Julia Hardy, a rural woman, was busy with household chores at home. On a day with heavy rainstorm, Julia Hardy asked her husband Victor Gallop to pick up their daughter Lizzie from school. However, Victor Gallop, who was on a date with the widow Penny Lynn at that time, left the child Lizzie alone by the roadside, which indirectly led to Lizzie falling into the manhole cover beside the road.
