People involved in the trial for fraud against Edwin Marshall Fox. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1905.

[1905]

1 drawing : pen and ink on four sheets ; sheets together 26.7 x 32.2 cm

Dr Bridgewater ; L.P. Holmes ; E. Shackell ; Elizabeth Forster ; The convict Fisher ; Mr Marshall Fox ; Miss Toovey. G.K. Jones Names of persons depicted are inscribed on mount. According to The times, 25 September 1905 and 2 October 1905, the accused were: Talbot Bridgwater, 49, medical specialist; Lionel Peyton Holmes, 53, doctor's assistant; William Edward Shackell, 49, surveyor; Elizabeth Foster, boarding house keeper; and Fisher, alias Dean. Miss Toovey was secretary to Edwin Marshall Fox, an American mineowner and industrialist and the victim of the forgery of a cheque in his name. Bridgwater (also spelt Bridgewater) was proprietor of the "Progressive Medical Alliance", Oxford Street, London. Bridgwater, Holmes and Shackell were convicted, Foster acquitted. Bridgwater was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude (Times, 30 Nov. 1905)

Wellcome Collection 47163i