen berbery mules seventeen years
<v Speaker 1>here we asked lapidated little villa, Ah will what do
<v Speaker 1>you want, miss McGowan? I presume I wonder if I
<v Speaker 1>might speak to.
<v Speaker 3>Your father for a moment.
<v Speaker 7>No, you can't.
<v Speaker 1>You needn't be afraid I've come to harm him. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>I think it will let me talk to him now
<v Speaker 1>before the authorities arrived. Sure two later, owns, you'll not
<v Speaker 1>be playing ducks and drakes for the law this time. Well, well,
<v Speaker 1>if it isn't the strad the super snooper of Scotland Yard,
<v Speaker 1>you can laugh, mister Strllock Holmes, but this is one
<v Speaker 1>time you don't need your assistance.
<v Speaker 3>I am here to arrest George Beggaron for the murder
<v Speaker 3>of Superintendent.
<v Speaker 1>Jeffers of Saint Pancras Infirmary.
<v Speaker 3>You mean to say he's dead, No, but from what
<v Speaker 3>the matron tells me, he will be before morning. So
<v Speaker 3>I've come to arrest his murderer.
<v Speaker 1>Don't you think you may be underrating both doctor Watson
<v Speaker 1>and myself. Also the Superintendent may pull through and it's
<v Speaker 1>just possible McGowan is not the man who shot him.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, Superintendent Jeffers Finn, the matron says, you found
<v Speaker 1>McGowan's cap and revolver a Webley sixth seminder on the
<v Speaker 1>scene of the crime. What's more, I've got the bullet
<v Speaker 1>they took out of Jeffers's neck. Possibly, but what makes
<v Speaker 1>you think the bullet was fired from that particular it's.
<v Speaker 3>The right size and cannibal. That's enough for me.
<v Speaker 1>Furthermore, the young nurse tells me you made off with
<v Speaker 1>the gun and the cat.
<v Speaker 3>I thank you to end him over.
<v Speaker 1>So sorry, but I can't you know, not until I've
<v Speaker 1>conducted a few rather important experiments. So obstructing the law,
<v Speaker 1>that's what it is. You've overstepped yourself this time, Earns
<v Speaker 1>and door mistake. I'll have a warrant sworn out for
<v Speaker 1>your first thing.
<v Speaker 3>In the morning.
<v Speaker 1>Aren't you forgetting the real purpose of your visit here?
<v Speaker 3>What's that? The apprehending of your so called murderer, mister
<v Speaker 3>George mcgonne.
<v Speaker 1>I don't need you to remind me of the duty now, then,
<v Speaker 1>miss tell your father I want to see it.
<v Speaker 3>He need you will your.
<v Speaker 6>Cant, But why not because it didn't come home? And
<v Speaker 6>if you had a set your bond with you go
<v Speaker 6>and look for him, lay and drunk in some powers
<v Speaker 6>and wheelhouse. Who will be in taxes for I'd like
<v Speaker 6>to know why didn't they keep him in the hospital
<v Speaker 6>till it was cured me?
<v Speaker 4>And why don't you smile?
<v Speaker 3>Hell? Explain your own business.
<v Speaker 1>Either bother you.
<v Speaker 3>It seems miss McGown has put us both.
<v Speaker 1>In the same class. Congratulations, Miss claud you've been promoted.
<v Speaker 1>You go to Blazes and another thing. You bring that
<v Speaker 1>cap and that revolver down of the DD first thing
<v Speaker 1>in the morning, Elves, and I'll see you put behind bars.
<v Speaker 3>You've made your little out to make them lestrade now
<v Speaker 3>and make mine.
<v Speaker 1>You bring that bullet Bay took out of doctor Jeffer's
<v Speaker 1>neck around the two twenty one B Baker Street before
<v Speaker 1>midnight tonight.
<v Speaker 3>But I'll make you a laughing stock of London. Oh
<v Speaker 3>that's bluff.
<v Speaker 1>Your bluff possibly became astrode. I'll stake my reputation that
<v Speaker 1>that bullet was not fired from mc gowan's gun. You
<v Speaker 1>can bring a warrant with the bullet if I'm wrong.
<v Speaker 1>You can arrest me for trying to conceal evidence. Pretty
<v Speaker 1>sure of yourself, arch, All right, it's a deal. I'll
<v Speaker 1>bring the warrant and dead us through, all.
<v Speaker 3>Right, George, because the taar you can come out from
<v Speaker 3>behind the rain barrel. Thank you, sir. Will your beef
<v Speaker 3>no ting me in? Don't mention it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, just one thing, tell me the truth, George. Did
<v Speaker 1>you shoot Superintendent Jeffers to night in Tufno Park?
<v Speaker 3>So help me, sir. I don't know.
<v Speaker 8>I followed him all afternoon, but it was that wet
<v Speaker 8>and Aurora had to stop in and again for a
<v Speaker 8>wee trap, and pretty soon I was in a bit
<v Speaker 8>of a fog, as you might say, So I don't rightly.
<v Speaker 3>Remember what happened. When I come to, I was lying
<v Speaker 3>in the with my.
<v Speaker 1>Bonnet gun, my hand here covered with blood.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, it could be me in blood, Sir.
<v Speaker 3>I've got a nasty cut over my left eye.
<v Speaker 1>Let's hope it is your own blood, George. If it's not,
<v Speaker 1>you should both then end up in jail.
<v Speaker 3>Oh what in the name of commons? Since do you
<v Speaker 3>think you're doing shooting? That's obvious?
<v Speaker 2>I may say it was obvious the moment I turned
<v Speaker 2>the corner of Merrybone Road. What's the idea of target
<v Speaker 2>practice this hour of the night. This is not target practice, Watson.
<v Speaker 2>You'll notice I'm shooting into a large.
<v Speaker 3>Cylinder filled with cotton wool.
<v Speaker 1>It's a little experiment whereby I hope to convince inspect
<v Speaker 1>to Lestrade that Baker Street is more satient than Scotland Yard.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that, if I'm not mistaken, is the minion of
<v Speaker 1>the law in person.
<v Speaker 3>I'll go down bother Watson. I told missus Hudson we
<v Speaker 3>were expecting a midnight caller. She let him in. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>twelve o'clock.
<v Speaker 1>Come in, Lestrade, come in your prompts itself. Well, Holmes
<v Speaker 1>have brought the bullet and the handcase. Fair enough, now here,
<v Speaker 1>take this chairy o by the microscope. I'll turn the
<v Speaker 1>lamp up a little higher. Now, then if you'll give
<v Speaker 1>Dr Watson the bullet he extracted from doctor Jeffer's neck
<v Speaker 1>and allow him to place it under the lens.
<v Speaker 3>All right, but no, thank you, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>Really.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, Dr Watson, now is the victim? Did
<v Speaker 3>you pull him through? And I'm dead?
<v Speaker 2>Someone is interested. I left doctor Jeffer's rest in quiety.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you Holmes never thought to inquire.
<v Speaker 1>My dear Watson, I have every confidence in your medical ability. No,
<v Speaker 1>what I'm really curious of, but as a pattern of
<v Speaker 1>the marks on this bullet upon me what I've focused
<v Speaker 1>the lens.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, let's see I thought so.
<v Speaker 1>I thought, so he may know what you're talking about,
<v Speaker 1>Dr Watson.
<v Speaker 3>But I'm completely in the dark.
<v Speaker 2>How about you, I Confesslesstard, I am quite frequently in
<v Speaker 2>your predicament.
<v Speaker 3>But it's all so childishly simple. This bullet could not
<v Speaker 3>possibly have been.
<v Speaker 1>Fired from George McGowan's revolver. The bore patterns are entirely different.
<v Speaker 3>Oh what's he raving about here?
<v Speaker 1>Look in the microscope while I explain in words of
<v Speaker 1>one syllable, I'm looking.
<v Speaker 3>Go ahead.
<v Speaker 1>Notice the pattern of lines, falls and scratches on that bullet.
<v Speaker 3>Fix them well in your mind? All right, I'm doing it.
<v Speaker 1>A few years ago, Less jard I persuaded Scotland Yard
<v Speaker 1>to take up the science of fingerprinting. Fingerprints are now
<v Speaker 1>recognized the one sure method of identification. No two sets
<v Speaker 1>of fingerprints can possibly be alike. Grass it, I'd like
<v Speaker 1>to introduce you to the science of ballistics. Oh, what's
<v Speaker 1>that every gun that's capable of firing a bullet leaves
<v Speaker 1>on that bullet a pattern of its a pattern that's
<v Speaker 1>as individual as a man's fingerprints and as incapable of duplication. Now, Watson,
<v Speaker 1>if you'll dig one of the bullets fired from mister
<v Speaker 1>mc gowan's weblay out of that cotton wool.
<v Speaker 3>All right, we'll have a look at it under the microscope.
<v Speaker 3>Here you are, homes the strad You've memorized the pattern made.
<v Speaker 1>By the killer's revolver on the bullet. Now have a
<v Speaker 1>look at this one fired from Old George's gun.
<v Speaker 3>It's Scott, all right, they're different, different is night and day. Therefore,
<v Speaker 3>the webley did not fire the.
<v Speaker 1>Shot that was supposed to kill the superintendent, and MacGowan
<v Speaker 1>is not the potential killer. But look here, Hoe, you
<v Speaker 1>just had a look at the second bullet yourself. What
<v Speaker 1>made you so sure earlier this evening that McGowan wasn't guilty?
<v Speaker 3>For one thing? The stage was too carefully set.
<v Speaker 1>Why was the street lamp extinguished so Jeffers couldn't really
<v Speaker 1>recognize the person who wore.
<v Speaker 3>Mc gowan's cap.
<v Speaker 1>Why were both the cap and the revolver left at
<v Speaker 1>the scene of the crime to incriminate Old George. Fortunate
<v Speaker 1>to be him mc gowan was the one person who
<v Speaker 1>couldn't possibly have fired the webley because it was carefully
<v Speaker 1>locked in the hospital safe.
<v Speaker 3>But who could have taken it from the safe.
<v Speaker 1>Almost any of the offices of the hospital stop. I
<v Speaker 1>imagine that I can find out which one by paying
<v Speaker 1>a return visit to the hospital to strod whoever fired
<v Speaker 1>that shot will be quite chagrined to learn it wasn't fatal.
<v Speaker 1>I rather suspect a sicken attempt will be made unlock
<v Speaker 1>to Jeffer's life have very near future.
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<v Speaker 3>Jacket and overcoat. Watson in which wing of the hospital
<v Speaker 3>they put doctor Jeffers. He's on the ground floor over there,
<v Speaker 3>to the left, where the light is burning good. The
<v Speaker 3>window's partly open.
<v Speaker 1>You shall be able to stand behind those bushes and
<v Speaker 1>see him without being observed.
<v Speaker 3>Come along the stride.
<v Speaker 5>I'm common.
<v Speaker 3>Quiet you two.
<v Speaker 5>Here we are.
<v Speaker 3>We can see over the sill. Nurses a back turn.
<v Speaker 3>She won't notice. Everything seems to be quiet enough. Jeff
<v Speaker 3>has just moved his hand. He's coming out of the ether.
<v Speaker 3>I imagine, color looks good. Quiet, the doors opening. It's
<v Speaker 3>the matron. She's coming in with the glass of something
<v Speaker 3>in her hand. I've brought him to morn greatness. Why
<v Speaker 3>don't you go at your supper now? Says the kettle
<v Speaker 3>boiling in the pantry. I'll sit with him for a while, nurse.
<v Speaker 1>He's leaving.
<v Speaker 3>Is a matron smoothing out the covers. Robert, Robert, can
<v Speaker 3>you hear me? He's opening his eyes.
<v Speaker 1>You are going to live, Robert. They saved you.
<v Speaker 4>I thought to death, I wish the one that found you,
<v Speaker 4>that went for me.
<v Speaker 3>You'd have bled to day.
<v Speaker 4>You were a fool to throw me over for that young.
<v Speaker 5>Nurse Matron, life is like that, couldn't help it. We
<v Speaker 5>love each other, going to be married.
<v Speaker 3>Sorry, don't worry about it. What is to be is
<v Speaker 3>to be here.
<v Speaker 5>Drink this to make you feel better.
<v Speaker 3>Jeffers, don't set that lass. What you're doing here?
<v Speaker 1>He came back to provential making a second attempt on
<v Speaker 1>doctor Japper's life, and to find out why you made
<v Speaker 1>the first?
<v Speaker 3>What's in helpless trade over the sill before he strangled
<v Speaker 3>his health.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Matron, you've just given us the strongest motive that
<v Speaker 1>exists for murder.
<v Speaker 3>Jealousy. You'll think you're smart. Mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 5>You can't prove anything.
<v Speaker 1>You'll never find my fingerplasts.
<v Speaker 4>On any revolver, and you'll never find the revolver. Mister
<v Speaker 4>Lestrade here knows you can't convict anyone without proof.
<v Speaker 1>I think the contents of that glass will prove you
<v Speaker 1>tried to murder doctor Jeffers. Take the glass away from
<v Speaker 1>a Lestrad quick before.
<v Speaker 3>Good Lord shall drank it. Holmes, I drank it herself.
<v Speaker 2>Oh there's nothing Homes or I could do, mister Harris.
<v Speaker 2>That glass contained a very lethal dose of classic acid.
<v Speaker 3>She was dead inside of two minutes.
<v Speaker 1>Good Lord, tell me, doctor Watson, when did Chili calms
<v Speaker 1>first suspect the matron.
<v Speaker 3>Of trying to kill doctor Jeffers almost at once, or perhaps.
<v Speaker 2>I should say from the moment we entered the circle
<v Speaker 2>of u hedge that surrounded the fountain.
<v Speaker 3>You may not know it, mister Harris, but a good
<v Speaker 3>English ue hedges as.
<v Speaker 2>Impenetrable as a bick wall, and much more impossible to scale.
<v Speaker 2>There was only one entrance to that circle, the one
<v Speaker 2>for which the matron ran practically into our arms. No
<v Speaker 2>one else could have passed without our seeing him. Consequently,
<v Speaker 2>no one else was in the circle with doctor Jeffers
<v Speaker 2>when he was shot. It had to be the matron
<v Speaker 2>who fired the revolver who fared the two revolvers, I
<v Speaker 2>should say, the one to incriminate George McGown, and the.
<v Speaker 3>Other to do the job. Thank you, doctor Watson. And
<v Speaker 3>now what is in store for us for next week?
<v Speaker 3>Next week? Well, now let me see.
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