Meanwhile, a street criminal named Sands ( Skelton Knaggs) incapacitates the conductor. In the luggage compartment, Holmes and Watson find a train guard murdered with a poisoned dart. Lestrade ostensibly takes possession of the real diamond. As Watson and Duncan-Bleek join the group, Holmes reveals that he swapped the diamond with an imitation while examining it.
Upon further questioning, Miss Vedder admits that a man paid her to transport the coffin. He suspects that one of the people on the train is the notorious jewel thief Colonel Sebastian Moran. While searching the train, Holmes is pushed out of the train, nearly to his death, but climbs back into the day coach and discovers a secret compartment in the coffin carrying Miss Vedder's mother. At one point during the investigation, Watson believes an elderly couple is guilty of the crime but the only crime that they have committed is stealing a teapot from a hotel. Lestrade, Holmes, and Watson learn nothing conclusive in questioning the other passengers. Shortly afterward, Roland is murdered and the diamond is allegedly stolen. Watson and Watson's friend Major Duncan-Bleek ( Alan Mowbray).
She boards the train that evening, as do Lady Margaret Carstairs ( Mary Forbes), who owns and is transporting the famous Star of Rhodesia diamond Lady Margaret's son, Roland (Geoffrey Steele) Sherlock Holmes, whom Roland has hired to protect the diamond Inspector Lestrade ( Dennis Hoey), who is also worried about the diamond's safety and Dr. In London, Vivian Vedder ( Renee Godfrey) verifies that a carpenter has completed a coffin for her recently deceased mother's body, which she is transporting to Scotland by train.
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