WEBVTT 02:28.773 --> 02:31.608 It's no good. I shall have to go. 02:31.734 --> 02:33.152 Go? Go where? 02:35.196 --> 02:36.113 King's Pyland. 02:39.200 --> 02:41.994 Last evening Inspector Gregory of the Devonshire Constabulary 02:42.120 --> 02:45.539 arrested well known racing personality Fitzroy Simpson 02:45.874 --> 02:49.126 and charged him with the murder of trainer, John Straker... 02:49.627 --> 02:50.544 Oh, come in. 02:52.881 --> 02:55.549 Two more telegrams, Mr. Holmes. 02:55.967 --> 02:57.050 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 02:57.385 --> 02:59.887 You've been bombarded with these the last couple of days. 03:00.013 --> 03:01.555 Another one from Inspector Gregory. 03:03.349 --> 03:04.391 A note from Colonel Ross. 03:04.559 --> 03:06.059 Awe, that's the horse's owner. 03:06.186 --> 03:06.977 Thank you my dear. 03:09.355 --> 03:10.022 Watson, 03:11.441 --> 03:12.733 I had made a blunder, 03:13.985 --> 03:16.069 which I am afraid is a more common occurrence 03:16.237 --> 03:19.239 than anyone would think who only knew me through your memoirs. 03:19.949 --> 03:21.909 But the fact is that I could not believe 03:22.035 --> 03:24.745 that so a remarkable a horse as Silver Blaze could disappear, 03:25.496 --> 03:28.874 especially in the seclusion of somewhere like Dartmoor. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.418 From hour to hour I expect to hear that the abductor 03:31.961 --> 03:34.254 was the murderer of John Straker and the horse had been found 03:34.422 --> 03:36.048 but that doesn't seem to be the case. 03:37.383 --> 03:38.759 I should be happy to go with you. 03:39.302 --> 03:41.053 No, Tavistock. 03:41.429 --> 03:43.180 If I should not be in the way. 03:46.267 --> 03:47.184 Oh my dear Watson, 03:48.228 --> 03:50.604 you would confer a great favour upon me by coming. 03:51.856 --> 03:53.523 I'm sure your time will not be misspent. 03:53.650 --> 03:56.193 The case promises to be absolutely unique. 03:57.695 --> 03:59.363 We can just catch our train from Paddington. 03:59.489 --> 04:02.616 Oh Watson, would you be so kind as to bring your field glasses? 04:12.919 --> 04:15.295 Mrs. Hudson, were off to Dartmoor. 04:42.448 --> 04:43.240 Tickets please. 04:45.994 --> 04:46.827 Thank you, Inspector. 04:47.328 --> 04:47.828 Thank you. 05:00.049 --> 05:01.425 Watson, we're going well. 05:02.552 --> 05:07.931 Our speed at present is fifty-three and half miles an hour. 05:09.434 --> 05:12.602 I've not observed the quarter mile post. 05:12.729 --> 05:13.353 Nor have I. 05:15.106 --> 05:19.109 But the telegraphed posts on this line are sixty yards apart. 05:20.737 --> 05:22.112 The calculation is a simple one. 05:30.163 --> 05:32.164 Has that remarkably, colored, sporting paper 05:32.290 --> 05:34.207 anything to say on the subject of our horse? 05:34.667 --> 05:35.208 What? 05:35.752 --> 05:38.128 Oh, yes. 05:38.796 --> 05:39.379 Yes. 05:44.427 --> 05:45.177 Here we are. 05:46.387 --> 05:51.558 Silver Blaze. Silver Blaze is from Isonomy stock. 05:51.684 --> 05:52.309 Isonomy... 05:53.061 --> 05:56.021 And holds as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor. 05:57.231 --> 05:58.732 He's now in his fifth year 05:59.400 --> 06:02.069 and has brought in turn each of the prize of the turf 06:02.612 --> 06:04.571 to Colonel Ross his fortunate owner. 06:06.199 --> 06:07.866 At the time of the catastrophe 06:08.785 --> 06:10.869 he was first favored for the Wessex Cup. 06:11.496 --> 06:13.997 The odds quoted being two to one against. 06:15.166 --> 06:18.085 He's always been a prime favorite of the racing public 06:18.544 --> 06:20.337 and has never yet disappointed them. 06:22.090 --> 06:25.759 In spite of the unfavorable prize, a great deal of money has been placed upon him 06:26.511 --> 06:28.428 so it is obvious, therefore, that there are 06:29.013 --> 06:33.183 many people with the strongest interest in preventing Silver Blaze 06:33.976 --> 06:36.061 from being there at the fall of the flag. 06:49.617 --> 06:52.369 All right, Baynes, will you stop here please, cause this is a rather good view. 06:54.622 --> 06:57.874 Now that's King's Pyland over there Mr. Holmes. 06:58.501 --> 07:00.794 You know my training stable where the missing horse was kept. 07:01.254 --> 07:04.214 What exactly does your establishment consist of, Colonel Ross? 07:04.841 --> 07:07.968 Well, there's the trainer's house, 07:08.219 --> 07:11.471 where poor Straker lived with his wife and a maidservant. 07:12.056 --> 07:13.640 How long had he been with you sir? 07:13.975 --> 07:16.476 Oh, five years at jockey 07:16.644 --> 07:18.395 until he got too heavy for the weighing chair. 07:18.729 --> 07:21.440 Then seven years as my trainer. 07:22.567 --> 07:24.151 Yes, he was a first class man. 07:25.486 --> 07:26.945 And I presume the stables are beyond? 07:27.196 --> 07:30.115 Yes, yes not a big yard, it's a good one. 07:30.783 --> 07:33.410 My thought is quality not quantity. 07:33.536 --> 07:36.329 As anyone connected with the turf will tell you, Mr. Holmes. 07:36.456 --> 07:37.998 Yes, thank you, Inspector. You see, 07:38.833 --> 07:42.169 at the moment I'm merely five horses in the yard. 07:42.336 --> 07:45.755 I see you have two of them entered for the Wessex Cup, Colonel Ross. 07:46.007 --> 07:48.800 That's right, yes. Yes, Silver Blaze and Bayard. 07:49.719 --> 07:53.180 But between us Bayard is intended for a pacemaker. 07:54.015 --> 07:56.433 Well with such valuable animals under his charge, 07:56.559 --> 07:59.519 I imagine your trainer Mr. Straker must have taken some precautions. 07:59.854 --> 08:01.188 Oh yes indeed. 08:02.023 --> 08:04.357 Three stable lads lived with the horses 08:04.901 --> 08:08.653 and after dark one of the lads was always on duty in the stables 08:08.779 --> 08:10.530 while the other two sleep above in loft. 08:13.117 --> 08:14.784 Is that another training stable over there? 08:15.536 --> 08:16.953 Yes, that's Mapleton. 08:17.830 --> 08:19.122 Lord Backwater's yard. 08:19.540 --> 08:22.709 Lord Backwater? Lord Backwater owns Desberly, 08:22.877 --> 08:24.544 second favorite for the Wessex Cup. 08:24.712 --> 08:28.298 This is not a bad horse. Not in the same class as Silver Blaze. 08:30.051 --> 08:33.303 Fellow called, Silas Brown, 08:33.721 --> 08:36.223 trains for Backwater, I can't stick the fellow himself. 08:36.807 --> 08:38.225 Nor could Straker come to that. 08:39.560 --> 08:41.394 There's a natural rivalry I presume. 08:41.646 --> 08:43.063 Rather more than that. 08:45.024 --> 08:45.565 Shall we drive on? 08:45.691 --> 08:46.483 Yes, indeed. 08:46.609 --> 08:47.817 All right, Baynes. 08:53.241 --> 08:54.241 Inspector Gregory, 08:54.575 --> 08:57.577 are there any further developments as to the whereabouts of the horse? 08:57.745 --> 08:58.578 Nothing at all. 08:59.497 --> 09:02.207 We have made very little progress in that direction. 09:03.167 --> 09:05.752 I can't imagine how a horse like Silver Blaze 09:06.045 --> 09:08.088 could go missing for so long in a place like this. 09:08.256 --> 09:09.089 Nor can I. 09:10.550 --> 09:13.176 I must tell you Mr. Holmes, that at first I was not at all taken 09:13.302 --> 09:16.513 with Inspector Gregory's suggestion that you should be asked to come down here. 09:17.223 --> 09:18.765 I don't like amateurs, you see? 09:24.981 --> 09:26.773 But you did send me a telegram, Colonel. 09:26.899 --> 09:29.109 Well no one else seems to be able to find my horse. 09:30.778 --> 09:34.614 If you ask me it's these damn gypsies wondering all over the moor. 09:35.491 --> 09:37.534 It's a perfect scandal, I've said so for years. 09:37.660 --> 09:40.579 My men have seen every group of gypsies on Dartmoor 09:40.705 --> 09:42.247 in the last two days, Colonel. 09:43.124 --> 09:46.293 And searched every stable yard, quarry and cave in south Devon. 09:47.253 --> 09:48.628 It's an absolute mystery. 10:27.668 --> 10:30.003 I expect a miracle from you, Mr. Holmes. 10:43.434 --> 10:46.019 Inspector Gregory, my friends at Scotland Yard tell me 10:46.187 --> 10:48.647 that you're rapidly making a reputation for yourself 10:48.856 --> 10:50.357 in the English detective service. 10:51.025 --> 10:53.526 I'm a keen student of your methods too, Mr. Holmes. 10:53.903 --> 10:56.154 I have the two principle, witnesses waiting for you. 10:56.280 --> 10:56.821 Thank you. 11:52.712 --> 11:53.753 In here, Mr. Holmes. 11:54.463 --> 11:55.004 Who are they? 11:55.464 --> 11:57.590 Edith Baxter, the maid and Hunter, the stable boy 11:57.758 --> 11:59.092 who was on duty on Monday night. 12:09.603 --> 12:12.355 It was just a few minutes after nine o'clock, sir. 12:14.442 --> 12:17.193 I was carrying Mr. Hunter supper across from the house. 12:17.319 --> 12:18.737 Awe, but Miss Baxter, 12:20.489 --> 12:22.115 what did the supper consist of? 12:22.742 --> 12:24.617 It was a dish of curried mutton, sir. 13:08.287 --> 13:10.246 Suddenly I heard a man's voice. 13:10.831 --> 13:13.166 Did not give me a turn, I can tell you sir. 13:15.503 --> 13:16.503 Excuse me, Miss. 13:16.837 --> 13:17.962 What do you want, sir? 13:19.548 --> 13:21.257 Can you tell me where I am? 13:21.675 --> 13:23.760 I'd almost made up my mind to sleep on the moor 13:23.886 --> 13:25.011 when I saw the light. 13:25.137 --> 13:27.347 This is King's Pyland training stable, sir. 13:30.351 --> 13:31.434 What a stroke of luck. 13:35.022 --> 13:39.025 I understand there's stable lad who sleeps here at night. 13:40.027 --> 13:41.653 No doubt that's his supper you have there. 13:43.572 --> 13:45.114 I'm sure you wouldn't be too proud 13:45.241 --> 13:47.367 to earn yourself the price of a new dress would you? 13:49.203 --> 13:50.703 See the boy has this tonight 13:51.247 --> 13:53.373 and you shall have the prettiest frock money can buy. 13:53.541 --> 13:54.374 I couldn't! 13:57.002 --> 14:00.964 Ned! 14:01.632 --> 14:05.051 There's a man stopped me out there. I'm ever so frightened. 14:05.302 --> 14:05.885 What did he want? 14:06.178 --> 14:09.222 He asked after you. He asked me to give you something. 14:09.348 --> 14:09.973 What was it? 14:10.724 --> 14:13.017 I don't know. It was white. 14:13.269 --> 14:13.893 Where is he now? 14:14.061 --> 14:15.019 He's gone. 14:16.772 --> 14:18.898 We best cut back to the house. Quick tell the governor! 14:19.066 --> 14:19.858 Yes Ned. 14:40.671 --> 14:43.548 Good evening I want a word with you. 14:44.049 --> 14:45.258 What business have you here? 14:45.676 --> 14:48.511 It's a business that may put something in your pocket, my lad. 14:50.097 --> 14:52.765 Now you've two horses entering the Wessex Cup, 14:53.267 --> 14:54.601 Silver Blaze and Bayard. 14:55.769 --> 14:58.229 Let me have the straight tip and you won't be the loser. 14:59.773 --> 15:02.609 Is it the fact that at the weights Bayard can give the other a hundred yards 15:02.735 --> 15:03.943 and five furlongs in the... 15:04.111 --> 15:06.613 You wont get any tips around here, get out! 15:15.915 --> 15:17.624 After him boy, after him! 15:22.755 --> 15:24.797 The governor and the others came down soon enough. 15:25.925 --> 15:27.300 We found not a sight or sound of the man. 15:27.468 --> 15:28.134 One moment. 15:29.136 --> 15:32.555 When you let the dog out did you leave the door open behind you? 15:32.681 --> 15:35.892 Oh excellent, Watson, excellent. It's just the point I was going to make. 15:36.727 --> 15:39.062 I locked the door behind me sir. I swear it. 15:39.188 --> 15:39.729 Good lad. 15:46.779 --> 15:48.738 Does Fitzroy Simpson admit to all this? 15:49.239 --> 15:50.323 He denies nothing. 15:53.911 --> 15:56.663 He says he came for information... 15:57.122 --> 15:58.164 What about the white paper? 15:58.290 --> 16:00.166 He says it was a five-pound note. 16:07.007 --> 16:07.840 What happened next? 16:09.259 --> 16:09.968 Well sir, 16:11.345 --> 16:14.347 it was about dawn when the mistress came into my bedroom 16:14.473 --> 16:15.807 and told me to come with her. 16:17.101 --> 16:20.144 Well when she woke she'd found Mr. Straker's bed empty. 16:31.824 --> 16:34.993 Heavens! The horse is gone... 16:36.787 --> 16:37.704 And the bridle. 16:44.086 --> 16:45.962 Ned, wake up! 16:46.547 --> 16:47.380 Wake the boys. 16:47.715 --> 16:51.050 Ned! Ned! Wake up. Wake up, Ned! 16:52.594 --> 16:56.723 Bill, Robbie come quick, Silver Blaze is gone. 17:24.960 --> 17:25.752 Over here. 18:12.091 --> 18:13.424 He was dead sir. 18:17.262 --> 18:17.887 His head, 18:20.641 --> 18:22.308 it was all knocked in. 18:27.481 --> 18:28.564 It was terrible. 18:54.341 --> 18:55.675 It was a terrible blow on the head 18:55.801 --> 18:57.802 from some blunt instrument that had killed him. 18:59.596 --> 19:02.849 It was clear that he had defended himself most vigorously. 19:03.684 --> 19:05.101 The blood stained knife. 19:06.436 --> 19:08.479 As to the wound on the thigh, who can tell? 19:08.605 --> 19:11.023 Well it is possible that the wound on the thigh 19:11.525 --> 19:13.317 could have been caused as Straker fell. 19:13.694 --> 19:14.986 The lad here was drugged. 19:15.863 --> 19:19.782 Appreciable quantities of powered opium were found in his carry. 19:21.368 --> 19:22.994 Did all the household eat the same dish? 19:23.120 --> 19:26.664 Yes sir, I made it myself and served it. 19:30.711 --> 19:32.336 This black and red scarf? 19:33.213 --> 19:35.882 The gentleman was wearing that scarf when he talked to me. 19:36.300 --> 19:38.217 I'd swear that on the Bible, sir. 19:39.720 --> 19:40.386 Thank you Watson. 19:41.346 --> 19:42.013 Thank you. 19:53.066 --> 19:55.568 Stop it boy. Stop it. Come on. Good dog. 19:58.572 --> 19:59.071 Good boy. 20:06.246 --> 20:08.581 My theory is that Simpson was under some strong 20:08.749 --> 20:11.500 obligation to Nobble or otherwise incapacitate this horse 20:11.627 --> 20:14.086 so that he would be unable to run in the Wessex Cup. 20:14.588 --> 20:16.589 Clever move that, putting opium in the boy's food 20:16.757 --> 20:18.090 and easy enough through that window. 20:18.258 --> 20:20.092 Yes. Then it was simple. 20:20.761 --> 20:24.096 He obtained a duplicate key, led out the horse, 20:24.598 --> 20:27.934 it was his bad luck that Straker was alert enough to catch him up on the moor, 20:28.477 --> 20:30.269 in the struggle the horse bolted. 20:30.604 --> 20:33.773 That's no proof that Simpson killed Straker. 20:34.191 --> 20:35.775 Well the evidence against him is very strong. 20:36.151 --> 20:38.277 He was undoubtedly here on some devious business. 20:38.445 --> 20:39.612 He poisoned the stable lad. 20:39.780 --> 20:42.281 He had in his hand a heavy stick weighted with lead 20:42.407 --> 20:44.533 and his scarf was found in the dead man's hand 20:44.993 --> 20:47.453 And he went pale as death when I confronted him with that fact. 20:47.829 --> 20:50.122 I really think we have enough to go before a jury. 20:50.290 --> 20:51.874 No, no, no. 20:52.292 --> 20:55.628 Inspector, a cleaver council would tear it all to rags. 20:57.214 --> 20:59.465 Has a duplicate key been found in his possession? 20:59.925 --> 21:00.424 No. 21:00.550 --> 21:02.468 Well what chemist sold him the powered opium? 21:02.636 --> 21:05.972 And above all how could he, a stranger in this district, hide a horse 21:06.139 --> 21:07.473 and such a horse as Silver Blaze? 21:07.599 --> 21:10.101 I agree the evidence is circumstantial 21:10.644 --> 21:13.479 but I think the net is drawn pretty tightly around Fitzroy Simpson 21:13.939 --> 21:15.314 and I believe he is our man. 21:17.567 --> 21:20.820 What sort of fellow is he and why would he do such a thing? 21:21.571 --> 21:24.740 Fitzroy Simpson is a man of excellent birth and dedication. 21:25.367 --> 21:28.411 Unfortunately he has squandered a fortune on the turf, which has- 21:28.537 --> 21:31.622 put him in the hands of moneylenders and unscrupulous bookmakers. 21:31.790 --> 21:33.332 Plenty of those sharks in the racing world. 21:33.500 --> 21:35.001 I didn't know that you were a betting man, Watson. 21:35.127 --> 21:39.171 What? Oh, just the occasional flutter. 21:40.549 --> 21:42.508 I presume an inventory has been made 21:43.802 --> 21:46.304 of what Straker had in his pockets at the time of his death? 21:46.430 --> 21:48.180 I have the things themselves in the sitting room 21:48.348 --> 21:49.432 if you would care to see them. 22:12.497 --> 22:13.873 Weiss & Co., London. 22:16.752 --> 22:17.710 From the bloodstains, I presume, 22:17.836 --> 22:20.046 this is the knife that was found in the dead man's grasp. 22:20.172 --> 22:20.963 Yes indeed. 22:21.590 --> 22:23.007 This is more in your line, Doctor. 22:24.551 --> 22:27.720 This is what we call a cataract knife. 22:28.055 --> 22:31.015 Very delicate blade devised for very delicate work. 22:31.141 --> 22:34.060 Strange thing for a man to take on so rough an expedition, Holmes, 22:35.562 --> 22:37.229 especially as it wouldn't shut in his pocket. 22:37.397 --> 22:39.648 Awe, the tip was guarded by a disc of cork, 22:39.775 --> 22:41.025 which we found beside the body. 22:41.151 --> 22:42.568 You impress me, Inspector. 22:42.694 --> 22:45.404 Thank you. Mrs. Straker says it was on the dressing table. 22:45.572 --> 22:47.239 It was probably the nearest thing to him at the time. 22:47.366 --> 22:50.409 I see. 22:51.578 --> 22:53.079 Corn merchants bill. 22:54.790 --> 22:56.582 Instructions from Colonel Ross. 22:57.793 --> 22:59.001 Awe what have we here? 23:00.712 --> 23:03.672 A milliner's account for 37 pounds fifteen shillings 23:03.799 --> 23:06.092 for a Madame Lesurier, of Bond Street, London, 23:07.344 --> 23:08.761 to a Mr. William Derbyshire. 23:08.929 --> 23:11.263 Mrs. Straker tells us that Derbyshire was a friend of her husband's 23:11.390 --> 23:13.265 and on occasionally had his letters addressed here. 23:14.935 --> 23:16.227 Twenty-two guineas. 23:17.437 --> 23:19.939 Somewhat heavy for a single costume. 23:20.941 --> 23:22.900 Mrs. Derbyshire had rather expensive taste. 23:23.026 --> 23:23.567 Yes. 23:24.486 --> 23:27.113 Well there appears to be nothing more to learn here, Inspector, 23:27.239 --> 23:28.447 shall we move onto the scene of the crime? 23:28.615 --> 23:29.281 Yes, of course. 23:36.456 --> 23:37.289 After you Watson. 23:42.337 --> 23:43.754 Have you got them, Inspector? 23:45.715 --> 23:46.966 Is there any more news? 23:47.968 --> 23:49.427 I'm afraid not, Mrs. Straker. 23:50.470 --> 23:51.971 But Mr. Holmes and Doctor Watson 23:52.139 --> 23:53.764 have come down from London to help us. 23:55.308 --> 23:56.976 I assure you we're doing everything possible. 23:58.311 --> 24:00.146 I wish you good luck, Mr. Holmes. 24:00.522 --> 24:03.816 Oh thank you madam and my commiserations on your great loss. 24:05.193 --> 24:06.485 Surely we've met? 24:07.904 --> 24:11.407 At a garden party in Plymouth some time ago. 24:12.951 --> 24:15.161 No sir. You are mistaken. 24:15.287 --> 24:17.121 No, do you know I could have sworn it. 24:18.165 --> 24:21.459 You wore a costume of dove-colored silk 24:22.169 --> 24:23.627 with ostrich feather trimming. 24:25.505 --> 24:27.465 I never had such a dress, sir. 24:30.969 --> 24:32.344 That quite settles it. Thank you. 24:39.186 --> 24:41.312 That is the bush where the coat was hanging. 24:41.521 --> 24:42.313 What was the weather like? 24:42.439 --> 24:44.273 Wind calm bit of rain about. 24:45.567 --> 24:48.110 And the coat was not blown against the bush but placed there? 24:48.236 --> 24:49.195 Oh yes, it was placed. 24:49.321 --> 24:50.362 Inspector! 24:51.031 --> 24:52.698 No, no, no! 24:55.619 --> 24:58.370 So many people have trampled around this land. 25:02.876 --> 25:04.376 There have been many people here. 25:04.794 --> 25:06.712 That piece of matting has been placed there 25:06.838 --> 25:08.047 and we have all stood upon there. 25:08.173 --> 25:09.215 Not the general public. 25:10.008 --> 25:10.966 I have in this bag. 25:12.177 --> 25:13.886 One of the boots John Straker wore, 25:15.472 --> 25:17.223 one of Fitzroy Simpson's shoes, 25:19.142 --> 25:21.727 and a cast horseshoe of Silver Blaze. 25:22.062 --> 25:22.895 Thank you, Inspector. 26:37.095 --> 26:40.598 Half burned wax candle. 26:41.683 --> 26:45.102 I cannot understand how I came to overlook them. 26:45.478 --> 26:47.313 Oh they're invisible buried in the mud. 26:48.481 --> 26:50.316 I only saw them because I was looking for them. 26:50.483 --> 26:53.319 What, you expected to find them? 26:53.987 --> 26:55.154 I thought it not unlikely. 26:59.242 --> 27:00.743 I'm afraid there are no more tracks. 27:01.328 --> 27:03.829 I've examined the ground for a hundred yards in every direction. 27:05.248 --> 27:06.165 What a pleasant evening. 27:07.125 --> 27:09.460 I think I'll take a walk, stretch my legs Watson? 27:09.586 --> 27:10.127 Yes, indeed. 27:10.253 --> 27:11.837 I'll take this for luck. 27:12.005 --> 27:13.172 I have some work to do in the house, 27:13.340 --> 27:15.674 then Colonel Ross is coming to take us back to Tavistock. 27:19.721 --> 27:20.638 Good evening, Constable. 28:09.562 --> 28:13.399 Suppose that Silver Blaze broke away, where would he have gone? 28:14.693 --> 28:17.569 If he'd run loose on the moor he'd have surely been seen by now. 28:18.738 --> 28:20.072 Perhaps the gypsy theory's correct. 28:20.240 --> 28:21.407 No, no, no, no. 28:22.742 --> 28:26.912 A horse is a most gregarious creature. 28:29.749 --> 28:31.417 Now he did not go back to King's Pyland 28:31.584 --> 28:33.836 to his own stable, so he must have gone... 28:35.880 --> 28:36.588 to Mapleton. 28:39.592 --> 28:41.593 Now let us use that as a working hypothesis. 28:43.263 --> 28:46.223 The ground around here is very hard and dry, but over there 28:46.808 --> 28:49.560 in that hollow it must have been very wet on Monday night. 28:52.063 --> 28:53.772 If our supposition is correct, 28:55.483 --> 28:56.692 he must have crossed it. 29:14.127 --> 29:14.626 Watson! 29:25.430 --> 29:27.097 By George, look at that. 29:30.643 --> 29:33.145 You see the value of imagination 29:33.271 --> 29:36.148 is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. 29:36.858 --> 29:39.985 We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, 29:40.403 --> 29:42.571 and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed. 30:07.847 --> 30:09.515 Look! Look! 30:25.573 --> 30:33.038 Horse and man turned. 30:57.730 --> 31:01.567 No loitering around here. Haven't you got eyes in your head. 31:02.402 --> 31:03.861 I only wanted to ask you a question. 31:04.195 --> 31:06.071 Should I be too early to see Mr. Silas Brown, 31:06.239 --> 31:08.574 if I was to call around here at five-thirty tomorrow morning? 31:09.242 --> 31:10.993 I shouldn't be speaking to you by rights. 31:16.374 --> 31:16.915 Here lad. 31:27.135 --> 31:29.219 Mr. Brown's the early bird around here all right, 31:29.804 --> 31:33.056 Dawson, what are you doing gossiping with strangers? 31:33.182 --> 31:34.433 Be about your business. 31:37.312 --> 31:39.396 Now what the devil do you two want around here? 31:39.606 --> 31:41.440 Just a few minutes of your time, Mr. Brown. 31:41.608 --> 31:46.111 Be off with you or you'll find the dog on your heels. 31:47.030 --> 31:50.449 Why should I talk every gadabout stranger on the moor? 31:50.617 --> 31:56.788 It may save you instant dismissal from Lord Blackwater's service 31:57.790 --> 31:59.750 and the stiffest prison sentence. 32:10.303 --> 32:10.886 Keep guard. 32:21.522 --> 32:24.316 Early Tuesday morning, 32:25.985 --> 32:28.111 you're about the yard as usual, 32:29.572 --> 32:33.825 when you saw a horse on the moor. 32:36.621 --> 32:39.289 When you approached it you realized that it wasn't a strange horse at all. 32:39.415 --> 32:42.125 It was one that you knew, very well. 32:44.253 --> 32:46.630 Your first instinct was to lead Silver... 32:48.466 --> 32:52.010 Silver Blaze back to King's Pyland 32:52.136 --> 32:54.596 but then the devil put other ideas into your head. 32:57.058 --> 32:59.017 You have a chance to make a great deal of money. 33:01.521 --> 33:04.982 It occurred to you that if you were to hide the horse... 33:09.988 --> 33:13.865 You've been watching me, haven't you? 33:15.910 --> 33:18.203 You've been spying on me, sir. 33:26.796 --> 33:28.714 Now. Sir. 33:31.843 --> 33:33.969 I do what you want. 33:43.980 --> 33:50.402 If it's money you want, you shall have it, 34:00.246 --> 34:01.830 You will do exactly as I tell you. 34:13.468 --> 34:17.220 A more perfect compound of the bully, coward and sneak 34:17.346 --> 34:19.431 that Master Silas Brown. I've seldom met with. 34:19.599 --> 34:20.432 He has the horse then? 34:20.558 --> 34:21.349 Of course. 34:22.143 --> 34:23.602 But his stables have been searched. 34:23.770 --> 34:26.354 An old faker like him knows many a dodge. 34:28.608 --> 34:30.025 Watson, I didn't know whether you observed 34:30.318 --> 34:33.445 but Colonel Ross manner has been somewhat cavalier. 34:34.197 --> 34:36.782 I'm inclined to have a little amusement at his expense. 34:36.908 --> 34:38.450 Say nothing to him about the horse. 34:38.618 --> 34:40.702 I shall say nothing without your permission. 34:40.953 --> 34:41.620 Splendid. 34:43.206 --> 34:46.291 We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped 34:46.459 --> 34:49.711 on Monday night within a mile of where the murder took place. 34:50.463 --> 34:53.131 Fitzroy Simpson may well have an understanding with them 34:53.257 --> 34:54.633 over hiding the horse. 34:55.635 --> 34:58.428 Nevertheless, I think I owe it to the public 34:59.639 --> 35:02.599 to remove Silver Blaze's name for the entrance for the cup. 35:02.725 --> 35:05.602 No, certainly not! Colonel, I should let the name stand. 35:06.104 --> 35:07.562 But I've already withdrawn Bayard. 35:07.688 --> 35:11.817 But I have every hope that Silver Blaze will start on Saturday. 35:11.984 --> 35:13.151 Have your jockey at readiness. 35:14.320 --> 35:16.321 I'm very glad to have your opinion, sir. 35:18.157 --> 35:19.950 That is a minor point, of course, 35:20.076 --> 35:23.495 compared with the question of who killed John Straker. 35:23.996 --> 35:26.331 Doubtless you will be devoting yourself to that problem. 35:26.457 --> 35:28.834 On the contrary, Doctor Watson and I 35:29.335 --> 35:31.586 were taking the Night Express to London. 35:32.338 --> 35:36.466 We've had the most charming little breath of your country air. 35:38.845 --> 35:42.430 So you've despaired already of arresting the murderer of poor John Straker. 35:43.808 --> 35:45.851 With our certain grave difficulties. 35:47.186 --> 35:48.603 Do you have the photograph of Straker? 35:50.189 --> 35:52.858 Thank you, Inspector. I am quite ready now for Tavistock. 35:54.152 --> 35:54.693 Linger. 35:58.531 --> 36:03.201 I must say I am rather disappointed in our London consultant. 36:03.828 --> 36:05.787 I don't see that were any further than when he came. 36:06.205 --> 36:09.207 But at least you have his assurance Colonel that your horse will run. 36:09.542 --> 36:13.044 Oh yes, I have his assurance. I should prefer to have the horse. 36:13.212 --> 36:15.505 I think you should heed Mr. Holmes advice, Colonel. 36:17.592 --> 36:18.550 Well I shall have to see. 36:31.772 --> 36:33.565 Excuse me, whom looks after these sheep? 36:33.941 --> 36:34.566 I do, sir. 36:35.735 --> 36:37.194 Have you noticed anything amiss of late? 36:38.654 --> 36:39.237 No sir. 36:40.364 --> 36:42.908 Well it's not much account, but three of them have gone lame. 36:46.662 --> 36:47.204 Thank you. 36:50.583 --> 36:53.043 A long shot, Watson, a very long shot. After you. 36:53.920 --> 36:55.670 Inspector I would like to recommend to you 36:55.796 --> 36:58.506 the singular epidemic among the sheep. 37:00.051 --> 37:02.093 You really consider that to be important? 37:02.553 --> 37:03.595 Exceedingly so. 37:05.640 --> 37:06.681 All right Baynes. 37:18.986 --> 37:19.861 Is there any other point 37:19.987 --> 37:22.447 to which you wish to draw my attention, Mr. Holmes? 37:24.909 --> 37:28.620 To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. 37:29.455 --> 37:31.206 But the dog did nothing in the nighttime. 37:32.541 --> 37:34.125 That is the curious incident. 38:07.243 --> 38:08.618 Where the devil is my horse, Holmes? 38:08.911 --> 38:10.620 No, no, no, no. Where the devil is he? 38:11.289 --> 38:14.416 I suppose, Colonel, that you would recognize him if you saw him? 38:15.167 --> 38:16.334 Know my own horse? 38:18.337 --> 38:19.504 I have been on the turf for twenty years 38:19.672 --> 38:22.257 and I've never been asked such a damn fool question before. 38:23.009 --> 38:24.843 A child would know Silver Blaze 38:25.177 --> 38:28.471 with the white star on his forehead and mottled hind leg. 38:30.016 --> 38:32.517 I suppose you realize if my horse doesn't run, 38:32.893 --> 38:34.644 quite a part from being lynched by the crowd, 38:34.770 --> 38:36.354 I shall be up before the Stewards. 38:37.189 --> 38:40.191 Probably warned off every racecourse in England for life. 38:40.359 --> 38:41.526 Reputation ruined. 38:41.694 --> 38:43.862 Awe, let us hope it does not come to that, Colonel. 38:44.655 --> 38:45.613 Here's Doctor Watson. 38:49.535 --> 38:52.954 And this, Colonel, 38:54.915 --> 38:56.041 is your horse. 38:57.543 --> 38:59.544 But that's not my horse, Holmes! 39:01.130 --> 39:02.630 Good God man, what have you done? 39:30.076 --> 39:34.829 There Colonel is your Silver Blaze. 39:37.208 --> 39:38.875 I found him in the hands of a faker 39:39.668 --> 39:41.878 and brought him to the course just as he was. 39:46.634 --> 39:47.384 Good heavens. 39:50.846 --> 39:52.931 You take my breath away, Mr. Holmes. 40:38.894 --> 40:39.811 Silver Blaze. 40:40.438 --> 40:43.148 If he runs me lord to win a place me lord? 40:43.315 --> 40:44.649 To win, of course. 40:48.028 --> 40:49.446 Any more like you at home? 41:11.010 --> 41:14.596 Come on! What's the matter with the damn horse? 41:15.097 --> 41:16.681 What have you done to him Holmes? 41:17.475 --> 41:19.434 He seems to be missing his pacemaker. 41:20.227 --> 41:22.020 I should have never withdrawn Bayard. 41:22.188 --> 41:24.606 Wait a minute he's breaking through. 41:27.860 --> 41:31.613 Come on Silver Blaze. Come on Silver Blaze. 41:33.491 --> 41:35.325 Go on. Go on. Go on. Go on. 42:04.230 --> 42:06.314 You've done wonders Mr. Holmes, 42:06.690 --> 42:11.402 and I owe you a thousand apologies for having doubted your ability. 42:12.613 --> 42:17.242 Now you've done me a great service by recovering my horse. 42:17.409 --> 42:18.826 You'd do me a greater still 42:18.953 --> 42:22.247 if you could lay your hands on the murderer of John Straker. 42:22.373 --> 42:23.248 I've done so. 42:24.542 --> 42:28.086 What? What's all this about if you got him. Where is he then? 42:28.254 --> 42:28.920 He's here. 42:29.755 --> 42:30.922 Here! Where? 42:31.382 --> 42:33.341 Some who's now present at this very moment. 42:35.844 --> 42:39.347 Yes, I quite recognize that I'm under obligations to you Mr. Holmes, 42:39.473 --> 42:42.183 but this either a very bad joke or an insult. 42:42.810 --> 42:45.770 Oh the real murderer, Colonel, is Standing immediately behind you. 42:47.898 --> 42:48.606 What the horse? 42:49.608 --> 42:50.441 Yes, the horse. 42:52.278 --> 42:54.445 And it may lessen his guilt if I say 42:55.239 --> 42:58.908 that it was done entirely in self-defense, 43:00.035 --> 43:01.286 and that John Straker 43:03.289 --> 43:05.415 was a man quite unworthy of your trust. 43:15.593 --> 43:16.801 Number four, sir, winner. 43:39.658 --> 43:40.283 Come Ross. 43:43.495 --> 43:44.454 Yes, thank you very much. 44:03.015 --> 44:04.140 Thank you very much. 44:10.147 --> 44:12.273 Number twelve. 44:24.536 --> 44:26.162 Very proud of it. Very proud. 44:28.374 --> 44:30.166 Thank you very much. Thank you. 44:47.935 --> 44:49.894 I confess, gentlemen, when we came down to King's Pylan, 44:50.062 --> 44:52.647 I was convinced that Fitzroy Simpson was the true culprit. 44:53.565 --> 44:56.359 All the newspaper and police reports seemed to point to it. 44:57.736 --> 45:00.321 It was only when I entered the trainer's house 45:00.906 --> 45:05.076 that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. 45:05.285 --> 45:08.579 I confess that even now. I cannot see how it helps us. 45:09.790 --> 45:12.834 Powdered opium, Colonel is by no means tasteless. 45:13.919 --> 45:15.086 I am correct? 45:15.337 --> 45:20.258 Oh quite correct. The flavor is not distasteful but it is perceptible. 45:20.426 --> 45:23.928 Were it mixed with an ordinary dish the eater would undoubtedly detect it 45:24.096 --> 45:25.430 but would probably eat no more. 45:26.181 --> 45:29.016 Curry was exactly the medium with which to disguise the taste. 45:30.436 --> 45:33.604 So it must have been Straker or his wife? 45:33.731 --> 45:34.355 Exactly. 45:36.567 --> 45:38.776 Cause I remember you spoke of a dog. 45:45.451 --> 45:48.369 Yes, the dog that didn't bark in the night. 45:49.913 --> 45:51.789 Well someone had been into the stable 45:52.332 --> 45:54.959 and taken out the horse and the dog had not barked. 45:55.085 --> 45:58.755 So obviously this midnight visitor was someone the dog knew well. 45:58.964 --> 46:00.965 I wasn't really convinced that it was a stranger. 46:01.133 --> 46:04.552 But for what purpose should he take out the horse, and 46:04.887 --> 46:06.637 drug his own stable boy? 46:07.681 --> 46:08.973 A dishonest one, obviously. 46:09.558 --> 46:10.808 There have been cases before now 46:10.976 --> 46:13.311 where trainers have made great sums of money by 46:13.896 --> 46:17.064 laying against their own horses and then preventing them from winning. 46:17.316 --> 46:20.443 Well sometimes you get a pulling jockey, I will say that. 46:20.819 --> 46:21.819 And sometimes 46:23.655 --> 46:25.448 by surer and most subtler means. 46:27.993 --> 46:28.743 This- 46:32.289 --> 46:37.293 singular knife, it was found in the dead man's hand 46:38.045 --> 46:42.173 and which no sane man would use as a weapon, right? 46:42.841 --> 46:46.177 Oh yes, only, only used in the most delicate operations. 46:46.887 --> 46:49.847 It was used for a very delicate operation that night. 46:54.436 --> 46:55.186 Excuse me. 47:00.234 --> 47:01.692 As you know, Colonel, 47:02.611 --> 47:06.864 with your wide knowledge of turf matters 47:07.991 --> 47:12.703 that it is possible to make a slight nick in the horse's tendon, 47:14.456 --> 47:16.290 and do it, subcutaneously. 47:27.803 --> 47:31.055 Any slight lameness will be put down to a strain in training 47:31.181 --> 47:32.974 or bruised, never foul play. 47:33.725 --> 47:35.977 Villain! The damn Scoundrel! 47:37.312 --> 47:39.814 Not an operation to be done in the stable. No food for me. 47:41.942 --> 47:46.237 So sensitive a creature would arouse the soundest of sleepers. 47:47.114 --> 47:48.906 I've been blind and Gregory too. 47:49.449 --> 47:52.577 Of course, that's why he needed the candle and struck the match. 47:54.830 --> 47:58.082 When I examined Straker's belongings I was fortunate enough to discover 47:59.501 --> 48:02.169 not only the method of the crime but also the motive. 48:05.299 --> 48:08.259 Most men do not carry other people's bills in their pockets. 48:09.970 --> 48:13.222 From this I concluded that Straker was leading a double life. 48:13.932 --> 48:17.435 The nature of the bill shows that there was a woman in the case. 48:18.270 --> 48:20.104 And a woman of expensive taste. 48:21.273 --> 48:23.232 Liberal though you are with your servants, 48:24.192 --> 48:26.444 I'm sure they're not able to afford 48:26.570 --> 48:30.948 twenty-two guinea, walking dresses for their ladies. 48:32.326 --> 48:34.452 Mrs. Straker never had one by her own admission. 48:36.997 --> 48:38.915 When I visited Bond Street the other morning, 48:39.833 --> 48:44.086 I showed Madame Lesurier this photograph of Straker. 48:49.092 --> 48:50.426 She recognized him 48:51.553 --> 48:55.097 as an extremely good customer called William Derbyshire 48:58.310 --> 49:02.313 with a very dashing young wife with a partiality for expensive dresses. 49:02.648 --> 49:04.315 Women! Women! 49:06.026 --> 49:08.986 I suppose it was she who plunged him head over heels into debt 49:09.154 --> 49:11.739 and so left him to his miserable plot. 49:14.826 --> 49:19.997 Straker let out Silver Blaze into the hollow 49:21.500 --> 49:25.086 where his light would not be visible from the yard. 49:29.007 --> 49:31.801 Simpson in his flight had dropped his scarf. 49:33.095 --> 49:37.682 Straker picked it up with the idea, no doubt 49:38.016 --> 49:40.810 that he might use it in securing the horses leg. 49:44.648 --> 49:46.857 Straker was able to light his candle 49:48.026 --> 49:53.197 but just as he had the knife ready the horse lashed out 49:53.865 --> 49:56.200 and caught him a fatal blow on the forehead. 50:07.879 --> 50:11.382 Why? And why did the horse lash out so suddenly? 50:11.800 --> 50:14.135 Frightened by the candle, the knife? 50:14.344 --> 50:17.555 Well animals have a strange instinct. 50:18.640 --> 50:21.892 They seem to know when some mischief is intended. 50:32.070 --> 50:34.238 My final shot I must confess, was a long one. 50:36.283 --> 50:38.993 It struck me that such astute man, as Straker 50:39.536 --> 50:44.582 would not undertake this tendon-nicking without a little practice. 50:52.466 --> 50:55.426 The sheep! Of course! 50:56.011 --> 50:57.428 Wonderful, my dear. 50:59.598 --> 51:03.267 Now you've explained all but one thing. 51:04.269 --> 51:06.771 The horse. Now where was the horse? 51:07.773 --> 51:09.190 Well I think we must have 51:11.568 --> 51:13.611 a little amnesty in that direction, Colonel. 51:16.656 --> 51:20.743 It bolted and was looked after by one of your neighbors. 51:34.049 --> 51:35.800 Gentlemen I give you a toast 51:37.135 --> 51:38.385 to Silver Blaze 51:38.970 --> 51:41.263 coupled with the names of my friends, 51:41.640 --> 51:44.642 Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.