Castleton WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 2, 1999-2011, p. 7

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i o n e £5.7} 7/ ue THE BALLAD OFP Tir CAATLETON TRAGBDY enc e insl in eiritenmmeon isnn ioi in ies en panann, Come all ye sporting youngsters, Come listen to what I sey. Be sure and take a warnifig Before it is too late. It‘s about the Cestleton tragedy I‘m going to tell a tole Which will make the friends on both sides All for to weep and to wsil. This happened to as fine a girl As ever trod the soil. And for her correct actions She could excel them all Until she went to Mallory‘s And there the plot was lsit All for to deceive and overcome The fair Alberta Wade, It being on May the twentyâ€"first The horrible deed was done All by three brutal murderers, And one was Mallory‘s son, The other was Mark Wilton, I suppose you know him well The other was the Devil‘s Imp, He ouzht to have been in Hell. dust a little east of the Northern Wood This deor girl was out down, All in a murdérer‘ts hidingâ€"place When nobody was around,. With pine boughs to cover her And just ore inch of sround Thoge cruel brutes they buried her And thought she would never be found, ow one of them lives in Kingston I‘m very sorry to say 4 Not one of them got right justice Or they would have been hangéd that day . They should have been out into a hole. Like dogs the people said For the murdering 6f that poor dear soul they called Albertsa Wade. Now to conclude and finish I hope I‘ve said nothing wrong I have only given right justice To the dear girl who is gone. And when we sll come face to face On that great tribunal day The murderers will then be Judged by Him that judges the eternal dey, / _# a

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