Characters Mentioned:John Ferrier — Lucy’s self-appointed foster father and reluctant Mormon. Murdered by being shot to death by Joseph Stangerson on August 4, 1860. “His appearance was such that he might have been the very genius or demon of the region. An observer would have found it difficult to say whether he was nearer to forty or to sixty. His face was lean and haggard, and the brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bone; his long brown hair and beard were all flecked and dashed with white; his eyes were sunken in his head, and burned with tan unnatural lustre; while the hand which grasped his rifle was hardly more flashy than that of the skeleton. As he stood, he leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet his tall figure and the massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry and vigorous constitution. His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him senile and decrepit appearance. The man was dying—dying from hunger and from thirst.”“He watched over her slumber for some time. For three days and three nights he allowed himself neither rest nor repast.”A useful guide and an indefatigable hunter.On the farm thus acquired John Ferrier built himself a substantial log-house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grew into a roomy villa. He was a man of practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings and skillful with his hands. His iron constitution enabled him to work morning and evening at improving and tilling his land. Hence it came about that his farm and all that belonged to him prospered exceedingly. In three years he was better off than his neighbors, and in six he was well-to-do, and in nine he was rich, and in twelve there were not a half a dozen men in the whole of Salt Lake City who could compare with him. From the great inland sea to the distant Wasatch Mountains there was no name better known than that of John Ferrier.There was one way and only one in which he offended the susceptibilities of his co-religionists. No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions.—Ferrier remained strictly celibate. In every other respect he conformed to the religion of the young settlement and gained the name of being an orthodox and straight-walking man.Shot, killed and buried by young Stangerson at a camp site in the Nevada mountains, trying to escape the Mormons.Lucy Ferrier, adopted daughter of John Ferrier. Forced to marry Enoch Drebber, died thirty days later of a broken heart.“Instantly there broke from the gray parcel a little moaning cry, and from it protruded a small scared face, with very bright brown eyes, and two little speckled dimpled fists. A pretty little girl about five years of age, whose dainty shoes and smart pink frock with its little linen apron, all bespoke a mother’s care. The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.”— “Her rosy lips were parted, showing the regular line of snowy-white teeth within, and a playful smile played over her infantile features. Her plump little white legs terminating in white socks and neat shoes with shining buckles.Pawnees and BlackfeetBob, Lucy’s brother“Mr. Bender, he was the first to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then John Hones, and then, dearie, your mother.” Some of the twenty-one others in John Ferrier and Lucy’s party had all died from thirst and hunger.“We are the persecuted children of God—the chosen of the Angel Moroni.”“We are all of those who believe in the sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters on plates of beaten gold, which were handed onto the holy Joseph Smith at Palmyra. We have come from Nauvoo, in the state of Illinois, where we had founded our temple. We have come to seek a refuge from the violent man in from the godless, even though it be the heart of the desert.”“We are the Mormons.”Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church.Brigham Young. “Beside the driver there sat a man who could not have been more than thirty years of age, but whose massive head and resolute expression marked him as a leader.”“He has spoken with the voice of Joseph Smith, which is the voice of God.”“Young speedily proved himself to be a skillful administrator as well as a resolute chief.”“A stout, sandy-haired, middle-aged man.”Elders / Sacred Council of Four, Stangerson (senior), Kemball, Johnston, and Drebber (senior), the four principal Elders of the Mormon Church.Senior Stangerson’s three wives and his son, and headstrong, forward boy of twelve.Servants of John Ferrier, they slept in an outhouse.
Locations:Baker Street.St Bartholomew’s Hospital Laboratory (St. Bart’s) where Watson is first introduced to Holmes and Watson knew Stamford from “Young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart’s.”3 Lauriston Gardens off Brixton Rd. (many miles from Euston Station) * “Wore an ill-omened and minatory look. It was one of four which stood back some little ways from the street, two being occupied and two empty. The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a To Let card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes. A small garden sprinkled over with scattered eruption of sickly plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a mixture of clay and of gravel. The whole place was very sloppy from the rain which had fallen through the night. The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top.”Dark, grimy apartment which looked out upon one of the main arteries of suburban London.46 Audley Court, Kennington Park Gate. Constable John Rance’s home. “A narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.”—“Audley Court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings.”Scotland Yard, “We were ushered into a small chamber, where a police inspector noted down our prisoner’s name and the names of the men with whose murder he had been charged.”
Locations Mentioned:University of London, where Watson received a degree as a Doctor of Medicine.Netley, where Watson received training to be an army surgeon.Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers and Berkshires, where Watson was attached while serving in India.Bombay, Candahar, and MaiwandCriterion Bar, where Watson met Stamford.The Holborn, restaurant where Watson and Stamford had lunch before going to meet Holmes.The case of Von Bischoff at Frankfort