Emily, Georgina, and Miriam could not bear to tell their elderly mother that the child she had lost to alcohol had been killed in such a gruesome and dehumanizing way. They smothered their grief as they held the hands of Annie’s two children, who would never know the fate that befell their mother. The pain and humiliation Annie’s sisters suffered as story after story appeared in the papers, calling her a prostitute and describing her degraded life, cannot be imagined.
