"Ah, well there you are." "Well, well." "Hell Guvnor." "─ Hello Sims." "How's everything going?" "─ Oh, lovely." "The shop's doing lovely." "Old Mrs Harris, yes she's had stomach ache all the week." "Good." "─ Well, how's things with you?" "Had a good holiday?" "Oh just the usual: eating, bathing and sleeping." "I really don't know why I continue to go on holidays." "They're never adventurous." "Just the inevitable sort of people and happenings." "Unexciting, like myself." "Eh?" ".." "Oh." "Man is an irrational animal, Simms." "Persisting to hope for what reason has proven is non-existent." "And .. oh." "Trouble with your holidays, Guvnor, is you don't choose the hectic places." "Now when I was in Blackpool .." "─ Yes, I know." "You told me that before." "I always said you ought to have married that girl, you know." "Ah well you see .." "─ Yes." "You also told me your excuses." "Here, let me take that." "─ No, that's alright Guvnor." "Here .. you take the camera." "Camera?" "I didn't take a camera with me." "─ You brought one back with you, anyway." "The hotel people must have put this in the car erroneously." "Oh, it's a good one too." "Pentax Two-Nine." "I wonder who the owner is." "He must be missing it pretty badly." "Is it loaded?" "Here .. the film pack." "Five exposures taken." "Well, why not develop the film?" "It might give you a clue." "Well .." "I hardly care to pry into other people's affairs in that fashion." "It's like opening letters." "It just isn't done." "Oh isn't it?" "You would take differently if you was married." "Besides, how you going to find the owner if you don't develop the film?" "I think I might develop one exposure and see if that puts us on the track." "That seems logical enough." "Now .." "I think I'll try the last exposure." "I say, look out." "This film is uncovered." "Oh." "Sorry, Guvnor." "Well, how's everything?" "[ doorbell ]" "I wonder who that is." "A bit late for customers." "Oh probably the Hopkinson's baby swallowed another watch." "Or old mother Abbott thinks she's got a pain .. mind the light from that door!" "Well, that's odd." "Oh, so it's you is it, you little blighter." "What you mean, ringing my doorbell and running away?" "I didn't do anything mister." "I swear I didn't ring your doorbell." "Yes, you did ring my doorbell." "I heard you ring my doorbell." "Hear hear, lay off!" "What are you doing to my little Alf?" "Well I .." "I'm sorry, I made a mistake." "I'm sorry." "And so you should be!" "Come on Alfie dear." "The sauce!" "Yeah .. a nice woman, that." "Nobody there." "One of them brats from the mews I expect." "Well .. how's clues?" "Oh, I don't suppose we'll get much out of this." "Probably a family group on the beach." "You know, proud parents and .. vacuous progeny." "Well that ought to be developed sufficiently." "Bless my soul." "Simms .. come here." "Tell me what you think of that." "[ Doorbell ]" "Blimey, if it's them kids again, I'll break their blooming necks." "Extraordinary .. most extraordinary." "Hey, Guvnor!" "─ Yes?" "Come here will you." "There is something rummy going on." "Look .. you wait." "I'll show you something rummy." "There's nobody here again, Guvnor." "Well you look that way, and I'll look this." "See anything, Guvnor?" "No." "─ And nor did I." "Well, it's got me whacked." "Never mind about your doorbells." "Tell me what you think about this." "Well that's very peculiar." "I could have sworn I left it in the hypo." "Left what?" "Well, how very extraordinary." "The camera has gone, too." "─ Oh come off it." "You must have put it down somewhere else." "That window, Simms." "I distinctly remember closing it and pulling down the blind." "Somebody has been in here during our absence." "Well, I'll be .." "─ That bell." "Do you think that was a ruse to get us out of the room?" "Well .. a bloke would hardly go to that much trouble to steal a camera." "It wasn't only the camera Simms." "The negative." "I'm confident that was a photograph of a murder." "Murder?" "Blimey .." "Definitely." "One man stabbing another." "Under the circumstances, I'm justified in developing the remaining negatives." "Now for it." "Here's adventure with a vengeance." "Oh, but this is absurd." "We're beginning to talk like characters in a mystery melodrama." "I've no doubt we'll find some perfectly mundane explanation." "Nothing very palpitating in those, as you might say." "Hello .. there's a woman turned up in it." "I wonder what she looked like." "Oh, golden hair and large lustrous eyes." "A ravishing creature, my dear Simms." "A heroine of a mystery drama is always a ravishing creature." "Strewth, she's all of that." "You've struck lucky this time, Guvnor." "You know .." "I'd like to find out who this young lady is." "Blimey, who wouldn't." "Now, don't mistake me, Simms." "Don't mistake me." "I'm actuated solely by the desire to return the camera to its rightful owner." "It's the principle of the thing." "─ Oh, of course." "The principle of the thing." "Yes .. but how ..?" "Hello." "Bring me the magnifying glass will you." "I believe I can see the name of the street." "If you'll take my tip Guvnor, you'll pop along there at once." "Yes." "Yes, perhaps you're right." "─ Of course you ought to." "You know, just for the principle of the thing." "17 Mill Street .. hmm." "Still, I don't know that I shall go." "It might very likely prove abortive." "No, on second thoughts, I definitely shall not go." "Well?" "─ Good afternoon." "Can you tell me if this young lady lives here?" "There ain't no young lady lives here, except me." "Oh, but this is number 17 Mill Street, isn't it?" "I suppose it is." "But there are other Mill Streets in London besides this." "There is one in Islington." "Oh is there?" "Oh, thank you very much." "I'll try that one." "Excuse me, is there a young person of that description here?" "No, she ain't been brought in yet, sir." "But come in and give the others a once-over if you like." "This is the mortuary." "Oh .. but it's number 17 Mill Street." "Try Mill Street, Tooting." "─ Oh I beg your pardon." "Sorry." "No." "But don't worry." "There's plenty better inside." "Just pop in for a moment." "Oh thanks very much, but I'm afraid I've got to catch a train." "Oh my God .. can you tell me if there's anybody at home?" "Naa." "Only me." "Oh." "Well, does this convey anything to you?" "Naa." "Naa." "No, I was afraid it wouldn't." "Well thank goodness there aren't any more Mill Streets." "I've ascertained that from the Police." "Goodbye." "Oh, I beg your pardon." "Hello, Amelia." "─ Excuse me." "Eureka!" "─ I beg your pardon?" "Oh, forgive me .." "For manifesting a certain excitement at having run you to earth at last." "Don't know what you are talking about." "Well, you see I've been searching all over London for you." "Really?" "You have, have you?" "A pity I've never had the pleasure of meeting you before." "Quite." "But you see I've some photographs here I would like to show you." "Now listen." "If you try selling me any of those things, I'll shout for the Police." "This is London." "Not Paris." "Why." "Why, that's me!" "─ Yes." "How did you get it?" "─ Well, that's what I wanted to explain." "You see, I found a camera lying in the back of my car." "And the only way to trace the rightful owner was by developing the films." "Oh I see." "Well, come in won't you." "─ Oh, thanks very much." "You better come into my brother's room." "Excuse me if it's in a bit of a mess." "That's quite alright." "Sorry if I was a bit nippy just now, but a girl's got to be so careful nowadays." "There's so many bounders about." "Men you've never set eyes on before." "Playing tickle-toe on the bus." "You know .." "I can't say I do really." "You see, I've never actually played tickle-toe." "Though I imagine it's a game that might have embarrassing effects on a novice." "Oh quite." "But about the photographs." "May I see the camera?" "I think it may be my brother's." "Well you see the camera has been stolen, together with one of the negatives." "Stolen?" "─ Yes." "The whole thing was most extraordinary." "But the last time I saw him he was .." "─ Who?" "My brother Ernest .. he was .." "I don't know whether I ought to tell you." "After all, I've only just met you." "True, yes." "But I hope you will accept my sincere assurance .." "That any confidences imparted to me would be held inviolate." "Ha, you're funny aren't you." "─ Am I?" "I don't know that I've ever been considered particularly humorous." "I should think I err rather on the side of solemnity .. almost morbidity." "There you go again .. do you always talk that way?" "I don't know .." "I suppose I do." "You know .." "I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like you before." "Well, if it comes to that, I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like you." "Oh, that makes us a pair, doesn't it?" "Quite." "Ha ha .." "Well, I don't know what to make of you." "But you seem quite harmless anyway." "Oh, thank you." "Oh .. you're welcome." "Then you will confide in me?" "Well .. the last time I saw my brother .." "Was on Saturday, before he was going for a hike." "I was in my bedroom, just straightening up." "I say .." "May." "─ Yes?" "Where did you put my walking shoes?" "In the cupboard where they belong." "Damn it." "Why will people hide things?" "Where in the cupboard?" "Alright, don't pull the place to pieces." "I'll come and get them for you." "Wait a moment." "Oh, I do look a mess." "I can't see them anywhere." "─ Wait a minute." "Here you are, dear." "If you men had the job of tidying up the rooms, you wouldn't make such a mess." "It's your tidying up that makes me lose things." "Why can't you leave everything where I put it?" "For the simple reason it doesn't do shoes good to be left in a coal scuttle." "May, what have you done with the handkerchiefs?" "Oh alright, I'll show you." "There we are." "─ Thanks." "Why Ernest, where are you going?" "Oh uh .." "Just for a walk in the country." "I'm going to see if I can get some good snaps." "There's a competition at the club." "─ I see." "Goodbye." "─ Goodbye." "Why?" "Oh, Ernest .. wait!" "Hey, have you gone mad?" "How are you going to win a competition without a camera?" "A bit woolly today, aren't you?" "─ Yes, thanks." "I wonder why they let an absent-minded man like you work in a jeweller's shop." "One day, you'll put the cat on the table and throw the diamonds out in the yard." "Oh shut up about the jeweller's shop will you." "Alright, keep your hair on." "What's the matter?" "Sorry .. but I hate talking shop on my afternoons off." "Alright dear." "Goodbye." "Good luck with the snaps, and don't be back home late." "Thanks .. here, wait a moment." "I'll take you from the other side." "Alright." "Hold it .. still." "Watch for the dickybird." "Well, I naturally expected him back for supper, but he didn't turn up." "I haven't heard anything from him since." "─ But didn't he say where he was going?" "No, just for a walk and to take some snaps." "Yes, but look at these photographs." "Don't you recognize any of these places?" "No." "Well they must give us some clue somewhere." "Hello, what's this?" "The Red Lion." "Hmm." "Unfortunately, there is more than one public house of that name in England." "What have we got here?" "Oh look .. you can see the name of the line." "If only we could tell which branch it is." "You know, I'm rather beginning to fancy myself as a detective." "Hello!" "That is the number of the train." "Have you got a telephone book?" "─ Yes." "Here we are." "─ Thank you." "Excuse me Miss." "─ Oh come in, Amelia." "There's a man to see Mr Ernest." "A man?" "Well, what does he want?" "─ I don't know." "Well, what does he loök like?" "Well, he's got brown shoes and a hat." "Oh, he's quite a gentleman." "─ Well, tell him I'll be out, Amelia." "Alright." "Will you excuse me a moment?" "─ Oh yes, yes." "Certainly." "The young lady said to wait, she's coming out to see you." "Alright." "Take your hat off." "I said you was a gent." "You want to see my brother Ernest?" "─ Oh .." "So you're Mr Elton's sister are you?" "Yes." "Well Miss Elton, I'm a Police Officer." "Police?" "Well what do you want?" "Haven't you any idea?" "No .." "I don't know what you mean." "Why are you so alarmed?" "We only want to know where your brother is." "I wish I could tell you." "But I haven't seen him since he went away on Saturday." "Went away?" "Yes, he went hiking and took his camera." "Are you aware a robbery has occurred at Mappin  Edge, the jewellers?" "Where your brother was employed." "─ No, certainly not." "You and he live here together, don't you?" "Yes." "─ Alone?" "Well you see, mother and father are dead." "So .." "I suppose you know a lot about his business?" "You were in one another's confidence, weren't you?" "No .. but we're great pals." "And yet, he hasn't communicated with you in any way, since you last saw him?" "No." "Now look here Miss Elton, I'm afraid you're not being frank with me." "I tell you there is evidence that your brother was implicated in this affair." "And if you and he .." "Oh that's impossible." "When the diamond was stolen he was .." "How did you know it was a diamond?" "Hello .. hello, is that the Inquiry Office?" "No, no, no." "I haven't lost a load of anything." "I want to make inquiries about a branch line." "Are you sure that is all you know?" "─ Yes, yes." "Really." "As a matter of fact, we happen to know that your brother wasn't here anyway." "I'll be getting along now, Miss Elton." "But you and he had better hold yourselves available when he returns." "We shall want to ask you one or two questions more." "Good day." "Thank you very much." "Goodbye." "Oh there you are." "Well, I've found out it's the Muirfield branch line." "Now, there's a road running close along the railway line." "So if we hop into my car we'll have no difficulty in finding the spot." "Now, your brother couldn't have walked more than ten or fifteen miles." "No, really, I couldn't put you to so much trouble." "Oh it's no trouble, I assure you." "Well, he might turn up tonight." "I'll wait." "Alright .. alright, you wait here, but I shall definitely go." "Now I've started on what the Americans happily term the "detective racket"." "Nothing will prevent my tracking the criminal to his lair." "Goodbye." "No .. wait." "In that case, I'll come too." "─ Oh splendid." "We'll have no difficulty in tracing him." "Now in that photograph, there was a sharp curve in the railway line." "There we are .." "look." "The telegraph pole is on the left." "Here we are." "Did you see that?" "─ Yes." "I'd like to report him the crazy fool, following us so close." "You'll be lucky he doesn't report you, stopping as you did without warning." "Well anyway, this would definitely appear to be the place." "Let's call on that farm over there and ask about the photographs." "You know, those places must be somewhere near here." "Let's see if there is somebody through there." "Anybody at home?" "Hello there." "Anybody there?" "Alright sir." "I'm coming." "Do you belong to this place?" "─ No sir." "This place belonged to me before I got married." "No, no." "What I meant was, are you resident here?" "Aye, as man and boy for these last sixty years." "Well that's good enough for me." "Perhaps you can give me some information?" "Well, if it's anything about pigs, you've come to the right man." "I've been breeding pigs, man and boy for these last sixty years." "Isn't she a beauty?" "Yes, yes .. she's charming." "But I didn't want to talk to you about pigs." "I wanted you to see these photographs in case you recognize any of these places." "They must be quite near here." "Ah .." "─ Yes?" "No .." "I thought at first it were old Budding's orchard." "But he never had no cesspool." "─ Cesspool?" "But surely those places are within walking distance of here?" "No sir .." "I know every bit of ground round about here for fifteen miles." "No sir." "─ Oh .. well .. thank you." "Good afternoon." "─ Good afternoon sir." "I can't understand." "I'm sure we stopped at the right place by the railway." "Well, you heard what the old man said, and he ought to know." "What was it?" "Oh, he's "been here man and boy for sixty years"." "Well, thank you for the ride." "Now, do we go home?" "No, no, no." "Of course not." "This must be the place." "Now let me see." "Yes, that's right." "There's the railway line and there's the road." "It's all just like this." "Now then, let's find out the exact position .." "Where your brother took the photograph from, to make doubly sure." "There .. well, over to the right." "No, no, no." "That telegraph pole's all wrong." "Still further to the right." "Good Lord!" "Why .. of course." "That explains the enigma." "Your brother wasn't walking." "He was on a train when he took that picture." "Look, you see how sharp the bend in the line is?" "He must have photographed the front part of his own train." "That means the other snaps of the Inn and the ruins may be 50 miles from here." "Now, where's that timetable?" "Her we are." "Now, let's see where this train stops." "Perhaps .." "Muirfield." "Well, this must be the Inn of the photograph." "Probably taken from that Draper's shop over there." "I'll go into the Inn and ask if they saw him." "No, no." "Please .." "─ Why?" "What's the matter?" "You go to the Draper's shop." "You may have to knock them up." "I'll do the Inn." "Oh alright." "Well?" "Excuse me .. could you give me some information?" "A friend of mine took a photograph of this Inn." "He said he took it here last Saturday." "Do you remember anyone coming here then?" "Well, supposing I did?" "Oh, then my brother was here?" "So .." "It was your brother was it?" "Yes." "Taking photographs?" "Well, as I've said before, I won't have anybody taking photographs of my Inn." "I'm sorry I cannot help you, but you see we were closed on Saturday." "The old man's funeral you know." "─ Oh, I see." "A grand funeral it was, too." "Four carriages." "Oh splendid." "I mean I'm so sorry." "Goodbye." "The town band .." "Any luck?" "No." "The landlord said he didn't see anyone." "Oh Lord, we seem to have come to a deadlock, don't we." "I don't know which way to turn." "I don't think there's use our going on further." "I think we'd better turn back." "No!" "No, I will not acknowledge defeat." "Now, according to the most rudimentary logic .." "Your brother must have been here to have photographed this Inn, mustn't he?" "Yes." "Well, I'll tell you what." "I'll put up here for the night." "I'll endeavour to get on the train again tomorrow. ─ Oh, but .." "It's alright." "Now, I'll run you to the station." "There's sure to be another train back to London tonight." "No, stop." "Wait." "In that case, I'll come too." "─ Will you really?" "I say, that will be splendid." "This is becoming a genuine adventure." "It was open before." "Oh uh .. good evening." "Oh .. back again, eh?" "Could you accommodate us for the night?" "Come in." "So, you want to put up here?" "─ Yes." "Alright .. will you and your wife come this way." "Yes, but you don't understand." "I mean she, she's not .. that is, I mean .." "That's alright." "─ What?" "You'll have a quiet night here." "Nothing to disturb you." "Well, will this suit you?" "Well, it's a nice room." "A very nice room." "Oh!" "Oh, I mean could you manage to let us have two uh .. two singles rooms?" "Will you come this way." "I'll be glad to give you separate rooms." "─ Oh thank you." "I'll get your luggage up." "I'm afraid we haven't got any luggage." "No luggage, eh" "No." "I'm afraid not." "I'll go and put the car away." "─ No." "You two wait here." "I'll see the car is taken care of." "[ door knocks ]" "Come in." "You know .." "I can't stand this place." "It gives me the creeps." "Oh, I expect your nerves are a bit upset." "You'll feel much better after a good night's rest." "Oh .." "I guess so." "Good night .. and thanks a heap." "Oh .. uh." "Goodnight." "─ Goodnight." "Well .." "Goodnight." "[Screaming!" "]" "[ Screaming!" "]" "Oh it was awful!" "─ What?" "What was?" "A man .. he was here in my room." "A man?" "What did he look like?" "I don't know." "I was so frightened I shut my eyes." "As I opened them, he was going out the window." "Oh it's alright now, now, now." "Calm yourself." "Calm yourself." "Keep calm, keep calm." "It will be alright." "Now wait, wait." "Well there's no one there now, anyhow." "Oh, where are you going?" "─ Don't be alarmed." "I shan't be long." "No, no, no!" "Please don't leave me alone." "─ You'll be alright." "Don't worry." "Oh no .." "Yeah?" "─ Yes?" "Anything wrong?" "I thought I heard a scream." "─ Oh yes." "We're alright." "Aye." "You know, I ought to be getting back." "─ No, no, no." "I'm so scared." "Please don't go back because I shan't go to sleep again tonight." "I don't want to be left alone." "─ But .." "I can't stay here." "It will be most unconventional." "Oh please .. well, you can't go." "Yes, but .. think of your reputation." "Oh .. hang my reputation." "But I can't have another scare like that, honestly I couldn't." "Oh there, there." "It was just a figment of your imagination." "Probably the aftermath of a nightmare." "─ No, it wasn't." "Oh .. do stay." "Well, I .." "Oh very well." "Of course, it is very selfish of me." "It must be terribly tiring for you." "Oh no." "It's not in the least tiring." "On the contrary, I find it excessively stimulating." "Your change, sir." "Oh, that's alright.?" "Tell me, are you sure you didn't see a young man here Saturday, with a camera?" "Well of course I did." "Like I told your wife .. the young lady." "You told the young lady that you'd seen someone?" "Yes .. a young fellow who asked the way to Norman Arches." "Norman Arches?" "Yes." "The photographs you showed me." "The ruins ?" "John." "So she ..?" "Tell me, which is the way to get there?" "Well, just across the fields yonder." "I'm sorry I kept you waiting." "─ That's quite alright." "Have you got the car?" "─ No." "I'm going to leave the car here, as we endeavour to pick up some clues on foot." "Well uh, I think I'd better be going back to town." "No." "That's alright, it won't take long." "Besides, a little walk will do you good." "Good day, Landlord." "Good day, sir." "Oh, I don't see much use in our going any further." "I'm sure we're on the wrong track." "No, no, I'm confident we're right." "Come on." "Let me lift you over." "No .." "I'll squeeze underneath." "Well, I can assure you it is much more difficult that way." "Come on." "─ No .. no, I'm going back." "Excuse me, but what have you got in your hand?" "Nothing." "I'm very sorry to have to do this, but I saw you pick something up." "Please forgive me .. please .. please." "Well, that was very unfair of you." "─ Why unfair?" "You are taking advantage of your sex to put me in a very embarrassing position." "Well, it is lost isn't it." "─ Very well, then." "Even at the risk of violating your modesty, I shall have to get it myself." "You wouldn't!" "─ Wouldn't I?" "You see, I happen to know." "Know what?" "Well that you .. you lied to me about what the Inn-keeper said." "He did see your brother." "But if you knew, you'd understand." "But won't you trust me enough to tell me?" "Well." "That man who came and saw me yesterday was a detective." "They suspect my brother of being implicated in a jewel robbery .." "At the store where he works." "But surely, you don't believe your brother is guilty?" "No, of course not." "Circumstantial evidence and .." "I was afraid to let you discover too much." "But we must go on together." "I .." "I don't want to alarm you, but that photograph that was stolen .." "Was of a desperate struggle between two men." "Then perhaps he's hurt?" "Perhaps he's even .." "No, no, no." "Of course not." "Come, come." "There's no use in anticipating the worst." "That photograph .. where was it taken?" "Well .." "I've got an idea." "It was very likely, those ruins over there." "Come on, let's see." "Oh .. this place gives me the jim-jams." "Yes." "It's hardly what you'd call a salubrious atmosphere." "You know .. it seems strangely familiar." "Why of course!" "I drove along that road." "I say, we are getting hot on the scent aren't we." "I say, come and look at this." "Why, what's the matter?" "I don't wish to appear melodramatic, but I think those are bloodstains." "What?" "Now, if a body has been dragged down here .." "Oh, you don't think it could be my brother?" "No .. no, of course not." "Oh no, wait." "Don't leave me alone." "Now .." "I'll feel along this wall." "John?" "Yes?" "─ John, where are you?" "John?" "─ It's alright, I'm here." "[ Screaming!" "]" "What's the matter?" "I don't know John." "I just tripped over something." "I hope it's not .." "─ Oh, you don't think it's my ..?" "Oh." "No." "─ Poor devil." "I wonder who it is." "That photograph." "Then it was .. murder." "Murder?" "Murder." ""M" for mother, "U" for uncle." ""R" for Roger, "D" for Dover, "E" for Easter." "Murder." "Murder is suspected by the local Police." "In connection with the discovery of a body." "In the ruins known as "Norman Arches" a few miles from Muirfield, Surrey." "[ Radio ] "The deceased has been identified as Bill Symes."" ""A notorious criminal well known to the Police."" ""And believed to have been implicated in the recent jewel robbery .."" ""At a well-known firm of West End jewellers."" ""The Police are anxious to interview Ernest Elton."" ""In connection with this matter."" ""And anyone who can give information as to his whereabouts."" ""Is requested to communicate with Scotland Yard."" ""Telephone number:" "Whitehall 1 2 1 2."" ""Or with any Police Station."" ""His description is as follows."" ""Age 20."" ""Of full stature, of fair complexion, brown eyes."" ""When last seen he was wearing grey flannel trousers."" ""A brown sports jacket."" "Carrying a Macintosh and a Delmar camera." "That's your man .. now get him." "Alright Elton, come along." "Ernest!" "I'm alright." "Before we continue this case, I should like to recall to your mind .." "Several points in connection with the testimony of Ernest Elton." "Whom you see again before you, in the box." "Mr Elton testified that he was in no way connected with the crime." "And was in fact, at no time in the vicinity." "Where the body of the deceased was found." "I must point out that we've had substantial testimony to the contrary .." "From several convincing witnesses." "In refutation of which Mr Elton has not produced one iota of tangible evidence." "Ernest Elton." "In view of the weight of the testimony against your own." "I most solemnly ask you if you wish to modify your previous statement?" "That you have no knowledge of the robbery?" "Or of the deceased?" "And were never in the vicinity of the latter?" "No, sir." "I have nothing to change." "Despite the fact that under cross-examination .." "Your sister, May Elton, admitted .." "That subsequent to the robbery at your employers." "You showed marked nervousness." "At any mention of your activities there." "No sir .." "I haven't anything to change." "And despite the fact that the domestic servant at the house where you reside .." "Amelia Wilkinson." "Testified that you left home on Saturday last with a camera in your possession." "No, sir." "No, I didn't take a camera." "And despite the testimony of John Gray." "That photographs alleged to have been taken by you .." "Led directly to the discovery of the body?" "No sir, they weren't my photographs." "And despite the statement of Barnaby Rudd the Inn Keeper .." "That he directed you to the ruins where the deceased was found?" "No." "I tell you I was never there." "Despite the finding of your handkerchief within half a mile of the body?" "No, I wasn't there." "And despite the finding on the dead man's Mackintosh .. of your footprint?" "No .. no." "Ernest Elton." "Do you realize that on the verdict of this jury may depend your life?" "Do you realize that you are under grave suspicion?" "Suspicion .. of murder." "Have you nothing else to say?" "Yes, yes." "I was there." "─ Ernest, stop!" "Don't be a fool." "─ Stop!" "I object to the court's remarks." "I object." "My client is in no condition to give evidence." "Order!" "Order in court!" "Order please." "I see no reason for an adjournment, unless the witness himself desires it." "No, no." "No, I'll tell you .." "I want to." "I can't bear this any longer." "I did help steal the diamond." "I told him the combination." "Then I was sorry." "I wanted to get it back." "I went to the ruins .." "I knew they were meeting there." "I knew no-one would believe me unless I could show who did it." "Something besides my word." "I took my camera .. and I set it up." "[ Voice off camera ] "I've fixed the price."" ""And that's that."" ""You can take it .. or leave it."" ""So, you've fixed it have you?"" ""Yes, I've fixed it."" ""There is no use you starting to grass again."" ""Well .. where do I come in?"" ""I've told you .. it's all settled."" ""Yes, yes but how am I going to .." ─ "Oh shut up will you."" ""I tell you it's all settled."" ""But that's less than half what you promised for the diamond."" ""Oh stop whining .. if you don't like it you can get out."" ""Well, I'm getting." ─ "Here, stop!"" ""Let go of me!" ─ "Come back here."" ""Who is there?"" "After that, I suppose I must have lost my head." "I hid until .." "Well, you know the rest." "And you're asking the jury to believe that this fantastic story is the truth?" "Yes, it is the truth." "─ I object to the court's remark." "In the circumstances, we judge the word "fantastic" a very moderate adjective." "You may stand down." "But I swear that everything I have said is the truth." "That will be all." "─ But I .." "Order!" "Stand down." "─ But you must believe me!" "Find that photograph, that's all I ask." "Find that photograph and you'll see that everything I said is the truth." "It's true." "I saw that photograph myself." "I insist on going into this witness box myself." "The boy is not being given a chance." "It's not fair." "Mr Coroner, I appeal to you." "If that gentleman over there making those extraordinary gestures .." "Wishes to add to his previous testimony." "He may return to the witness stand." "I tell you I saw that photograph of the murder." "I developed the negative myself." "But being merely a negative .." "You couldn't possibly distinguish the features of the two men you saw there." "No, that's true." "So that for all you know, one of them might very well have been Elton himself?" "But surely it's fantastic to suppose that .." "No more fantastic surely, than Elton's statement." "Nor I may say, than your own Mr Gray, about the missing negative." "If indeed there were any such negative." "Are you implying that I'm not telling the truth?" "─ Mr Gray." "Very well then, if you consider my testimony fantastic." "There's my assistant." "He doesn't look exactly fantastic, does he?" "Really it lies neither within the province nor the interest of this court." "To conjecture as to the nature of the gentleman referred to by witness." "But if this gentleman has any pertinent evidence to submit to the court." "I have no objection to his coming forward to testify." "It's alright Guvnor, I'll give him what for." "Silence!" "Order please." "Silence." "You will answer my questions, please." "Well how the blazes can I answer your questions if you want me to be silent?" "Silence in court!" "Your name is Albert Simms?" "And you are employed by Mr Gray as an assistant in his shop?" "That's right .. he's a pal as well you know." "No upstage stuff about him." "No doubt, but what we want to know is did you see the missing camera?" "Oh yes." "And did you see the missing negative?" "Well, yes .. in a way I did." "And then again .. in a way I didn't." "Answer the question clearly please." "Did you see the missing photograph?" "Well, I know there was a photograph if that's what you mean." "How do you know?" "Well, ain't the Guvnor said so?" "─ That is not evidence." "Here, are you suggesting the Guvnor is a holy-flier?" "A what?" "─ A ruddy liar." "Quiet please!" "Order in court." "If I hear any more of those remarks from you, I'll have you turned out of court." "Well that suits me alright." "It's about opening time now." "If your evidence were not of importance, I would have you removed." "As it is, I shall be under the painful necessity of questioning you further." "Well why don't you fire away?" "What are you wasting my time for?" "Now will you answer me clearly, sir." "Did you, or did you not, see the missing negative?" "Well uh .." "No." "That is all." "You may stand down." "Alright." "Have it your own way." "Well, members of the jury, you've heard the evidence." "And it is for you to determine how the deceased met his death." "Three verdicts are open to you." "Death by accident." "Suicide." "Or .. murder." "If you decide that it is murder .." "It is open to you to say by whose hand." "And in this connection, I am compelled to draw your attention .." "To the weight of evidence against Ernest Elton." "Confronted with the testimony of several other witnesses." "After repeated denials." "Mr Elton finally admitted connivance in the jewel theft." "Which seems to have supplied the motive for the death we are investigating." "Mr Elton also admitted his presence at the place where the body was found." "Members of the jury, have you arrived at a verdict?" "We have." "─ What is your verdict?" ""Wilful murder" against Ernest Elton." "He might never have been arrested if I hadn't done amateur detective work." "No, that isn't fair to you." "Only thing we can do is to see how we can help him." "Yes, but it's terrible to have to stand by helpless while time gets shorter." "Why .. you don't really think ..?" "No, no, no, of course not." "Don't worry." "Tell me the truth." "What do you honestly think?" "Well, honestly, if I hadn't seen that film myself .." "I should have had great difficulty in believing your brother's story." "Oh I say, now please, now don't cry." "Don't cry please." "I mean, I .." "Here .. blow." "There, there now." "Simms." "Simms, come here will you." "─ Okay Guvnor." "There, you'll be alright now." "I'll get you a nice strong drink of water." "With some aromatic spirit of ammonia." "Ah, there you are at last." "Where on earth have you been all this time?" "I've been filling in my football cow-pons sir." ""Coupons" Simms." "Coupons." "─ Oh." "Now." "Miss Elton badly needs a rest." "So I want you to escort her home." "Yes sir." "There we are." "Nah, she don't want that." "You come with me, Miss." "I'll mix you a nice, hot cup of tea." "If we could find that missing negative I'm certain we'd get the murderer." "If there's anything I can do, I won't go." "No, no, I want to stay here alone and think it all out." "I've got it!" "─ Yes?" "Well." "If you find the missing photograph." "─ Yes?" "You'd have the murderer, wouldn't you?" "─ Yes .. well?" "Therefore if you find the murderer." "─ Yes." "You'll have the missing photograph." "─ Yes." "Oh don't be a blithering idiot." "Well, it's logical, isn't it?" "Well .. goodnight." "─ Goodnight." "Oh uh, your handkerchief." "─ Oh yes, thanks awfully." "Goodnight." "Come along Miss." "You leave it to the Guvnor." "He's much better than he sounds." "Goodnight." "─ Goodnight." "Now, if only I could reconstruct exactly what happened." "Let's see." "That light was off." "We were standing here." "Switched on the developing light." "Open pack, covers in the drawer." "Put the negative in the hypo." "Then the doorbell rang." "[ Doorbell ]" "Good evening." "Sorry to trouble you so late sir." "But I'm a Police Officer .. and I've got a warrant to search this house." "Oh yes, yes." "I'm glad you've come." "Come in will you, because .." "I've just been assaying the role of detective myself." "Any luck?" "─ I'm afraid not." "I hope yours was better." "─ Well, we'll soon see." "Now, which is the room where the missing camera and negative was last seen?" "I'll show you." "Come in will you." "This is the room." "I was developing the negative on that bench." "And I left it in the hypo here." "Did you notice anything unusual when you came back?" "Yes, that window was open." "And I distinctly remember closing it before I started developing." "Have you a magnifying glass anywhere?" "─ Yes, yes." "I'll get you one." "There has been a struggle here." "Hello." "There's a thread of material, caught on that nail." "Yes, yes." "Now, what would have made him struggle?" "Of course." "The sash fell down just as he was trying to get out." "I say, now we're getting somewhere." "Now suppose the sash fell down and he couldn't get the camera out." "And he heard you coming back." "What would he have done?" "Well I .." "I .." "Do you suppose he hid it somewhere in here?" "Within arm's length?" "That's an idea." "Now, we'll look on each side." "Right." "Why here it is!" "By Jove, you've done it." "Why this clears up everything." "I wonder if the film .." "─ Here, don't touch that sir." "The Police will want to test it for fingerprints." "Oh yes, of course." "What a load off my mind." "But how on earth did you come to work it all out so quickly?" "Well .. just following the usual routine sir." "We get used to it." "Yes, but tell me." "How did you get the idea so quickly?" "I mean about the sash falling." "I tried it while you were out loöking for the magnifying glass." "It was loose." "But that window was mended yesterday." "We have our methods sir." "─ Just a minute please." "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I must ask you to show me your search warrant." "Get out of the way young fellow." "Don't .." "Don't be a damned fool." "I've got to hurry back to the yard." "Let me see that warrant." "─ Alright." "Oh .. here it is." "Oh!" "Do you know that you've, You've broken my glasses." "There he is!" "Clear the way, clear the way now!" "Keep back please." "Clear the way, clear the way." "Keep back please." "Keep back there." "Clear the way, clear the way." "I say, I say!" "Look here!" "Look at that!" "There he is!" "Yes .. "W"." ""E" for Easter." ""D" for Dover. ─ "D" for Dover." "─ "I" for India." ""N" for no-one." "Wedding!" "Has resulted in the sudden denouement." "To what has become to be known as "The Ghost Camera" case." "What hitherto has baffled the Police." "Has now been elucidated by the murderer's confession." "In which he states that he saw the number plate on Mr Gray's car." "Into which the camera had been thrown .." "[ Radio ] "As it was passing the scene of the crime."" ""And so was enabled, to trace the camera to Mr Gray's address."" ""With the discovery of the stolen jewel in the camera .."" ""All charges against Ernest Elton have been dropped."" ""We are happy to say."" ""That this rather grim case is to end on a note of romance."" "They're not telling nobody where the honeymoon is." "Because they want a quiet place, somewhere where nothing happens." "Now hop it everybody, please." "I say, is that the famous Ghost Camera?" "Yes." "What do you think it is, a mousetrap?" "I'll take a picture of you snapping the happy couple." "Now come along, make it nice and affectionate please." "Now you snap them, and I'll snap the lot." "Alright." "Hold it still .." "Just a little longer please." "Just a little longer .. please." "I can't." "Oh!" "That's spoiled the picture." "T-G"