StevenHanly

One afternoon, in late October, 1919, while Morrie was in his little office, he was visited by Fabien Smallwood, one of the patrons of the Big 25 saloon and jazz club, who was coming to him to help find his daughter, Alida. She had been last seen playing in front of her house. Nothing had hit the papers yet; this was a black girl, after all, and not someone “important enough” to make the news. He agreed to take the case, being sincerely concerned for the welfare of the girl. He started investigating, starting with the house Alida lived in, the street it was on, and all of the sight lines that someone could have used to watch her before taking her, making the assumption that the kidnapper may have stalked her for a while before snatching her. However, Morrie found that there was nothing conclusive about the street, the houses, and trees and shrubs in the yards. There were plenty of places that the kidnapper could have used to watch his victim. Morrie then went door to door, talking