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 last year. He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.Then there was Mason of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre of Montpellier, Samson of New Orleans.Utrecht, where Van Jansen was murdered in ’34.Barraud of London, maker of Drebber’s gold watch No.97163.Guion Steamship Company, two letters from them referencing boats sailing from Liverpool to New York were found on Drebber’s body.White Hart, pub at 11:00 p.m. Constable Rance dealt with a fight the night of Drebber’s murder.Henrietta Street. the corner where constables Rance and Murcher stood talking.Brixton Road, one of the locations Constable Rance on his beat checked about 2:00 a.m.13 Duncan Street. Houndsditch, Fictitious address Mrs. Sawyer gave Holmes as her home.3 Mayfield Place, Peckham. Fictitious address where Mrs. Sawyer told Holmes her daughter Sally and Tom Dennis lived.Euston Station, where Drebber and Stangerson after leaving Charpentier’s boarding house went to catch the Liverpool express.John Underwood and Sons 129 Camberwell Road, maker of the hat found beside Drebber’s body.Charpentier’s Boarding Establishment, Torquay Terrace, Camberwell. “Over the other side of the river.” Where Drebber was staying, for nearly three weeks.—To where the hat found beside Drebber’s body was sent by the maker.Copenhagen, travel labels Madame Charpentier noticed on both Drebber and Stangerson’s trunks.St. Petersburg, Paris, and Copenhagen. Cities where Jefferson Hope tracked Drebber and Stangerson.Waterloo Bridge, Drebber’s hansom passed over with Jefferson Hope following.PART II U.S.A.
Locations Mentioned:“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.”The Rio Grande, Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and the Yellowstone River, Colorado.Salt Lake City, Utah, Maps with drawn-in charts prepared, in which the future of the city was sketched out. All around farms were apportioned and allotted in proportion to the standing of each individual. The tradesman was put to his trade in the artisan to his calling. In the town streets and square sprang up as if by magic. In the country there was draining and hedging, planting and clearing, until next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop. Everything prospered in the strange settlement. Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the centre of the city grew ever taller and larger.Nevada Mountains, where Jefferson Hope had prospected for silver.Eagle (Canon) Ravine, two miles from Ferrier’s ranch where Jefferson Hope had a mule and horses waiting for Lucy, John Ferrier, and himself to escape from the Mormons to Carson City.York College USA, where he worked as a janitor & sweeper-out. Also where he made the poison pills in their lab.Endowment House, where Jefferson Hope saw flags flow for Lucy’s wedding.In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south.Illinois, Mormons, “We have come from Nauvoo, in the state of Illinois, where we had founded our temple.”
Evidence & Clues:“Rache” written on the wall at both murder scenes. “‘Rache’ is the German word for revenge; so don’t lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.”“In this particular corner of the room a large piece had peeled off, leaving a yellow square of coarse plaster. Across this bare space there was scrawled in blood-red letters a single word—RACHE.”A lady’s wedding band found on Drebber’s body. “It’s a woman’s wedding ring.”—”The ring man, the ring: that was what he came back for.”“I remembered a German being found in New York with RACHE written up above him, and it was argued at the time in the newspapers that the secret societies must have done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners.”“Found column.” “In Brixton Road, this morning,” it ran, “plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway between the White Hart Tavern and Holland Grove. Apply Dr. Watson 221b, Baker Street, between eight and nine this evening.”Halliday’s Private Hotel, a ladder at the back of the Hotel which usually lay there was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open.Telegram found in Stangerson’s pocket, dated from Cleveland about a month ago, containing the words “J.H. is in Europe.”“In Stangerson’s room on the window-sill a small chip ointment box containing a couple of pills.”—Of the two pills in that box, one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.
Motive:Revenge, for Stangerson murdering John Ferrier and Lucy dying of a broken heart over the death of her adopted father John Ferrier and the forced marriage to Enoch Drebber.
Timeline:May 4th 1847, John Ferrier and young Lucy Ferrier, the only survivors of a group heading west, wandering and close to death in the Sierra are found and rescued by Brigham Young, Elder, Stangerson, and a very large group of Mormons moving west.Three days earlier, Lucy’s mother and twenty others of their party died from thirst and hunger.For twelve years Ferrier and Lucy had been with the Mormons in Utah when Jefferson Hope arrived.August 4th 1860, Joseph Stangerson murders John Ferrier, and Drebber takes Lucy to Salt Lake City to be his bride.1878, Watson obtains his degree of Doctor of Medicine and training prescribed for surgeons in the Army.Soon after, Watson is attached to Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers, in India as assistant surgeon. Later transferred to the Berkshires, serving there he is badly wounded. After months recovering at a hospital in Peshawar, it is determined he is too weak to serve and sent by ship to England.One month later, the ship Orontes lands Watson in Portsmouth.Nine months after arriving in London, Watson spending his time recuperating meets an old friend, Stamford, at the Criterion Bar. There Stamford tells Watson about Holmes and that he is also looking for a roommate. Before going to the hospital laboratory to meet Holmes they have lunch at the Holborn.Next day 12:00 p.m., Watson meets Holmes as they had arranged the day before at the hospital and together they go to see the rooms at Baker St.That evening Watson leaves his hotel and moves into Baker St. “That very evening I move my things around from the hotel.”Next morning, “On the following morning Sherlock Holmes followed me with several boxes and portmanteaus.”A week or so of no callers, and then many of different classes.Day Before
