Yes Ryder and Cusack steal another jem from someone, but like I said they did not even to get to do nothing to it because his sister sold the goose that had the jem in it. If they did get away with the jem then yes Sherlock Holmes should have thrown them in jail because they could have sold the jem and got some money off of it, but then again they did commit a crime but they confessed and came up clean from there.
In conclusion, Sherlock Holmes ended up doing, the correct thing and letting them go because it is the “the season of forgiveness “and it was also a holiday. Holmes had to make a big decision. No one out of all the people got hurt and the plumber was framed but after a couple of days he got out and back to his family then got back to work. I think that Sherlock Holmes did do the correct thing in the end. Cause if he threw them in jail for stealing something that they didn’t even do then when they got out people would see them at