Humbug Billy...

[nutherpe...@yahoo.co.uk]

William Hardaker, known to locals as "Humbug Billy",
sold sweets from a stall in the Green Market in central Bradford


http://tinyurl.com/c82jf87


http://preview.tinyurl.com/c82jf87


.............


The 1858 Bradford humbug poisoning involved the accidental arsenic poisoning
of more than 200 people.
Twenty people died and over 200 became seriously ill when sweets
accidentally made with arsenic were sold from a market stall in Bradford.

But how did sweets sweetened with arsenic ever come to be sold to the public?

More Here..

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-forHumbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/

................

[Ian Clifton]

nutherpe...@yahoo.co.uk writes:

> William Hardaker, known to locals as "Humbug Billy",
> sold sweets from a stall in the Green Market in central Bradford

[...]

> The 1858 Bradford humbug poisoning involved the accidental arsenic poisoning
> of more than 200 people.
> Twenty people died and over 200 became seriously ill when sweets
> accidentally made with arsenic were sold from a market stall in Bradford.

[...]

> http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-forHumbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/

I’m not sure I believe all the details of this tale, “The sweets
reportedly contained enough arsenic to kill two people per humbug.” That
means 9/10 of the humbug eaters must have spat out their humbugs before
sucking ½ of them, could that really happen—in Yorkshire?
--
Ian ◎

[nutherpe...@yahoo.co.uk]

Hah,,

Maybe they saved them for ron..


.......