Also, people used the canes/sticks as a way of carrying concealed weapons at the time, they where weapons to match the look/fashion but without looking like a sword etc.
Nearly everyone carried a cane/stick/hidden dagger/pocket gun if they was rich, weapons where illigal to carry (it's a very grey area to be honest)but it was so dangerous a world, everyone did but with the rich/dandies it had to be with style, look at some images from the time and think of the look of english gentlemen since, riding crops, seated walking sticks, long umbrellas all replaced but show the influence of the walking stick/cane swords that their turn of the century victorian/edwardian forebear carried.
So to cap, he wouldn't need the cane/stick but you can bet he had one.
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