Theodorus Wheaton

Theodorus "Doc" Wheaton is the chief technologist and inventor for the Rappaport Gang. He's a skilled scientist gone bad. Wheaton once worked for Collins and Vaught, but he was fired because he allowed a test pilot to fly one of his creations even though he knew it had some serious design flaws. The pilot was killed, and Wheaton only escaped arrest by fleeing into Devil's Cauldron. Marshal Rappaport took him in and put his
mechanical genius to work for the gang.
The others call him "Doc" because he spent a short stint as a corpsman in the Muscadawick Colonial Army. Brain surgery is beyond his ability, but he can stitch up a wound with the best of them - as long as he hasn't been hitting the bottle the patient should end up with a fairly straight scar.
Doc loves flying gizmos. He's working on a flying machine that uses pressurized steam jets to propel it , but it hasn't progressed much farther than the drawing board. The components are expensive, and he keeps blowing his share of the gang's loot on drunken binges. Because of these binges, he hasn't realized that Rappaport has been quietly discarding pieces of the contraption and Doc's notes. The Marshal is afraid that Doc may leave the gang if he ever finishes his gizmo, and his services are just too valuable to lose.
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Category:Men
Category:Born in 1497
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