Minor Fictional Characters in The Two Georges

This article lists the various minor fictional characters who appear in The Two Georges. These characters play at best a peripheral role in the novel. Most were simply mentioned or had a very brief, unimportant speaking role that impacted the plot minimally, if at all, and never appeared again. Some were not even given a name.

Benjamin Arthurs
Benjamin Arthurs was a Brigadier in the Royal American Mounted Police. He was earnest, affable, and not very bright, and spent several years not noticing the Sons of Liberty infiltration of his department. Following the resolution of The Two Georges crisis, he was in charge of the purge of any Sons within the Victoria RAM office, leaving a large part of the actual work to Thomas Bushell.

Jonas Barber
Jonas Barber was the town council president of New Liverpool. He was a plump little man with a shiny bald head. He was present in the governor's mansion when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty.

Marcella Barber
Marcella Barber was the wife of Jonas Barber, the town council president of New Liverpool. She was several inches taller than her husband and an elegant looking woman. She was present in the governor's mansion when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty.

Benjamin
Benjamin (d. June 1995) was a member of the Sons of Liberty. He lived in Buckley Bay on the Queen Charlotte Islands for several years. He was a suspect in a gunrunning ring, smuggling Russian made rifles to the QCI and then mailing them throughout the North American Union from Skidegate. He was killed in a gun-battle with Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Thaddeus Bishop
Thaddeus Bishop was the Royal American Mounted Police's leading expert on the Sons of Liberty until his retirement, and succession by Felix Crooke, in the early 1990s. Thomas Bushell considered Bishop a good friend, and hoped he was having more fun hunting trout than hunting Sons.

Brassman
Brassman was part of a string quartet at the Governor's Mansion when The Two Georges was stolen, and was ruled out as a suspect by Major Gordon Rhodes' inquiry.

John Burnett
John Burnett was the Governor of Upper California. He was a bluff, ruddy, and florid, with a fringe of gingery beard.

He was present when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty. The painting was on a tour of the North American Union and was on a VIP display in the governor's mansion in New Liverpool. As a diversion, a Sons gunman shot "Honest" Dick the Steamer King dead. While the police and guests were distracted, three Sons disguised in Royal American Mounted Police uniforms overpowered the two RAM guards and made off with the painting.

Stella Burnett
Stella Burnett was the wife of Upper California Governor John Burnett. She had a sallow complexion. She was present in the governor's mansion in New Liverpool when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty.

Campbell
Campbell was part of a string quartet at the Governor's Mansion when The Two Georges was stolen, and was ruled out as a suspect by Major Gordon Rhodes' inquiry.

Dermot Coneval
Dermot Coneval was Michael O'Flynn's cousin. He sold beer for Phineas Stanage's brewery in Georgestown.

Cooper
Cooper was part of a string quartet at the Governor's Mansion when The Two Georges was stolen, and was ruled out as a suspect by Major Gordon Rhodes' inquiry.

Hiram Defoe
Hiram Defoe was the postage minister of the North American Union and Sir Martin Luther King's chief political fixer. It was said that if he didn't know everything and everyone, then he made a good game try of not letting on. As postage minister, he was the political head of the NAU's postal system.

He accompanied Sir Martin on the train from Victoria to New Liverpool when The Two Georges was stolen.

Malcolm Desmond
Doctor Malcolm Desmond was a Thomas Gainsborough scholar. He accompanied The Two Georges on its North American Union tour when the Sons of Liberty stole it in New Liverpool. His security dossier indicated he had been expelled from a preparatory school for unnatural vice. While this might have been a factor in another case, the Sons of Liberty despised this sort of thing far more than the authorities, so it was unlikely that Dr. Desmond was one of them.

Devlin
Devlin was a hotel clerk at the Ribblesdale House in Charleroi.

Dewasenta
Dewasenta was an Iroquois of the Turtle clan and a civilian employee of the Doshoweh Constabulary. There she performed secretarial / clerical work. An exceedingly decorative young woman, Lt. Charles Lucas alluded to her beauty when she delivered paperwork to Major Shikalimo during a meeting regarding the theft of The Two Georges. For a moment Shikalimo was nonplused, then understood what Lucas was getting at. He explained that she was of the Turtle clan while he was of the Bear clan and didn't think of her in that way.

A few days later, Dewasenta typed up several copies of a list of suspects in the theft whose given names were variations of "Joe" for a second meeting that Major Shikalimo had with the RAM.

Jerry Doyle
Jerry Doyle was a reporter for Common Sense. He had a close trimmed ginger beard and an accent which was part Irish and part New Englander. He and his partner Michael Shaughnessy approached Thomas Bushell at the Ribblesdale House in Charleroi, for the purpose of asking infuriating questions. When Bushell said that he was on the trail of the well known art collector Joseph Kilbride, Doyle asked if Bushell suspected Kilbride of hanging the stolen Two Georges in his parlor. Bushell replied "Strangers things have happened," noncommittally. Doyle and Shaughnessy later encountered Bushell at the Hasting Arms, with no better results.

Obadiah J. Drinkwater
Obadiah J. Drinkwater was a Lieutenant in the Royal American Mounted Police. Following the conclusion of The Two Georges affair, he came under inspection for ties to a pro-treason organisation and faced dismissal.

Chauncey Dupuy
Chauncey Dupuy was a reporter for the New Orleans Herald-Leader and Picayune. Several days after the theft of The Two Georges, the Herald received a copy of the ransom demand. Dupuy telephoned Colonel Thomas Bushell for an interview. Bushell confirmed that he had received the ransom and that the photograph accompanying it appeared genuine. He confirmed that the ransom demand of 50 million pounds was the largest ever in the North American Union. He also confirmed that the demand had been passed on to Sir Martin Luther King and that he did not know whether Sir Martin intended to meet it.

Edward IX of Britain
Edward IX was a 20th-century King-Emperor of the British Empire.

Literary comment
Thomas Bushell's rhetorical thought that the Charleroi police station's paint job hasn't been improved since the reign of Edward IX, is the only clue to this monarch's existence. No years or relations are mentioned. However, the compact timeline from the posthumously referenced Edward VIII to the current Charles III, suggests that these three succeeded each other, and that Edward IX is probably the son of Edward VIII, who was childless in OTL.

Zachariah James Fenton
Zachariah James "Zack" Fenton was a suspected member of the Sons of Liberty. In 1995 Captain Jaime Macias of the New Liverpool Police found sufficient evidence to arrest Fenton for the murder of "Honest" Dick. On searching his home, the police discovered a recently discharged Nagant rifle which they hoped forensic study would show was the murder weapon. In addition to the Russian made rifle the police found 48 Lebel revolvers, 35 Eibar revolvers, 27 Astra Modelo 200 pistols, 29 Lebel military rifles and three Chauchat light military machine guns. They also discovered ₤219,827 in gold and silver currency in the form of livres d'or and pesos and 943 pounds of coca leaf extract.

When Captain Macias informed Colonel Thomas Bushell of this, it puzzled him since the related case of the theft of The Two Georges had had a Russian connection but all the weapons and money were from the Franco-Spanish Holy Alliance.

Rufus Fitzwilliam
Rufus Fitzwilliam, a coal miner, served as Thomas Bushell's guide under Charleroi when he went to interview Michael O'Flynn.

Fitzwilliams
A woman named Fitzwilliams was a telephone operator who connected Thomas Bushell to Horace Bragg, to deliver the news that The Two Georges had been stolen.

Aloysius Flannery
Aloysius Flannery was the father of Dr. Kathleen Flannery. He bought her a subscription to Common Sense each year due to his sympathies with the Independence Party's cause. Dr. Flannery did not share this political view but the fact she had a subscription cast further suspicion on her when The Two Georges was stolen in New Liverpool.

Doctor Foxx
Doctor Foxx was the New Liverpool coroner and attended "Honest" Dick's murder the night The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty. His findings were that "Honest" Dick might have survived his throat wound but the second head-shot was instantly fatal.

He also treated the two Royal American Mounted Police officers who had been overpowered and chloroformed by the Sons.

Foyt
Foyt was Joseph Kilbride's chauffeur.

François IV of France and Spain
François IV Bourbon was the monarch of the Franco-Spanish Holy Alliance in the late 20th Century. He held court at Versailles.

Gavagan
A man named Gavagan was tending bar at the Governor's Mansion when "Honest" Dick was murdered and The Two Georges was stolen. Major Gordon Rhodes' investigation swiftly ruled him out as a suspect.

See Literary Allusions in Turtledove's Work

Geoff
Geoff (d. June 1995) was a member of the Sons of Liberty. He lived in Buckley Bay on the Queen Charlotte Islands for several years. He was a suspect in a gunrunning ring, smuggling Russian made rifles to the QCI and then mailing them throughout the North American Union from Skidegate. He was killed in a gun-battle with Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Gilbert
Gilbert was a member of the New Liverpool Town Council. His wife was present at the Sons' attack on the Governor's Mansion.

Mrs. Gilbert
The wife of Town Councilman Gilbert was present at the theft of The Two Georges, and was quickly ruled out as a suspect by Major Gordon Rhodes' inquiry.

Elgin Goldsmith
Elgin Goldsmith was a member of the Sons of Liberty. He lived in Buckley Bay on the Queen Charlotte Islands for several years. He was a suspect in a gunrunning ring, smuggling Russian made rifles to the QCI and then mailing them throughout the North American Union from Skidegate. He was wounded in a gun-battle with Colonel Thomas Bushell and captured.

Goldsmith's wounds were minor: a through-and-through bullet wound in the shoulder and a flesh wound in the leg. As such, Bushell was able to question him but he refused to answer, claiming probably correctly that he would hang regardless. Sgt. Fuller suggested Bushell take a stroll in the woods and that he would make Goldsmith sing but Bushell turned down the offer. Goldsmith's subsequent gloating nearly made him change his mind but in the end he chose to respect the law he was sworn to uphold.

Gyantwaka
Doctor Gyantwaka was the associated curator of Iroquois art at the All-Union Art Museum. After The Two Georges was stolen, he recognized the newspaper in the photograph accompanying the ransom demand as that of the Doshoweh Sentinel. He informed Dr. Kathleen Flannery who set off to The Six Nations to investigate.

Hank
Hank and Mortimer were two New Liverpool constables present at the murder of "Honest" Dick. They were immediately dispatched in pursuit of the gunman.

Lionel Harris
Lionel Harris was a member of New Liverpool's town council. He was a wide-shouldered man with a walrus mustache.

Hartnett
Hartnett was a pharmacist’s mate on board the HMS Grampus. In 1995 he treated four wounded Royal Marines and a surviving Sons of Liberty who were injured in a gun battle as Colonel Thomas Bushell attempted to make a set of arrests. Hartnett was satisfied with most of the first aid that had been administered but changed the splint on Private Metcalf's leg.

Henry
Henry was a coal miner on the same shift as Michael O'Flynn. When he saw Thomas Bushell, who had come to interview O'Flynn as a witness to the New Liverpool crimes of 15 June, Henry thought he was a "big steam" from the company.

Hiram
Hiram was one of the two RAMs guarding The Two Georges when the Sons of Liberty stole it. Three white men in RAM uniforms entered the Cardigan Room and pulled out revolvers. While one of the false RAMs covered him, the other two went behind Hiram and the other guard and stuck sponges soaked in chloroform into their faces. Both guards were rendered unconscious and the Sons stole the painting.

Friedrich-Maria von Hötzendorf
Graf Friedrich-Maria von Hötzendorf was the Austrian ambassador to the North American Union. He was a short, thin, weary-looking man with sad-eyes. The Graf wished Thomas Bushell well in the search for The Two Georges painting, and was overwhelmed in trying to imagine combing through such a large country, as he came from a fairly small "Empire".

Huygens
Judge Huygens was on the King's Bench in New Liverpool when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty. He was approached by Captain Samuel Stanley requesting warrants in aid of the investigation. While known for being more cooperative with the Royal American Mounted Police than most, he outdid himself on this occasion. He issued a dozen warrants with the lines for dates, names and addresses left blank. This was a compliment of sorts, to be entrusted with blank warrants but one not to be abused since otherwise it would call into disrepute the legal system.

Peter Jarrold
Peter Jarrold was a Son of Liberty and a convicted arsonist. He was in his early 20s, tough-looking with a scar over one eye and another on his chin. He, like a lot of younger Sons, wore his hair cropped short in the "Roundhead" fashion.

At the time of the theft of The Two Georges, Jarrold had just started a 10 year sentence for setting fire to a synagogue in New Liverpool the previous winter.

Jim
Jim was the Royal American Mounted Police sergeant who checked Thomas Bushell and Samuel Stanley, among other guests, at the reception for The Two Georges at the Governor's Mansion in New Liverpool.

Johnston
Corporal Johnston commanded a ten man squad in Lt. Morton Green's platoon of Royal Marines on the Queen Charlotte Islands. He was a tall, thin man.

He, his squad and the squad of Corp. Wainwright along with Lt. Green and Sgt. Fuller, were assigned by Cmdr. Nathan Hairston to assist Colonel Thomas Bushell in his investigation of the theft of The Two Georges. He and the other Marines accompanied Bushell to Buckley Bay to assist in the capture of four suspected Sons of Liberty.

When they had reached the outskirts of the town, Johnston and his squad waited with Green and the RAMs as Fuller and Wainwright circled the town and entered it from the south using move-and-support tactics. Johnston and Green did the same, each moving with half the squad while the other half stayed in cover to give supporting fire if needed.

Jonathan
Jonathan was an officer on duty at Royal American Mounted Police headquarters in New Liverpool. When Thomas Bushell called the office asking to speak with Sir Horace Bragg, Jonathan informed him that the Lt. General had just departed for Victoria.

Alexa Jones
Alexa Jones (b. early 1950s) was the wife of American Tory Party chairman Sir Devereaux Jones. She was a striking blonde who spoke in the accent of a southeastern province, possibly Georgia or South Carolina.

Devereaux Jones
Sir Devereaux Jones was the American Tory Party chairman. He was a Negro man, ebony dark with a clever and closed face. Alexa Jones was his wife.

He accompanied Sir Martin Luther King on the train trip from Victoria to New Liverpool when The Two Georges was stolen.

Jorkens
Jorkens was part of a string quartet at the Governor's Mansion when The Two Georges was stolen, and was ruled out as a suspect by Major Gordon Rhodes' inquiry.

Archbishop Kennedy
Archbishop Kennedy was the head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts. His brother John Kennedy was the publisher of Common Sense, the official journal of the Independence Party which advocated complete autonomy for the North American Union.

During an argument with John Kennedy, Colonel Thomas Bushell of the Royal American Mounted Police concluded that he would have better luck convincing Archbishop Kennedy to become a Baptist than he would convincing John Kennedy that the British Empire did North America more good than harm.

Literary comment
There is a popular belief among the novel's readers that Archbishop Kennedy is Robert Kennedy, due to his devout Catholicism in OTL. While this hypothesis is reasonable, and was formerly endorsed by this wiki, the novel does not rule out the possibility that the Archbishop is another historical Kennedy brother, or even a wholly fictitious one.

Daniel Kilbride
Daniel Kilbride was a coal miner from Charleroi. In 1992 or 1993, his leg was crushed in a cave-in, leaving him on a welfare ration too meagre to support a family. He was not related to the Doshoweh businessman Joseph Kilbride.

Andrew Kincaid
Andrew Kincaid (d. ca. 1990) was a member of the Sons of Liberty in New Liverpool. One night, he assaulted a Sikh with a length of lead pipe, striking at the man's head and shouting "Go back to India, you stinking wog". The Sikh, true to the martial tenets of his faith, was armed with a dagger and fought back killing Kincaid. This was clearly self defence so the Sikh was not charged.

Lansing
Doctor Lansing was a physician with a private practice in Port Clements. In 1995 he treated four wounded Royal Marines and an injured terrorist that were brought from Buckley Bay by the HMS Grampus. He drove the town's ambulance steamer with several of the injured marines to Skidegate while a sailor drove the doctor's private steamer with the rest of the wounded.

John Lassiter
John Lassiter was the police chief of Charleroi. He provided Thomas Bushell with information on Percy McGaffigan, Michael O'Flynn, and Anthony Rothrock.

Kyril Lozovsky
Kyril Lozovsky was the assistant commercial secretary at the Russian ministry in Victoria. He had been engaged to Doctor Kathleen Flannery in the early 1990s but she had ended the engagement when she found out he had a second fiancée back in Tsaritsyn. He returned to Russia shortly after and married the other woman.

Charles Lucas
Lieutenant Charles Lucas was with the Doshoweh detachment of the Royal American Mounted Police.

In 1995 he and his superior Capt. Sylvanus Greeley and Major Shikalimo of the constabulary met Colonel Thomas Bushell and Captain Samuel Stanley at the Doshoweh train station to assist them in their investigation of the theft of The Two Georges.

The next day Lucas was invited to attend a meeting in Shikalimo's office. On being introduced to Dr. Kathleen Flannery, his face showed polite horror but since Col. Bushell outranked him, he said nothing.

A few days later, Major Shikalimo had a second meeting to report on the results of his investigation and invited Lt. Lucas directly. He reviewed the list of "Joes" that Shikalimo provided but none seemed suspicious. He expressed regret on the death of Lt. Col. Felix Crooke as he was the RAM's expert on the Sons of Liberty.

Winston Macmillan
Major Winston Macmillan commanded the Royal American Mounted Police detachment based in Prince Rupert. He and his subordinates had responsibility for policing the northern part of the province of Vancouver.

In 1995 Macmillan arranged for six RAMs in dress reds to be available to meet the Northern Lights and act as pallbearers for the coffin of Lt. Colonel Felix Crooke, killed in a gun battle with the Sons of Liberty. He took over responsibility for Crooke from Colonel Thomas Bushell who was in pursuit of the stolen The Two Georges.

Macmillan also assisted Bushell in making arrangements for his travel to Doshoweh, the locale indicated in a clue found on the QCIs.

John Martin
Captain John Martin was an officer with the Royal American Mounted Police at its headquarters in Victoria. He met Col. Thomas Bushell, Capt. Samuel Stanley and Dr. Kathleen Flannery at Victoria Station when their train arrived during the course of their investigation of the theft of The Two Georges. He explained he had booked rooms at the William and Mary Hotel for the two men but hadn't realized Dr. Flannery was traveling with them and so had nothing for her. However, since Dr. Flannery was a local and had her own residence in town, this wouldn't present a problem. His main concern was that hotels in Victoria had been fully booked with the announced visit by the King-Emperor, Charles III.

Dr. Flannery was not satisfied and insisted that she needed to continue to work closely with the two RAMs. Rather than be belligerent about it, she used charm and her physical attractiveness to convince Capt. Martin to take her along to the hotel despite his misgivings. Being human and male, Martin did so. When the hotel managed to rearrange things so Dr. Flannery also had a room, Capt. Martin took his leave telling them that a driver would be available for their use and to feel free to contact him if they needed anything else.

Fred McGaffigan
Fred McGaffigan was a resident of Charleroi listed in Chief John Lassiter's files.

Liam McGaffigan
Liam McGaffigan was a resident of Charleroi listed in Chief John Lassiter's files.

Maggie McGaffigan
Maggie McGaffigan was the wife of Percy McGaffigan. She was distrustful of Thomas Bushell's party, and tried to deny her identity when he inquired about her husband.

Percy McGaffigan
Percy McGaffigan was a coal miner from Charleroi, Pennsylvania, with a criminal record for drunken violence. On 15 June 1995, he took part in a protest demonstration in New Liverpool, Upper California where "Honest" Dick the Steamer King shouted angrily at the miners and was murdered by a sharpshooter. McGaffigan seemed willing to cooperate with Thomas Bushell's investigation but provided no useful information, and gave them a false lead.

Ted McKenzie
Ted McKenzie was a reporter for the New Liverpool Ledger. In the morning hours after the murder of "Honest" Dick and the theft of The Two Georges, he called Thomas Bushell to ask for a statement. Bushell replied, "I can give you a very brief statement: go to hell" and hung up.

Metcalf
Private Metcalf was a Royal Marine. In 1995 he was stationed on the Queen Charlotte Islands and was a member of one of the two squads assigned by Cmdr. Nathan Hairston to assist Colonel Thomas Bushell in apprehending four suspected Sons of Liberty in Buckley Bay. During the attempted arrest, a gun battle ensued and Metcalf was the most seriously wounded of four Marines with a bullet shattering his ankle.

Metcalf received immediate first aid from his fellow marines and then was treated by Hartnett, a pharmacist’s mate from HMS Grampus who re-splinted his leg. He was then carried by stretcher to the Grampus and transported back to Port Clements.

Montague
Able Seaman Montague of HMS Grampus made a shocked outburst when the dead and wounded from the skirmish at Buckley Bay were brought onto the ship. Lt. Cmdr. Edward Woodbridge rebuked him gently.

Mortimer
Hank and Mortimer were two New Liverpool constables present at the murder of "Honest" Dick. They were immediately dispatched in pursuit of the gunman.

Donald Morton
Donald Morton was a lake-shipping magnate who resided in Doshoweh, The Six Nations. In 1995 his outspoken criticisms of the Iroquois drew the attention of the authorities investigating the theft of The Two Georges. While not personally a suspect, he was investigated for associates named "Joe" based on a letter discovered by Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Augustus Northgate
Augustus Northgate was a grocer who operated in Doshoweh, The Six Nations. In 1995 his outspoken criticisms of the Iroquois drew the attention of the authorities investigating the theft of The Two Georges. While not personally a suspect, he was investigated for associates named "Joe" based on a letter discovered by Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Michael O'Flynn
Michael F. O'Flynn was a coal miner from Charleroi, Pennsylvania. On 15 June 1995, he took part in a protest demonstration in New Liverpool, Upper California where "Honest" Dick the Steamer King shouted angrily at the miners and was murdered by a sharpshooter.

Red Mike O'Flynn
Michael "Red Mike" O'Flynn was a coal miner from Charleroi. Thomas Bushell's investigation was delayed by being given a false lead to Red Mike, who had the same name as a witness to the crimes of 15 June.

O'Leary
O'Leary was a muscular man with green eyes, carroty hair, and a face full of freckles. He worked as a luggage loader for Sunset Airships Ltd. at the New Liverpool airship port. He recognized Colonel Thomas Bushell as the chap trying to get The Two Georges back when he went to load the latter’s bags onto the Empire Builder. He expressed his hopes that Bushell succeed and that he catch the "right bunch 'o bastards" who stole it.

Roland Oliver
Roland Oliver was a prosecuting attorney for the province of Virginia. He was married to Captain Patricia Oliver, an officer with the Royal American Mounted Police, who often cuckolded him.

Note: for the similarly named minor fictional character in Southern Victory, see Oliver Roland.

Otetiani
Otetiani was the Grand Sachem of the Iroquois in 1995 when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty. When the investigation led to The Six Nations, his nephew and heir Major Shikalimo assisted Colonel Thomas Bushell in his investigation.

Christopher Parker
Christopher Parker was the scene designer for the North American Union tour of The Two Georges when the Sons of Liberty stole it in New Liverpool. His security dossier indicated he had two arrests for driving a steamer while intoxicated. While a depraved act, it was unlikely to make Parker a Sons of Liberty member.

Patrick
Patrick (d. June 1995) was a member of the Sons of Liberty. He lived in Buckley Bay on the Queen Charlotte Islands for several years. He was a suspect in a gunrunning ring, smuggling Russian made rifles to the QCI and then mailing them throughout the North American Union from Skidegate. He was killed in a gun-battle with RAM Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Sergei Pavlov
Sergei Pavlov was the Russian Empire's consul in New Liverpool. When not performing his diplomatic duties, he was the leading wholesaler of caviar and vodka in the city.

He was a guest in the governor's mansion when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty.

Spencer Pendleton
Spencer Pendleton was a dentist in Victoria, North American Union. Lt. General Sir Horace Bragg of the Royal American Mounted Police was a patient of his. Bragg told Thomas Bushell that he was having his teeth treated by Pendleton on at least two occasions in August. When Bushell tried to contact Bragg during one of these surgeries, he was told by office staff that Bragg had not had any appointment or visited the office since February. This, combined with other recent revelations about Bragg, caused Bushell to wonder what other lies his friend and commander might have told.

Duke of Philadelphia
The Duke of Philadelphia had a daughter whose kidnapping around 1945 was considered the crime of the century. The 1995 theft of The Two Georges was the most sensational crime at any point since then.

Literary comment
Although there is a popular readers' consensus that this crime is meant to be analogous to the case of Charles Lindbergh's son, the administrators have found no in-story evidence to confirm this.

Walter Pine
Doctor Walter Pine was a historian specialising in the reign of King George III. He accompanied The Two Georges on its North American Union tour when the Sons of Liberty stole it in New Liverpool. His security dossier indicated he had signed several petitions protesting the NAU's conciliatory stance in border negotiations with the Holy Alliance. At least one of those petitions had been circulated by the Independence Party, the legal political wing of the Sons of Liberty. How much that meant, Colonel Thomas Bushell couldn't say.

Myrtle Pratson
Myrtle Pratson was the wife of Rob Pratson. He doubted any secret he kept would stay secret from her for long.

Rob Pratson
Rob Pratson was plump, bald, red-faced man. He was the postmaster in Skidegate on the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Colonel Thomas Bushell interviewed Pratson in connection to the theft of The Two Georges. Bushell asked if Pratson recalled anyone mailing a long narrow package. To Bushell's dismay he recalled many such packages being mailed in the previous six months. They had been mailed by four men: Geoff, Patrick, Elgin and Benjamin. They all lived in an abandoned logging town called Buckley Bay on the west shore of Masset Inlet for the previous two or three years. They made a living by hunting and fishing and by occasionally guiding tourists to the best fishing spots.

Martin Roosevelt
Martin Roosevelt was a Governor-General of the North American Union in the early 20th Century. He was remembered for piloting his own airship; rumour had it that he frequently took pretty girls up with him when he flew.

In 1995, Roosevelt's portrait was one of a number of former Governors-General displayed in America's Number 10, the Governor-General's residence in Victoria.

Literary comment
Martin Roosevelt seems to be a genetic analog of Theodore Roosevelt and/or Franklin D. Roosevelt, combining Theodore's adventurousness with Franklin's lechery.

Anthony Rothrock
Anthony Aurelius Rothrock was a coal miner from Charleroi, Pennsylvania, with a criminal record for drunken violence. On 15 June 1995, he took part in a protest demonstration in New Liverpool, Upper California where "Honest" Dick the Steamer King shouted angrily at the miners and was murdered by a sharpshooter. When Thomas Bushell's team went to interview him, he was uncooperative and provided no useful information.

Roy Saunders
Roy Saunders was the deputy minister of the exchequer for the North American Union. As such, he was the senior professional (as opposed to political) civil servant responsible for the NAU's species and banknotes. He was thin and sandy and acerbic.

He accompanied Sir Martin Luther King on the train trip from Victoria to New Liverpool when The Two Georges was stolen. Sir Martin later ordered Saunders to put together the 50 million pounds in gold to meet the Sons of Liberty's ransom if the painting was not recovered.

Michael Shaughnessy
Michael Shaughnessy was a reporter for Common Sense. He and his partner Jerry Doyle approached Thomas Bushell at the Ribblesdale House in Charleroi, for the purpose of asking infuriating questions. Bushell said that Shaughnessy was a |bald eagle, referring to both the Independence Party's insignia and Shaughnessy's own receding hairline. Shaughnessy taunted Captain Samuel Stanley with a racialist slur as "Sam the spade". Stanley refused to respond. Doyle and Shaughnessy later encountered Bushell at the Hasting Arms, with no better results.

Sgt. Singh
Sergeant Singh was with the New Liverpool Police and a forensics specialist. He dusted the Cardigan Room (the place The Two Georges was hung when the Sons of Liberty stole it) and a mechanical phonograph the Sons left behind but failed to find any fingerprints. He gloomily concluded that the Sons must have been very careful to not leave behind any evidence.

Smithers
Smithers was the chief of the Royal American Mounted Police's Upper California section in New Liverpool. On his retirement, Colonel Thomas Bushell transferred from Victoria to take over the position.

Marcus Aurelius Stimpson
Marcus Aurelius "Chalky" Stimpson was the resident tailor for the Royal American Mounted Police in their headquarters in Victoria. He was a tall, thin, pale, slightly stooped man of indeterminate age somewhere between 65 and 85 although Thomas Bushell joked he had been around since at least William the Conqueror. The nickname of "Chalky" came from his ever present tailor's chalk.

Bushell and Capt. Samuel Stanley fell into Stimpson's clutches during their investigation of the theft of The Two Georges. The information Bushell had brought led General Sir Horace Bragg to authorize a series of raids on suspected Sons of Liberty but he also decided that Bushell and Stanley would accompany him to a reception that night at the Russian Embassy. As such, the two needed formal dress uniforms fitted to perfection and so he took them to see "Chalky".

Stimpson grumbled that Bragg hadn't given him enough time but then fell to it. He took two tunics and pairs of trousers from the rack and had the two put them on. He then went at it with tape measure, pins and chalk working with his ancient foot-powered sewing machine. A braver man than Bushell would suggest he switch to a more modern electric model.

Finally, after spending the afternoon with the pair, Stimpson was satisfied. However, as Bushell relaxed and lit a cigar, Stimpson said he had one more thing for them. Stanley exclaimed in horror that he had already done enough but Stimpson, with a twinkle in his eye, asked innocently whether they wanted clubs to beat off all the lovely ladies their new uniforms would attract.

James Stonebreaker
James Stonebreaker was, ironically, a stone mason who worked in Doshoweh, The Six Nations. In 1995 his outspoken criticisms of the Iroquois drew the attention of the authorities investigating the theft of The Two Georges. While not personally a suspect, he was investigated for associates named "Joe" based on a letter discovered by Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Robert Thirkettle
Robert Thirkettle was a lieutenant in the Royal American Mounted Police and the public information officer in the RAM's Upper California Section HQ in New Liverpool. Colonel Thomas Bushell reluctantly asked him to arrange a news conference with the press the afternoon after the Sons of Liberty stole the The Two Georges.

Several days later Colonel Bushell received a ransom demand from the Sons. He was flooded by telephone calls from reporters since the Sons had sent copies of the demand to newspapers across America. After fielding a number of calls himself, he asked the switchboard to direct all further inquiries to Thirkettle.

Vining
Sgt. Vining was a Charleroi policeman who drove Thomas Bushell on the search for Michael O'Flynn.

Wainwright
Corporal Wainwright commanded a ten man squad in Lt. Morton Green's platoon of Royal Marines on the Queen Charlotte Islands. He was a short, heavyset man.

He, his squad and the squad of Corp. Johnston along with Lt. Green and Sgt. Fuller, were assigned by Cmdr. Nathan Hairston to assist Colonel Thomas Bushell in his investigation of the theft of The Two Georges. He and the other Marines accompanied Bushell to Buckley Bay to assist in the capture of four suspected Sons of Liberty.

When they had reached the outskirts of the town, Green sent Fuller, Wainwright and his squad circling around the town to the south. After reaching their position they entered the town using move-and-support tactics. Wainwright and half his squad would sprint forward and find cover while Fuller and the other half would be prepared to give supporting fire if needed. Then Fuller would sprint while Wainwright gave support.

Yeoman Washington
Yeoman Washington was with the Royal North American Navy. In 1995 he was stationed on the Queen Charlotte Islands and assigned clerical duties in Commander Nathan Hairston's Security Detachment. He took Colonel Thomas Bushell's statement regarding his attempt to arrest four Sons of Liberty in Buckley Bay and the resulting gun battle that left three Sons, two Royal Marines and RAM Lt. Col. Felix Crooke dead. After recording Bushell's statement in shorthand, Washington typed it out for his signature.

Anson Whitby
Anson Whitby was the senior manager of Kilbride's Fine Food and Drink. He was bald and stout, and wore suits which attempted without success to disguise his bulk. Thomas Bushell inquired about the habits of Whitby's boss Joseph Kilbride. Bushell concluded that Whitby was not party to any of Kilbride's suspected crimes. He did catch Whitby making an untruthful statement about a racialist statement made by Kilbride, but as this did no harm, Bushell let it slide.

Harrington Wilberforce
Harrington Wilberforce was Governor John Burnett's secretary and office administrator when The Two Georges was stolen by the Sons of Liberty. He was present at the mansion when the infamous crime was committed and assisted in the investigation by providing Colonel Thomas Bushell and Captain Samuel Stanley with private offices to interview the witnesses.

He was a tall, dignified Negro man and indispensable to Governor Burnett's office running smoothly.

Edward Woodbridge
Lieutenant Commander Edward "Ted" Woodbridge was the captain of HMS Grampus. Early one morning in 1995, he transported Colonel Thomas Bushell, his two companions and two squads of Royal Marines from Port Clements to about five miles north of Buckley Bay. At noon of the same day Woodbridge and his ship returned directly to Buckley Bay to pick-up Bushell and any prisoners he might have.

Woodbridge was the first to learn of the gun battle that had taken place when the Sons of Liberty resisted arrest. He provided medical assistance to the wounded through Hartnett, a pharmacist’s mate on board his ship and transported the survivors and their one prisoner back to Port Clements. He also wirelessed ahead to have Doctor Lansing meet them at the wharf. Finally, he provided Bushell and Capt. Samuel Stanley with a private compartment for them to study the evidence they had collected.

Solomon York
Solomon York was a printer who operated in Doshoweh, The Six Nations. In 1995 his outspoken criticisms of the Iroquois drew the attention of the authorities investigating the theft of The Two Georges. While not personally a suspect, he was investigated for associates named "Joe" based on a letter discovered by Colonel Thomas Bushell.

Bushell did entertain some suspicions given his previous investigation of two printers in New Liverpool but nothing came of it.