Cartwright

Fictional characters.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

The Resident Patient (1893)

• Cartwright was one of the five member of The Worthingdon Bank Gang (RESI 380).

• He participated to the Worthingdon Bank where the caretaker Tobin was murdered (RESI 381).

• After the Blessington betrayal, Cartwright was hanged by justice (RESI 383).

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)

Cartwright (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Strand Magazine, september 1901)

• Cartwright was a young boy of fourteen, with a bright, keen face, employed at the Northumberland Hotel where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were staying in London (HOUN 825).

• Sherlock Holmes sent Cartwright visit 23 hotels around Charing Cross to trace old issues of the Times newspaper to find out who cut out words to create the warning note sent to Sir Henry (HOUN 834).

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