Morris Island
a small island at S. C. During the Civil War it was occupied by Fort Wagner and other fortifications. writer; born in 1863. During his employment and residence for some years life in the slums, which he reproduced East End of London, he made a study of as secretary of a Charity Trust in the in his powerful "Tales of Mean Streets" (1895), and " The Child of the Jago" (1896). He wrote also: "Martin Hewitt, Investigator" ( Investigator" (1894), detective stories; Deed-Box"; "Green Ginger," etc.