# Yosef Mealyus — Phineas Redux character guide

> Yosef Mealyus in Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mealyus, Yosef

**First appearance:** 0065-lxvi-the-foreign-bludgeon

## Who they are

A foreigner who provides a crucial alibi for Phineas.

## In the story

### [What Came of the Quarrel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/chapters/xlvii-what-came-of-the-quarrel)

Another suspect in the murder, though evidence against him is weaker; considered a possible perpetrator.

### [The Beginning of the Search for the Key and the Coat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/chapters/lvii-the-beginning-of-the-search-for-the-key-and-the-coat)

Also referred to as Emilius; suspected by Madame Goesler of committing the murder, with a search for evidence against him.

### [Confusion in the Court](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/chapters/lxiv-confusion-in-the-court)

The key made for him in Prague is the central new evidence, though he is already in prison on a bigamy charge.

### [The Foreign Bludgeon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/chapters/lxvi-the-foreign-bludgeon)

Confronted with the bludgeon; his flushed reaction raises suspicion but no direct evidence links him to the murder.

### [The End of the Story of Mr. Emilius and Lady Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phineas_redux_se/chapters/lxxii-the-end-of-the-story-of-mr-emilius-and-lady-eustace)

Also known as Mr. Emilius, he is convicted of bigamy and sentenced to five years of penal servitude, but escapes conviction for the Bonteen murder due to lack of direct evidence.

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