:38:01
What have you
found, Holmes?
:38:02
Footprints?
:38:04
Yes.
:38:04
A club-footed man
:38:06
about five foot
eleven I should say
:38:08
from the length
of his stride.
:38:10
Do you observe
anything singular
:38:11
about these
footprints, Watson?
:38:13
I can't say that I do.
:38:14
Club-footed people
invariably bring
:38:15
their full weight
down on the toe.
:38:17
If you look closely
you'll observe
:38:18
that the weight of the man
:38:19
who made these footprints
:38:21
is normally balanced
from toe to heel.
:38:22
Well what can you
make of that, Holmes?
:38:23
Oh just one more
unnatural element
:38:25
to this rather
peculiar case.
:38:27
The clubfoot must
have some other
:38:28
compensating deformity
:38:30
to explain
these footprints.
:38:31
What?
:38:32
You think these are the
footprints of a murderer?
:38:34
It's possible.
:38:36
Yes, yes it's
quite possible.
:38:39
What Holmes?
:38:40
Well a man standing
just about here
:38:41
would command a
view of the park.
:38:43
He might project
some kind of weapon.
:38:44
Not a weapon's been found
except Hunter's revolver.
:38:47
It could easily
have been retrieved
in the excitement.
:38:48
And what kind of
weapon thrown from here
:38:50
could both strangle a man
:38:51
and crush his skull in?
:38:53
If we knew that,
my dear Watson,
:38:54
we'd be a
great deal nearer
:38:56
to the solution
of the crime.
:39:05
Look at that.
:39:07
Here.
:39:09
Yes, it was torn
from that tree
:39:11
perhaps by something
hurdling past.
:39:14
The sap's not dry yet.
:39:16
That means it was torn off
:39:17
within the last few hours.
:39:21
Ahh.
:39:22
What have you
found, Holmes?
:39:24
It's a watch guard.
:39:25
Looks like a
rabbit's foot.
:39:27
No, no, no.
It's chinchilla.
:39:28
Unquestionably chinchilla.
:39:30
Well rabbit or chinchilla.
:39:31
What's it matter?
:39:33
No, no. Perhaps it doesn't
matter at all, Watson.
:39:35
We'll see.
:39:36
I've always thought
:39:37
those things were
in very poor taste.
:39:39
Fancy going about with
a dead animal's foot
:39:41
dangling from your pocket.
:39:42
Yes, and then losing it
at the scene of a murder.
:39:44
Very careless.