"I tell you, Eugenia Ronder murdered her husband. People are trying to kill me, and I'm running for my life."
-- Juan "Don" Murillow, Tiger of San Pedro, from an undisclosed location
The story of Don Murillo captured the attention of readers everywhere in 1908. The attention of one reader in particular shot toward that account more than any other.
"You know why I wasn't in part two of 'Wisteria Lodge?' Because Watson forgot about me. He got so excited by the Tiger of San Pedro that I just didn't exist to him any more. It wasn't until that story came out in 1908 that I even heard what happened to my close personal friend Garcia."
-- John Scott Eccles, sociable bachelor and Canonical character
"John was always telling that double-barrelled tiger cub story. He loved tigers. And he really, really hated that famous tiger hunter Sebastian Moran. Do I think he was involved with the Tiger of San Pedro beyond what he wrote in that story. It was 1892. 1892. Sherlock Holmes was dead in a river in Switzerland."
-- The late Mary Morstan Watson, to a friend before her mysterious disappearance
"It was 1889 and I wanted to take my children to the circus. That's all. Was this Watson at that circus? Did he know how far a murderess would go to discredit a witness from another country? Try to look up San Pedro in any encyclopaedia! You find San Cristobal and then William Sancroft -- there is no San Pedro!"
-- Juan "Don" Murillo, Tiger of San Pedro, a country no one has heard of
"Was it a fierce tiger of crime, which could only be taken fighting hard with flashing fang and claw?"
-- John H. Watson, creating an imaginary criminal in his head in "Black Peter"
"Yes, Watson liked to pretend Eugenia was horrible to look at. But the way he'd go on about her figure, how perfect her mouth was, how pleasing her voice was . . . I mean, it was just a few scars. He didn't have any problem taking her to Simpson's with Sherlock and me after I got sprung from the joint."
-- Kitty Winter, reputed hell-cat from Hell, London
"I mean, who the hell is 'the Marquess of Montalva, and why did Watson want people to think I was him after he was murdered?"
-- Juan "Don" Murillo, Tiger of San Pedro, not a marquess
"You know Watson waited to publish that story until Sherlock Holmes was undercover in America and couldn't give him hell for making up all that 'Tiger of San Pedro' crap. What he did to Eduardo was bad enough."
-- Ricardo Lucas, a.k.a. "cat-like" Lopez, whose family's reputation had a second stain by Watson's pen
"Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife."
-- Sherlock Holmes, apparently refusing to say Eugenia Ronder's name
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