The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-09 00:00:00

1%1 ANCIIESI ER CORN Al ARKET.—FeI). 7,

Since this day week we have had very little business
transacted. At to-day's market we had a good attendance,
and a fair business done in Wheat, at about 30. per '7olb.
below last week's currency. Grinding Barley is dull, and
a trifle lower. Oats are the turn cheaper. Blue Pease
were in good demand, but White are in slow request, and
Gil. to 90. per bushel lower. Beans have again fallen Is.
to 2s. quarter. Malt is still very dull, even at a decline
of 2s. Fine Flour is full 2s. per sack cheaper Oatmeal
is dull, but without variation in price.
Customary Bushel.
Wheat. (7011).) a. d. to a. d.
English, Old ..11 0 11 3
Fine New-----. 10 9 II 0
Second Runs—AO 6 10 8
Scotch & Welch 10 3 10 11
Irish, Fine Old . . 9 ft 10 6
New--- 9 0 10 3
Inferior 8 9 10 0
Foreign, Free ll 0 11 6
Barley (00lb )
English, Fine
Irish

Qum'. of Blmp Bush,
s. n. to s. .1.
79 2 81 11
i 7 4 79 2
75 7 7% 9
73 9 17 4
6S 1 75 7
64 9 73 9
6t 0 64 9
79 2 52 9.

sM
c,
,
.c
„

ft 0 0 :t

- Inferior for grinding
Oats (1.51 b.)
English, Fine Poland -
Sostch, I'otatoc
Irish,'for Alealing

53 5 6
50 5 2

41 7 43 4'
36 4 38 1
31 8 35 9.

Ua~
C7y

rroveulcr
Foreign,
(hap. Pugh.:
Blue, (boilers)
White (ditto) ------
;leans (Imp. Or.) 6. d. t(l
English, 45 0

43 4 9
42 4 9
3 10 4 0
3 8 3 10

00 0 0

'6
4 ( 6

s. d. (l'er S
16 0 Flour,

31 8 35 5'
31 1 35 5
23 7 29 10
27 4 28 7
- 0 -0,

5?. 0 64 0
48 0 5440
ck 2801b5.) s. d. to s. d.
or folk and

—••:---: Inferior—. 4'2 0 44 0' -Suffhlk,Fine 55 0 57 0
Irish, Old--.....--- 41 0 42 0 Yorks., Fine 54 0 56 0
Foreign
Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) Irish, Fine....'56 0 57 0
Nottingham, One.. 47 0 48 0 Superfine 60 0 62 0
Yorkshire -- 46 0 48 0 —Heated or stale 50 0 52 0
Irish and Inferior.. 36 0 39 0 • Per load of 2401 b.

l'or Sack of 280Ib. Imp.
Flour,Notts. Fine 36 0 57 0 —Scotch & Iri4ll 38 0 39 0
------- Sup. 59 0 60 0 --.----.-- Feeding 37 0 30 0

CONFESSIONS OF BtinKt.
AUTHENTICAM BY HIS OwN SIGNATURE.

(From the .Ediaburgh Evening 'CoOrant.Y
The following is the doctiment Which we have had fin Snine
time itt obi p,P,+essit,ii,- tit SUbj(OlllM a 43C-&
simile of lint ke's writing, from a passage in the Con-
fessions written in his own hand on the 21st January.
The words printed in italics were added 4- hinitelf in
the 11113,

Abigail Simpson was murdered on the 12th February,
1828, on the forenoon of the dap She resided in -Gil-
merlon, near Edinburgh ; has a • daitghter living there.---
She used to sell salt and can:stone. She was decoyed in
by Hare and his wife on the afternoon of the 11th Feb.,
and he gave her some whiskey to drink. She-had Is. (Id.
and a can of kitchen-fea ;. Hare's Wife gave her la. 6d.
for it: she drank it all with them. S;he then said she
had a daughter. Hare said he was a single man, and
would marry her, and get all the •money amongst them.
—They then propo,ed to her to stay all night, which she
did, as she was so drunk she could not go home; and
in the morning was vomiting. They then gave her
some porter and t-hiskey, and made her so &mirk that she
ardeep on the bed. Hare then laid hold of her mouth
and nose, and prevented her from breathing. Burke held
`her bands and feet till she was dead. She made very little
resistance ; and when it was convenient, they carried her
to .Dr. Knox's dissecting-rooms: in Surgeons'-square, and
got 101. for her. She had on a drab mantle, a white
grounded cotton shawl and small blue spots on it. Hare
took all her clothes and went out with them ; said he was
going to put them into the Canal. She said she was a
pensioner of Sir John Hay's. (Perhaps this should be
Sir John Hope.)
The next was an Englishmen, a native of Cheshire,
and a lodger of flare's. They murdered him in the same
manner as the other. He was ill with the jaundice at
the same time. He was very tall ; had black hair, brown
whiskers mixed with grey hairs. He. used to sell spooks"'
in Edinburgh; was about forty years of age. Did not
know his name. Sold to Dr. Knox for 101.
The next was an old woman who lodged with flare for
one night, but does not know her name. She was mur-
dered in the same manner as above. Sold to Dr. Knox
for 101. The old woman was decoyed into the house by
Mrs. Hare in the forenoon from the street. when Hare
was wor?imua, the boats at the Canal. She gave her
whisky, and put her to bed flit e At last she was.
so drunk that she fell asleep; and when hare &fife 'home
to his dinner, he put part of the bed-tick on her mouth
and nose, and when he came home at night she was dead.
Burke at this time was mending shoes ; and Hare and
Burke took the clothes off her, and put her body into a
tea-box. Took her to Knox's that night.
The next was Margaret Paterson, who was murdered in
Burke's brother's house in the Canongate, in the month
of April last, by Burke and Hare, in the forenoon. She
was put into a tea-box, and carried to Dr. KIIOX'S dissect-
ing-rooms in the afternoon of the same day ; and got Si.
for her body. She had two-pence halfpenny, which she
held fast in her hand. Declares that the girl Paterson was
only four hours dead till she was in Knox's dissecting-
room ; but she was not dissected at that time; for she
was three mouths in whiskey before she was dissected.
She was warm when Burke cut the hair off her head ; and
Knox brought a Mr. —, a painter, to look at her, she
was so handsome a figure, and well-shaped in body and
limbs. One of the students said she was as like a girl he
had seen in the Canongate as one pea is like to. another.
-They desired Burke to cut off her hair; one of the students
gave a pair of scissors for that purpose.
In June last, an old woman and a dumb boy, her grand-
son, from Glasgow, came to Hare's, and ''were both mur-
dered at the dead hour of night when the woman was in
bed. Burke and Hare murdered her the same way as they
did the others. They took off the bed. clothes and tick,
Stripped off her clothes, and laid her on the bottom of the
bed, and then put on the bed-tick and bed-clothes on the
top of her; and they then came and took the boy in their
arms and carried him ben to the room, and murdered him
in the same manner, and laid him alongside of his. grand-
mother. They lay fur the space of an hour and then put
them into a herring barrel. The barrel was perfectly dry;
there was no brine in it. They carried them to the stahle
till next day; they Put the barrel into Hare's cart, and
Hare's horn was yoked to it; but the horse would not
drag the cart one foot past the Meal Market, and they got
a porter with a burley and put the barrel on it. Hare and
the porter went to Surgeons'-square with it. Burke went
before them, as he was afraid something would happen, as
as the horse would not draw them. When they came to
Dr. Knox'idissecting-rooms, Burke carried the barrel in
his arms. The students and them had hard work to get
them out, being so stiff and cold. They received 16/. far
them both. Hare was taken in by the horse he bought
that refused drawing the corpse to Surgeons'- square, and
they shot it in the tan-yard. He had two large holes in
his shoulder stuffed with cotton, and covered over with a
piece of another horse's skin to prevent them being dis-
covered.

Joseph, a miller by trade, and a lodger of Hare's. He
had once been possessed of a good deal of money. He was
connected by marriage with some of the Carron Company.
Burke and Hare murdered him by pressing a pillow on his
mouth and nose till he was dead. He was then carried to
Dr. Knox's in Surgeons'-square. They got 101. for him.
Burke and Helen M'Dougal were on a visit seeing their
friends, near Falkirk. This was at the time a procession
was made round a stone in that neighbourhood ; thinks it
was the anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn. When
he was away, Hare fell in with a woman chunk in the
street in the West Port. He took her into his house, and
murdered her himself, and sold her to Dr. Kriox's assist-
ants for 81. When Burke went away he knew Hare was
in want of money; his things were all in pawn. But when
he came back, found him have plenty of money. Burke
asked him if he had been doing any business ? He said he
had been doing nothing. Burke did not believe him, and
went to Dr. Knox, who told him that Hare had brought a
subject. Hare then confessed what he had done.

A cinder-gatherer ; Burke thinks her name was Effy.
She was in the habit of selling small pieces of leather to
him, as lie was a cooler, she gathered shout the coach-
works. He took her into Hare's stable, and gave her
whisky to drink till she was drunk ; she then lay down
among some straw and fell asleep. They then laid a cloth
over her. Burke and Hare murdered her as they did the
others. She was then carried to Dr. Knox's, Surgeons'
Square, and sold for 101.
Andrew Williamson, a policeman, and- his neighbour,
were dragging a drunken woman to the West Port watch-
house. They found her sitting on a stair. Burke said,
" Let the woman go to her lodgings." They said they
did not know where she lodged. Burke then said he would
take her to lodgings. They then gave her to his charge.
He them took her to Hare's house. Burke and Hare mm-
dered her that night the same way as they (lid the others.
They carried her to Dr. Knox's, in Surgeons' Square, and
got 10/.

Burke being asked, did the policemen know him when
they gave him this drunk woman into his charge ? He
said he had a good character with the police ; or if they
had known that there were four murderers living in one
house they would have visited them oftener.
James Wilson, commonly called Daft Jamie. Ilare's
wife brought him in from the street into her house. Burke
was at the time getting a dram in Rymer's shop. He saw
her take Jamie off the street bare-headed and bare-footed.
After she got him into her house, and left him with Hare,
she came to Ry►ner's shop for a pennyworth of butter, and
Burke was standing at the counter. She asked him for a.
dra►n, and in drinking it she stamped him on the foot. He
knew immediately what she wanted him for, and he then
went after her. When in the house, she said, you have
come too late, for the drink is all done; and Jamie had
the cup in his hand. He had never seen him hefiire to his
knowledge. They then proposed to send for another
half mutchkin,which they did, and urged him to drink ; she
took a little with them. They then invited him ben to the
little room, and advised him to sit down upon the bed.—
Hare's wife then went out, and locked the outer door, and
put the 'icy below the door. There was none in the room
but themseiVes three. Jamie sat down upon the bed.
He then lay down upon the bed, and Hare lay down at his
back, hil head raised up and resting upon his left hand.
Burke was standing at the foreside of the bed. When they
had lain there for some time, Hare threw his body on the
top of Jamie, pressed his hand on his mouth, and his nose
with the ether. Hare and him fell off the b 'd and strug-
gled. Burke then held his hands and feet. They never.
quitted their grip till he was dead. He never got up nor
cried any. When he was dead, Hare felt his pockets, and
took out It brass snuff-box and a copper snuff-spoon. He
gave
time spoon to Burke, and kept the box to himself.
Sometime after, he said he threw the box away in the
tan-yard; and the brass box that was libelled against
Burke in the Sheriff's• office was Burke's own box. It was
after breakfast Jamie was enticed in, and lie was murdered
by twelve o'clock in the day. Burke declares, that Mrs.
Hare led poor Jamie in as a dumb lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep to the shearers ; and he
was always very anxious making inquiries for his
mother, and was teld she would lie there imme-
diately. He does not. think he drank above one glass of
whiskey all the time. He was then put into a chest that
Hare kept clothes into ; and they carried him to Dr.

Knox's, in, Sorgeons'-square, that afternoon, arid got 101.
for litui. Illirkegare Daft Jamie's clothes tb hi6hrother's
Children, they *ere almost naked ; and when he untied
.the bundle they were like to quarrel about them. The
clothes of the Other rhiih!ered petSonS were generally de-
Struied, ttt preient detei;tlOn.
Ann 111.13otidal; a cousin offt•feri formiir
husband. She was a young woman, and married, and
h carne on it visit to gee theM. Hare and Burke gave
her Whiskey till sht Was drOnk, and whthi in bed and
asleep, Burke tole, flare that he Wotild ha4.'e must to do to
her, as she being a distant friend he did not like to begin
first nn ker. Hare murdered her by stopping her breath,
And Burke assiSted hini the same iitav is the others. One
of Dr. knok's assistants, Puter.;'nit, goYe theiti a fine trunk
to put her into. It was in the afternoon when she was done.
It was in John Broggan's house; and when Broggan came
home from hiAivork be saw the trunk, and Made inquiries
about ht kne* they had no trunhs there. Bilike then
gave lihn two or three drams, as there was always plenty
of whiskey going at these times, to make him quiet. Hale
and Burke then gave him H. 10s. each, as he was back in
his rent,, for to pay it, and he left Edinburgh a fee; days
after. They then carried her to Surgeoiis'-stitiate as soon
as Broggan went out of the house, and got 101. for her.
Hare was cautioner for Broggan's rent, being 3/., and Flare
and Burke gave him that sum. Broggan went off in a
few days, and the rent is not paid yet. They gave him
the money that he might not come against them for the
murder of Ann MiDougal, that he saw in Lis trunk, that
was murdered in his house. Hare thought that the rent
would fall upon him, and if he could get Bus be to pay the
half of it, it would be so much the better ; and proposed
this to Burke, and he agreed to it, as they were glad to
get him out of the way. Broggan's wife is a cousin of
Burke s. They thought he went to Glasgow, but are not
sure.

Mrs. Haldane, a stout old woman, who had a daughter
transported last summer from the Calton Goal for fourteen
yea rs, and has another daughter married to -, in the

high-street. She was a lodge.' of flare's. She went into
llare's stable, the door was left open, and she being drunk,
and fielling asleep among some straw, flare and Burke mur-
dered her the same way as they did the others, and kept the
body all night in the stable, and took her to Dr. Knox's
next day. She had but one tooth in her mouth, and that
was a very large one in front.
A young woman, a daughter of Mrs. Haldane, of the
name of Peggy Haldane, was drunk, and sleeping in Brog-
gan's house, was murdered by Burke himself, in the fore-
noon. Hare had hind he it. She was taken to Dr.
Knox's in the afternoon in a tea-box, anetse.
She was so drunk at the time, that he thinks she• was not
sensible of her death, as she made no resistance whatever.

She and her mother were both lodgers of Hare's, and they
were both of idle habits, and much given to drinking.
This was the only murder that Burke committed by him-
self, but what Hare was connected with. She was laid
with her face downwards, and he pressed her down, and
she was soon suffocated.

There was a Mrs. Hostler washing in John Broggan's,
and she came back next day to finish up the clothes, and
when done, Hare and Burke gave her some whiskey to
drink, which made her drunk. This was in the day time.
She then went to bed. Mrs. Broggan was out at the time.
Hare and Burke murdered her the same way they did the
others, and put her in a box, awl set her in the coal-house in
the passage, and carried her off to Dr. Knox's in the after-
noon of the same day, and got Si. for her. Broggan's
wife was out of the house at the time the murder was
committed. Mrs. Hostler had ninepence halfpenny in her
hand, which they could scarcely get out of it after she was
dead, so firmly was it grasped.
The woman Campbell or Docherty was murdCred on the
31st October last, and She was the last one. Burke de-
clares, that Hare perjured himself on his trial, when giv-
ing his evidence against him, as the woman Campbell or
Docherty lay down among some straw at the bed-side, and
Hare laid bold of her mouth and nose, and pressed her
throat, and Burke assisted him in it, till she was dead,
Hare was not sitting on a chair at the time, as he said in
the Court. There wore seven shillings in the woman's
pocket, which were divided between Hare and Burke.
That was the whole of them ; sixteen in the whole ; nine
were murdered in Hare's house, and four in John Brog-
gan's ; two in Hare's stable, and one in Burke's brother's
house in the Canongate. Burke declares that five of them
were murdered in Hare's room that has the iron bolt on the
inside of it. Burke did not know the days nor the months
the different murders were committed, nor all their names.
They were generally in a state of intoxication at those times
hut they were all from the 12th February till Ist Novem-
ber, 1628 ; but he thinks Dr. Knox will know by the
dates of paying him the :none) for them. He never was
concerned with any other person but Hare in these matters,
and was never a resurrection-man, and never dealt in dead
bodies but what he murdered. He was urged by Hare's
wife to murder Helen APDongal, the woman he lived with.
The plan was, that he was to go to the country for a few
weeks. and then write to Hare that she had died anti was
buried, and he was to tell this to deceive the neigh-
bours; but he would nut agree to it. The reason
was, they could not trust to her, as she was a
Scotch woman. Helen M'Dougal and Hare's wife were
not present when those murders were committed ; they
might have a suspicion of what was doing, but did not see
them done. Hare was always the most anxious about
them, and could sleep well at night after committing a
murder; but Burke repented often of the crime, and could
not sleep without a bottle of whisky by hie hed-side and a
twopenny candle to burn all night beside him ; when he
awoke he would take a draught of the bottle—sometimes
half a bottle at a draught—and that would make him sleep.
They had a great many pointed out for murder, but were
disappointed of them by some means or other ; they were
always in a drunken state when they committed those mur-
ders, and when they got the money for them while it lasted.
When done, they would pawn their clothes and would take
them out as soon as they got a subject. When they first
began this murdering system, they always took them to
Knox's after dark; but being so successful; they went in
the day-time, and grew more bold. When they carried
the girl Paterson to Knox's, there were .a
great many
boys in the High School Yards, who followed Burke and
the man that carried her, crying, " They are carry-
ing a corpse ;" but they got her safely delivered. They
often said to one another that no person could find them
out, no one being present at the murders but themselves
two ; and that they might be as well hanged for a sheep
as a lamb. They made it their business to look out for
persons to decoy into their houses to murder them. Burke
declares, when they kept the mouth and nose shut a very
few minutes, they could make no resistance, but would
convulse and make a rumbling noise in their bellies for
some time; after they ceased crying and making resistance,
they left them to themselves; but their bodies would often
move afterwards, and for some time they would have long
breathings befOre life went away. Burke declares, that it
was 'God's providence that put a stop to their murdering
career, or he does not know how far they might have gone
with it, even to attaqiiseople in the streets, as they were
so successful and always :net with a ready market ; that
when they delivered a body they were always told
to get more. Hare was always with him when
he went with a subject, and also when he got the
money. Burke declares, that Hare and him had a plan
made up, that Burke and a man were to go to Glasgow
or Ireland, and try the same there, and to forward them
to Hare, and he was to give them to Dr. Knox. Hare's
wife always got ,1/. of Btirke's share, for the use of the
houss, of all that were murdered in their house ; for if the
price received was 10/., Hare got 6/. and Burke got only
4/. ; but Burke did not give her the 11. for Daft. Jamie,
fur which Hare's wife would not speak to him for three
weeks. They could get nothing done during the harvest-
time, and also after harvest, as Hare's house was so full
of lodgers. In Hare's house were eight beds for lodgers ;
they paid 3d. each ; and two, and sometimes three, slept
in a bed ; and during harvest they gave up their own bed
when throng. Burke declares they went under the name
of resurrection men in the West Port, where they lived,
but not murderers. When they wanted money, they
would say they would go and look for a shot ; that was
the name they gave them when they wanted to murder
any person. They entered into a contract with Dr. Knox
and his assistants that they were to get 101. in winter and
Si. in summer for as many subjects as they could bring to ,
them.

Old Donald, a pensioner, who lodged in Hare's house,
and died of a dropsy, was the first subject they sold. After
he was put into the coffin and the lid put on, Hare un-
screwed the nails, and Burke lifted the body out. Hare
filled the coffin with bark from the tan-yard, and put a
sheet over the bark, and it was buried in the West Church-
yard. The coffin was furnished by the parish. Hare and
Burke took him to the College first ; they saw a man
there, and asked for Dr. Monro or any of his men ; the
man asked what they wanted, or had they a subject; they
said they had. He then ordered them to call at 10, Dr.
Knox's, in Surgeons'-square, and he would take it from
them, which they did. They got 71. 10s. for him. That
was the only subject they sold that they did not murder,
and getting that high price made them try the murdering
for subjects.

Burke is thirty-six years of age, was born in the pari:.h
of Orrey, county Tyrone; served seven years in the army,
inost of that time as an officer's servant in the Donegal
militia; he was married at Ballinha, in the county of
Mayo, when in the army, but left his wife and two ail-