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TV le-ds of ha-"* an 1 h*a«i "8 ; men
Hive o»rer V«n-nM n honest name,
AiU am nron ’—ar“, *w-r. now,
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Th" harleas tr«a-l—♦he nnen hrow
T ie bribeless han l—are left m" sti .
TaV haeU the how 1 ! 1 will not steel
Pro naeu tne now: • ”
Th-hahowol memories of th" oast
TV ' a 1 1 no nangsio thosa I fee',
Nor shalows on *h" future oa-^t.
A . take it bach—V’t nth- rs hr.ng
Oblivion o’»r th" hsnnteil sonl—
M / inern-'r’ is a hlessel thmj—
Awi ! away! take ha-k the bowl.
An upright heart—a guiltless brow—
1 soul unbow"!—are left alone;
I w ’! not break in ma lness now
T ie onU- staff I l"an upon.
To’ keenest pangs that grief can send
Shall never prompt to deeds accurst;
Ta re back the b w : —1 will not bend
A towering spirit to the dust.
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EXTRACTS FR )M FOREIGN
PAPERS.
H rrid Murders in Edinburgh, for
the pu'-pm of selling the bodies. —One
oi me m isl appalling instinees of In
rat i depravity contained in the re
cords oi'tim.J has jist been brought
to light at Edinburgh. Two wretch
es, iiaintd William B-irke and Helen
M.Dougal, were tried -before the
Hi^h Eourt of Judiciary on Wednes
day last, charged with the murder of
three different individuals, in cold
blood, for the mere purpose of selling
the bodies lo the surgeons for dissec
tion! fto unnatural and incredible did
the case si-em, that we believe it bns
scarcely gained credit in England, and
it has been declared in some of the
new spapers lo he a mere ruse to fa
vor the introduction ot a bill tor sup
plying the surgeons with subjects in
some legal way. The trial.however,
c.s. b.ts all the facts of this horrible
trade in blood, so as to silence and
appal the most incredulous
W’m. Burke and Helen M’Dongal,
who are both Irish, and who lived to
gether in Edinburgh, as man and wife.
Were indicted tor the murders of Ma-
Paterson or Mitchell, James Wil
known by the name of “Daft
ry
son,
Jamie,” and Mary Camobell ^ or
Docherty, by strangling them. The
last of the three cases was taken first
and the following are the tacts prov
ed by the witnesses
Mary Campbell or Docherty, of
im idle ge, and in good health, came
to Edinburgh in October last, in
search of her son. She saw him. hao
her lodgings paid for by him a day
or too, and seems that after thus
satisfying the yearnings of natural al-
fe tion. to have resolved on returning
to Glasgow; but, ns she and her son
w -re both poor this was to be done by
means of begging. On the morning
before Hollbw’en she was asking
charity in a grocer s shop, in the wes
tern suburb of the town. 1 here she
was seen by William Burke, an Fish
m m, too, who represented lo this un
suspecting creature, that his mother
w -.s a Docherty—a relation—and on
this ground he offered her breakfast,
a id afterwards other meats, with a
night’s lodging'. She was also sup-
*pli ul liberally with whiskey-; and
Burke, a woman, Helen M’Dotigal,
with whom he lived as his wife, and
W.n Hare anti his wife, a young car
ter. and other young men and women,
soenl the earlier part o! the evening,
as a merry-making, with liquor, dance
and song; the'stranger guest acting
the part of musician, whilst the rest,
at Vast Ihose named; were fully a-
ware that she was doomed, as they
s > >k of her among themselves freely
as being—“a shot for the Doctors"—
\v i h as they interpret on their
oaths means a person intended to lie
in mlcced and sold for dissection. Ac
cordingly in the latter part of Ihe
eve ting, after a real or protended
6 uffle between Burke and Hare, dur-
i, K / nhi. h their victim endeavored to
aeperate them, the poor deluded
n i p* h w s pushed over, and Burke,
in V nro* nee of the parties before
turned, threw himself upon lier and
extinguished life speedily, by throt
tling or strangulation. 1'ne doeu was
perpetrated in the most deliberate
and scientific manner by- Burke, who
took from ten to til teen minutes to
make sure of his work. Hare sitting
coolly by, and the two women, on
hearing the first suffocating screech,
running out into the passage, either
from ail instinctive horror ol blood,
or, what is noi less probable, from a
design to prevent any one from enter
ing till the murder was coin,, eted-
vVhen it was so, the body was piiume-
diately stripped naked, and being dou
bled up was thrufil under some straw
vvliich lay on the ground at the loot
of an open bed. These laets are
sworn to by Hare, who turned king s
eviden e, and were fully confiimed by
several persons who saw the murdcr-
d person weU at Burke's house one
evening and a corpse the next. It is
s vorn by Alston, a grocer, that he
heard a quarelling in Burke s betwixt
eleven and twelve; and David Pater
son, the keeper of Dr Knox’s Muse
um, swears, that onjjoing home about
12, he, at the request of the latter,
accompanied Burke lo his house,
where, pointing td the straw, he said
he had got something, by vvliich Pat
erson understood a dead body, lor the
Doctor. This was in the presence of
two men aud two women, and, being
so immediately after the murder, it
is a c ire u mat ante of very great im
portance. It authorizes many painful
inferences. Paterson sent tor Burke
next morning; and between twelve
and two he saw liurke and Hare with
Dr. Knox, and Dr. Jones, oue of his
assistants. It was then arranged that
the body should be delivered in the
evening. It was that of Campbell,
or Docherty-, whit h bad been doubled
u,. & compressed into an old tea chest,
the porter, John M’Culloch, who cai
rn; it u from West port, for five shil
lings, having assisted in the stuffing and
packing. The body was roceived on
Saturday evening, and 51. part of the
price, then paid; but no examination
too* piace on reception, such as ought
to be done in every case where the
medical man is desirous of satisfying
ms own mind that there are no indica
tions ot violent death on the bodies re
ceived by him. On Sunday morning,
me box still roped in the same state
in which it had been received, was
opened in the presence of an officer
of police, when the body was found
••apparently fresh and never interred
the appealance indicating strangula
lion or suffocation- from pressure
Tills is sworn to by Paterson, who al
so gives evidence to both Hare and
Burke -having frequently brought sub
jects that had not been interred for dis
section.”
The following* are the horrid de
tails given by llare:—Was in a pub
lie House along with Burke on Ilal
iowe outlay. Nobody else was with
them. Burke told witness lo go
down to his house lo see the “shot’
ne had got, that he was going to take
lo the doctor's; that there was an old
woman there that lie had got otf the
street: and he had left some whiskey
to drink; and wished witness to see
how they were coining on. Witne
uudeistsod uy a shot, tiiat Burke was
going io muder her. Was in Mrs
Conway’s oelwixt eight and nine
o clock. Besides Conway and his
wite there were Burke aud Brogan,
and another chap he did not know.
Wune .s aud wife, the old woman and
ad iJougal were left in Couvvay’s,
wnerc they had some drink. Was
there till rather late; and then went
lo Burke a, leaving the' old woman in
Comvuy s. Burke came m after the
oid woman. Tney had some more
whiskey; and they all "got pretty
hearty . Were dancing and singing in
his own house, who struck him, and
they had a fight together. The wo
men were trying to seperate them.
Witness was pushed Mown on the bed
twice. The old woman was
at the fire- She rose and wished
B-urke to sit down; for he had used
her decently while iu the house, and
she did not wish lo see him ill-used.
She ran twice out of the house crying
either murder or police—could not
say which—M’Duugal • fetched her
back both times. When witness and
Burke were tightiug, witness pushed,
the old woman over a little stool, aud
she was so drunk sbe could not get
further than lo sit. She still called
to Burke to quit fighting. He did
quit at lust and witness lay still in
the bed. Burke then got on the top
of the old woman who was on the
floor and laid himself down upon her
with ins breast at her head. She
cried, but not loud; but he held in
her breath; and she only moaned a
little after, lie put oue hand on her
nose and mouth, aud the other under
her chin. He continued this tor ten
or tifteii minutes. He said* nothing
while doing this. He then got up
from the woman, who did not move
after. Burke put his hand across her
mouth again tor two or three minutes,
when she appeared quite dead. M it
ness was setting on the chair all this
time. Burke then stripped off the
clothes and put them under the bed,
and doubled thtf body up ami put the
straw on the top of it, and covered it
up. When M’Dougal and Hare s
wife Heard the first screech of the old
woman, they leaped out of bed and
ran into the pass. ge. They did not
come in again till the body was cover
ed up under the straw.—None of
them tried to save the woman. When
the women came in Burke went out,
and returned in about ten minutes.
The women asked no questions. They
went to bed again. Never asked
for the old woman when they came
back. Burke brought the doctor’s
mau with him (Paterson.) Burke asked,
him to look at the body, but he would
not do it, and told him to get a box
and put it in. Hare confessed that he
had frequently known bodies taken to
the surgeon’s which had never been
buried, and in which cases, probably,
the persons had been murdered.
Hare,s wife admitted.that she had
witnessed many “tricks” of the same
kind; and Hare himself, when under
going the searching cross-examination
of Mr. Cockburn, durst not deny that
with affected kindness, fed her, wash-1 October, 1828. "Were ydu aSsikSiatetl
d her rags, took tier out to a ineny-I with Hare during all that time,”
making, danced and sang with her, Yes. We began with selling to
and promised that not only that night Dr.——the body of a woman who
but for several nights to come, she died a natu.al death in Hure’s house,
should remain in comfort under her We got ten pounds for it. After this
roof. At the very lime she was doing we began'the murders, and all the rest
all this she knew that tl»e deed of of the bodies we sold to him were
blood was planned, and that before an- murdered.”
other day had arrived, her lodger “In what place were these murders
would have expired under the clutch generally committed?” “They were
of the ruffian with whom she was | mostly committed in Hare’s house,
leagued. The hour of murder came.
The deed was not • done in darkness
or in a corner. One or other of the
men did not, as might have been an
ticipated, draw the poor vagrant a-
sidfc, and put her to death unseen. No;
which was very convenient for the
purpose, as it consisted of a roo m
and a kitchen. Daft Jamie wns
murdered there. The story told of
his murder, is incorrect. Hare be
gan- the struggle with him, and they
Burke leaped upon her in the middle fell- and rolled together on the floor;
of his own apartment, and while | then I
he had been concerned in other mur-
words of gratitude for his deadly hos
pitality yet lingered on her lips.
Hare,*the wretch who betrayed him,
sat calmly on a chair, watching the
straggles of the victim under his
ferocious grip; pnd the women, though
they retired into the adjoining passage
when the work of blood commenced,
jjrent to Hare’s assistance, and
tve finished him, though with much
difficulty. 1 committed one murder
in the country by myself. It was in
last harvest. All the rest were done
in conjunction with Hare.”
“By what means were these fear*
ful atrocities perpetrated?” “By
suffocation. We made the person®
(led n6 further, but spent the time drunk, and then suffocated them bjr
they remained there iu moralizing holding the nostrils and mouth, and
over their own probable fate. When getting on the body.- Sometimes F
life was extinct, the rags torn off, and held the mouth and nosfe, while Har&
the corpse bidden in a corner, they went upon the.body. Hare has per-
went to bed. and the whole lour slept jured himself by what lie said at tho
soundly till the morning. We’need trial about the murder of Docherty.
go no further with the story. It is some He did not sit by while I did it, as ho
satisfaction to outraged humanity that says. He was on the body assistin
vengeance was not slow to overtake me with all his might, while 1 hel
them. the nostrils and mouth with one hand,
Confession of Burke.—The infor* | choked her under the throat with the
mat ion frqm whieli the following arti-
ders besides that of Docherty; tha* a
murder had been committed in hfc
own house in the month of October
last'; that he himself was a murderer,
and his hands steeped in blood and
slaughter; and took refuge in “declin
ing lo answer” the questions put to
him; which the Court, of course, ap
prised him he was entitled to do, in
regard to the questions that went to
criminate himself.—Daft Jamie was
murdered in this miscreant’s house.
The facts having been proved at
great lengih, so as to put an end to
all doubt as to the guilt of Burke, and
the trial having lasted all the night,
as well as all day, the jui*y was
charged by the Lord Justice Clerk
at U o'clock on Thursday morning.
At half past 8 the jury retired, and
after an absence of 50 minutes, re
turned a verdict finding Wm. Burrke
guilty of the charge, and in regard to
Helen M’Dougal, found the charge
not proved.
A more frightful instance of human
turpitude never, herhaps, was detect
ed among a Christian people; and the
mint! rendered credulous by the mag
nitude of the crimes already divulged
bi oods in horror over those scenes of
iniquity which a veil, interposed'by
tne nice distinctions of the penal law,
still shrouds in mystery. The crimi
nals were indicted for no less than
three seperate acts of murder; but
the conjunction of the crimes enumer
ated m tile indictment- was hold to be
prejudicial, and the culprits were
tried only oil one charge, with the un
derstanding that the others were to
be discussed seriatim. That, of
course, is now unnecessary, as the
law has already marked out its *-
lull: Burke and the wretched wo
man wno was tried along with him
were not married, as is generally un
derstood. How long they have ex
isted oy the dagilious traffic of mur
dering; and selling the remains of their
Icilow creatures is unknown; but it is
certain, that the l'pi mer, and Hare,
one of the socii criminis, by whose
evidence he has been partly convicted,
have been jointly engaged in deeds of
blood for at least a year. Some
times one was the principal, and
sometimes tho other; and it would a,i-
u% _ pear that their houses alternately
sitting 8 «rved as shambles for their systemat
ic butcheries.
The unfortunate wanderer whose
muder has brought to light these hor
rible villainies, was a country woman
oi her murderers. Burke encounter
ed tier accidentally in the street—
dodged her lo a simp, where she so-
lu-iicd-O’uddrcssed her,, and professed
to discover that she bore the same
name, and was probably a relation of
his mother. Thus making the name of
the wretched parent who gave him
birth, the lure lor his victim. The
mendicant, deceived by his specious
falsities, accepted of his proffered
hospitality, and accompanied him
home. His reputed wife, accus
turned to such visitants, received her
cle is drawn up we have received
from a qjost respectable quarter, and
its perfect correctness in all respect
may be confidently idied on. In
truth, it is as nearly as possible a
strict report, rather than the sub
stance, of what passed at an inter
view with Burke; in the course of
which the unhappy man appears to
have opened bis mind without reserve,
and lo have given a distinct and ex
plicit answer to every question which
was put to him relative to his con
nexion with the late murder.
After some conversation of a relig
ious nature, in the course of which
Burke stated, that, while in Ireland,
his mind was under the influence of
religious impressions, and that he was
accustomed to read his. Catechism
and his Prayer-book, and attend to his
duties, he was asked, “Ilow comes
it then, that you who, by your own
account, were orifce under tho influ
ence of religious impressions, ever
formed the idea of sutih dreadful atro
cities, of such cold-blooded, syste
malic murders, as you admit you have
been engaged in; how came such a
conception to enter your mind?” To
this Burke replied, that lie did not
exactly know; but that, becoming ad
dicted to drink, living in open adulte
ry, and associating continually with
the most abandoned characters, he
gradually became hardened'and des
perate; gave up attending chapel or
any place of religious worship; shun
tied the face oi a priest; and, being
constantly familiar with every spe
rms oi W'lckeuness, he at length grew
incliilerent as to what he did, aud was
re t .ciy to commit any crime
tie was then asked how long he had
been ei.gaged in tins murderous traffic
To winch he answered, "From Christ
mas to tho murder of the wo-
muu Docherty iu October last.”—
“How many persons have you mur-
dertfU, or been concerned in murder
ing during that time? Mere they
thirty in ail?” “Not so many; not so
nlduy i assure you.” “How many?”
lie answered the questiou; hut the
answer was for a reason periectly sat
isiactory, not communicated to us
and reserved' for a ditferent quarter.
Had you any accomplices?” “None
hut Hare. We alwuys took care,
wiie'n we were going to commit a
murder, that no one else should be
present—that uo one could swear he
saw the deed done. The women
might suspect what we were about,
but we always put them out of the
way when we were going to do it.
They never saw us. commit any of the
murders. Oue of the murders was
done in Broggan’s house, while he was
out, hut before he returned the thing
ivas flnished and the body put into a
box. Broggau evidently suspected
something, for he appeared much agi
tated, and entreated us ’to take away
that ftox,’•which we accordingly did.
But ho was not in any way concerned
in it.”
“You have already told me that
you were engaged in these atrocities
f rom Christmas, 1827, till the end of
oilier. M e sometimes used a pillow,
but did not in this case ” 1
Now, Burke, answer me this ques..
tion—M'ere you tutored and instruct
ed, or did you receive hints from any
one as to the mood of committing
murder?”, “No, except from Hare.
Me often spoke about it, and we a*
greed that suffocation was the best .
way. Hare said so, and 1 agreed with
him. We generally did it by suffoca--
tion. [Our informant omitted to in
terrogate him about the surgical in
struments stated to have been found
in his house; but this omission will be
suppl.ed.]
Did you receive any encourage-,
ment to commit or persevere in com-%
mining these atrocities?” “Yes; wo
wore frequently told by Patterson
that he would take as many bodies ng
we could get for him. When we got
one he always told us to get more.
There was oommonly another person
with him, of the name of Falconer.
They generally pressed us to'get more
bodies for them.”
To whom were the bodies so
murdered sold” “To Dr.-~-,‘ ' We
took the bodies to his rooms in——.
and then went to his house to receive,
the money for them. Sometimes he
paid us himsMf. sometimes we were
paid by his assistants. No question®'
were ever asked as to the mode ity
which we had coma by the bodies.
Wc had nothing to do but leave a
body at the rooms, and go and get tbe
money.” “Did you ever, upon any
occasion, sell a body or bodies to any:
other lecturer in this place?” “Ne
ver. We knew no other.”
“You have been a resurrectionist
(as it is called) I understand.” “No.
Neither' Hare nor myself ever got a
body from a churchyard. AH we sold
were murdered, save the first one*,
which was that of the woman who
died a natural death in Hare’s house.
We began with that; our crimeslijea
commenced. The vict ims we select
ed were generally elderly persons.
They could be more easily disposed of
than persons in the vigor of health.’.’
Burke, when asked if he had
compunctious visiting of nature, no*
remorse, no stiiigs of conscience, re
plied, that for a long time after ha
had murdered his first victim ha;
found it utterly impossible to banisb
for a siugle hour the fecollec[ion of tha
fatal struggle, the scream of distress
and despair, the agonizing grooms, and
all the realities of the dreadful deed*
At night the bloody tragedy, accent*
panied by- frightful visions of superna
tural beings, tormented him' in hi®
dreams; but he ultimately became so
callous, that a murder added but little
to his mental anguish.
Such are the disclosures which thi®
wretched man has made, under cir
cumstances which can scarcely fail
to give them weight with the pub
lic. ’ ’ i
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