The Sun. — 1829-01-05 (London, England)

WEST PORT MURDERS.  The irritation and alarm excited in this city by the West Port murders is beginning to subs.de. Hare and his wife are still in close confinement, and there is a possibility that they may both be yet brought to the punishment they deserve. If, as was stated in our last, the public prosecutor can command evidence sufficient to satisfy a jury, that Hare, or any of his associates, has been access try to any other murders than those libelled in Burke's indictment, they will cert linty expiate the crimes with their lives: The silence and solitude of his cell have given the monster Hare an opportunity of reflection, and the latent sparks of feeling and humanity are beginning to revive in his breast. He is fully aware, that a likeness of his horrid physiognomy will be taken, to excite the indignation and disgust posterity, and he seems resolved to prevent it so far as lies in his power. He is seen by gentlemen in authority only, and when any of them enter, he instantly muffles himself up in the bed-clothes, so that nothing more than his eyes and forehead can be seen. Yesterday he declined to avail himself of the felons' privilege of walking his time in the ward, and chose to want, or run the risk of wanting, his supper, rather than go for it to the gate like other criminals. His wretched wife also remains constantly- in her cell, and maintains a dogged silence respecting the atrocities of their past lives. With respect to Burke, it is not likely that his name will again pollute our pages, till he ends his life on the scaffold. Indeed he would not have been mentioned at present, bad it not been that two circumstances were omitted in the harry of getting np our last report. It was mentioned already, that he denied when in the lock-up, that he was present at the murder of James Wilson, known by the name of " Daft Jamie," and he gave the following details When I was at work, Hare's wife came and told me that they bad a lad of the name of Daft Jamie in the house and were intending to "do him" for the doctors. She stated that she had already got a good deal of whiskey, and asked me to come and help to finish him. She told me to come in and ask if he had:got any whiskey, and if he said yes, I was to send for some more. I was detained with a shoe for about twenty minutes, and when I went to the door it was fastened ; but I was told by a female voice to stop about three minutes, and all would be over. When I got in I saw Hare, his wife, and another man I'll not name, and Jamie lying quite dead. The body was stripped, and when I looked at the clothes, I said these clothes will answer —, and they were sent to him." When asked if he had no compunctious visitings of nature—no remorse—no stings of conscience—he replied that fox a long time after he had murdered his first victim, he found it utterly impossible to banish for a single hour the recollection of the fatal struggle—the screams of distress and despair—the agonising groans--and all the realities of the dreadful dee!. At night the bloody tragedy, accompanied by frightful visions of supernatural beings, tormented him in his dreams; but he aitisnately became so callous, that a murder added but little to his mental anguish. It is something consoling to reflect that this revolting monster has been overtaken in his path of blood, and is soon to expire on the gallows.—Scotsman.