Captain Patricia Oliver was with the Royal American Mounted Police and based in Victoria. She was near forty, with light brown hair just touched with grey and pale skin. She was married to Roland Oliver, a prosecuting attorney for the province of Virginia. She was an expert in handwriting and typewriter analysis. She accompanied Lieutenant General Sir Horace Bragg on his train trip from Victoria to New Liverpool when the Sons of Liberty stole The Two Georges, bring with her samples of previous typewritten notes to compare with the note the Sons had left with the phonogram.