Eldred Jonas

“But you was just a boy! One of them three boys! You come to count stock, and Eldred Jonas was there, the Coffin Hunter, and—” “Get out while you still can,” the gunslinger said, and Sheb went, holding his broken wrists before him.

Sheb recognizes Roland from Mejis and explicitly names Jonas the Coffin Hunter.

… nearly to his jaw—a sham gunslinger’s mustache, many thought it, but no one used the word “sham” to Eldred Jonas’s face. He wore a white silk shirt, and a black-handled revolver hung low on his hip. His large, red-rimmed eyes looked sad on first glance. A …

The narrative introduces Jonas wearing a low-slung revolver and false gunslinger appearance.

He saw Gasher and Hoots; Tick-Tock and Flagg; he saw Eldred Jonas’s gunbunnies, Depape and Reynolds; he saw his mother and father and Greta Shaw, their housekeeper, who looked a little like Edith Bunker on TV and …

Jake imagines the faces of Jonas’s gunmen among his fears.

“Once he knew a man—a bad man—named Amos Depape, brother of the Roy Depape who ran with Eldred Jonas in Mejis. Your dinh believes Amos Depape was stung to death by a snake, and in a way he was...but the snake was me.” Susannah said nothing.

Mia describes Roy Depape’s association with Jonas in Mejis.

… in Mejis, and had just missed his grip on him there, too (although he put that mostly down to Eldred Jonas, he of the quavery voice and the long gray hair, and Jonas had paid). The King had told him then that they weren’t done with Roland, that the …

Walter recalls his missed opportunity in Mejis and blames Jonas.

… father; he thought of Abel Vannay, who had limped his way through a life of gentle goodness, and Eldred Jonas, who had limped his way through a life of evil . . . until Roland had blown him loose of his saddle, one fine desert day. He thought, as always, of …

Roland remembers killing the limping Jonas in the desert.