Jahns and Marnes's Canteens
The travelers’ shared canteens became evidence after poison in Marnes’s canteen killed Jahns.
Story so far
Jahns and Marnes shared water during their journey, exchanging canteens so he could carry what remained. Their packs made it easier to reach each other’s canteens than their own. Bernard Holland ordered refills during their visits to IT, including before they continued home.
Jahns drank poison from the canteen Marnes carried and recognized that it had been intended for him. A canteen connected with her death has been preserved in a reusable plastic evidence bag; the poison is established as having been in Marnes’s canteen.
Appearance
The canteens were carried in packs, with Marnes’s held in a webbed pouch. A canteen connected with Jahns’s death is preserved in a reusable plastic evidence bag.
Role
They are evidence in Jahns’s death and the poisoning intended for Marnes.
Relationships
Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
- Jahns and Marnes share Marnes’s canteen during their descent.
- Jahns returns Marnes’s canteen to the webbed pouch on the back of his pack.
- Jahns and Marnes exchange canteens so Marnes can carry the remaining water.
- Bernard orders a worker to refill Jahns and Marnes’s canteens.
- Bernard orders the canteens refilled before Jahns and Marnes continue home.
- Jahns and Marnes drink from each other’s canteens because these are easier to reach than their own.
- Jahns identifies the water in the canteen carried by Marnes as poison intended for him.
- A canteen connected with the mayor’s death is preserved in a reusable plastic evidence bag.
- The poison that killed Jahns was in Marnes’s canteen.