The New York herald., 1878-11-09


went Mr.. Burke ostensibly worked at the
trade of eobbler What Hare pretended To
,obes a. means Of accnnnp sor the ~ nrssence M i'm in
their lodgings of the garments which had been
by their victims. They denominated the latter after
they had been converted into merchandise in one
form and condition, by the generic term of "shots,"
so that their casual conversation might not betray
the secret which benighted world would not
be apt to regard in the same scientific
light that they did. They found no daiculty in set
thing them, and indeed their principal patron DIR.
Knox celebrated teacher of anatomy was very much
delighted tn procure subjects fresh and lifeike
as those which these artists regularly furnished to
him. As consequence his class became very popular
among aspiring students At length. however, there
was a breaker in this smooth tide Of success.
THE CRIMINALS WE'RE DIsCovERED.
The first knowledge which the public had of these
fearful doings transpired through the unaccountsbe
Campbell or Dufie or Bocharty. who had been last
alive in the lodgings OF Burke and his wife in teh
eoyery rsni had been brought about by an over
doing of their business Burke had been in
the habit Of letting part & Of his house to transient
minds eye of converting them into stock In trade.
and in the last week of October poor man, named
Gray, with his wife, had stopped there on their
passage through the town. In the evening they had
seen Burke entering his own apartments: accom-
ing they surprised at seeing her. and prompted
by instructive suspicion they peeped into room
which was occupied BY Burke. and from which they
night before On the hoor they saw fresh marks Of
blood. and they found on snss removing some some
. haggard and repulsive corpse which they
recognized as the woman they had missed
up their small bundles and were about to quit the
house, when they met Mrs. Burke entering the
door. Their looks and ungnarded words betrayed
and rendered them money to induce them to
stay and refrain from informing the police
OF what they had seen. It il highly probable
that Burke and Hare had determined upon treating
them exactly as they had Mrs. Campbell and the
woman therefore, when she took this course had two
cta in view hey sci
however at her proposal and fled from her presence
On the next day the police were warned
In the meantime arrangements had been made by
Burke and Hare for delivering the 'shot, which they
had just perfected into the hands Of DR.. Knox tea
packed. It then conveyed by porter to the dis
sccting ROOM They received for il the sum Of IS,
and f3 more to be paid them il proved as good
q shot as it was represented to be.
IN THE GRIP OF TIE Law
On November the police went to the house at the
bottom Of Tanner lane and found there the murder
and traces Of their crime The clothes which the
old woman had worn lay in corner with
heap Of other garments of all sizes and pat.
terms There was blood the hoor and
the pallet Of straw was reeking with it.
shut out from the light Of heaven The tea chest and
its contents had already been seized at the doctors
museum, and the latter had been examined by medi-
cal experts All the indications about 1t strengthened
the suspicion of murder by sufocaton. Hare had
no more than been lodged in the Tolbooth
his craft advantage Burke and to
give Kings evidence Accordingly he confessed the
shield himself and Mrs Hare. These women
spectively named Helen NJ Dougal and Mary Laird.
One was q native Of Reddng, Scotland, and the other
Of Ireland The trial took place on the oath OF De-
cember 1923 and it characterized by the most in
tense interest. All England and Ireland and Scotland
hadI by this time become excited to fearful pitch
over the narratives published in the newspapers, and
the chamber Of the High Court OF Judiciary was
the Towisnds and Highlands. The prisoners secured
distinguished counsel, among whom were Sir james
Moncief and Henry Cockburn Lord Justice Clerk
:Ia1 prrpE dao.v had ha hon
looked, ''of middle size. stoutly built and of
determined though not particularly sinister counte-
in the head short. snubbish nose. round chin
hair and whiskers Of light sandy color and com.
TALL but thin and angular. with long features some
what distorted She miserably dressed.
THEIR LAST VICTIM.
gerry or Mary McGonega or Dufae or Campbell
Docherty, according she bore the names OF one
the other Of her successive husbands had first met
William Burke in the shop Of grocer where she
begging for charity, She told him she was going to
St. .sysu % wssa Burke meet asn
to be distant relative Of hers and
urged her to go with him and break.
several persons at his lodgings during the day and
evening" the latter part Of the time being much the
worse for drink. Hare and his wife also present
aud they al became merry. singing, laughing ana
dancing. and Mrs Campbell could hardly keep her feet
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The old woman became alarmed and ran twice into
the passageway adjoining the room calling for the
police. Helen McDougal went after her and brought
her back each time In the struggle Hare pushed her
over q stool and she fell upon the floor, and she
himself upon her so that his breast covered
her face. She uttered several cries and then only
moaned Burke put one hand on her nose and mouth
and the other under her chin, thus stopping her
breath completely. He never spoke while doing this
and Hare sat opposite him on chair without sign
women, in the meantime, had fed from the room, un
able TO endure the sight Of the murder Burke arose
1rUm the n'n Of She appeared to be
quite dead and at the end Of ten minutes they pulled
of her clothing doubled her up and. placing her in
corner, covered her up with straw
On the further confessions OF Hare and OF Burke
himself the extent of the business which they car
ricd began TO be realized and they were corrob-
grated by the spoils which they had found In the
house in Tanners Close. People began to trace to
e1 .s s ~ Me had until
remained secret. Tramps on entering the city with
their friends had been suddenly lost Irish haymakers
their road to the agricultural districts OF the low
lands had srayed away and were never more heard Of
and children who had played truant never went
terrible clew offered to all these mysteries. Burke
acknowledged to the selling of thirty forty shots
them it was inferred that he had procured ali Of
them by murder. 1t was he who did the hunting up
of victims. He was Of fawning address and great
fights which always occurred between Hare and him
just previous to the burking OF victim
were gotten up purposely. for the pur-
chance to be listening The first body which they de-
liyered to the doctors that Of old pensioner
named Donald, who lived In the same house. He
died about Christmas. 1927 and they stole him from
his cofn and Allied it with tanners bark in his stead
In the spring of 1898 woman came to Hares
from Gimerton and lodged there. She drank with
them and they all became merry together The next
morning she i'll. and Hare proposed that they
should try to smother her 30 as TO sell her body AZ
she lay her back insensibe from drink he clspped
his hand ON her mouth and and Burke cast his
weight upon her to keep her still. She never
stirred. and they undressed her and put her
In chest which was taken by .
porter to the of DIR. Knox. After that miller.
named Joseph, Engshman. who was Ill of the
jaundice. and hve old women were made away with
In the artistic The doctors invariably
praise the appearance Of the corprcs. In April 1898,
Burke fell in with courtezan. named Paterson, ana
she, with q companion named Janet Brown. WAS
induced TO lodge in the house of his brother
Constantine in Canongate. The usual quarrel took
place. and Janet went out in a fright Twenty min
utes afterward when she returned and asked for Pat