Interesting Visit

[L Verge]

(05-11-2017 04:35 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 03:32 PM)L Verge Wrote:  How did the police in Canada come to have the photo in the first place? Sarah certainly wasn't passing out photos of herself. Was the police department that modernized that they had the capabilities of photographing their subjects? If so, Sarah obviously changed into something more becoming because those are certainly not widow's weeds that she's wearing in that photo.

I guess the other alternative in my mind is that the photo was taken (or given) at the reunion. I know nothing about Headley, the reunion, Cameron. When was the reunion?

Headley claims in a footnote on p. 376 that one of the prisoners in jail at Montreal succeeded in securing the young widow's photograph. I presume that's the source of the photograph in his book on the opposite page.

Thanks for the citation, Susan, but that only causes me to question how that prisoner got the photo. He had no SmartPhone, and I cannot imagine that a secret agent lady would be passing out photos of herself - even though CDVs were the calling cards of the day. What purpose would Sarah have in giving strangers her photo (even if she had helped save them).

No one would love to see a photograph of Sarah Slater any more than I. I worked with James O. Hall for nearly thirty years, and he was so absorbed with her that I would love to see what the lady looked like. There is just something about Headley's photo that doesn't ring true to me.