In another clandestine meeting with confidential informant Deep Tonsils, investigative reporter TrolleyTrollop has learned that Tunnel Man may be a railway worker who was thought to have been buried alive during the 1882 construction of an extension of London’s underground Metropolitan Railway between Aldgate and the Tower of London.
The lone worker to survive the construction accident, Tunnel Man, as he was later dubbed by police, turned to cannibalism to sustain himself. Eluding identification and capture by the combined forces of metropolitan police, Scotland Yard, and Sherlock Holmes, Deep Tonsils claims that Tunnel Man ultimately found his way New Toulouse and sought employment during a major period of city construction.
In an off-the-record interview with New Toulouse lawman Pazzo Pestana, Trollop learned that sources close to the investigation fear that Tunnel Man may use upcoming Mardi Gras celebrations as a diversion to once again stalk the streets and bayous of New Toulouse in search of a new bride to kidnap and install in his hidden lair.
Be on the lookout, citizens and visitors! Pestana has promised extra patrols during the festivities, but it may not be enough to keep the young women of the parish safe. Visiting Dominican friar Father Rob toured St. Louis Cemetery yesterday and told Trollop he would not rest easy until the bones of those poor dead girls were returned and given a proper burial with a Basin Street jazz procession to a waiting crypt.
