Despite public unrest, the flawed investigation from the police failed to solve her killing, and she is now remembered as a martyr for childhood innocence. She had gone missing the previous day, after leaving her grandparents' house.
Payne was murdered in his residence in Lagos by an unknown assailant in 1906. He was a Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Lagos and he also served as a registrar in various colonial departments such as the Police Court, the Chief Magistrate's Court, the Court of Civil and Criminal Justice and the Petty Debt court.
Rose Harsent, victim of the Peasenhall murder