He is a pawnbroker and the proprietor of a small pawn shop on London's (fictional) Saxe-Coburg Square.
Jabez Wilson wanted Sherlock Holmes to find out why the Red-Headed League [which for a while he had belonged too] has suddenly disappeared.Caroline
Sherlock Holmes knew that Jabez Wilson went to China because of the delicate pink fishes' scales in a tattoo on Wilson's right arm and a Chinese coin on his watch-chain, but the reader is not told why Wilson went to China. Perhaps it was pawnbroker's business.
Jabez Wilson- A greedy, gumball, and proud man. His greed brings him to hire an assistant at half wage. Being gullible Leeds him to accept any situation, and his pride brings him to seek an answer to a hoax.
Jabez Wilson was a white man with bright orange/red hair. He was very portly (obese, fat) ------ "a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair" with "small, fat-encircled eyes"; "portly"
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Jabez Wilson.
Jabez Wilson wanted Sherlock Holmes to find out why the Red-Headed League [which for a while he had belonged too] has suddenly disappeared.Caroline
Sherlock Holmes knew that Jabez Wilson went to China because of the delicate pink fishes' scales in a tattoo on Wilson's right arm and a Chinese coin on his watch-chain, but the reader is not told why Wilson went to China. Perhaps it was pawnbroker's business.
Jabez Wilson- A greedy, gumball, and proud man. His greed brings him to hire an assistant at half wage. Being gullible Leeds him to accept any situation, and his pride brings him to seek an answer to a hoax.
Jabez Wilson was a white man with bright orange/red hair. He was very portly (obese, fat) ------ "a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair" with "small, fat-encircled eyes"; "portly"
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Wilson did not do anything wrong. He made some extra money and improved his knowledge by reading the encyclopedia. He broke no laws in his activities.
We are not told.
Jabez Allies was born in 1787.
Jabez Allies died in 1856.
Jabez Coon was born in 1869.
Jabez Wolffe died in 1943.