[Music] your affectionate niece Helen Stoner now dear an nor my deepest thanks for your invitation to spend a little time with you and Harrow after Julia's wedding indeed I feel a short break will be almost necessitated by the excitement of seeing my sister married even our stepfather Dr royet seems well disposed towards the event Julia herself has not long left me to go to bed and even now I suppose will be lying awake next door thinking of her happiness to come while I my God Julia Julia Julia jul your face what is it what is
it it oh my [Music] God the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized for radio by Vincent mcinery with Clive medicon as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr John Watson and featuring Susan wridge as Helen Stoner the Speckled [Music] Band Watson Watson old man good Heavens Holmes a quter 7 what on Earth is going on a client Watson a client in a considerable state of excitement but who why so early who a young lady as to why well presumably when people wander about the Metropolis at this hour they have something pressing to communicate
and should it prove an interesting case my dear fellow I would not miss it for anything any go Seena oh even said good morning to her Mrs Hudson gave us some cfee in the sitting room I glanced in as a past 30 or so I fancy dressed all in black hair shot with gray but but pitifully agitated with Restless frightened eyes like some hunted animal or so it's not just coffee she needs in but kindness ah Madam I am Sherlock Holmes and this my intimate friend and Associate Dr John Watson before whom you can speak
as freely as before myself Mr Holmes Dr Watson Madam but you must be cold I think traveling at this hour come into the main part of the room I beg you and draw up to the fire it is not cold which makes me shiver Mr Holmes indeed what then it is fear Mr holes it is Terror you must not fear Miss Stoner Helen Stoner no for I have no doubt we shall soon set matters right you have come in by train this morning I see although of course you had a journey before that you know
me then simply I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove while the seven spatters of mud on your left hand jacket sleeve Bes speak time spent along heavy Road sitting next to the driver in a dog cart I see Mrs farantos was right in what she said regarding your abilities Mrs farantos I'm not sure I remember before your time my dear Watson merely an opal Tiara and death by bishoping Miss sterer please sit down oh thank you there sir H you have come far the Western borders of
SAR to Leatherhead and then by first train to waloo Mr Holmes I can stand the strain no longer nor have I anyone to turn to save one Percy that is a Mr Armitage who cares for me very much but can be of little age as regards my domestic circumstances who indeed seems to think what I am suffering from are the fancies of a nervous woman they are not fancies Mr Holmes they are dangers real dangers and I must have some help to walk amongst them then miss Stoner you must begin by laying everything in front
of us that may help us form an opinion on the matter my name then as I have said is Helen Stoner and I live on the borders of sari with my stepfather who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England the roets of stok Moren royet the name seems familiar won indeed a long and distinguished history although somewhat uh checkered I believe towards the end of the um Regency you are right doctor four dissolute HS followed by Gambler reduced one of the richest families in England to ruin lands that once
stretched into barkshire and Hampshire were reduced to few rambled acres and the house itself crushed under a heavy mortgage the last Squad dragging out a life of aristocratic poverty his son however my stepfather saw he must adapt to new conditions took a medical degree and went out to Kolkata where by skill toil and force of character he established a large practice until a series of robberies occurred on his property in which he thought his native Butler was involved and he beat the man to death for which he stood trial only narrowly escaping a capital sentence
it was offered in his defense that he did not know his own strength and he is physically quite terrifying as it was he received a long term of imprisonment returning to England at the end of it a morose and disappointed man but Mr what about um how did uh Dr royet become my stepfather in his early days he met and married my mother the young Widow of Major General Stoner of the Bengal artillery my twin sister Julia and I were 2 years old when the marriage took place Julia more coffee Miss ster here let me
Watson you know is an old India hand Afghanistan actually I stop here you are Miss ster and when you're a little more composed uh but in your own time yes thank you well first I think you should know my mother had a thousand a year at the time of her remarriage which she settled on our stepfather but with a provision that should my sister or I marry we should receive a certain sum from the settlement your mother is dead we returned to England 10 years ago 2 years later she was involved in a fatal rail
accident near KW after her death Dr royet Who had been attempting to establish himself in practice in London suggested that we pack up and move back to stok Moren there was enough money for our wants and seemingly no obstacle to our happiness I assume he reverted yes yes he did our neighbors who had initially welcomed the return of a royet to sto Mor an well sufficient to say two incidents finished in the police courts while in another he threw the local blacksmith over a parit into a stream an Indulgence that cost all the money I
could gather to prevent further public exposure and disgrace he has become the terror of the village and I speak the truth when I tell you the only living things which will have anything to do with him are a cheetah and a baboon he has imported from the East and a land of wandering gypsies who have his permission to camp on what is left of the estate Drea think systems Drea solitary and hard for of course no servant will stay except a decrepit housekeeper Mrs Mims who hardly knows the days of the week any longer so
who now runs the house M sta I do doctor all tasks inside and out although until two years ago I had Julia to help me poor Julia she was but 30 at her death and yet yet her hair had already begun to whiten even as mine has so she too is dead Mr Holmes it is the events surrounding Julia's death which bring me here today you understand that given the circumstances of our life we saw little of anyone of our own age we did however have an aunt near Harrow we were sometimes allowed to visit
a public holidays there two Christmases ago Julia met a half-pay major of Marines to whom she became engaged and your stepfather's reaction quite equable invited the groom over to the house spoke with generosity in terms of the forthcoming ceremony and then within a fortnight of what was to be the happiest day of my sister's life the terrible tragedy occurred which deprived me of my only companion Miss ster pray be precise as to details it is easy for me to be so Mr Holmes for every event of that terrible time is seared into my memory first
however you must have some idea of the manner of our life at stok Moren it is as I have intimated now ruinous and almost completely closed down the living accommodation being reduced to the ground floor of one of its two Wings a long Corridor of which three bedrooms open each with a window looking out onto the lawn first Dr roets then that which was Julia's with myself at the far end on that fatal evening then two years ago Dr royet had gone to his room early though not to retire to rest but rather to smoke
indeed it was the pungent smell from his Indian cigars that had initially driven Julia into my room where we chatted for a time about her approaching wedding but Helen you must wear a veil as my chief bridesmaid in this house Julia it is rather as if I've taken one Helen if you are not careful he will hear you Julia I am not really bothered oh Helen how I your inos the night had been stormy and about 11: became appreciably worse at which point Julia felt it was time to retire so she Rose to leave me
and had reached my door Helen have you ever heard anyone whistling in the dead of night I know Julia never I suppose it could not be you in your sleep Julia dear I cannot even whistle whilst I am awake it would hardly have been on Mama's list of attributes every young lady should possess I am silly but you know I am a light sleeper and well these last few nights about 2: in the morning I have been disturbed by a low clear whisper though once I am awake I have no idea where it has come
from the Gypsy in the plantation perhaps I believe they have a way of communicating with whistles then why have you not heard it your window opens onto the lawn as mine does but you were the Restless one my dear of course well it is probably of little consequence good night dear God bless and with that Julia smiled at me closed my door and a few minutes later I heard the key turn in her lock this was a regular thing Miss stona to lock yourself in at night the cheater and the baboon indeed quite so I'll
proceed if you will Mr I confessed that I had treated the affair much more likely than I had actually felt as I've already mentioned we were not only sisters but twins the links to bound our soul both subtle and penetrating so I knew Julia was Ill atas frightened even terrified I determined I would not sleep the night wore on the rain lashing against the windows the wind howling when suddenly I sprang from my bed and rushed into the corridor Julia my sister's door was slowly swinging open I stared horror stricken not knowing what was going
to issue from it jul then slowly Julia appeared her face blanched her hands groping before her for help her whole figure swaying like that of a drunkard she wied as one who is in terrible pain and her limbs were dreadfully convulsed at first I thought she had not recognize me but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out in a voice I shall never forget Helen oh my God Helen it it was the band The Speckled Band then stabbed with her finger towards our stepfather's door then convulsed yet again and then and then miss
Denna and then Dr royet appeared in his dressing gown poured Brandy down her throat and sent for Aid to the Village but to no avail for she never recovered Consciousness and that is all you saw and heard no Mr Holmes there was something I thought I heard when first I opened my door first a low whistle such as my sister had described and a few moments later a clang of metal he was sure about this you could swear to it I did so to the coroner and yet Amit the crash of the Gale and the
creaking of the old house and the coroner's verdict Miss ster no satisfactory cause of death no marks of violence he investigated with great care not least because of our stepfather's reputation but my evidence showed all the windows on the ground floor was stopped with wooden shutters the doors locked on the inside the chimneys barred across the floor solid no she was alone when when whatever it was happened and poison the doctors examined her without success the the gypsies were not considered indeed Mr Holmes they were my first thought I have spoken of their whistling to
each other and then there was Julia's mention of the Speckled Band you know how so many of them always wear bandanas or stripes and colors and such around their heads yes yes perhaps these are deep Waters however your stepfather was in his dressing gown how then was your sister retired in her night dress oh one other thing in one of her hands was the charred stump of a match in the other a matchbox showing she had time to strike a light and look about when the alarm came how interesting and importantly tell me Miss ster
immediately after these terrible events did Your stepfather's Attitude Change did he that he's become more violent more consiliary more thrusting more retiring I could not say after the funeral my doctor advised a short holiday so I went to the arites near Reading a connection of my aunts that is where Percy and I you heard me mention Mr Armitage earlier of course yes well after that visit two years ago Percy and I began a correspondence a correspondence that in the course of time has well we are to be married in the spring oh congratulations M St
thank you I told Dr roet who showed nothing but benevolence and said it would provide an excuse to have some repairs done to the fabric of the house starting with my room how the mortar between the stone was crumbling and how some of those same Stones must be removed which of course means you have moved into your sister's room quite doctor and now sleep in the very bed she did where last night I was awakened by a low whistle you li the lamp immediately but saw nothing too shaken to go to bed again however I
dressed and waited for Daybreak ran to the crown in for a dog cart and quickly made my way here which means we also must move quickly to see over the rooms of stoke preferably when your stepfather is absent Miss ster is this possible as it happens he too has business in town this morning and as he seldom returns before nightfall then today of all days might be your best chance today it will be uh after lunch to be exact but there's much to do first almost 8:00 Miss stoner should we arrive shortly after 1 uh
would you have returned by then I think so there are some things to arrange regarding my wedding but I fully intend to be home by lunchtime if Dr roet should return early perhaps we had better meet outside of the house yes you have a suggestion there is only one path from the station that leads to sto Moren so if you took the local dog cart and I waited in one of the fields alongside that part A excellent excellent here let me hand you your gloves oh thank you Miss Dona those marks on your wrist oh
no really Dr Watson they are nothing impossible to f off a no medical dog like that I'm afraid may I oh bruises your stepfather must indeed be physically overwhelming I mentioned he is said not to know his own strength you have been cruy used it's the generic term I believe for those who are said not to know their own strength is Bully Watson perhaps you could show our guest out Miss Stoner we will see what Stoke sometime early this afternoon and with that Holmes took up his pipe and sat abruptly down in the chair in
front of the fire and putting his chin in his hands he began staring intently into the crackling Flames I saw Miss Stoner into the street and then returned to our sitting room well what's a dark and Sinister business indeed dark enough and Sinister enough and the gypsies well even taking into account the strange words uttered by Julia headband whistles and such I'm not sure that whole thing might not just be have I name of theil to be dictated to by superannuated houskeeper out of my way Madam out of my way which of you is homes
this rage strangulated inquiry delivered in a voice like a mad Bulls came from a man of huge and terrifying demeanor whose bulk almost completely filled the doorway his clothes too were as bizarre in their appearance as he was being an uneasy mixture of plow and pulpit in that they ranged from a black top hat and long frock coat to a pair of farmers Gators and a hunting crop but there was little Christianity in the face which glowed above the neck stock for it was a Visage seared with a thousand wrinkles burned yellow with East and
Sun marked with every evil passion and containing a pair of deep bile shot eyes set on either side of a thin fleshless nose overall in fact our visitor looked very much like a thoroughly out of sorts aging bird of prey and all the more dangerous because of it I said which of you is hopes my name sir please come in if you will Mrs Hudson that will be all thank you oh yes I'll come in I'm afraid you have the advantage of me I sir am Dr grimesby royet of stoke indeed doctor pray take a
seat wats and perhaps Our Guest would like a cushion cushion I want nothing of the kind my stepdaughter has been here I followed her she suffers from delusions now what has she been saying to you little of coold for the time of the year I think she said that the krocus seem to promise well in the wrong hands Dr Royal that a hunting crop is a vicious and cowardly weapon though certainly not as dangerous as the service revolver my associate here always carries about his person to deal with any Mad Dogs We may chance upon
I see I see well I know you you scoundrel I've heard of you before hes The Meta H's The Busy Body H's the Scot and your jacket office how most entertaining drct roet when you go out I wonder if I might ask you to close the door there's a decided draft I will go when I've had my I'm a dangerous man of all foul of Mr Holmes especially to those who meddle in my affair ass here let me show you there an example of my grip Mr Holmes see you keep out of it pass me
the poker Watson is a good fellow uh not quite as straight as it was then Mrs Hudson will hardly notice the difference and now to business you go to waterl if you will and take two tickets for the first train to Leatherhead after 1:00 mine to be left at the booking office I to doctor's Commons and on the journey we will compare notes and if you could old fellow an empty compartment shall I take anything your revolver an's number two is an excellent argument for gentleman who can twist steel pokers into knots that and a
toothbrush are all I think we'll need 5 hours later as requested I chose an empty compartment on the Leatherhead train and watched anxiously from the door but there was still no sign of him as the guard blew and we began to move off about to pull my head in I suddenly saw Holmes Vault over the barrier defly deposit his ticket in the top pocket of the astonished collector's wasc and begin to Sprint up the pl platform from whence he swung himself aboard without a hair out of place and settled into a corner seat then oblivious
to my presence he drew some papers from his pocket and fell to scribbling and Fring and scribbling again for my part sitting opposite him I gazed out of the window for a time and then what with the steady rattling of the train over the rails the green of the S Countryside and the bright Sun concentrated through the glass window what oh of course the sun you un understand all that way yes yes but look at this a copy of the mother's will checking her Investments I find the income from them now to stand at about
£750 and of this income each daughter is liable for a third at marriage it is evident therefore that even one of the girls marrying would Roy lot to a serious extent but if both were to leave home with husbands why he would be reduced to a mere bittence just through these trees and we are there oh but I am frightened Mr Holmes to learn that Dr Roy had followed me to your lodgings his T ster I assure you that I personally shall deliver you to your aunt at Harrow if needs be but that will be
decided but and there before us lay the manor house of stoke Moren a building of gray ly blotched stone with a high central portion and two curving wings like claws of a crab thrown out on either side One of These Wings that on our left hand was in a complete state of disrepair with its windows out and roof fallen in while the center block was a little better but the right hand Wing was comparatively modern with three Windows looking out from it onto the lawn the end of this block was surrounded by scaff holding that
end window I take it Miss ster belongs to your room this one to your sisters and the next one to Dr Root's chamber exactly so but I am now sleeping in the middle one he pending the alterations as I understand Mr sta I wonder if you would have the kindness to go into your sister's room open the harp of the window then bar the shutters oh certainly holes there hardly seems to be any pressing need for repairs to this end wall no indeed nor any Workman around to affect them that is suggestive an excuse perhaps
yes perhaps ah thank you Miss Stoner now then no possibility there and no room even to get a knife blade in under the bar this hinges solid L into the stone H my theory certainly presents some difficulties what price gyps is now hey Watson no one could pass through these shutters if they were barred uh thank you Miss Stoner we shall now join you inside it was a homely little room with a low ceiling and gaping fireplace after the fashion of old country houses a brown chest of drawers stood in one corner a narrow white
counterpane bed in another a dressing table on the the left of the window and two small wickerwork chairs Holmes Drew up one of the chairs and sat silent while his eyes travel round and round and up and down taking in every detail that Bell pull above the bed where does it communicate to the housekeeper's room yes it looks newer than the other thing yes it was only put there a couple of years ago your sister asked for it I SP oh no I I never heard of her using it we always used to get what
we wanted for ourselves yes just so if you'll permit how very interesting what hes it's not even attached to a wire it's merely fastened to a hook just above the ventilator how absurd I never noticed that before very strange there are one or two very singular points about this room for example what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another room when with the same trouble he might have communicated with the outside air that is also quite modern yes done about the same time as the bellom yes there were one or
two little changes carried out about that time they seem to have been of a most interesting character dummy Bell ropes and ventilators which do not ventilate huh with your permission Miss Stoner we shall now carry our researches into the inner apartment Dr Roy's room though larger than that of his stepdaughter was plainly furnished a camp bed with an armchair beside it a Shelf full of books a round wooden table with a single chair and a large iron safe Miss ster what's in here why I have only seen into it once years ago it was full
of my stepfather's papers then he would not say keep a cat in it a cat there this sorcer of milk lying at its side oh I see well there is the cheetah Mr Holmes and the baboon with due respect Miss ster a cheetah is a very big cat while this is a very small sorcer however there is one further point I should wish to determine this chair that is quite settled hello here is something interesting what do you make of that Bon there's a common enough whip cord dog lash I tied in a loop though
ah I could not say not quite so common then it's a wicked world and when a clever man turns his brain to Crime it is the worst of all Miss Stoner it is essential that you now follow my advice in every respect I shall certainly do so your life may depend upon your compliance I am in your hands then in the first place both my friend and I must spend the night in your room oh if it is necessary of course but Dr Roy in a moment Miss Turner now that is the village in across
the fields there yes that is the crown yes and this window would be visible from there certainly then when your stepfather comes back be confined to your room with a headache wait for him to retire for the night then open the shutters undo the window harp and show a lamp as a signal to us then withdraw to your old room and leave the rest in our hands I believe Mr Holmes that you have already made up your mind perhaps I have then was it as I have thought a sudden fright I believe what killed your
sister was much more tangible we took our leave of the frightened girl and walked across the fields to the crown where we engaged a room on the Upper Floor commanding a view of the Avenue gate and the inhabited wing of stok Moore and manor house we ordered and ate an early dinner and took our chairs to the open window and sat in companionable silence as dusk fell wasn't Dr royet the gate boy the gate the Trap drove on and a few minutes later we saw a light spring up among the trees as royet lit a
lamp in the sitting room you know Watson I really have some Scruples about taking you tonight there is a distinct element of danger can I be of any assistance no your presence would be invaluable then I shall certainly come thank you look the light in the sitting room's gone out no it is not yet nine he's merely closed the shutters it'll be some time yet before he retires to his chamber or for one thing he will want to feel Miss Stoner is asleep you evidently saw more in those rooms than I did yeah no no
simply introduced a little more the Bell rope the ventilator but so small a rat could hardly pass through it I knew we'd find one even before we came to stoke my dear H you recall how Miss sterer said her sister was driven from a room by the smell of roet cigar I realized then there must be a small ventilator but what harm can there be in it well there is at least a curious Coincidence of dates uhoh Did You observe anything peculiar about the bed no it was clamped to the floor clamped inde here he
could not be moved and must therefore always be in the same position relative to the ventilator and the bell rope as must any head resting upon the pillow my God I seem to see dimly what you're hinting at oh horrible horrible enough when a doctor goes wrong he is the first of criminals and more Horrors to come before the night is over so for the time being let us have a quiet pipe and take in the beauty of the Moon the trees the night and so we did and two hours passed slowly away then suddenly
at the stroke of 11 a single bright light Shone out right in front of us that is our signal we made our way quietly downstairs and out into the night Holmes pausing only to take up a thin whip like cane from the stand near the Indo there was little difficulty entering the grounds of the house the wall having long fallen into disrepair and we quickly made our way through the trees across the lawn and were just about to pull open the window of Julia stoner's old room what the devil no hold your fire whats it's
only the doctor's baboon indeed a nice household and the cheater and who died up a tree waiting to descend on our shoulders now now before we go in you will take one of the chairs keeping your revolver on your knee and do not fall asleep if you value your life I will sit on the side of the bed with a candle and matches and this shortly after we go in I will put out the light to make him think Miss ster has gone to bed and then well then we will see right El fellow in
we go how shall I ever forget that Dreadful vigil broken only by The Crow of the occasional nightbird outside and once a long drawn out snuffling whne from the window which told us the cheater had found us and had come to investigate but for the rest No Light No sound no movement nothing but the sense of my companion sitting open eyed within a few feet of me and in the same state of nervous tension as myself far away we heard the Deep boom of the parish clock as it told the quarters and how long each
one seemed but gradually the hours slipped by midnight one 2 3 then suddenly a gleam of light appeared at the ventilator to vanish immediately a moment later came the strong smell of burning oil and heated metal someone in the Next Room had lit a dark Lantern and drawn its shutter for half an hour there was no other sound and then my ears picked up something something very strange in being just audible yet also somehow very soothing all together like a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle you see it Watson you see it
where what what is it stay back Watson stay back man if you value your life the devil it's escaped me it's go back back hes where what has [Applause] good God holes what was that what does it mean that it's over and perhaps after all it's for the best take your pistol and we shall enter Dr roylott's room and it was a singular sight that met our eyes on the table in Roy's chamber stood the dark Lantern throwing a beam of light onto the safe the door of which was a jar beside the table on
the wooden chair sat Dr grimesby royet clad in a long dressing gown his bare feet thrust into red heel as Turkish slippers across his lap lay the short whip with a small Loop tied in its end but it was his face his chin was cocked upwards his eyes fixed on the ceiling in a dreadful rigid stair across his brow he had a peculiar yellow band with brownish Speckles which seemed to be bound tightly around his head the band The Speckled Band a God sake holes what is it swamp Adder most venomous snake in India death
within 10 seconds indeed does violence recoil on the violent and the schemer fall into the pit which he digs for another and now I will try to distract it with a cane you go for the Noose then into the Save Right right right well done old man well done a dreadful way to die Oh indeed and that cry what Agony he must well miss ster I heard oh yeah no M St do not come in there is nothing there you would want to see you are wrong Mr Holmes I must see I beg you to
stand aside m d what was it a snake Miss Stoner another of the doctor's deadly pets but one that turned on its Master his face just like Julius so that's what he used but why for the third of your mother's Legacy that he would have lost by Julia's marriage as he would yours so monstrous a deed to so derer as some who would believe it exactly I wonder Miss sterer if I might Advance an idea with a view to canvasing your opinion the doctor is dead through it might be argued his own carelessness however any
hint that his death was not so simple would I feel lead to prolonged and searching inquiries public inquiries in which your name and that of your sister would figure largely on the other hand should Watson here go to the Country police when it's light and inform them truly that the doctor has merely suffered from an accident I have no doubt at all I could put you onto the train to your aunt tomorrow morning without you ever being bothered again regarding this matter I stress that while this is not perhaps an ideal solution it is possibly
an acceptable one Mr Holmes may I your arm I would go closer if I might Mr Holmes Dr Watson my view is that justice has been done now please help me back to my room a classic case then doctor of my reasoning from insufficient data and thereby coming to an entirely erroneous conclusion the presence of the gypsies and the dead sister's use of the word banned putting me entirely on the wrong scent I can however claim the Merit that I instantly reconsidered my position when it became clear that the danger could not have come from
the window or the door but must have been the work of an inside agency then of course came the discovery of the false Bell Poole this hanging alongside the ventilator gave me the idea it was simply there as a bridge for something to pass through the ventilator and down to the bed the notion of a snake came immediately and as the doctor was furnished with a supply of creatures from India while the coroner of course not a hope Watson a form of poison that could not be discovered by chemical test while it would be a
sharpey coroner indeed who could distinguish the small punctures where the two fangs have done their work then there was the whistle of course he must recall it before Morning Light and have trained it to return by use of the sorcer of milk kept near the safe which in turn gave rise to the clang as the snake was locked in it during the day but how would he know it would bite he did not not on any given occasion he would simply slip the snake through the ventilator at the hour he thought best with a certainty
it would crawl down the rope and land on the bed then sooner or later even if it took a week how truly horrible indeed indeed I had more or less come to these conclusions before I enter the doctor's room the safe and the loop of whip cord merely adding to my conviction what finally convinced me beyond all Reasonable Doubt however was the chair the chair you recall how closely I examined it with my glass ah yeah what it told Watson was that Dr royet was in the habit of standing on it usually an unnecessary Pastime
unless one wants to put something through a hole above one's head I you and it was simply a matter of baiting our trap and waiting for the strike when it came in the shape of a hiss I instantly lit the match and attacked the creature arousing its snakish temper and driving it back through the ventilator with it flew at the first person it saw indeed which means as you have gathered that I am indirectly responsible for the death of Dr grimesby royet of stoke my dear fellow you although I cannot say it is likely to
weigh very heavily on my conscience [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] cigar in the Speckled Band Sherlock Holmes was played by Clive medison and Dr Watson by Michael Williams Helen Stoner was played by Susan wridge with Jane Witten Shaw as Julia Stoner and Ian Lindsay as Dr grimesby roylott the violinist was Leonard Friedman the Speckled Band was dramatized for radio by Vincent mcer and directed by Patrick [Music] rer
