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Thread #72469   Message #2839660
Posted By: bradfordian
15-Feb-10 - 06:26 AM
Thread Name: Meltham, Yorkshire folksong
Subject: RE: Meltham, Yorkshire folksong
Matthew, this may be the poem to which you alluded earlier in this thread. From this website Bill o' Jacks murders

Here lie the dreadfully bruised and lacerated bodies
of William Bradbury and Thomas, his son, both of
Greenfield, who were together savagely murdered in an
Unusually horrid manner, on Monday night, April 2nd.
1832, William being 84 and Thomas 46 years old.

Throughout the land wherever news is read.
Intelligence of their sad end has spread.
Those now who talk of far-famed Greenfield hills.
Will think of Bill o' Jack's and Tom o' Bills

Such interest did their tragic end excite.
That, ere they were removed from human sight.
Thousands on thousands came to see.
The bloody scene of catastrophe.

One house, one business, and one bed.
And one most shocking death they had.
One funeral came, one inquest past.
And now one grave they had a last.