I did a little digging and there really isn't much out there on this... until I found a post about it by one of the relatives:
"I'm a distant relative of Maisie Deacon. (Like her father would be my great-something uncle, I don't know exactly.) This story in our family is known as "that fake legend that grew up about how Maisie died". I can't remember too much about it, but I've never seen this picture before, and I don't remember anything about a photograph being part of the story. (I also recall that there were other variations of the story with different holes in them.)
I think the "real" and boring version is that Maisie went missing at night and was found dead the next day with no visible injuries. So the no visible injuries is what made people think it was spooky.
I think my grandmother (dead now) put together some clippings with debunking-type notes in a little scrap-book. I think my uncle has it now, I should give him a call."
What could have happened is.... Masie was dead when the one on the left was taken. And the clocked figure had taken her skull, from behind, causing the blood on her face. The reason, might have been a warning.
"I'm a distant relative of Maisie Deacon. (Like her father would be my great-something uncle, I don't know exactly.) This story in our family is known as "that fake legend that grew up about how Maisie died". I can't remember too much about it, but I've never seen this picture before, and I don't remember anything about a photograph being part of the story. (I also recall that there were other variations of the story with different holes in them.)
I think the "real" and boring version is that Maisie went missing at night and was found dead the next day with no visible injuries. So the no visible injuries is what made people think it was spooky.
I think my grandmother (dead now) put together some clippings with debunking-type notes in a little scrap-book. I think my uncle has it now, I should give him a call."
Ya don't say?