This sort of crime was unheard of. This little girl was plucked from the city streets in broad daylight and whilst wearing her school uniform on an errand for her Aunty. There was a great sense of outrage. A sense of how could this have happened. Much soul searching throughout the city.
Centuries are just full of horrible examples of murders.
People want a result and they want it quickly. They want a scapegoat and it's nothing like a huge newspaper coverage and things can get out of control. It almost becomes self-perpetuating. Such was the level of outrage in the community and this was mirrored in the newspapers, being lead by the Herald, that when at the end of the first week of the investigation, no new leads had been uncovered, the Press and the public, began to clamour more and more for an arrest. After criticism in the newspapers the Government finally raised the reward from two hundred and fifty pounds to one thousand pounds.