Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-08

denotes by the size Of his shoe, the breadth of
the sole the conditions of the buttons or strings
the amount OF wear on the toe, the condition of
the lining, etc. l would not advise friend to
marry girl who squeezes a number four foot
In q number two shoe, for such one is apt to
prove vain. affected and frivolous.
do believe that character can be nodded
by keeping the shoes properly soled and heeleda
is as closely connected with his disposition as
the expression Of his countenance, though not
so easily read by most persons. To continue
the wearing of shoe which runs over badly
only tends to confirm the habit in persons
walk.
'Your job is done. sir; sorry couldn't give
you better character, but truth is truth and
l never flatter."
Burke and Burking as a Business.
The business of killing people for the sake Of
material for the medical college is believed to
have been originated by man named Burke,
who, in the early part of this century, in Edin-
burgh, Scotland. used to clap a pitch plaster
over his victims face, and thus smother him.
He was small OF stature but stOutly built He
had high cheek-bones, eyes gray and set deep in
his head, with short and stubby nose, thin hair
and side whiskers were sandy, and complexion
freckled and cadaverous. The woman, his &C.
complete, was Of middle size, thin and spare,
large boned. Her features were long and sharp,
and the upper part of her face out Of proportion
with the lower. She wore small, gray velvet
bonnet. greatly worn, printed cotton shawl and
complete were placed on trial the Judges were
Lord Justice Clerk and Lords Pltmiliy. Macken-
Zie and MeadOwbank. Mr.. Patrick Robertson
and Cockburn appeared for the prisoners. There
was large amount Of testimony, but the jury,
after being out fifty minutes, brought in a YER
dict of guilty for Burke. but mot proven" for
the woman. January 20, 1929, he was sentenced
to be hung. Before the execution of the sem
tence Burke made a sickening confession. He
said he met Hare last Halloween. when he and
Helen McDugal met Hare's wife, Margaret
Laird, in the street. They had dram,
and Burke told Laird that he was going
to the west country to seek work as a
cobbler, but Hare's wife suggested that they had
small room in their house which might suit
him and McDougal and he went to work in
Hares house, working there at cObbng. An
old pensioner named Donald lived in the same
house; he was In bad health, and died suddenly
A short time before this his partners pension
was due. He owed Hare $40. and day or two
after Hare proposed that his body be sold to
the doctors and Burke should get share Of
the price. Burke said it would be impossible
to do it because the man would be coming in
with the coffin directly, but after the body
was put in the coffin and the lid nailed down
Hare started the lid with a chisei, and he and
Burke took out the corpse and concealed it in
the bed, and put tanners bark into the box and
covered it with sheet. and nailed down the lid
of the coffin and carried it away for interment
Burke and Hare went in the evening to the
yard of the college and saw person like stu
dent there. When they told him that they had
a subject to dispose of the young man referred
them to DR.. Knox. After arranging matters
satisfactorily with DR.. knOX's assistant, Mr.
Jones, Burke and Hare went home and put
the body into sack and carried it to
Surgeon Square, where they laid it in
an upper room upon a dissecting-ta
The shirt was on the body, but no ques-
lions were asked, and Burke and Hare were
paid f7 los Hare took "a S. and Burke got
f3 s. for the job.
Early in the spring Of 1928 woman from Gil
he keeping seven beds for dodgers. She was a
stranger. and became very merry with Hare
after they drank together. Next morning she
was very i'll, and sent out for more drink. and
she and Hare drank together again. and she
sickened and vomited. Hare then said to Burke
that they could smother or choke her and sell
her body to the doctors. She was lying on her
back in bed and quite insensible with drink
Hare clapped his hand on her mouth and nose,
and she never stirred. Burke then helped Hare
lit her upand undress her and put the body i'm
an old chest. They then went to DR.. KnOx's
young man. telling him that they had another
subject. He sent porter to meet them in the
evening back of the castle, and Burke and Hare
carried the chest to the back of the castle, and
thence to the classroom in the college The
and approved of it being SO fresh, but did not
ask any questions.
The next was man named Joseph A. Miller,
who had been lying i'll in the lodgings. He got
some drinks from Burke and Hare and became
very i'll. So the two partners in the now thirty
ing business procured small pillow and laid it
upon JOseph's mouth. and Hare lay across the
body to keep down the arms and legs and the
poor man died of suffOcatOn. Joseph was duly
sold to the surgeons, as had been the other muir
dered victims In May, 1928, an old woman
came to the house as ledger. She was the
worse for drink, when she came and grew
drunken under their scientific treatment. Finally
they strangled her, and sold the body in the same
manner as before. Indeed. DR.. Knox seems to
have been very enterprising person in his pro-
1esslOn. Next an Englishman from Newcastie-On-
Tyne lodged there for some nights, and grew
i'll of the jaundice. When at the worst Burke
and Hare stole into his room at night and suf-
tor, who again smacked bis lips at the freshness
of the subject. Shortly came another woman
named Huldane, who lodged in the den of death,
and when she had got drunk Undue Scotch fash
ion. Hare chOked her and got f6 for her poor
old body.
Then country woman was chOked, next q
middle-aged woman, with her son. or grand
son, about twelve years of age, who seemed
" daft"
And so on, for it is not necessary to 20 on
with the list
The wretch was hanged at Edinburgh and the
old clothes Of the two worthless found their way
to the old clothes corner in Madame Tussaud's
chamber of horrors
A Nuisance That Ought to be Wiped
Duf.