Jack Woodley

Sherlock Holmes knocking Jack Woodley (The Strand Magazine, january 1904)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

aka Roaring Jack (SOLI 407).

• Jack Woodley was a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man (SOLI 360). A ruffian (SOLI 274) and an odious person (SOLI 44). Bob Carruthers depicted him as "the greatest brute and bully in South Africa" (SOLI 422).

• With Bob Carruthers they were coming back from South Africa where they met James Smith, Violet Smith's father (SOLI 38).

• He planned to steal Violet Smith's uncle's fortune by forcing a sham marriage with Williamson's help (SOLI 460).

• He was shot by Bob Carruthers (non-fatal) (SOLI 361).

• He was condemned to ten years (SOLI 503).

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