Jonathan Small

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes Stories

• Jonathan Small was one of The Four with which he stole the Agra treasure to the Rajah.

Description

• He was a poorly educated man, small, active, with his right leg off, and wearing a wooden stump. (SIGN 1093)

• He was a middle-aged man, much sunburned, and has been a convict. (SIGN 1095)

Personal Life

• Jonathan Small was an Englishman born near Pershore, Worcestershire, from a family of farmers (SIGN 2351).

• At 18, he got into a mess over a girl, and could only get out of it again by taking the Queen's shilling and joining the 3rd Buffs, which was just starting for India.

• He lose his right leg in the Ganges when a crocodile nipped it off just above the knee.

• A few years later he was hired as an overseer to look after the coolies of an indigo-planter in Muttra in the Northwest provinces of India.

• When the Indian mutiny occured, the plantation was destroyed and he left to Agra.

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