Sherlock Holmes - Accidental Murder

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<v Speaker 1>And now for the weekly visit with our good friend
<v Speaker 1>and host, doctor Watson. Tonight we find him on the
<v Speaker 1>stage of the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.
<v Speaker 2>Good evening, Doctor, Good evening, mister bouto.
<v Speaker 3>If you've bought a victory bond, you're welcome.
<v Speaker 2>I have, Doctor.
<v Speaker 1>Now, what's the recipe for tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure?
<v Speaker 4>Well, to see, take equal parts of beautiful English country
<v Speaker 4>stars and black mil and mix them and a dash
<v Speaker 4>of romance, a sprinking of day season well with the
<v Speaker 4>usual theatrical condiments, and you have the Case of the
<v Speaker 4>Accidental Murders.
<v Speaker 1>Sounds like a tasty dish. How did the story begin?
<v Speaker 3>Docting on a beautiful summer day?
<v Speaker 4>In eighteen hundred and ninety five, Holmes had just concluded
<v Speaker 4>his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Puska,
<v Speaker 4>an inquiry which was carried out at the express desire
<v Speaker 4>of his fullness, the Pope, and.
<v Speaker 3>In consequence the great Man felt for a couple of weeks.
<v Speaker 4>Rest in the heart of warwicks Show would be a
<v Speaker 4>pleasant change after our rather strenuous adventures in Italy. And so,
<v Speaker 4>mister Bartel, we went to Stratford on Avon, the home
<v Speaker 4>of Shakespeare.
<v Speaker 3>Huh, quite right, my boy. As a matter of fact,
<v Speaker 3>that was the reason that decided us to go there.
<v Speaker 4>Holmes was a great lover of the drama, you know,
<v Speaker 4>and at the time my story begins, the Shakespearean.
<v Speaker 3>Festival was in full swing. For the first week my life,
<v Speaker 3>there was calm and peaceful.
<v Speaker 4>During the daytime, we visited the local pieces of interest,
<v Speaker 4>such as Anne Hathaway's cottage and Shakespeare's birthplace.
<v Speaker 3>And the evening found us at the theater.
<v Speaker 4>It was on a Tuesday, I remember, during our second
<v Speaker 4>week's stay, It's a trouble again.
<v Speaker 3>Holmes and I had gone for a walk through the
<v Speaker 3>nearby forest of Avon.
<v Speaker 4>He was in unusually good spirits that morning, and there
<v Speaker 4>was a distant, distinct, I mean twinkle.
<v Speaker 5>In his eye as he as he said, once I
<v Speaker 5>begin to wish that I were a man of wealth,
<v Speaker 5>and what makes you say that homes the beauty of
<v Speaker 5>this place? All fellow, I'm perfectly certain, like the happy
<v Speaker 5>in retirement here, pressing to think that in a week
<v Speaker 5>or two, the solid necessity of making money able to
<v Speaker 5>demand my return to Baker Street.
<v Speaker 2>In the world of criminals, I must say that.
<v Speaker 3>An environment like this, it is a little hard to
<v Speaker 3>think of crime.
<v Speaker 4>How does the old saying go, where every prospect pleases
<v Speaker 4>an only.
<v Speaker 3>Man is vile? Yes?
<v Speaker 2>But Shakespeare puts it even better.
<v Speaker 3>I know what he said.
<v Speaker 6>I'm sure you remember the speech, and as you like it.
<v Speaker 6>We saw the productions nights ago.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember the speak. How did it go?
<v Speaker 2>In this setting? It's very remarkably opposite?
<v Speaker 6>Aren't these woods more free from field than the envious
<v Speaker 6>court here?
<v Speaker 2>Feel we but the penalty of Adams the season's difference,
<v Speaker 2>don't you remember? Sweet?
<v Speaker 6>Are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly
<v Speaker 6>and venomous, wears a precious jewel in his head.
<v Speaker 2>And this our life exempt from public.
<v Speaker 6>Haunt finds tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks,
<v Speaker 6>sermons and sums, and good in everything.
<v Speaker 2>I would not change it.
<v Speaker 3>My soul. You read that much from the follow on
<v Speaker 3>the stage of that.
<v Speaker 6>Don't tell me I adopted the wrong professional barson. Oh,
<v Speaker 6>dear me, wait a minute. Far seems to end here.
<v Speaker 6>Nothing the dense trees ahead of us.
<v Speaker 3>There's another path over there. I think it leads down
<v Speaker 3>to the river.
<v Speaker 6>Then let's follow it.
<v Speaker 3>The great Scott that was up Ah, homes homes you hurt?
<v Speaker 2>Ah?
<v Speaker 6>Yes, I think I am. Bullet hit my shoulder. I
<v Speaker 6>think it's only grazed it.
<v Speaker 3>Well, get off your cut quickly.
<v Speaker 2>Let's have a lot on your scratch. First.
<v Speaker 6>Let's find out where it was fired from. I heard
<v Speaker 6>the third of the thought of a bullet in the
<v Speaker 6>tree behind me. Yes, here we are, give me a penknife.
<v Speaker 3>Follow?
<v Speaker 2>Well?
<v Speaker 3>Thanks. Do you suppose that that shot was deliberate?
<v Speaker 2>Well, I can't imagine someone mistaking me for a rabbit Watson.
<v Speaker 6>And by the way, little a curious echoed at the
<v Speaker 6>shot right, don't know whether you've noticed it. Uh huh.
<v Speaker 6>Here's the bullet let. Me see, I was tending there.
<v Speaker 6>A line from this bullet hole in the trees the
<v Speaker 6>spot where I was standing would indicate that the shot
<v Speaker 6>was fired from that custer of trees of the bear.
<v Speaker 6>Come on, Watson, let's see what a search discloses.
<v Speaker 4>I wish you'd let me look at that shoulder before
<v Speaker 4>you start galloping all over the countryside homes.
<v Speaker 3>You're bleeding quite profuse.
<v Speaker 2>Plenty of time to look at it. When we hello.
<v Speaker 2>Look over there a man and.
<v Speaker 3>Woman running towards us across the clarry.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and carrying guns.
<v Speaker 3>Hees.
<v Speaker 6>It looks as if it was an extent after anyone
<v Speaker 6>hurt here, sir, my friend was hitting the shoulder, gets
<v Speaker 6>a dad wound, a scratch, Madam, I I hope, but
<v Speaker 6>I put the blood on your coat. Well, just how
<v Speaker 6>did this, well, this accident happened their? Well, we were
<v Speaker 6>we were out rabbit shooting. I was teaching my wife
<v Speaker 6>to use a rifle.
<v Speaker 7>I saw a rabbit scurry across the carring. I raised
<v Speaker 7>the rifle and fired. It seemed to me, Jeffrey, that
<v Speaker 7>as I did so, you joked my arm.
<v Speaker 8>I'm afraid I did, Alice.
<v Speaker 6>I was going to fire too, But as I raised
<v Speaker 6>my rifle, I jotd your elbow and send you a
<v Speaker 6>shot wild. I can't tell you how sorry I am, sir.
<v Speaker 6>Here here's my card. Of course, we'll take care of
<v Speaker 6>any expenses that may be introl.
<v Speaker 4>Nothing to do is to find out how much damage
<v Speaker 4>has been done. You'd better take your coat off or fallow.
<v Speaker 2>I I don't know the guy care.
<v Speaker 8>Oh he's badly hurt.
<v Speaker 3>No, it's just but oh the man sainted.
<v Speaker 2>This is beadful. I have a horse and trap down
<v Speaker 2>the road and give you a hand with him, whim.
<v Speaker 3>I must get him to hospital is as fast as possible, Holmes, Holmes,
<v Speaker 3>are you feeling any better?
<v Speaker 2>Has the nurse gone?
<v Speaker 6>Yes, yes, yes, he's bringing the house surgeon and the
<v Speaker 6>man and his wife down.
<v Speaker 4>In the hospital waiting. I found out their name. It's
<v Speaker 4>it's Markham.
<v Speaker 2>Then we're alone.
<v Speaker 6>Yes, yes, yes, so fall In that case, I can
<v Speaker 6>stop behaving as if I were a death's door.
<v Speaker 4>Holmes, you mean that you you share that collapsed yours?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I did.
<v Speaker 6>What little video whichat my shoulders confabed it painful?
<v Speaker 2>I assure you I'm sure it is.
<v Speaker 3>But what made you pretend to faint?
<v Speaker 6>I recognize this missus Markham, and I think you recognize me.
<v Speaker 6>It's important to assume I'm out of action.
<v Speaker 2>For a while.
<v Speaker 6>Oh, missus, Well, missus Malcolm is in reality the notorious
<v Speaker 6>Missus Dangerfield. You remember the danger Colo case danger great God, Yes,
<v Speaker 6>she was tried for the murder of her husband by poisoning, wasn't.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, she was all along.
<v Speaker 6>She was acquitted when the jury decided she was an
<v Speaker 6>habitual arsenic addict who happened to take an accidental overdose.
<v Speaker 3>Didn't you have some connection?
<v Speaker 6>It was I who tracked down the sale of the
<v Speaker 6>arsenic she claim to have bought for cosmetic purposes. Well,
<v Speaker 6>if you asked me that shot at you is no excellent?
<v Speaker 6>Of course it wasn't. I'm certain that I was recognized.
<v Speaker 6>And in case her record is a bad one. Prior
<v Speaker 6>to her husband's death, there was an episode in which
<v Speaker 6>her uncle was killed in a shooting accident on a
<v Speaker 6>grassmoor in Scotland.
<v Speaker 2>And uncle who left her a large fortune on his death.
<v Speaker 4>And I suppose Missus Dangerfield was a member of the
<v Speaker 4>shooting party when the accident.
<v Speaker 6>Heaven, yes she was. And she's something of a fem fetalbo.
<v Speaker 6>I must planned my actions very cautiously. I'm up against
<v Speaker 6>a dangerous opponent.
<v Speaker 4>Well, you have to stay in the hospital until your
<v Speaker 4>wounds being examined.
<v Speaker 6>And dressed as allow, and while the local staff are
<v Speaker 6>taking care of that, I want you to shadow the
<v Speaker 6>marcom stick close to them, an fellow, make them believe
<v Speaker 6>that I'm going to be kept here for some days.
<v Speaker 6>Find out as much as you can, and then report
<v Speaker 6>to me.
<v Speaker 3>Right. I'll do my best, Hike.
<v Speaker 4>It's off the kind of humors as Markham to insist
<v Speaker 4>on having me back to your house for.
<v Speaker 7>Lunch, my dear doctor Watson, after injuring the famous mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 7>It's the least I could do, of course, it is,
<v Speaker 7>y dear. Will you bring us some sherry day to
<v Speaker 7>day off?
<v Speaker 2>You know? Really well?
<v Speaker 8>Ellis there's anyone else coming to lunch?
<v Speaker 7>Only Dennis Bromney?
<v Speaker 2>Oh Lord that Fellows used to live here. Hell go
<v Speaker 2>and get the.
<v Speaker 7>Sherriff sit down, won't you?
<v Speaker 2>Doctor Watson?
<v Speaker 3>Thank you? Thank you?
<v Speaker 7>You you say that you think mister Holmes will be
<v Speaker 7>in the hospital for some day.
<v Speaker 4>I'm afraid so. The wold wasn't serious. He lost quite
<v Speaker 4>a bit of blood.
<v Speaker 7>I feel perfectly dreadful about it.
<v Speaker 3>You mustn't blame yourself too much, madam.
<v Speaker 7>It was an accident, yes, but I might easily have
<v Speaker 7>killed him.
<v Speaker 4>Well you haven't, and that's all that matters. H Did
<v Speaker 4>you say that Dennis Romney was coming to lunch? Is
<v Speaker 4>that the actor fellow from the Memorial Theater?
<v Speaker 3>Yes?
<v Speaker 7>Have you seen him on the stage, Yes.
<v Speaker 3>Several times. Holmes and I have been going to the
<v Speaker 3>festival regular since we came down here.
<v Speaker 7>A fine actor, isn't he a shame they're getting such
<v Speaker 7>poor power. Imagine I'm letting that pricefl dads of grand
<v Speaker 7>play handle at last night while they's only played laoties.
<v Speaker 7>Hennis is three times a better actor. He's coaching me
<v Speaker 7>and acting. Oh yes, he thinks that I may be
<v Speaker 7>able to get small part here next season. I've always
<v Speaker 7>had a great edge to go on the stage, but
<v Speaker 7>no one's ever encouraged me before. Oh here's Jeffrey.
<v Speaker 8>This show is rather special. Doctor. Here is de la Frontier.
<v Speaker 2>Only a few bottles left.
<v Speaker 3>It's very nice of us.
<v Speaker 7>Let it not be Dennis. I've got let him in.
<v Speaker 6>We might just might as well have a drink. Your
<v Speaker 6>final will help making this actor fellow more tolerable.
<v Speaker 4>I take it, mister Markham, that you're not an admirer
<v Speaker 4>of mister Dennis Romney.
<v Speaker 6>He's always quoting Shakespeare and behaving generally as if he
<v Speaker 6>were another irving.
<v Speaker 2>He's got Alice completely fooled.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, thank you.
<v Speaker 7>I want to introduce you to doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 3>How do you doing, mister Romney, how do you do? Sir?
<v Speaker 2>Hello, Jeffrey, Thanks, that would be very nice. Are you
<v Speaker 2>a disciple of the theater, doctor Watson?
<v Speaker 4>Well, hardly a the sile servant. I have been attending
<v Speaker 4>the festival during the last week. I enjoyed your performances
<v Speaker 4>at the men Stiff says.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you, mad doctor. Here's a sherry Dennis.
<v Speaker 7>Don't protty Jeffrey, and please with another. The Dennis is
<v Speaker 7>our guest.
<v Speaker 9>It's all right, Alice. I know that Jeffries bark is
<v Speaker 9>a good deal worse than his bike.
<v Speaker 3>And what play are you peering in tonight, mister Romney?
<v Speaker 9>King Lear, I shall once again portray the thankless role
<v Speaker 9>of the King of France.
<v Speaker 2>An incredibly bad actor.
<v Speaker 9>Battle Grant has a multitude of passions to tatters, and
<v Speaker 9>his rendition of Lear, oh horrible, horrible, most honorable.
<v Speaker 7>I thought he's cannon was atrocious last night.
<v Speaker 9>And it wasn't it When he came to his final line,
<v Speaker 9>the rest is silence was as much as I could
<v Speaker 9>do to prevent charing.
<v Speaker 8>I felt rather the same way when you were killed
<v Speaker 8>in the Jeweled.
<v Speaker 7>And it's Jeffy, you're being intolerably rude. Why don't you
<v Speaker 7>take doctor Watson upstairs and show him your butterfly collection.
<v Speaker 7>There at least you'll know what you're talking about.
<v Speaker 8>Interested in butterflies, doctor, I have quite a rare collection.
<v Speaker 3>Really, I like you very much.
<v Speaker 8>Morning.
<v Speaker 2>I think we just got time before lunch.
<v Speaker 7>Try and bring yourself down with a few better nanos.
<v Speaker 6>Jeffrey dear, I'm really quite an easy going man, doctor,
<v Speaker 6>But the arrogance that fellow Rodney infuriator, I.
<v Speaker 3>Must say it does seem have rather a good opinion
<v Speaker 3>of him. So don't don't.
<v Speaker 6>Put too much weight on that balcony rail. It's absolutely
<v Speaker 6>full of wormholes. Part of the attraction we know old house.
<v Speaker 6>My wife tells me that I regard it as confoundedly dangerous.
<v Speaker 8>And this is my little museum.
<v Speaker 6>In these cases, I think you'll find some of the
<v Speaker 6>finest specimens of lepid docter you've ever seen. It's my hobby,
<v Speaker 6>and I may say that with the exception of the
<v Speaker 6>natural History Museum.
<v Speaker 8>If you'll find a final collection.
<v Speaker 3>It must have taken you years to collect them.
<v Speaker 6>Murders, many years, many disappointments, and a great deal of patience.
<v Speaker 6>Look at this fellow, he is my priest specimen. A
<v Speaker 6>North American monarcy.
<v Speaker 3>North American mark, beautiful view.
<v Speaker 6>And this is an admiral, and it is a perfect
<v Speaker 6>bee hawk moth. And here's an emperor. Ever see more
<v Speaker 6>exquisite markings.
<v Speaker 4>Never tell me, mister Markham, when you capture the butterfly,
<v Speaker 4>how do you pull it without marking.
<v Speaker 3>It in any way with poison? Oh? What poison?
<v Speaker 8>Cyanide?
<v Speaker 3>Not arsenic? Are you?
<v Speaker 8>Let me say syni dot.
<v Speaker 4>That's the only reason I mentioned it isn't a friend
<v Speaker 4>of mine collected by the flies once, and I'm certain
<v Speaker 4>that he always used arsenic to kill him.
<v Speaker 6>Don't you keep talking abouarsenic. You're trying to hint at something.
<v Speaker 6>My dear fly is just curious at all. He is right,
<v Speaker 6>we're too curious. Perhaps there's the luncheon gong. Let's go downstairs,
<v Speaker 6>sum And I didn't mean to offend you, of course
<v Speaker 6>you didn't, But my nerves are a little on edge today.
<v Speaker 6>There must be that accident to your friend. That's upsetting.
<v Speaker 6>I really must get that balcony rail mended.
<v Speaker 8>Sh What is it, sir?
<v Speaker 2>My wife, young Robbie look mean duch. Listen, darling, why
<v Speaker 2>won't you understand?
<v Speaker 3>Well?
<v Speaker 6>Doctor, they say that listeners never hear good of themselves.
<v Speaker 6>You know, sometimes I wonder if my wife wouldn't let
<v Speaker 6>me out of the way.
<v Speaker 8>And let's go down to lunch, Shelby.
<v Speaker 6>And so Holmes, that's the story up to now, really
<v Speaker 6>interesting one to Watson. So you think that missus Markham
<v Speaker 6>is planning to kill her husband name Well, it's obvious.
<v Speaker 4>She's in love with the actor Forll Dennis Romney. Her
<v Speaker 4>husband's in the way.
<v Speaker 3>And if she doesn't want to use poison.
<v Speaker 4>This time as a perfect setting for murder in that
<v Speaker 4>crumbling balustrade on the landing, one push when.
<v Speaker 3>He wasn't looking would be the end of him, and no.
<v Speaker 6>One could prove that you did a charming household. And
<v Speaker 6>mister Markham became very evasive, you say, when he wasn't arsenic.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, I said it to Liberty, of course, to see
<v Speaker 4>how he'd react if you ask me. He knows that
<v Speaker 4>his wife has asked to clars he was trying to
<v Speaker 4>protect her.
<v Speaker 6>If exerted your charms sufficiently were arranged to see them again,
<v Speaker 6>I'd try, Well, this is matterfa I have there.
<v Speaker 4>Taking a picnic key in going voting on the air
<v Speaker 4>from this afternoon, They aspittagem.
<v Speaker 3>Of course I agreed. We'll just rush back here to
<v Speaker 3>the hospital to talk to you first.
<v Speaker 2>You've got splended it. What'sn't sprended there?
<v Speaker 4>But I've been so busy to tell you what I've
<v Speaker 4>found out that I haven't asked you about you.
<v Speaker 6>And I feel my final flo what does the house
<v Speaker 6>surgeon discovered? And then the interesting fact? Look in the
<v Speaker 6>drawer beside my bed, will you.
<v Speaker 3>Great Scott it it's a.
<v Speaker 6>Bullet, a bullet that the house surgeon removed from my shoulder.
<v Speaker 3>But we found a bullet in the tree also.
<v Speaker 2>Precisely therefore two bullets were fired.
<v Speaker 3>But good lord, that mean it means old chapter.
<v Speaker 6>We have a dangerous task ahead of this, not to
<v Speaker 6>solve a murder, but to prevent one.
<v Speaker 1>We'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's unusual story in
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<v Speaker 1>happened next? We left you at Sherlock Holmes bedside in
<v Speaker 1>the hospital. Did the picnic with mister and missus Markham
<v Speaker 1>prove an exciting one?
<v Speaker 6>No? No, it was rather thunpleasant. As a matter of fact.
<v Speaker 6>The three of them kept scrubbing all the time, and
<v Speaker 6>just as we were coming home, something unforeseen occurred. Mister
<v Speaker 6>Markham fell into the river.
<v Speaker 1>We'll pardon the old question, doctor, But did he fall
<v Speaker 1>or was he pushed?
<v Speaker 3>It's hard for me to say. I had my back
<v Speaker 3>to him when he fell.
<v Speaker 4>Of course, we fished him out and rattled him back
<v Speaker 4>home in the trap as fast as we could. He
<v Speaker 4>changed his clothes at once, and as we scround the
<v Speaker 4>file a little later, I could see if he caught
<v Speaker 4>a kill. In fact, I recommended that you go to
<v Speaker 4>bed and stare. Miss Markham agreed.
<v Speaker 7>Will yes, dear, I do wish you followed Doctor Watson
<v Speaker 7>to drive and go to bed.
<v Speaker 6>For the fifth time, Alice, I will not go to bed.
<v Speaker 6>I'm perfectly all right. No, it's not thanks to you
<v Speaker 6>and Dennis.
<v Speaker 2>What do you mean by that? From Mark? Jeffrey, you know.
<v Speaker 8>Perfectly well what I mean. It wasn't an accident that
<v Speaker 8>I fell in the river. Just now.
<v Speaker 6>One of you two pushed me when I was struggling
<v Speaker 6>with the pump hoole in the long read.
<v Speaker 7>Jeffy, your topic uppish am.
<v Speaker 3>I you were in the boat.
<v Speaker 8>Dr Watson didn't juice what happened?
<v Speaker 3>No, I didn't say my back returned to you when
<v Speaker 3>you fell in.
<v Speaker 6>Well, then we'll call it an accident, an accident that
<v Speaker 6>happened by a curious coincident, just where the river is
<v Speaker 6>deepest in the reeds, sittest.
<v Speaker 2>Jeffrey, I don't like your tone.
<v Speaker 9>You can accuse me of anything you like, but when
<v Speaker 9>you start suggesting that I don't like the way I
<v Speaker 9>talk to my wife.
<v Speaker 8>I suggested you don't come to my house and don't get.
<v Speaker 7>A scarf a'ntilly, doctor Watson, I I must apologize for
<v Speaker 7>my husband's behavior. I don't know what to come over.
<v Speaker 2>I quite understand what I wish I did.
<v Speaker 9>I don't mind yelling at me, but he's being so
<v Speaker 9>abominably rude to you, Alice.
<v Speaker 2>The last couple of weeks, it's been getting worse than
<v Speaker 2>ever I know.
<v Speaker 7>Ever since we had that argument about the insurance policies,
<v Speaker 7>he's been unbearable.
<v Speaker 3>Insurance.
<v Speaker 7>Yes, doctor, we took out quite large policies on each
<v Speaker 7>other's lives recently.
<v Speaker 2>You didn't tell me that, Alice.
<v Speaker 7>Well, it was his idea, and yet when the insurance
<v Speaker 7>then came here, you would have thought I was forcing
<v Speaker 7>him into taking out the policy.
<v Speaker 3>Insurance, great, Scott, are you what?
<v Speaker 2>Doctor?
<v Speaker 3>Are you?
<v Speaker 9>Nothing sounds as if you don't approve of insurance.
<v Speaker 2>Sir.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, it's not that rum there, and it's just that
<v Speaker 3>I can denby.
<v Speaker 7>I wasn't expecting anyone answer the door, Dennis.
<v Speaker 2>Will you as if Jeffer has already done so?
<v Speaker 8>Alice, we have a visitor Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>You shouldn't be up if you think missus Mackhalm.
<v Speaker 7>Hello Watson I'm delighted to see you, mister Holmes, so
<v Speaker 7>I under it stood to me, your friend, that you
<v Speaker 7>would be in the hospital for several days.
<v Speaker 6>Constitution of an ox and the obstinacy of a mule,
<v Speaker 6>two characteristics of mine, have combined in making possible an
<v Speaker 6>early departure from the hospital.
<v Speaker 2>How do you do, mister Rodney, I think I've seen
<v Speaker 2>you the theater? My name Michelle. Come, how do you do?
<v Speaker 3>So? You say?
<v Speaker 7>The supper?
<v Speaker 2>I hope if it's not inconvenient, missus Markham.
<v Speaker 3>Of course it.
<v Speaker 7>Isn't, I'll go in and arrange for it.
<v Speaker 3>Upon my soul homes. I'm glad to see you, and.
<v Speaker 2>Are you all?
<v Speaker 6>Let's take a stroll on the telet showing it's on
<v Speaker 6>the warm inside this evening.
<v Speaker 8>You can go out through the French windows.
<v Speaker 2>Oh thank you, Miss Malcolm.
<v Speaker 3>Oh are you quite sure? Joe well enough to go
<v Speaker 3>walking about.
<v Speaker 2>As I am?
<v Speaker 6>Miss Tommy Watson? What the latest developments are in the meantime,
<v Speaker 6>I myself have not been idle?
<v Speaker 2>Yes? What's in?
<v Speaker 6>I think our stage is said that I have a
<v Speaker 6>feeling that I make a tribute to a rather dramatic
<v Speaker 6>mass deck curtain.
<v Speaker 3>A delightful meal, Missus Markham, thank.
<v Speaker 7>You, doctor, mister Holmes. You're not eating very much.
<v Speaker 6>My appetite is de lightful, Jady is the mental fencing
<v Speaker 6>that we have indulged in during the meal has been
<v Speaker 6>somewhat disturbing.
<v Speaker 7>I don't understand you.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, come now, madam. I know that you were once
<v Speaker 2>Missus Gingerfield, and you know that I know it. Why
<v Speaker 2>I keep up the pretense any longer?
<v Speaker 7>Very well, mister Holmes, but we needn't converse in lower voices.
<v Speaker 7>I'm sure that you told doctor Watson whatever there is
<v Speaker 7>to know, and perhaps more.
<v Speaker 2>I admire your courage, Madam Jeffrey Dennis.
<v Speaker 7>I want you to listen to this. Missus Shellick. Holmes
<v Speaker 7>knows that I was once Missus Dangerfield. He's apparently under
<v Speaker 7>the impression that this is a dark secret of mine.
<v Speaker 7>Mister Holmes, Jeffrey knew and loved me before I ever
<v Speaker 7>married mister Dangerfield.
<v Speaker 2>Of course I did, Holmes.
<v Speaker 7>He stood by me during the horrible trial after my
<v Speaker 7>first husband's death, and I told Dennis about the whole
<v Speaker 7>miserable business months ago. So I really don't see that
<v Speaker 7>you've uncovered any great secrets yet.
<v Speaker 2>Missus Malcolm. But I have a feeling that it's only
<v Speaker 2>a matter of moments.
<v Speaker 8>So you haven't got any secrets from Tennessee though.
<v Speaker 7>Eh, no need to shot, Jeffrey.
<v Speaker 6>I don't need for Dennis to be in my house.
<v Speaker 6>Get out, Romney and stay out.
<v Speaker 8>This business between you and Alice has.
<v Speaker 3>Gone far enough.
<v Speaker 2>I'll go when Alice tells me to.
<v Speaker 6>Well, if you won't go, and I'm not going to
<v Speaker 6>sit here, I'm I'm going upstairs or shaking like.
<v Speaker 2>A leaf stair. You've got a fever, and don't you
<v Speaker 2>think you'd better go to bed?
<v Speaker 7>Now?
<v Speaker 6>Need your own business, Believe missus Marcum, I really think
<v Speaker 6>you should persuade your husband to go upstairs and lie down.
<v Speaker 7>Don't wear in his homes. I know how to handle him.
<v Speaker 7>I'll take him up. Put an armor on my shoulder. Jeffrey,
<v Speaker 7>come along.
<v Speaker 3>We should follow them homes.
<v Speaker 4>They have to pass that crumbling banister on the landing
<v Speaker 4>with him in that stage, she might try to be suggestion.
<v Speaker 2>Not just come and watch both of you. You can
<v Speaker 2>observe them both from me. Put them stairs here.
<v Speaker 3>You're on the Mandy, she's on the outside. Look look, look, look,
<v Speaker 3>hor comes tumble against her.
<v Speaker 2>He's pushed against the railings. Look out, Alice, are you
<v Speaker 2>all right?
<v Speaker 8>And yet we try to push me through the railings.
<v Speaker 2>It isn't, sir. The three of us were watching it
<v Speaker 2>from below, but.
<v Speaker 3>For railing held I don't understand.
<v Speaker 2>I can explain that, Watson.
<v Speaker 3>This afternoon, while.
<v Speaker 6>You were all at your picnic, I came here with
<v Speaker 6>a local carpenter. You had informed your fellow that it
<v Speaker 6>was the maid's day off, and I took the liberty
<v Speaker 6>of reinforcing that decaying would work the places you think
<v Speaker 6>you've been up to home, preventing murders her and finding
<v Speaker 6>the true solution to the danger bill case.
<v Speaker 7>Do you mean me to hear the true solution?
<v Speaker 2>Surely it's obvious to you, missus Markham.
<v Speaker 6>We have told us that your present husband led you
<v Speaker 6>before you married as to dangerfield. Was he who accidentally
<v Speaker 6>killed your uncle so that you might inherit a fortune.
<v Speaker 2>It was he who accidentally gave.
<v Speaker 6>Your first husband an overnesse of arsenic arkednik that.
<v Speaker 2>He obtained for the purpose of destroying Butterfly.
<v Speaker 3>Who's here?
<v Speaker 4>You tried to send you to your death for pushing
<v Speaker 4>you through those railings and all the time.
<v Speaker 6>Missus Markham, I thought that you was the potential you
<v Speaker 6>fellows who got hold of the wrong end of the sick.
<v Speaker 6>All I've been trying to do is to seal the
<v Speaker 6>fact that my wife was a murderous shift.
<v Speaker 2>How can you see that and not too with him?
<v Speaker 3>Miss Talkers?
<v Speaker 6>All very dramatic, miss happens. But I wonder how you're
<v Speaker 6>going to be able to do wants. Mister Romney and
<v Speaker 6>I were testified to the attempt that you've just made
<v Speaker 6>on Missus Markham's life.
<v Speaker 3>Listen, what about the tempt on your life?
<v Speaker 4>Holmes opposite, it was Markham who fired at you in
<v Speaker 4>the woods, but my wife.
<v Speaker 8>Was already admitted firing the shot.
<v Speaker 3>Woos Her.
<v Speaker 2>But two shots were fired.
<v Speaker 6>The one that your wife fired we founded the tree.
<v Speaker 6>The one that you fired was extracted from my shoulder
<v Speaker 6>in the hospital, and.
<v Speaker 3>The two shots were fired simultaneously.
<v Speaker 6>You remember, Watson that I commented at the time on
<v Speaker 6>a curious echo, and Missus Markham told us that her
<v Speaker 6>arm was jilted as she pulled the trigger.
<v Speaker 2>That was when the other rifle was fired.
<v Speaker 6>Mister Markham didn't want me on the scene when he
<v Speaker 6>staged his latest accident, and so he tried to kill me.
<v Speaker 7>What kind of the devil if I been living with all.
<v Speaker 2>These years, I think I'm going to kill you.
<v Speaker 6>Welcome, kill your wife up and leave him to the
<v Speaker 6>love courts, mister Romney. British justice may be slow, as
<v Speaker 6>indeed was in the danger Field case, but in the
<v Speaker 6>long run it you're sure we'll find that out. Mister
<v Speaker 6>Markham on the gallows? Well tell me, doctor, did.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Markham finally end on the gallery?
<v Speaker 3>Yes?
<v Speaker 4>She did, And it might interest you to know that
<v Speaker 4>missus Markham and Dennis Romney were married.
<v Speaker 3>A nice chairpan and a fine act to that boy.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe that's what I should have been, an actor to
<v Speaker 2>be or not to be? That is the question? Is
<v Speaker 2>no in the mind to suffer? What's the matter? Doctor?
<v Speaker 2>Don't you like it?
<v Speaker 4>Word's beautiful, but the delivery of them not good?
<v Speaker 3>Huh? Not good?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'd rather talk about pattere wine anyway.
<v Speaker 3>Now there's something to really talk about.
<v Speaker 1>Petrie wine, a wine with generations of wine making behind it.
<v Speaker 3>That's a fact.
<v Speaker 2>You know.
<v Speaker 1>The Petrie family started making Petrie wine generations ago, way
<v Speaker 1>back in the eighteen hundreds, so they've had the time
<v Speaker 1>to develop the art of wine making, and they've been
<v Speaker 1>able to hand down that art from father to son,
<v Speaker 1>from father to son. Yes, the Petrie family really knows
<v Speaker 1>how to turn pluscious sun ripe and California grapes into clear, fragrant,
<v Speaker 1>delicious wine.
<v Speaker 2>In those letters P. E. T. R.
<v Speaker 1>I on the bottle are the personal assurance of the
<v Speaker 1>Petrie family that every drop of Petrie wine is good wine.
<v Speaker 2>It's got to be.
<v Speaker 1>Because don't forget Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
<v Speaker 1>doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story are you going
<v Speaker 1>to tell us next week?
<v Speaker 3>It's your next week, mister about him.
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to tell you an exciting adventure Holmes and
<v Speaker 4>I head in North Africa. It begins at the headquarters
<v Speaker 4>of the Foreign Legion and ends with a strange death
<v Speaker 4>in the cafe of a thousand size. I call the
<v Speaker 4>story Murder in the Casper.
<v Speaker 3>Tonight.
<v Speaker 1>Sherlock Holmes's adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
<v Speaker 1>and was suggested by an incident in the Miaster.
<v Speaker 2>Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The.
<v Speaker 1>Adventure of Black Peter Music, is by Dean Fosterling. Mister
<v Speaker 1>Rathborne appears through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and
<v Speaker 1>mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they
<v Speaker 1>are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri
<v Speaker 1>Wine Company of San Francisco, California invite you to tune
<v Speaker 1>in again next week, same time, same station. This is
<v Speaker 1>Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family. This
<v Speaker 1>program originated in the Paramount Theater in Hollywood from an.
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