Public catalog · Box 17
A private house begins receiving callers somewhere between Elm Street and the river.
Neighbors along three different streets each insist a private house receiving evening callers stands on their own block; no directory records it and no sign marks the door.
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Newly arrived and evidently well provided for, Miss Cassandra Castello hosts a lavish small company at an unnamed dining room, declining to name her partners in a new club called The Black Veil.
New to the city and comfortably fixed, Cassie Castello is mentioned almost incidentally among the proprietors of a private Manchester supper club.
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A Manchester labor crisis emptied the mills and reshaped the city around The Black Veil.
Fifteen thousand Amoskeag workers struck after a fresh 20 percent wage cut and an increase from 48 to 54 hours a week.
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Federal agents watch the north road while Manchester’s private rooms remain undisturbed.
A fictional clipping links Canadian liquor, river landings, and a protected private club without proving any of them.
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Officials privately concede a massacre took place at the All Hallows' Eve masquerade; no bodies and no toll have been released.
No official count of the dead has been released. Whatever bodies the scene once held were gone before police arrived — yet investigators now privately concede that a massacre took place inside The Black Veil.
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Cassandra Castello Missing After Black Veil Masquerade Massacre
A death inquiry, a vanished proprietress, and no two witnesses telling the same story.
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A photograph from the night of the masquerade surfaces three days after Cassandra Castello’s disappearance.
The print, showing Castello on the night she vanished, was recovered without its negative. The clock, window, and face at the right edge have all been cited as evidence.
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Officials stop short of naming Cassandra Castello a suspect.
A second newspaper treats Cassandra as a fugitive while conceding that no warrant exists.
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A print said to have been taken at the Boston & Maine depot revives the porter's account, but confirms nothing.
The print shows a northbound train idling at the platform and a single indistinct figure near the rear car. No feature is clear enough to confirm an identity.
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An unsigned notice posted in three locations ends the club's memberships; the city can find no address to match it.
A management notice confirms the closure but names no proprietor and acknowledges no casualty.
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One year later, there is no body, no arrest, and no agreement that a murder occurred.
A retrospective gathers sightings, denials, and the unanswered question of whether Castello was victim or suspect.
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A wire beats any local account to the city desk as the old insignia turns up two years after the club closed and its proprietress vanished.
A telegram reporting black envelopes bearing the old insignia reaches this desk two years after the club closed and its proprietress vanished.
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