This is a poem that was first published in 1906, and tells the story of a highwayman - a thief - and his lover, Bess. On a stormy night, the highwayman rides to Bess' father's inn where she is ...

Black Bess, from London to York in record time to provide himself with an alibi for a crime. Later the poem was turned into a musical and comic books. John Rann was a highwayman who was arrested ...