Eight-year-old Antonio Testa, the son of shoemaker Saverio Testa and his wife Mary of Penn Street in Johnston, awoke in the middle of the night on August 23, 1923. His loud crying attracted his mother’s attention and she went into his room. “I can see Mike,” he sobbed. “I can see his shadow.” The boy’s nine-year-old friend and neighbor Michael Turgio had disappeared two days earlier. Mary comforted her son following his nightmare and encouraged him to go back to sleep.