Sweet Fanny Adams

A man of means was Frederick Baker
Worked in legal offices
Thought he could simply take her
An 8 year old child with her sisters
They felt it safer to stay together
However he insisted
He offered coins to Fanny first
Then tried to buy her siblings exit
Send them off to sate hunger and thirst
But then he simply legs it
But not without first grabbing the girl
While her sisters looked in disbelief
He ran into the hop fields and hid with her
His status empowering the child thief
Distraught were her family to lose sweet Fanny
Then came the news from a farmer:
A mutilated head was displayed on some stakes
No doubts on who had owned it
The police found blood on Baker’s clothes
He thought he could escape but he’d blown it
With parts of the girl slowly coming to light
He was tried for the gruesome atrocity
He was sentenced to hang before a Winchester
And duly executed with some due velocity
A tale of a upper class entitled bad’un
Who thought he could just dispose of
Sweet Fanny Adams
Joanne Oliver 2023
