Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-03

Mrs. Conway's be,wixt eight and nine o'clock
Besides Conway and bis wife, there were Burke
and Brogan and another chap he did not know.
Witness and wife, the old woman and McDou.
gal were left in Conway's where they had
some drink. Was there ill rather late; ana
then wen, 10 Burke's, leaving the old woman
in Conveys; Burke came in soon alter win the
old woman. They had some more whiskey;
and they all go, pretty hearty Were dancing
and singing in Conway's. Qaarrelied win
Burke afterwards in his own house, VINO STUCK
him, and they had a fight together. lhe wo'
man was trying 10 separate them. witness "as
pushed down on the bed twice. ne oio "o-
man was sitting al the FIRE. She rose and WISH
ed Burke to sit down; for he had used her de,
Gently while in the house, and she did not wish
to see him i'll used. She ran twice out Vi the
house crying either murder or police-couio
no, say which, McDougal fetched her back
both times When witness and Burke were
fighting, witness pushed the old woman over
lit,e stool, and she was so drunk she could not
get fur, her than to sit. She still called on burke
10 quit fighting. He die quit at last, and wit
ness Law still in the bed Burke then got on
ton Of the old woman who was on the hoor, y
laid himself down upon her with his breast al
her head. She cried, bu, not loud, but he held
in her breath; and she only moaned little AZ
ter. He put one hand on her nose and mouth,
and the other under her chin. He continued
this for ten or fifteen minutes lie said nothing
while duing this. He then got up from the
woman, who did not move after. Burke put
his hands across her mouth again for two or
three minutes when she appeared quite dead
Witness was sitting on the chair all this tine.
Burke then stripped of the clothes and put
them under the bed, and doubled the body up
and put the straw on TOP of and covered it
up. When McDougal and Hare's wife heard
the first screeci Of the old woman, they leaped
OUT of bed and ran into the passage. They did
no,-come in again till the body was covered up
under the straw. None Of them tried 10 save
the woman. When the women came IN, Burke
wen: out, and returned in about ten minutes
The women asked no questions. They went 10
bed again. Never asked for the old woman
when they came back Burke brought the doc
TORS man with him (Pst,erson) Burke asked
him 10 look at the body, but he would not DO
il, and told him TO get box and put IL H.
Hare confessed that he had frequently known
bodies taken to the surgeons 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 hlm-
self, when undergoing the searching cross exa'
mination Of Mr.. Cockburn, burst no, deny that
| he had been concerned in other murders besides
that Of Dochery: that murder had been COM
mitted in his own house in the month OF Oeto-
Der last; that he himself was murderer, and
his hands stepped in blood and slaughter and
took refuge in declining to answer the ques-
tons pu, to him; which the court, OF course,
apprised him he was entitled to, in regard to
| the questions that went to criminate himself
Daft Jamie was murdered ia this miscrean's