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00:23Good evening.
00:26Tonight, I'm going to tell you another strange and unusual story of the unexplainable which lies behind the veil.
00:37Tonight's story is again based on one of those true but utterly unexplainable happenings which occur time and again from
00:45country to country and from age to age.
00:51George Bosworth was a modern man of his time in every sense of the word and had his story occurred
00:58to another, he very probably would have been the last man in the world to believe a word of it.
01:06The End
01:20Hart Bosworth had had a busy day and now as the last customer left his shop, he prepared to close
01:27for the night.
01:49At this same moment, 150 miles at sea, George Bosworth prepared to retire.
01:56Completely unaware of the incredible events which were about to occur.
02:01The End
02:03The End
02:08The End
02:15The End
02:37Captain!
02:38Captain!
02:39Captain!
02:40What is it, Mr Bosworth?
02:41Captain!
02:42Captain!
02:42I've got to get back to England immediately.
02:45I'm afraid that's quite impossible, sir.
02:47Oh, please.
02:48I'm afraid.
02:50Something's happened.
02:51Are you ill, Mr Bosworth?
02:53No, no.
02:54Yes, maybe.
02:56I don't know.
02:57I can't explain, Captain, but I must return at once.
03:01Mr Bosworth, we're 150 miles from Dover and I have a schedule to maintain.
03:06If I were to turn round and go back without good and sufficient reason, I would in all probability lose
03:12my position.
03:13But this is an emergency.
03:14There are rules and regulations covering all emergencies at sea.
03:20Perhaps if you could tell me why...
03:22Well, I think my brother is...
03:26I can't tell you, Captain.
03:29It's terribly important.
03:35I'm sorry, Mr Bosworth, but I can let you off at a stand.
03:39There you can make connections with another ship and be back in England by tomorrow morning.
03:44What time will we dock?
03:46We should be there within the hour.
03:49I pray God, Captain, we're not too late.
03:51Bullet wound through the ark.
03:53Fired at close range.
03:55Man's been shot.
03:56He's dead right enough.
03:59From the looks of things, nothing has been taken except money.
04:03Cash draws empty.
04:05Which leads me to deduce that the motive of the crime was robbery.
04:10Got that, Orton?
04:12Yes, sir.
04:13I checked the Bosworth house.
04:14George isn't there.
04:15The place is shut up tight.
04:16That's odd.
04:17They will not usually close the shop together.
04:19Are you sure you earned the shots at 9.45?
04:22Right you are, Chester.
04:239.45 exactly.
04:25Just a minute, Bertha.
04:27A little less familiarity, if you please.
04:30This here is official police business and I'm here in my official capacity.
04:34Until I've solved this crime, I'll trouble you to remember that I'm a sergeant in Her Majesty's Constabulary.
04:41Oh, I am sorry.
04:42From now on I'll remember, Chester.
04:44Sergeant.
04:45You may proceed, Mrs. Clink.
04:48Well, I'd just put the kettle on.
04:51I always maxes a pot of tea in the evenings.
04:54Just before retiring, as you might say.
04:56You know how Alfie likes to get to bed early.
04:59Yes, yes, yes.
05:00Get on with it.
05:01Well, I'd no sooner touch the kettle to the stove when I heard the shots.
05:08So I said to Alfie, that sounds like shots.
05:12And Alfie said, no.
05:14So I said to Alfie, Alfie, them wash shots.
05:19And Alfie said...
05:20Never mind what Alfie said, what did you do?
05:22Well, the only light that was on was in Alf Bursworth's shop.
05:27So I run down here to see if he'd heard them too.
05:31Imagine me horror and surprise to find poor Mr. Bursworth lying there in a pool of blood.
05:39Aha!
05:40And whose blood would you say it was?
05:43How long would you estimate this was after you first heard the shots, Mrs. Clink?
05:47Couldn't have been more than five or ten minutes.
05:50Thank you very much, Mrs. Clink.
05:52That'll be all.
05:53But I haven't finished.
05:55If you've anything more to say, you can make a statement at the police station.
05:59But I know who done the murder.
06:02Mrs. Clink, you saw the murderer?
06:05Yes, I did.
06:08I see.
06:09Now just a minute, Constable, I'll handle this.
06:12Now then, Bertha, why didn't you give us this valuable information before this?
06:18I was about to, until I was so rudely interrupted.
06:22Are you insinuating that I was rudely?
06:24Sergeant, may I suggest, the murderer?
06:27Huh?
06:27The murderer?
06:28Oh, oh, yes, yes.
06:30All right, Mrs. Clink.
06:31The name, if you please.
06:33His name is Albert Ketch.
06:38How do you know that, Mrs. Clink?
06:40I saw him.
06:41Just as I got outside, I saw him run from this very shop.
06:45As though the old devil himself was after him.
06:49Are you sure?
06:50I saw it's as good as yours, Chester Wilmore.
06:52Uh, Sergeant, shall I round him up?
06:55Why, yes, Constable, do that.
06:57And see if you can find out what become a George Bosworth.
07:00Why not ask Mrs. Clink, sir?
07:02I'm sure I don't know, Constable.
07:04But why not ask Miss Julie Westcott?
07:08She's his fiancée.
07:10She ought to know.
07:12I'll do that, Mrs. Clink.
07:14All right, now.
07:15Off with you.
07:15Home, all of you, if you please.
07:17This here shop will be closed till further notice.
07:19Move along, please.
07:24Now then, Albert.
07:25Why don't you confess and save us all a lot of trouble?
07:28All nice and tidy, eh?
07:30Because I didn't shoot Art Bosworth, that's why.
07:32Aha.
07:33How do you know he was shot?
07:35You told me.
07:37Oh.
07:39What were you doing in the apothecary shop at that time?
07:41Well, I was there to collect a debt what was owed me.
07:44What was the debt for?
07:46Well, you see, I do a bit of carpenter work in me spare time.
07:48Being added with me tools, as you might say.
07:51And I built a set of shells for Mr. Bosworth several weeks ago.
07:54And it took you several weeks to get paid?
07:56Well, there was a slight misunderstanding between us, as you might call it.
08:01Aha.
08:02That don't mean I killed him.
08:05What was the cause of this misunderstanding?
08:08While I was building the shells, a case of his medicines got them.
08:12Bosworth got terribly excited.
08:14Claims I'd done it careless lot.
08:16Said it was worth more than a shell and he wouldn't pay me.
08:19And so you killed him.
08:21That's not true.
08:22I don't even own a gun.
08:24A likely story.
08:26Why, I wouldn't be surprised if you wasn't doing a bit of poaching in your spare time.
08:31Oh, it's a nasty thing to say.
08:34Poaching's a very serious offence.
08:36I've a mind to enter charges against you.
08:38Sergeant, this man's being charged with murder, not poaching.
08:41You hear that, Albert?
08:43The constable's right.
08:44Murder's the charge, don't you?
08:45Try to throw us off the track with all this talk about poaching.
08:48Now, why don't you be a good fellow and confess and save us all this trouble?
08:53Now, look here, Sergeant.
08:54I'd like to help you.
08:55Really, I would.
08:56But do you know I'm not the kind of man who'd kill a chap in cold blood?
08:58Albert Ketch, you're making it very hard for us.
09:03Very well.
09:04If you won't cooperate, we'll have to drag it out of you.
09:07You'll start all over again.
09:15George, darling.
09:18What's happened?
09:19Come inside.
09:22Something's happened to Hart, hasn't it?
09:24Sit down.
09:25No, no.
09:26Tell me.
09:27Yes, George.
09:28Hart is...
09:28Hart's dead.
09:31Too late.
09:33I'm too late.
09:36George, you were on your way to France.
09:38How did you get back so quickly?
09:40I had a...
09:43feeling something was wrong.
09:46Who?
09:47Who shot him?
09:48Who told you he was shot?
09:52Do they know who did it?
09:53The police have arrested Albert Ketch.
09:56Albert Ketch?
10:00But he didn't do it.
10:04Darling, I know this has been a terrible shock, but you weren't here.
10:08How do you know he didn't do it?
10:12Julie, please, take me on trust for now.
10:14Albert Ketch had nothing to do with Hart's death.
10:16Darling, you're upset.
10:18Why don't you lie down for a little while?
10:20I'll bring you some tea.
10:21No, no, please.
10:21I've got to convince the police that they're making a mistake.
10:24They've no reason to hold Albert.
10:28Darling, you asked me to trust you.
10:30I do.
10:31You know that.
10:33Can't you even tell me how you can be so certain?
10:37Julie, have I ever shown...
10:40any signs of insanity?
10:42Of course not.
10:44Well, I haven't told you yet how I came back so quickly or why.
10:47I never even got to France.
10:50Because on the boat I had a...
10:54a vision.
10:55Of what?
10:57The whole thing.
10:58The whole thing?
10:59Yes.
11:03I saw the murder being committed.
11:12George, tell me exactly what you thought you saw.
11:17Well, I was washing, getting ready for bed, and...
11:21When I looked into the basin, I saw the apothecary shop.
11:25It was exactly as if I was right there.
11:27Everything as clear as it is now.
11:28You must have been dreaming.
11:30No.
11:31I saw Hart by the shelves.
11:33And then I saw...
11:36the murderer come in and...
11:38shoot him.
11:40You saw the murderer?
11:43Who was it?
11:46I don't know.
11:50But it wasn't Albert Ketch, I'm sure of that.
11:55George, you can't tell anybody this.
11:58But I must, Ketch is innocent.
12:00Julie, you believe me, don't you?
12:02What difference does it make whether I...
12:04A great deal of difference to me.
12:07George, I believe you because I love you.
12:10But if you tell this story to the police...
12:12No, that's a chance I must take.
12:13That's a chance you must not take.
12:15But they'll hang Ketch.
12:16Listen to me, George.
12:17There's nothing you can do.
12:18If Ketch is innocent, he has nothing to fear.
12:21But you...
12:22If you tell this fantastic tale to the police, you'll be ruined.
12:27Julie, a man's life is in danger.
12:29How can I think of myself?
12:31Well, then think of me.
12:32You know they won't believe you.
12:34At best, they'll call you insane.
12:36And how will I feel?
12:37Hearing people talk behind your back,
12:39pretending I don't hear them whispering?
12:41Julie, this is not the...
12:43You know how he worked to build up the shop.
12:45Will you let all his work go for nothing?
12:47Well, that's what'll happen.
12:49Do you think people will do business with a man who...
12:52who sees things?
12:58I'm sorry, Julie.
13:00Whatever anybody thinks,
13:02I've got to try.
13:09Very well, George.
13:10If you feel you must.
13:13I'll go with you.
13:15No, no, no.
13:16There's no need for you to become involved.
13:40Nothing back there, sir?
13:42Oh.
13:43Well, in that case, we'll have to continue our search in here.
13:49Ah, Mr. Bosworth, sir.
13:52Allow me to offer my condolences in this horrible tragedy.
13:55Thank you, Sergeant.
13:57They told me at the police station I'd find you here.
14:01May I ask what you're looking for?
14:04Clothes, Mr. Bosworth. Clothes.
14:07And have you found any?
14:08Almost.
14:09But don't you worry, sir.
14:11We have the fee in what done this foul deed.
14:14If you mean Albert Ketch, Sergeant.
14:18He didn't do it.
14:21Why do you say that, sir?
14:28Well, I ask you again.
14:30What makes you so sure that Albert Ketch is innocent?
14:35I can't tell you, Sergeant.
14:36You'll just have to take my word for it, but...
14:38Albert Ketch had nothing to do with it.
14:41That's rather a large order, Mr. Bosworth.
14:44Asking us to accept your word without anything to back it up.
14:51Mr. Bosworth, sir.
14:55I assume you can prove your whereabouts at the time of the crime?
14:59Yes, I can. I was on a boat on my way to France.
15:02Mr. Bosworth, who else besides yourself stands to inherit your brother's estate after his death?
15:08Why, no one. I'm the only...
15:10Just what are you driving?
15:12Now, I'm sure the constable means no offence, sir.
15:15But let me fill you in on the facts.
15:17We have a high witness what places Albert Ketch at the scene of the crime.
15:21He had motive. He had opportunity.
15:23Sergeant, have a look here.
15:30Looks like an O.
15:32It's a bullet hole, I think.
15:33By your permission to...
15:34Help yourself, constable.
15:42It's not a small caliber.
15:44As you say, very small.
15:47I'm sure it comes from a derringer.
15:49A derringer?
15:50Well, wouldn't that prove that Albert Ketch had nothing to do with it?
15:53Why do you say that?
15:54What would Ketch be doing with a little gun like that?
15:57Mr. Bosworth's right, sir.
15:59It's hard to accept the fact that Albert Ketch would be in possession of a derringer.
16:03Unless it was deliberately given to him by somebody.
16:06Now, look here, constable.
16:07So you refuse still to tell us why you think Albert Ketch is innocent?
16:14I can't tell you, Sergeant.
16:16I'll submit a possibility to you, Mr. Bosworth.
16:20I'll submit it's possible you needed money badly enough to want your brother out of the way.
16:26I submit that your insistence on Albert Ketch's innocence may very well be more than just a desire to see
16:32justice done.
16:33And what do you have to say to that, Mr. Bosworth?
16:37Nothing.
16:40Am I under arrest?
16:44Not as yet, but I shall have to ask you to remain within call.
16:56Evening, Mr. Bosworth.
16:58Oh, good evening, Mrs. Klink.
17:01Alfie and me wishes to convey our sympathy for your bereavement.
17:07Shall we sit down for a minute?
17:09Oh, yes, Doc.
17:15He was a fine man, your brother.
17:18A fine man.
17:21Always willing to extend credit until Friday.
17:23And never too proud to step in and have a lift with us.
17:27And his scales was honest too.
17:30Yes, it was a terrible shock to me, Mrs. Klink.
17:32I can well imagine, but never you fear.
17:35Albert Ketch shall get what he deserves.
17:38Why is everyone so certain that Ketch is guilty?
17:41Oh, bless you.
17:43Who else could it be?
17:44I saw him myself.
17:46You saw him?
17:48Of course I did.
17:49Has nobody told you?
17:52That Chester Wilmore.
17:55I am the most important witness.
17:59Are there any other witnesses?
18:01Not of one and no more are needed, I can tell you that.
18:05Of course, Miss Westcott might have seen the old thing.
18:09Had she been there five minutes earlier?
18:11Julia?
18:12What's she got to do with it?
18:15Oh, she might have been killed if she had.
18:18But tell me, how does Julia fit into all this?
18:22Well, I'd just stepped out of my house for a breath of air,
18:26before putting the tea on for Alfie and me.
18:30Then I sees Miss Westcott going into the apothecary shop.
18:34And it was hardly five minutes later when I heard two shots.
18:39I runs outside and there goes Albert Ketch her tearing down the street.
18:45Naturally, I got the police.
18:47And it was hardly no time at all before they had him clipped in the pokey.
18:52Julia never said anything about it.
18:54Oh, I dare say she didn't want to worry you.
18:57So it's the first time I've ever known her to worry about anyone.
19:01What do you mean by that?
19:03I'm not the one to talk about a body when they're not present to defend their self.
19:07But everyone knows as our Miss Julie Westcott considers herself much better than us common folk.
19:14What are you saying, Mrs. Klink?
19:17It's truth. Ask any of the girls. They'll tell you.
19:20Her and her fine talk.
19:23About position and money and station in life.
19:27But she wasn't fooling her brother, none. No, sir.
19:30She wasn't pulling the wool over his eyes.
19:34Oh, you poor boy. I've upset you with me wagging tongue.
19:39Alfie always says I talk too much.
19:43But don't pay any attention to me.
19:48You better get home and get some rest.
19:51And I'll be saying good night.
20:04George, darling, I've been frantic. Where have you been?
20:07I've been walking.
20:14The police think I'm involved in Hart's death.
20:17George, are they mad?
20:19How can they think you had anything to do with it?
20:21They have the murderer.
20:23No, they haven't.
20:25Ketch is no more guilty than I am.
20:29Will you stop saying that?
20:31The police think he's guilty. Isn't that enough?
20:34No.
20:36Why are you so intent on seeing him hang?
20:39I'm not.
20:41I just don't like seeing you so upset, that's all.
20:44Julie,
20:46was there ever any trouble between you and Hart?
20:50Of course not.
20:52You know how fond of him I was.
20:55Except,
20:56he thought I was too ambitious, didn't he?
21:01Well, Hart was an old-fashioned man.
21:02He thought a woman's place was in the home.
21:08George.
21:11You know I only want what's best for you, don't you?
21:14Yes, of course.
21:16A woman needs security.
21:17A home. Children.
21:19A husband she can be proud of.
21:21I know, you've been very patient.
21:24Oh, not really, George.
21:26There were times during the last five years when I wanted to scream.
21:29When I wanted to say to Hart,
21:31why won't you pay George enough money so we can be married?
21:33He's earned it, he deserves it.
21:36But that's all over now.
21:38We can be married right away, can't we, George?
21:42Well, once a decent interval has gone by.
21:46Darling, we'll be so happy.
21:49Mrs. George Bosworth.
21:51I can't wait to see my friends' faces when I tell them.
21:54They didn't think it would happen, you know, really.
21:57They didn't think I knew they were snickering behind my back.
22:00As if I couldn't tell what they were thinking.
22:02That Julie Westcott, she isn't getting any younger.
22:05If George doesn't ask her soon, she may not get any more chances.
22:09Aren't you exaggerating just a little?
22:11Well, perhaps just a little.
22:15Now, promise me you'll think only happy thoughts while I make us some tea.
22:38Julie?
22:39Yes, dear?
22:41About Albert Ketch.
22:45I've been thinking perhaps you're right.
22:49There really is nothing more I can do.
22:52I'll see that he gets a good solicitor, of course.
22:54That's very generous of you, George.
22:57And as soon as I can, I'll put the shop up for sale.
23:03And then we'll be married and we'll move to somewhere...
23:09What's the matter?
23:10What did you say?
23:12We'll be married as soon as I can sell the shop.
23:16You can't sell it.
23:17Why not?
23:19Oh, I know how you feel, but...
23:21I can't stay here where everything reminds me of heart.
23:24You don't know how I feel.
23:26Julie, what's the matter with you?
23:27Weren't you listening to me?
23:29We live here.
23:30Our friends are here.
23:31You're an important member of the community and I'll be your wife, George.
23:35They'll respect us.
23:36As long as we're together, what does it matter where we live?
23:38I won't have it.
23:39The shop is doing well here.
23:40We have money and position.
23:42Do you think I want to start again at the bottom?
23:44Not knowing anybody, not being anybody?
23:46I forbid it.
23:47Julie, you're losing your perspective.
23:49I welcome your help, but I must make my own decisions.
23:53Welcome my help?
23:55Well, that's funny, George.
23:56Without me there'd be no decision for you to make.
24:00What are you saying?
24:01You've had five years to make a decision, but your precious brother stood in the way.
24:05Well, I made it for you.
24:06He's gone and I won't let you throw away everything I've worked for.
24:11George, listen.
24:12I did it.
24:13For you.
24:14For both of us.
24:16How could you?
24:20Julie.
24:21I wanted you.
24:22I needed you.
24:23Heart stood between us and I couldn't bear it any longer.
24:25But it's all over now, George.
24:27He's gone.
24:28There's just the two of us.
24:29And we'll be happy, George.
24:31You'll see.
24:32George.
24:33Don't leave me.
24:34Please.
24:36I'm going to find Sergeant Wilmore.
24:38George.
24:40George.
24:58And so George, shocked and stunned as few men have had the misfortune to be, did his duty as he
25:05saw it.
25:06Bereft of brother, fiancé, he still had a life before him.
25:11Time would heal these scars, but...
25:14But would it ever bring to him an understanding of how he could have seen his brother's death?
25:21I don't know.
25:23Do you?
25:25Please join me again for another journey into the world of the unexplainable which lies behind the veil.
25:33Good night.
25:42Feels to the abstract and müthin or her?
25:45They always keep watching him in the world of their brother's children.
25:45Oh my god!
25:45Yeah.
25:59Friends?
26:00Oh my god.
26:10To be continued...