# Leo Fox — The Bellamy Trial character guide

> Leo Fox in The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mr. Leo Fox, Mr. Fox, Patrick Ives, Pat Ives

**First appearance:** 0001-the-bellamy-trial

## Snapshot

A freckled gas-station mechanician whose memory of a Saturday-night car and a lady wanting water becomes one of the trial's most contested fragments of evidence.

## Who they are

Fox is the kind of witness trials are built from — ordinary, slightly overdressed, chewing gum as he parries Daniel Farr's cross-examination. He insists he remembers the car and its occupants because the lady asked him for a drink of water, a small human detail that fixes the hour in his mind. The defense needs his memory to be exact; the prosecution needs it to be loose, and the whole alibi may hang on whether a man who never comes on duty before nine can really swear to twenty-five minutes past.

## In the story

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/v)

Mentioned as Mimi's lover and as a man who sold papers in the streets, carved ships, and played the ukulele.

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