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Sherlock Holmes: Death at Stonehenge (EP3534)
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While on vacation at Stonehenge, Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of a Presbyterian Minister. Original Air Date: March 15, 1933 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at...
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me. Box13greatdetives.net Follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and become one of our friends on Facebook facebook.com radiodetectives I do want to encourage you to check out my wife's business Ashira clips. You just go to Lilarose Biz. That's L I L L A Rose Biz Ashira and she has a wide variety of different hair clips, hair pins and headbands. They are designed to fit the style and taste of a wide variety of different women and they also come in different sizes to fit different hair types. They make a great little gift and there are so many different styles available. You can check it out. Go to Lilarose Biz. That's L I L L A Rose Biz Ashira well folks, we're going to get into an episode of Sherlock Holmes and we're actually going to go earlier than we've ever gone on this podc and here, a Holmes actor we've never heard before. Richard Gordon Richard Gordon came on as Sherlock Holmes in the fourth episode of the series back in 1930 and played Sherlock Holmes for more than 100 episodes between 1930 and 1933. This episode doesn't have an opening or closing credits, but the story itself is complete and we also get the introduction from Dr. Watson and his friend Joseph Bell in support of their particular Sponsored George Washington Coffee the Original Air Date March 15, 1933 and the title is Death at Stonehenge.
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Now pour in the hot water just to show I still remember how. There we are. You know, after three years of making those two cups of coffee, I almost think I could do it in my sleep. Probably it would taste just as good as it does now because G. Washington has been brewed toil. You just can't go wrong. You don't have to convince me, Dr. Watson. I've been sold on G. Washington's ever since you first introduced me. Now, Mr. Bell, you're not going to try to stop me talking about my favorite coffee. I may not have to persuade you to try G. Washington's anymore. I don't say not. I use it at least three times a day. I'm one of your best converts. I should hope so after all the trouble I've taken on you. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that there are still some of our listeners who've never tried it, in spite of all my ballyhooing. And I'd like to have Every single one of them get just one can and test it out for themselves. Right. I suspect that in spite of all our praise the Washington coffee speaks for itself. Is that a gentle hint for me to get on with the story, Mr. Bell? Dr. Watson, you know I wouldn't say anything as rude as that. No, you might think it perhaps. You're probably right at that. Well now for our story. I think I'll tell you the one about the adventure that befell Holmes and myself while we were on vacation in the late spring of the year 1889. But when you say vacation like that, am I supposed to imply that the term was a misnomer? Yes. Matter of fact it turned out to be what we call a busman's holiday. Holmes and I had gone down to the little hamlet of Claverly on Grafton for a few days fishing. What we caught in our nets wasn't trout but a brutal blood thirst. Oh dear me, there I go again getting ahead of my story. As I was saying it was in June of the year 89. Holmes and I had had rather a hectic winter. Professor Moriarty, that super intelligent criminal and madman had been giving us a run for our money. We'd managed to upset most of his major activities. However, it was as you may well imagine, a task fraught with no little danger. Must have been sort of nerve wracking Dr. Watson. It was Mr. Bell. It was. Holmes was ill afforded as growing thinner and thinner his nerves stretched to the breaking point. Finally, when during the first week in June, Moriarty nearly finished us off by the charming expedient of letting loose in our house a rat infested with bubonic clay wire. Luckily Tabby, Mrs. Hudson's cat caught it first thing. Poor beastie died a horrible death. But we were saved. Well when I realized afterwards that Holmes was on the board of nervous hysteria well I put my foot down and said London could go to blazes for all of me. But we were going to take a vacation. To my intense surprise Holmes offered almost no objection. He must have been in a weakened condition. Exactly so a few days later saw us comfortably installed at the Crown of Roses. Crown of Roses? Yes, that was the euphonious title of Cavalier's one and only inn. Says it was to excellent Zealand ham pie. Has nothing to do with tonight's adventure. What? Where was I? You were staying at the Crown of Roses. Oh yes, of course. Well, well there we were all loaded down with fishing paraphernalia. You know the sort of thing a man buys and weaker moment and then Never gets around to using fancy fly synchron reels. But as luck would have it, we never had the opportunity to try any of them out. Well, anything that keeps the fisherman away from fishing has got to be pretty exciting. Well, yes and no. In the first place, it rained the entire first week of our visit. Now that was tough luck, Dr. Watson. Well, the fish wouldn't agree with you there, Mr. Bones. No, I suppose not. I'm not sure that I do either. Holmes, as regardless realized by this time was never the field and stream type. And the zale bullet in my leg had an unpleasant way of picking up a hut in damp weather. So we just stayed indoors. Holmes slept most of the time. Rain on the roof was one of the best soporifics, you know. As for me, I caught up on my scribbling. So taken all in all, time passed rather pleasantly. I didn't say profitably. Five days had gone by with Holmes showing no interest in anything but sleep and food. When suddenly, to my surprise, he appeared in mine host's bar room at about closing time the evening of the sixth day. Dressed for the out of doors. His fore and aft cap pulled down over his eyes. His voluminous ulster turned up about his ear. There you be Dr. Watson. Just in time. He was about to close up for the night. What lip either. Abandoned soda I think that ought to keep the chill out this morning. Yes sir. There Ben. Nothing like your good bullet, the brandy bubble to tease the fog out of your bones in a night like this. No indeed. He's rather thick tonight isn't it? Like your bloomin blanket there you beater. Not many customers tonight, Mr. Pennant. Yes, there Ben't Dr. Watson. Who'll be going to go a stumbling about in a bog like this not knowing where he'll end up. Some pigsty like as. Not only had two customers tonight, sir. That ornery feller, that there bird feather that's been wandering around here with his telescope and young Dr. James. They're both a wee bit cracked if you ask me. Man must be crazy to be abroad in a night like this. I quite agree with you. You can expect me back for breakfast. Oh, I thought you were asleep. What in the name of common sense do you think you're going? A little stroll, Watson. Just a little stroll. Thought I'd go and take a look at the monolith. Monolith? Holmes, you out of your mind? Quite normal. Also my temperature. So it's no good getting out your thermometer. And furthermore I refuse to stick out my tongue and Say, ah, I'm quite rested, entirely refreshed, just a little bored. So I thought I'd just stroll around, take a look at the Druid stone. I believe they're about a mile and a quarter from here, Ms. Penny. If it be Stone End, Jeremy, in a mile down the road and a quarter of a mile across the plains. That'd be right, sir, yeah. You see watching. You see good stones are in this vicinity. So don't look so incredulous. Stonehenge. I have an interesting theory about those giant stones. Surely you didn't think trout fishing was the only thing that lured me to this desolate place, Mr. Holmes. Cleverly on Grafton be one of the picture spots of England. Certainly not, Will. I can't say they care much for pictures, particularly landscape. No, no, it's Stonehenge I'm longing to see. Yes, but Holmes, why not wait till tomorrow? These rocks have been there for centuries. They're not going to run away. Quite true. There are definite conditions under which certain places are at their best. Venice in the moonlight, Scottish lakes at sunset. And Stonehenge. Stonehenge in a mist at midnight. And the date should be June 21st. June 21st, the solstice. You bank telling me today's the 21st? No, but it will be at midnight. Lord have mercy. It's only going to have the stones tonight, Mr. Holmes. Ain't lucky. Why not? Tonight be the night day to come back the devil worshippers that built the place. And there'll be some as they as old Nick himself go court there this night, sir. Splendid. We haven't been formally invited but what do you say Watson? Shall we pay our respects to his Satanic majesty? Have eyes like a cat. That's the sixth time I've stepped off the road into the ditch. Home, home. Where are you? Well you might have told me, not let me go on plowing. There's a fence. You can't walk through it. You have to climb over. So I discovered. Oh Lord, the ground is wet. Hurry, we must be there by midnight. You speak for yourself. I never wanted to go any place less than I heard someone climb over that fence after it and land in the mud. And here put the what splashing along. I was. I wonder want to go about on a nightmare. I knew that. What to night. There's something building up ahead. Rocks. Great craggy rock at the older the prehistoric one on it the Stonehenge. Huge barbaric columns of stone stretching up out of the rock. I had no idea they were so immense. Yes, yes, that's the inexplicable fantastic thing about Gemor. A tremendous size. We all know they form some sort of a druid temple. But how did it get here? Surrounding country for miles about is perfectly flat. There are no rocks of this size or construction anywhere in this terrain. Now where did they come from? Who brought them here? Small wonder the superstition grew up that this was a temporal to the powers of darkness that the devil himself placed these stones. Holmes, I wish you wouldn't talk like that. Not now. Place looks so queer in this life. Those tones have a curious white. The list must be clearing a bit. Is the moonlight trying to shine through to give everything that curious phosphorescence? I think there's someone hiding behind that nearest column. I feel someone looking at us. I think it's big for to stay away from those great objects. Come on, come on. Let's move over to the center of the circle. We don't want to add to stolen human sacrifices. Now, what do you mean? No one knows a great deal about it. Druidic form of religion. The ceremonial armies were surrounded with great secrecy, it is believed. However, at times they made human sacrifices. Most of these sacrifices were made on one day, the dawn of day, when the sun reached the northernmost point in the heavens, the south side. That was their great feast. On that day and that day only the rising sun shone between those two highest pillars directly on this stone in front of us, which was the seventh altar on which the victim had been placed. Barbaric lot. Let's get away from here. The mist is rising again. It's so thick I. I can hardly breathe. Think how many dark, horrible deeds these stones have listened. No women are going to be saved. They are still thirsting for blood. And woe to him who comes here on the night. Me. Holy. Holy heaven's name. Was there. Oh, no. Came from over here. The altar. We've got to find out. Ralph. Were you hurt? Ralph? The place is haunted. Look, look, look. There's a shadow striding away from the altar rock. Where are you? The place is certainly more popular than I expected. There's the altar. Here's the 40. Just a minute, just a minute. Wet like macaroni. Give them to me. There now. A man, an elderly man, his head bashed in by a piece of rock. All right, Holmes, she's coming round. A nasty shock for young girl, the sight of that. Where am I? We carried you to the Crown of Roses. Oh, I. Oh. Easy, easy. Don't try to sit up yet. Penny, have you any coffee? In the house? Yes, sir. He wipes us up on the stove. Now let him make a good old cup of black coffee. I always said when he had a joke. Jacques. Jacques. Then it's true. When I tell her he wasn't a nightmare. Father. He's your father. Who do you mean when you say he? I don't know. What does it matter? We're leaving alone. Was it Ralph? Ralph? Ralph? What do you know about Ralph? Who are you? What are you doing here? My name is Sherlock Holmes and I'm here to solve the murder of your father. But I don't know who did it. I don't know. Perhaps not. But you suspect. But I don't know anything about it. Why don't you leave me alone? Can't believe that. I don't know. Oh, Father. Your father. Leave the girl alone. She's near hysteria. You can question her tomorrow. Too late. The murderer will have escaped by then. I don't care. I don't care. Why do you keep looking at me like a young woman? Do you realize that if you continue to shield the person you suspect of being guilty, you will be held as an explanation accessory to the crime. But that's not possible. There was no one else. I was the only one there. There wasn't anyone else, I swear. You realize what you're saying? If you were the only person near the altar rock when your father met his death, then you must have killed him. Holmes, really. But I didn't. He was my father. I didn't kill him. Well, then there was someone else. Someone whom you had promised to meet, perhaps. No. No, I went there alone. Why did you, a young girl, go to the altar rock in the middle of the night? Well, I. Ralph, where did you come from? It's all right, Mary. I. I was in Mr. Back home. I was. Oh, Ralph, you. You've been drinking again. Mary, don't look like that. I. I can explain it. Here be the copy, Ms. Mary. Why, Dr. James, I thought I told you to lie down in the back parlor. I'm sorry, Miss Mary. Sorry. A unlike this. It's all right, Mr. Penny. It's no surprise to me. Father warned me Dr. James is a drunkard. That's why he made me beg off my engagement. And now Father. Father's dead. Oh, don't pretend you didn't know. He was killed at the Alderrach a little before midnight. He must have found out. I promised to meet you, but I wasn't there. I know. I wrote you a note to say I had to see You. But when the time came I couldn't go because you were too drunk. Oh, what does it matter why I spared you, Mary, on my word of honor, I wasn't there. Mary, Mary, don't you believe me? Don't what? Will you do this anyway? Suppose you give Miss Mary. Yes. There you be, Miss Mary. Drink it down or I don't want it. Come, come, drink it, drink it. Put yourself together. You better let me get you some too, Doctor. Jenna, I don't want any coffee. Whiskey. I've got to have a good drink of whiskey. No, no, not whiskey. You need something entirely different. What? Have you any quinine handy? Why yes, as a matter of fact I have a few capsules right here in my pocket. Thought they might come in handy in case you showed signs of feeling the fog tonight. Good. Give me five grains. Thank you. Now then, Dr. James, take this capsule, wash it down with black coffee. Thank you. I just said I've saved my life. That's better. Now let's see if we can straighten things out a bit. Miss Mary. Your other name is Mary McPherson. My father was the minister of the Presbyterian Church and a strict disciplinarian abound quite yet he walked up. I bound a narrow magic. Now then, Mrs. Person, I take it that you and Dr. James were engaged and married? Yes, we were. We've been engaged two years and a half up to. Up to yesterday. What happened yesterday? Did you change your mind? He came back, Mr. Holmes. Came back? Yes. You see, I. I'd been in Africa working with Dr. Bittner in the Congo. I was trying to save some money and get enough of a reputation so Mary and I could get married. It was two years of hell. I saved my wages and then I was offered a person. That's a good position. One a man couldn't marry army. So I came home to get my bride. My boat was late. I was supposed to reach Southampton yesterday morning, but it got yesterday afternoon dark. By the time I reached Cavalier, I. I didn't waste a minute. Just left my bags here with Mr. Penny and ran round to the rectory as fast as my legs could. Car, it's almost 10:00. Oh, Father, what if something's happened to Ralph? Maybe there's been an accident. Nonsense. If he wanted to be here tonight, he'd be here. Probably off somewhere celebrating his return. Father, you know Ralph isn't like that. They're all like that. This younger generation heading straight for eternal damnation. The things I've heard about what go on in some of those African settlements. Native Women, liquor. Father, sometimes I think you have the most lurid imagination. Imagination? And you don't know human nature. Why isn't Ralph here if he isn't gallivant? Father, please. You get here. There he is now. For father is my food. Mary, for heaven's sake, Rip. Remember you've had a decent bringing up. I'll go to the door. No, no. I'm going. I don't care. I'm going. Now. What's the matter? You look so white. Close the door, can't you? Rain pouring into the house. Want to drown us? Yes, and give me a drink. So that's the way you've come back. You run so good for nothing. For the Lord's sake, give me a drink. What do you think this house is? You've been away so long, I guess you don't know how to act in a decent society. Well, let me tell you, no daughter of mine is going to marry a drunken Marianne. Get out of here. Get out, I say. If I ever catch you talking to Mary again, I'll have you run out of town. Mary, let me explain. Get out. Very well then. I'm going. Before I go, I've got something to say to you. You call yourself a minister of the gospel? Let me tell you, every Latin, African heathen has more Christianity in his heart than you. Your narrow minded soul squeezing principles. Your head is straight to Hades and may your soul present till you get there. Did you say that, Dr. James? Well, yes, I'm afraid I did. You see, I. Well, I wasn't myself. So today I sent Mary a note begging her to meet me tonight. I wanted to explain things. Father must have suspected something and followed me. Of course. Duke Cannibal. If only I'd heeded his warning. If he alive, they wouldn't have met. Mary, I didn't kill your father. I swear it. I was here all the time. I. I think I can prove it. You mean you have an alibi? An alibi? Yes, that's it. Mary, if I can prove an alibi, will you believe me? Oh, Val, if only I could. It's so easy. Mr. Penny. What time was it? I had supper. We're long a lot towards nine. Dr. James, we've been out in the bog rambling about up to then. Yes, I was nervous. Sort of figuring out how I had to explain things to Mary. You see, I didn't want to frighten her. It must have been about half past nine or quarter to ten when I. When I had that first sinking spell, wasn't it? Betty? Why yes, sir. That's when I give you that for your whiskey and told you to lie down the back parlor and your daughter will ripped it off. And then I come out and saw Dr. Watson here. That was shortly after 10, Holmes. And I set out to stone hands a little before 11 and I went in to make sure Dr. James were all right and bound and wrapped up in me wife's best afghan. Sleep in it all, you might say. Then I went up to bed. The church clockwork Brighton. 11 as I went up the stairs. 11 and still left you plenty of time to get the stone age before 12. Well, Dr. James? Well, at about 10 past 11 I woke up and looked at my watch. I remember I had to get the stern henged at all cost. Nellie was waiting for him for me, you see. And I tried to pull myself together. I got up and managed to get as far as the door somehow. The minute I stepped out into the fog, I started trembling from the cold. I went as far as the gate before I. Before I collapsed. I realized then I'd never make it. So I crawled back into the house as best I could. I was just taking that whiskey bottle down off the shelf. Oh, well. Oh, I had to marry. I was taken from head to foot. Well, just then Mr. Penny here came downstairs and saw me. I come down again to make sure about the back door. I got to lotten once last week and it was on my mind, as you may say. Well, Mr. Penny gave me a drink and helped me into the back parlour again. There was a fire there, you see, I needed to warm. What time was it when Mr. Penny got you settled in front of the fire for the second time? I don't know absolutely, but my little excursion down the road couldn't have taken long. 10 minutes at the most. Must have been bound about 11:20. Oh, no, Dr. James, were after 12. Good. 25 minutes after 12. Couldn't have been. I wasn't gone that long. No big pardon, sir, but from your condition, Isaiah, you wouldn't be liable to remember just what did happen. But from 1110 to 1225 I. Good Lord, I must have fainted that the time I fell down at the gate. Over an hour. Oh, no, no, it's not possible. Beg pardon, sir, but anything be possible to a gentleman in the state you was in. Oh, Val, then maybe you went to Filmhenge. After all, you killed father and now you can't even remember. Oh, Ralph. Easy now. Let's not jump at any conclusions. I have a few questions I'd like To ask first of all, Dr. James, was Mr. Penning completely dressed when he helped you into the back parlor the last time? Yes, he was dressed. Dear me. And yet he says it was 12:25 and he went upstairs to bed at 11. How do you explain that, Mr. Penny? He don't know what he's saying. I weren't dressed. I were in me night shirt. I came a jellyn of. He don't know what was going on. Interesting. Very interesting. According to your testimony, Dr. James is out in this impeachable weather for over an hour and yet his clothes are quite dry. Even the soles of his shoes are only slightly damp. Yours on the other hand are completely soaked and covered with mud. And they were bone dry when Dr. Watson and I left you earlier this evening. What do it matter about me? You that don't rule anything. Not by itself, no. But coupled with the fact that you were so anxious to break down Dr. James's alibi that makes the whole matter seem a trifle suspicious, don't you think? I don't know what you'll be talking about. It wasn't you by any chance who followed us to Stonehenge? It wasn't you who mistook Mr. Expression's father for me in the fog. He was about my size and wore a fur last cap. Why as I suppose you're going to tell me that you're not Mike the Splasher, one of Professor Moriarty's men, the head of the gang of Robert Rose Cutthroat has been holding its meetings at Stonehenge at midnight knowing that no one goes there after d I tell you? You tell me nothing. I have attended four of those meetings so far this last week. Oh, and I know you thought I was safely tucked away in bed watch. I'm sorry I had to fool you like this. No wonder you slept so much in the day. Yes, my dear Mr. Kenny, I think I have enough evidence to hang you and several of your little playmates. At least that won't be as unpleasant as what would have happened to you if and Moriarity discovered you had bungled tonight's job and killed the wrong man. Don't you move. Don't move. I warn you Watson. It's got this gentleman in the back parlor with a constable and coroner are waiting for him. Right. And you'd better take this revolver. Absolutely. Now then, come along. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I can't thank you enough for killing. Now that I should have had more faith. Yes, Mrs. Burton, one should have faith in those one loves. Your fiance is not a murderer. Nor, may I add, a drunkard. No, if I read the symptoms correctly, he is suffering from a malarial fever. Yes, I contracted it several months ago in Africa. For a few days they thought I wouldn't pull through. Oh, Ralph. It's all right, Mary. I'm well out of danger. Only malaria isn't so easy to get out of your system, you know. I still run a temperature now and then. Mostly in the evenings, eh? Yes, Mr. Holmes. That's what I wanted to explain. Speak to Mary. Tonight, only one of my attacks hit me just at the wrong time. Since it was a lucky thing for you, young man, that you couldn't get out, it was Mr. Penny's attempt to break your alibi that convinced me that he was the murderer.
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Welcome back. Well, Watson, certainly in this particular radio iteration is an aggressive seller of George Washington Coffee. Usually in these setups and what you would see later on is the announcer would be the guy who sold and gave all the information, and Dr. Watson would sit by, but you had just a really strong, bullish like you gotta get this George Washington Coffee. It made me want to get it, even though I don't think the brand is around. And I don't drink coffee. Coffee. And it's also worth noting that there were other episodes from this particular run that were available when I received this one. However, they tended to be bits and bobs, little parts of multi part stories, but no more than one part of any particular serial. And those were serializing the novels. So this was the only one that was complete in and of itself. I thought that the portrayal of Holmes was very different and it's hard for me to. I don't connect with it. But I'm not saying that, you know, given a few episodes, I couldn't feel a bit more home with this Holmes, but this episode doesn't do it for me. You can also really hear the kind of acting approach that was so popular back in the 1930s with a lot of melodrama and theatrics, with a lot of moments being a bit over the top. That's not at all a typical for the era. Although as the air Mail mystery showed, there were already some programs that were moving beyond that sort of approach. It's great to have as like a historical artifact to have an idea of how Sherlock Holmes was played back then. And if you've ever noticed on our Sherlock Holmes feed, the Sherlock Holmes episodes begin with episode 14. That's because the first two episodes, 4 and 9 that related to Sherlock Holmes were presented to me as Richard Gordon episodes, but turned out to be a more modern production that was under copyright protection. So I deleted those two episodes. So it's good to have this in here, even if it's not the best episode of Sherlock Holmes. I hope you enjoyed just the historic nature of the program. Now we turn to some listener comments and feedback and we have a new review, actually two new reviews on the Apple Store and we have Peter from Australia who writes, I'd like to thank Adam for all his hard work and keeping us entertained. Please keep it up. From Australia. Well, thank you so much Peter. I appreciate it. And then we also have a review from Polyplane and this review was actually posted on the Sherlock Holmes feed, so definitely appropriate. I'm really enjoying these old time radio shows. I'm just a bit too young to remember listening to them, but I can see why they were so popular back in the day. Well, thanks so much. And yeah, it's always important to remember that these programs were made for listeners in their own time. Well now I want to go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Russell, patreon Supporter since November 2016, currently supporting the show at the master detective level of $15 or more per month. Again, thank you so much for your support. Well, that will actually do it for today. If you are enjoying this podcast, I do encourage you to review it and rate it wherever you download your podcast from. Join us back here tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Dollar. And then next Thursday, we'll be bringing you Mr. Keen's tracer of lost persons. In the meantime, send your comments to box 13@greatdetectives.net. follow us on Instagram. Instagram. Com, Great Detectives, and over on Twitter @RadioDetectives. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.