Jabez

Jabez V · T · F
Occupation	Pawnbroker Proprietor of Jabez's Place
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	19th century
Last known status	Alive
Eye color	Unknown
Hair color	Unknown
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	"Venus" (customer)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Twisted Karma and His Last Bow

Jabez was a pawnbroker who operated Jabez's Place, a pawnshop near Fresno Street.

The "broken" pocket watch

Main article: Twisted Karma and His Last Bow

One day, one of Jabez's customers, a firecracker peddler under the pseudonym "Venus", presented to him a stopped pocket watch with a cracked glass frame that she wished to sell. After evaluating the item, Jabez quickly deemed it worthless and refused to buy it. Unbeknownst to him, the pocket watch actually belonged to recently-deceased Scotland Yard inspector Tobias Gregson, and it had merely stopped because it was never wound back up following his murder the day before.

Name

• Jabez's given name is taken from the character Jabez Wilson in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Red-Headed League". The character in question is also a pawnbroker, and happens to be Holmes's client in the story.