Ralph Smith

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Ralph Smith was the uncle of Violet Smith and the brother of James Smith (SOLI 34).

• He went to Africa twenty-five years before the affair (SOLI 34).

• Bob Carruthers and Jack Woodley, who were home on a visit from South Africa, said that Ralph Smith was a friend of theirs, and that he died some months before in great poverty in Johannesburg (SOLI 38), but it was false he died later on (SOLI 437).

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