Julia Stoner

Julia Stoner and Helen Stoner (The Strand Magazine, february 1892)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Julia Stoner was the daughter of Major-General Stoner and Mrs. Stoner (SPEC 75), and twin sister with Helen Stoner (SPEC 76)

• She was two-years-old when her mother re-married Grimesby Roylott (SPEC 73) and was brought up at Stoke Moran (SPEC 79).

• Julia died in strange circumstances. Before dying, she said to her sister Helen : "O, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!" (SPEC 148).

• Sherlock Holmes found that Julia died by snake biting (SPEC 561).

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