The characters / Likely connection
Roy DeWitt
A likely identity connection, supported by compatible details but not established as one person.
Unusual full name, shared Maine background and compatible boy-to-elderly-man life stages; no biographical contradiction was found.
Separate catalog identities: Roy DeWitt (Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) and Roy DeWitt (Rat).
Stories and supporting passages
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
He told me about how he and Roy DeWitt found some fireworks in Roy’s cellar and when they shot them off one went into Frank Driscoll’s kindling box and set it on fire and Frank Driscoll said if they didn’t cut him a cord of wood, he’d tell their parents.
Unusual full name, shared Maine background and compatible boy-to-elderly-man life stages; no biographical contradiction was found.
Rat
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Course you know Old Bill died.” “Yes. One of his sons dropped me a card. We couldn’t make it to the funeral. Was it his heart?” “Head. Put a bullet through it.” Roy DeWitt said this with palpable relish.
Unusual full name, shared Maine background and compatible boy-to-elderly-man life stages; no biographical contradiction was found.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Then the old fella pulled a snot-clotted bandanna from his back pocket and sneezed into it. “Goddam allergies, I get em every fall.” “Mike DeWitt, isn’t it?” Drew asked. “Nawp, Mike was my father. He passed on in Feberary. Ninety-seven fuckin years old, and the last ten he didn’t know if he was afoot or on hossback.
Unusual full name, shared Maine background and compatible boy-to-elderly-man life stages; no biographical contradiction was found.