User:Fat lady of boise

The Legend of the Fat lady of Boise She lived in Boise in a decrepit old house in the late 1800's. A mother of 8 children, Edna Thomas Battersby. She owned a bakery, Battersby Bakery and lived a pleasant bakers wife life. Her father had come to Boise when she was young and had since seen him pass. Her husband had been grossly deprived of food and starved to death. There was a mighty cold winter and the mother was famished, so she ate her children. When the winter had passed the former mother now had a craving for children. Since she owned a bakery she would lure the children into her bakery with Steadily through the years the Boise people caught on too what she was doing. She killed her children in the winter of 1894 and lured children to her bakery for 5 years. she was caught luring Timmy Tucker into her bakery. And when the police arrived they found the bones of 42 children in her basement. They tried to hang her but the rope snapped so they threw her the Boise river. There she drowned and died that day, and it said that the river rose 4 inches, since that year the river has overflown every year. The legend has it, that until all her belongings are returned to her she will never rest and flood the river every year. Later the children would sing,'' Fat lady, fat lady, owned a cleaver. Fat lady, fat lady, no-one else meaner. Fat lady, fat lady don't make me dead. Fat lady, fat lady the pies are red.''