# Mrs. Hamthwaite — The Borough Treasurer character guide

> Mrs. Hamthwaite in The Borough Treasurer by J. S. Fletcher.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** old Mrs. Hamthwaite

**First appearance:** 0000-i-blackmail

## Who they are

An elderly woman who provides local gossip.

## In the story

### [XIX: A Tall Man in Grey Clothes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_borough_treasurer_se/chapters/xix-a-tall-man-in-grey-clothes)

Provides key testimony: she saw Harborough near Good Folks' Lift and a tall man in grey clothes with a companion on the night of the murder.

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