1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,120 Now, Roma Wines present... 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,120 Suspense! 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:25,480 Tonight, The Man Who Knew How, starring Charles Lawton. 4 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:32,240 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 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Sayers' intriguing story of The Man Who Knew How, 14 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,200 and with the performance of Charles Lawton as Mr. Pender, 15 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,760 a law-abiding citizen of suburban London, we again hope to keep you in... 16 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:24,760 Suspense! 17 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,760 Hello, is this seat taken? 18 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:37,760 Oh, no. You're perfectly welcome, I'm sure. 19 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,760 Thank you. 20 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,760 I'm glad to see some of you. 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Night journeys are always a bit tedious, don't you think? 22 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Well, I suppose it depends upon one's destination. 23 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,760 Oh, yes. Would you like a book to read? 24 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,880 I have a copy of Hangman's Holiday here. I found it extremely... 25 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,360 Thank you very much. I never read detective stories. 26 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,960 They're so inadequate, don't you think, sir? 27 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,760 Well, most of them are rather lacking in characterisation and human interest, 28 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:16,760 but on a railway journey one really has to... 29 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,760 Well, I wasn't speaking of the character so much. 30 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,760 I meant the crimes. Bungle, you know. 31 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,480 Oh, but I don't agree with you there. 32 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,040 All these penitent, dreadful murderers are so incompetent, they bore me. 33 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,360 Oh, I say, I think you're quite wrong. 34 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,920 The criminals in books are usually a good deal more imaginative and ingenious 35 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:34,840 than murderers in real life. 36 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,160 Than the murderers who are found out in real life, yes. 37 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,160 Well, even some of those did pretty well before they got pinched. 38 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,160 Crippen, for instance. Don't you remember Dr Crippen? 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,160 Oh, yes, of course. 40 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,160 Crippen need never have been caught if he hadn't lost his head and run off to America. 41 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,160 Well, that's the point, you see. He did lose his head. 42 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,160 Very good. Yes. 43 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,160 He bungled the whole business. It could be so simple. 44 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,160 Now, just for argument, if you were going to commit a murder, 45 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,160 what weapon or means would you choose? 46 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Me? 47 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,160 Oh, let's see, I've... 48 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,160 I've never really given it much thought to actually... 49 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,160 I know. 50 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,160 Yes. 51 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,160 I should use a sandbag. 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,160 A sandbag? 53 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,160 Yes, it's worked very successfully in two stories I've read recently. 54 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,160 A sandbag! Oh, yes! 55 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,160 Pardon me, I didn't mean to be rude. 56 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,160 The clumsiness of it all, the elaboration, the lies, the paraphernalia, the alibis... 57 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,160 Absolutely unncessary. 58 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,160 Come, come, come. You can't expect committing a murder 59 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,160 and getting away with it to be as simple as shelling peas. 60 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,160 Oh, you think that, do you? 61 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,160 Well, your mistake, sir, it can be quite simple. 62 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,160 Oh, well, if it's so easy, how would you set about committing a murder? 63 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,160 I? Oh, well, that's different. 64 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,160 I shouldn't have to think twice about it, you see. 65 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,160 I know how. 66 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,160 Er... 67 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,160 Ha-ha-ha! 68 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,160 You haven't tried, have you? 69 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,160 Oh, my dear fellow, it isn't a case of trying. 70 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,160 There's nothing tentative about my method. 71 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,160 Well, what is this wonderful method? 72 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,160 Oh, you don't expect me to tell you, do you? 73 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,160 Well, I'd never think of merging anybody. 74 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,160 Oh, yes, you would if you really believed me saying. 75 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,160 We've all of us got a nice little murder locked up inside 76 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,160 just waiting for a chance to come out. 77 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,160 Why are all these tremendous artificial barriers built up around murder 78 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,160 by the Church and by the law? 79 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,160 Just because it's anybody's crime, that's why. 80 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,160 It's as natural as breathing. 81 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,160 That's ridiculous. 82 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,160 Yes, that's what most people would say, but I wouldn't trust them. 83 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,160 Not with sulphate of Thanatol to be bought for tuppence at any chemist. 84 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,160 S...sul...sulphate... 85 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,160 of what? 86 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,160 You think I'm giving something away? Well, I'm not. 87 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,160 It's a mixture of that and one or two other things. 88 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,160 You see, all equally ordinary and cheap. 89 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,160 For ninepence, you couldn't make up enough to poison the entire cabinet. 90 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,160 Tell me. 91 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,160 Of course it wouldn't do to polish off so many at one time. 92 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,160 It might look weird if they all died simultaneously in their baths. 93 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,160 In their...why in their baths? 94 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,160 Well, that's the way it would take them. 95 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,160 It's not the mixture alone that does the trick. 96 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,160 You see, it needs hot water to make the stuff take effect. 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,160 Just a hot bath, any time from a few hours to a few days after administration. 98 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,160 It's quite a simple chemical reaction. 99 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,160 It couldn't possibly be detected by analysis. 100 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,160 It would just look like heart failure. 101 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,160 I...I...I...I...I...I've never heard of such a thing. 102 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:50,160 You know, it's very odd how often one seems to read 103 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,160 of people being found dead in the bath tub. 104 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,160 Have you noticed? 105 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,160 No. 106 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,160 No? 107 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,160 But look here. 108 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:07,160 If...if...if...if nobody is fit to be trusted with this potent formula... 109 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,160 I'm not to be trusted either. 110 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,160 Exactly. 111 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,160 Well, that's true, but it's past praying for now. 112 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,160 I know the thing and I can't unknow it. 113 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,160 Unfortunate, perhaps, but there it is. 114 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,160 Huh. Are we flowing down? 115 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,160 Yes, this is Rugby. 116 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,160 Rugby already, dear me. I must get out here. 117 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,160 I have a little business to do with Rugby. 118 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,160 I most indebted to you, sir. 119 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,160 I've been quite entertained with your secret formula. 120 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,160 Thank you. 121 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,160 Just a moment. What did you say was the name of that stuff? 122 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,160 Sulfate of... 123 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,160 Oh, no, look here. 124 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,160 If I were you, my dear sir, I'd just put it out of my head and forget it. 125 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,160 There's a good fellow. 126 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,160 Yes, yes, yes, that would be better. I will try to forget it. 127 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,160 Tonight for Suspense, Roma wines bring you a star, Mr. Charles Lawton, 128 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,160 whom you have heard in the prologue to tonight's study in Suspense. 129 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,160 Far to the south of us is our good neighbour country, Ecuador. 130 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,160 Let's imagine ourselves there now, 131 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,160 dining on the roof terrace cafe of the exclusive Hotel Metropolitano 132 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,160 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 133 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:29,160 Near us, an American has just complimented his hosts on the magnificent dinner 134 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,160 to which his host quickly responds, 135 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,160 Ah, yes, it is true that our host is a very good friend of mine. 136 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,160 And I am very happy to have you here. 137 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:43,160 And the host quickly responds, Ah, yes, it is true that our foods are famous. 138 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,160 But from your land comes a rare delicacy also. 139 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:53,160 It is the superb wine, so excellent that we in Ecuador import it from your United States. 140 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:58,160 My friend, I drink to you in your own delicious Roma wine. 141 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,160 Our Ecuadorian friend is right. 142 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,160 For Roma wine's superb quality has won such favour in many far places 143 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,160 that they import it, enjoy it as a rare luxury. 144 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,160 But not so here in America. 145 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,160 Here, millions know and enjoy Roma wines as an inexpensive everyday delight 146 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,160 at meal times and when entertaining. 147 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,160 So many, in fact, that Roma is America's largest selling wine. 148 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,160 With no high import duties to pay nor expensive shipping costs, 149 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:32,160 you enjoy these distinguished wines for only pennies a glass. 150 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:37,160 Ask for Roma wines, which bring you old world winemaking skill 151 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,160 plus Roma's own modern controls and testing. 152 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:46,160 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, America's largest selling wine, 153 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:52,160 made in California, for enjoyment throughout the world. 154 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,160 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage 155 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,160 Charles Lawton in The Man Who Knew How, 156 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,160 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 157 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,160 Good morning, sir. Morning, Charles. 158 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,160 I have an egg for your breakfast, sir. Oh, thank you. 159 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,160 They're quite scarce now, you know. Yes, I know. 160 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,160 Will you have your tea now, sir? Yes, please. 161 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,160 Ending in the post, Charles. Only a note from your tailor, sir. 162 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,160 He'd be pleased to have you come in for a fitting at one on Tuesday next. 163 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,160 Oh, very well. 164 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,160 Charles, what's the back-stairs gossip in the neighbourhood? 165 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,160 Nothing much, sir. 166 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,160 Mr. Skimmings, the old gentleman in number 11, 167 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,160 had a falling out with his nephew and has drawn up a new will, they say. 168 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,160 Oh, really? 169 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,160 He's left everything to his housekeeper, Mrs. Digby. 170 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,160 Well, well, well, she's been with him nearly 20 years. 171 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,160 That reminds me, Charles, 172 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,160 I should draw up my will, you know, one of these days. 173 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,160 Charles, I shan't forget you. 174 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,160 You've been more than loyal to me, Charles. 175 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,160 Oh, well, thank you, sir. 176 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,160 Charles? Yes, sir? 177 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,160 Charles, has it ever occurred to you 178 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:19,160 that an unusually large number of people die in bathtubs? 179 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,160 In bathtubs, sir? 180 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,160 Yes, yes. You know, they seem to have a heart attack 181 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,160 while in their bath and they never come out of it. 182 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,160 It's a common occurrence, I dare say, sir. 183 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,160 There was one in the paper like that this morning. 184 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,160 There was? Yes, sir. 185 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,160 Right on the front page it was. 186 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,160 That's how I happened to notice. 187 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,160 Here, it's this account, sir. 188 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,160 Oh, it was... 189 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,160 Wealthy manufacturer dies in bath. 190 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,160 Mr. Brittlesea, it was, sir, 191 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,160 of the Brittlesea's engineering works at Rugby. 192 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,160 Rugby? Did you know him, sir? 193 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,160 No, no, I didn't know him. 194 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,160 I believe the paper says his wife found the poor man. 195 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,160 Heart failure. 196 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,160 That's a very peculiar coincidence. 197 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,160 What, sir? 198 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,160 I was just thinking, Charles. 199 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,160 I met a man on the train down from Carlisle last night. 200 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,160 He got off at Rugby. 201 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,160 He said he had a bit of business there. 202 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:22,160 I wonder what his business was. 203 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,160 Oh, Charles. Charles. Charles. 204 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,160 Charles, there's someone at the door. 205 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,160 Oh, dear, I mean, the bell must be out of order. 206 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:36,160 Charles! Where is that other slipper, damn you? 207 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,160 Charles! 208 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,160 All right, all right, just a moment, just a moment. 209 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,160 Is anybody there? 210 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,160 I'm coming, I'm coming. 211 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,160 Oh, Mrs. Digby. 212 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,160 Oh, I didn't mean to rouse you, sir. 213 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,160 But Mr. Skimming's never kept the phone in the house, sir. 214 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,160 And also, perhaps you could tell me who to call. 215 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,160 Step inside, Mrs. Digby. 216 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:04,160 Now, what precisely seems to be the trouble? 217 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,160 Well, I thought he was a long time in the bath, sir. 218 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,160 But I never dreamed. 219 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,160 Oh, dear me, has Mrs. Skimming been taken in? Is that what the matter? 220 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,160 Worse than ill, sir. All blue ears. 221 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,160 Dear me. 222 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,160 If only I'd looked in sooner, sir. 223 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,160 But you know a gentleman in his bath how it is, sir. 224 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,160 Oh, yes, of course. 225 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,160 I must say, I've always been afraid something of this sort might happen. 226 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,160 The old gentleman would take his bath, so very odd. 227 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,160 Probably had a slight stroke, Mrs. Digby. 228 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,160 I dare say the doctor will be able to bring him round. 229 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,160 Not likely, sir. 230 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,160 I've heard him. He's been dead for some time, sir. 231 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,160 Stand back, stand back. 232 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:53,160 Predicates won't be admitted until the coroner's completed his animation of the body. 233 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,160 Hello. Would you have a look at this card, please, officer? 234 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,160 Who did you want to see in there, sir? 235 00:12:58,160 --> 00:12:59,160 Mrs. Digby. 236 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,160 You'll find her in the library, giving testimony, most likely. 237 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,160 Yes, they've discovered the will, I imagine. 238 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,160 I don't know nothing about that, sir. 239 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,160 Well, I'll just run in and have a look around, eh? 240 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,160 Sir. Officer! 241 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:11,160 Yes, sir. 242 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,160 Who was that man who just went into Mr. Skimming's house? 243 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,160 Search me. Why did you let him in? 244 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,160 He persuaded me like. 245 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,160 Do you realize, officer, what you may have done? 246 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,160 Of course, officer, I had no right to say it, 247 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,160 but that man may have gone in there to destroy evidence. 248 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,160 What evidence? 249 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,160 Oh, I get it. 250 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,160 You're one of them there's sensation seekers 251 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,160 in the wrong team, my lord. 252 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,160 There ain't no murder case here. 253 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,160 The old bloke died of heart failure. 254 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,160 Yes, I know. 255 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,160 While taking a hot bath. 256 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,160 Really, Danton's every day. 257 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,160 Five or six cases right round this neighborhood 258 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,160 in the past month for loans. 259 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,160 I've been keeping track of them, officer. 260 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,160 Did you know that in every single one of these cases 261 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,160 the persons who died left quite a lot of money? 262 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,160 I wouldn't be surprised, sir. This is a wealthy neighborhood. 263 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,160 All right, then that's my number, Mrs. Digby. 264 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,160 Give me a form of any unusual development, eh? 265 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,160 I will, then, sir. 266 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,160 There he is, officer. There he is. 267 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,160 That's the man, all right. What man's debt, say? 268 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,160 Well, well, well, hello. 269 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,160 We meet again. 270 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,160 Yes. 271 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,160 I rather imagined we would. 272 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,160 Did you know the old gentleman, Mr. Skimmings? 273 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,160 Only to speak to on the street. 274 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,160 Oh, then you live near here, eh? 275 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,160 Oh, yes, fourth house down. 276 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,160 I'm just going back. 277 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,160 Mind if I walk along? 278 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,160 Oh, no, no, of course not. 279 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,160 It's a rather odd meeting again like this, isn't it? 280 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,160 Most peculiar. 281 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,160 Uh, do you live in these parts, too? 282 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,160 Oh, no. I was only here on a little matter of business. 283 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,160 Matter of, uh, yes. 284 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:48,160 Last time we met you had a business at Rugby. 285 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,160 Oh, yes, I had. 286 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,160 Well, my business takes me all over the country. 287 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,160 I never know where I may be wanted next. 288 00:14:55,160 --> 00:15:00,160 It was, uh, it was while you were at Rugby that, uh... 289 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,160 silly, old Brittle say was found dead in his bath, wasn't it? 290 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,160 Oh, yes. 291 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,160 There's a funny thing, coincidence. 292 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,160 He left all his money to his wife, I believe. 293 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,160 She's a rich woman now. 294 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,160 Good-looking girl, a lot younger than he was. 295 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,160 This is my gate. Oh, already? 296 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,160 Will you, uh... 297 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,160 Will you come in and have a drink? 298 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,160 Why, yes, thanks. I should like to very much. 299 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,160 I trust your wife won't object to this intrusion. 300 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,160 I have no wife. 301 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,160 Oh, bachelor's quarters. 302 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,160 Yes. 303 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,160 I do myself quite well under the circumstances. 304 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,160 Oh, you're right. This is capital. 305 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,160 Would you give me your hat? Oh, thank you. 306 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,160 I think my man has gone after bed, but I dare say we can manage. 307 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,160 This way, please. 308 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,160 Oh, that fire looks good. 309 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,160 Would you take soda? Yes, please. 310 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:55,160 It is remarkable how many people have been found dead in their baths lately, isn't it? 311 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,160 You think it's remarkable, huh? 312 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,160 Well, I suppose... I don't know, perhaps it is. 313 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:05,160 I suppose I've been taking more notice on account of that conversation we had on the train. 314 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:10,160 You know, it is a curious thing how when once your attention is attracted 315 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,160 to any particular set of circumstances, 316 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,160 that that set of circumstances seems to haunt you. 317 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,160 True. 318 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,160 Let us say, for instance, that you get appendicitis. 319 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,160 Now, immediately the newspapers are filled with paragraphs 320 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:26,160 about people who have died of or recovered from appendicitis. 321 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,160 True. 322 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,160 You see, it mentioned in all the magazines, 323 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,160 you discover that many of your friends and acquaintances have had appendicitis. 324 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,160 The thing seems rather to pursue you. 325 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,160 Yes, yes, that's exactly how it is. 326 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,160 And all these baths have deaths. 327 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,160 The sequence of events is the same in each case. 328 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,160 The hot bath, the discovery of the body, the inquest, the death of the body. 329 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,160 The inquest and the medical opinion, 330 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,160 always the same, death due to heart failure, 331 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,160 following immersion in hot water. 332 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,160 Yes. 333 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:58,160 It just makes me wonder, you know how one does, foolishly, 334 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:05,160 whether anybody else had happened to hit on that drug you mentioned. 335 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,160 What was the name of it? 336 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,160 Oh, I shouldn't think so. 337 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,160 I fancy I'm the only person who knows about that. 338 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,160 Are you a chemist? 339 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,160 Oh, I'm a bit of everything, sort of a general utility man. 340 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,160 I do a good bit of studying on my own too. 341 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,160 You see, well, I see you have some very interesting books here. 342 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,160 Yes, I collect modern first edition. 343 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,160 May I see that green volume now? 344 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,160 Of course, certainly. 345 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,160 I'll set you down. 346 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,160 It's a Henry James. 347 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,160 It's quite a bargain, really. 348 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,160 Here we are. 349 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,160 A very interesting book. 350 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,160 Yes, yes, indeed. 351 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,160 It's a very interesting hobby. 352 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,160 E. Pender, is that your name, Pender? 353 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,160 Yes, it's Everett Pender. 354 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,160 You have the advantage of me now, sir. 355 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,160 Oh, I'm one of the great Smith Clams, and work for my bread. 356 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,160 Here's your drink. 357 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,160 You're retired, I suppose. 358 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,160 Yes, thank you. 359 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,160 Yes, only recently. 360 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,160 I was in a bank until I came into this bit of money. 361 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,160 Lucky ones, not married, comfortably fixed. 362 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,160 I dare say you won't be needing any self-paid euthanics. 363 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,160 No, I didn't quite say that. 364 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,160 Any useful drugs in the near future? 365 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,160 No. 366 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,160 I shan't be coming to you for assistance yet a while. 367 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,160 Besides, how should I find you if I wanted you? 368 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,160 Oh, you wouldn't need to find me. I should find you. 369 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,160 There's never any difficulty about that. 370 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,160 Well, I'd best be getting up. 371 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,160 Don't get up. I'll find my hat. 372 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,160 Thank you for your hospitality. 373 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,160 I don't expect we should meet again, but we may, of course. 374 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,160 Things work out so clearly sometimes, don't they? 375 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,160 Yes. Don't they? 376 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,160 Good night, Mr. Smith. 377 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,160 Good night. 378 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,160 I beg pardon, sir. 379 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,160 Oh, hello, Charles. I thought you'd gone to bed. 380 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,160 I heard voices and thought you might be wanting something. 381 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,160 Oh, it was just an acquaintance, Charles. 382 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,160 I'd like a drink. He's gone. 383 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,160 Shall I take the glasses? Yes, thank you, Charles. 384 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,160 Do you wish to finish yours, sir? 385 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,160 Mr. Fender. What? 386 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,160 Your drink, sir. Do you wish to finish it? 387 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,160 Oh, yes, of course. I thought I had. 388 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,160 There you are. 389 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,160 I'll draw your bath when you're ready for it, sir. 390 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,160 Oh, there's no hurry. Tell me, Charles, 391 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:33,160 did you ever notice a tall, dark chap 392 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,160 with very thick spectacles and curly hair calling on Mrs. Digby? 393 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:42,160 Why, yes, sir. Come to think of it, I have, sir. 394 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,160 But then he always seems to be about whenever there's a death in the neighborhood. 395 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,160 Lately, that is. 396 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,160 Did you ever talk with him, Charles? 397 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,160 Why, if I not to mention it, sir? 398 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,160 Oh, you did talk to him, Charles. 399 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,160 Why are you so upset, Charles? 400 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,160 Well, sir, it was about Mr. Skimming's changing his will 401 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,160 in favor of Mrs. Digby. 402 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,160 And the gray-haired gentleman, a smith, I believe his name is, 403 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,160 asked whether you hadn't changed your will lately. 404 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,160 Did you tell him I'd left everything to you? 405 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,160 Well, not in so many words. 406 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,160 But you gave it away. 407 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,160 Ah. 408 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,160 Ah. 409 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,160 So that's his game. 410 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,160 Ah. 411 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,160 Oh! 412 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,160 Good Lord in heaven, what is it, sir? 413 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,160 That drink. He bought it. 414 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,160 While I was getting a book down from the case. 415 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,160 What is it, sir? 416 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,160 Charles. Charles. 417 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:41,160 Under no circumstances am I to have a hot bath 418 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,160 for at least two weeks. 419 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,160 Do you understand, Charles? 420 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,160 No hot baths. 421 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,160 Very well, sir. 422 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,160 Oh, Charles. 423 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,160 In the paper, has... 424 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,160 Has anyone else died in his bath? 425 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,160 Why, as it happens, yes, sir. 426 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,160 Here it is, sir. 427 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,160 The inquest will be held tomorrow at three. 428 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,160 The inquest? Yes, the inquest, Charles. 429 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,160 I know what my duty is. 430 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,160 I shall be at the inquest tomorrow. 431 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,160 Good afternoon, sir. 432 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,160 Hello, Charles. 433 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,160 I was not expecting you home for a bit, sir. 434 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,160 You didn't stay long at the inquest. 435 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,160 I wasn't interested in the inquest, Charles. 436 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,160 I went to the inquest only to see if a certain man would be there, 437 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,160 and he was there, Charles. 438 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,160 He was there as I expected. 439 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:38,160 Yes, sir. 440 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,160 The afternoon papers come. 441 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,160 There is still another of those bath deaths. 442 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,160 Another? 443 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,160 Oh, yes. 444 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,160 Yes. 445 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,160 And they will go on and on 446 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,160 unless somebody stops them. 447 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,160 Charles, where was this one? 448 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,160 In Launceton Place, sir. 449 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,160 A young woman this time. 450 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,160 It's the most... 451 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,160 No, no, no, no, Charles, no. 452 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,160 I'm going out again, Charles. 453 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,160 I have some business to attend to. 454 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,160 Over in Launceton Place, as a matter of fact. 455 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,160 Goodbye, Charles. 456 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,160 Yes, sir. 457 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,160 And what can I do for you, sir? 458 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,160 Do you have one of those old-fashioned sandbags? 459 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,160 Sandbags, sir? 460 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,160 The kind one uses to keep drafts from coming in under a door. 461 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,160 Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, I think we may have one left. 462 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,160 Oh, yes, here we are, sir. 463 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,160 Not much demand for these nowadays. 464 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,160 No, I suppose not. 465 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,160 Careful if you use it on a stair landing, sir. 466 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,160 One of these fell and hit a woman on the head, in case I know, 467 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,160 knocked her out cold. 468 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,160 You don't say. 469 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,160 I'll be very careful. 470 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,160 Yes, very careful. 471 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,160 Hello. 472 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,160 Bobby, have you got light there? 473 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,160 Right, sir. 474 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,160 Here you are. 475 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,160 Thank you. 476 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,160 Would you like a cigar to smoke later on? 477 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,160 Thank you, sir. 478 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,160 By the way, sir, there's a bloke following here. 479 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,160 I don't know whether he knows... 480 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,160 Yes, I know. Just let him alone, Bobby. 481 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,160 I'm going to have some sport with him. 482 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,160 Right, Charles, sir. 483 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:51,160 Hello, Panda. 484 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,160 Come on out from behind that post. 485 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,160 I know you're following me. 486 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,160 I've known it ever since I left Launceston Place. 487 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,160 You should have told that Bobby to arrest me. 488 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,160 Why should I? 489 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,160 Because I'm going to kill you. 490 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,160 Why ever do you want to do a thing like that? 491 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,160 To put an end to one of the most fiendish careers 492 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,160 and the annals of crime. 493 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,160 You've committed your last murder, Mr. Smith. 494 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,160 Come, come. Look here, old boy. 495 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,160 My name's not Smith at all. I'm William Barkley. 496 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,160 I didn't imagine it really was Smith. 497 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,160 Do you actually believe that I'm responsible 498 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,160 for all these baths of death? 499 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,160 Do you deny that you are? 500 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,160 Why should I? 501 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,160 You told me yourself you're the only man 502 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,160 who knows the formula for the poison. 503 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,160 Self-hate, if that at all? 504 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,160 Well, yes, indeed. You have me there, Panda. 505 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,160 And you stood to profit by every one of those deaths, 506 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,160 didn't you, Mr. Buckley? 507 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,160 You have me there, too. 508 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,160 Look here, Panda, you're a great reader of crime stories. 509 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,160 Haven't you ever wished someone would commit the perfect crime 510 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,160 and get away with it just once? 511 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,160 Yes, I have. God help me, but I don't anymore. 512 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,160 I saw old Skimming dead in his bath. 513 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,160 Blue and horrible. 514 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,160 The man who committed that outrage must die. 515 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,160 You, Buckley, you must die. 516 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,160 You don't know what you're doing, Panda! 517 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,160 Oh! Oh! 518 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,160 Well, Mr. Pender, what will you have, sir? 519 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,160 A double brandy, if you please, miss. 520 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,160 You're warding off a cold, eh? Yes, yes, sir. 521 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,160 You don't look at all well, if I may say so, sir. 522 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,160 Or to be home in bed, you ask. I dare say yes. 523 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,160 That's fine for the phone given. Right away, sir. 524 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,160 Say, what's up, Tom? 525 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,160 You promised not to beat me to the phone, and I'll tell you. 526 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Oh, if it's interesting like murder, my paper wouldn't print it anyway. 527 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,160 What is it? Bill Buckley of all people. 528 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,160 No. Gone to an inquest. 529 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,160 Some woman died in her bath. Really? 530 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,160 Buckley must have been on his way to interview the husband at his laboratory. 531 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,160 It was a rough district close to the river. 532 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,160 Somebody crept up on him and gave him such a blow, it broke his neck. 533 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,160 Don't say it. 534 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,160 So he says it must have been a sandbag. Who did it, do they know? 535 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,160 The vaguest notion got cleaned away in the fog. 536 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,160 Oh, dear, that's too bad. 537 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,160 Bill Buckley was a great crime reporter. 538 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,160 He was a decent sort, too. I worked with him for a time. 539 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,160 Great sport, no end of a leg for it. 540 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,160 I know. 541 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,160 Did you ever hear about that sulfate of Thanatol stunt he used to work? 542 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,160 No, what was that? 543 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,160 Look at you, sober as a judge you would, 544 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,160 and then tell you about this sulfate of Thanatol. 545 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,160 Sulfate of Thanatol? 546 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,160 Which mixed with a few other things he said would cause death if you swallowed it, 547 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,160 and then took a hard bath. 548 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,160 Nobody believed him, did they? 549 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,160 Oh, yes. He used to work off that wheeze on all boobs and right-away carriages. 550 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,160 See how they take it, really? 551 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,160 Would you believe it? One chap actually accused him. 552 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,160 Oh, Mr. Pender! 553 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,160 What's happening? 554 00:26:49,160 --> 00:27:07,160 Oh, why, that bloke has fainted. 555 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,160 How's the old boy feeling now, child? 556 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,160 Much better, sir. He caught a bit of a chill out in the fog, I think. 557 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,160 I put him to soak in a hot bath. 558 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,160 That ought to do the trick. Well, if there's nothing more we can do. 559 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,160 Mr. Pender wants me to thank you for bringing him home, gentlemen. 560 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,160 Oh, nothing, we are, then. Well, good night. 561 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:30,160 Good night, gentlemen. 562 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,160 Is your bath hot enough, sir? 563 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,160 Mr. Pender! Mr. Pender! 564 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,160 I found out the name of that drug, Charles. 565 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,160 It was so fatal! It was so fatal! So fatal! Dammit! 566 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:52,160 Oh, sir! Mr. Pender! Mr. Pender! 567 00:27:52,160 --> 00:28:09,160 You're... He's... dead! 568 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,160 And so closes The Man Who Knew How, starring Charles Lawton. 569 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,160 Appearing with Mr. Lawton was Hans Connery, Des Buckley. 570 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,160 In tonight's tale of... 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