No one was sure where Mister Curliss went, but the Buffalo City Council thought it appropriate to honor him with a memorial near the park bench where he always sat. He would call out predictions—prognostications might be a more accurate word—to passersby in the park. At first it seemed like lunatic ramblings, but when he told Mrs Jackson where she would find her missing wedding ring, consoled George Perrin the morning he would be laid off, and precisely recounted the score in every quarter of the high school basketball semifinals two days before it happened, people began to take him seriously. The police were able to prevent the assassination of Governor Leeds when he told them the exact day, time, and location from which the bullet would be fired.
