Station Road 1916 A 21-year-old unemployed painter and local man James Phipps approached the children as it was getting dark. He asked if one of them could go to a nearby shop and get him some cigarettes, the volunteer would get 2d for going. Eliza being a helpful girl, volunteered. She went and bought the cigarettes, and when she returned with them, Phipps asked her to show him where a man called Hulse lived, Eliza knew Hulse as the local lamplighter from Ledward Street, again, the ever-friendly Eliza agreed. It was 7.30pm when they were last seen walking along the footpath in Ledward Street. The vibrant, fun-loving Eliza Warburton was last seen near Wharton church by a neighbour. She was not seen alive again.