Leslie Allen

DESCRIPTION: Leslie Allen comes to Black Brook from Moncton. He wanders from town one day and a search team of "three hundred men and two bloodhounds" follow his tracks "but the search was unavailing" He is never found.
AUTHOR: Michael Whelan "the poet of the Renous" (Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi)
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi)
KEYWORDS: manhunt
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi 29, "Leslie Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST MaWi029 (Partial)
Roud #9188
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Barbara Allen" (tune)
NOTES [27 words]: Black Brook is a tributary of the Main Southwest Miramichi River in New Brunswick.
Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi: A true story of Leslie Allen, a lost hunter. - BS
File: MaWi029

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