The Sun. — 1829-01-13 (London, England)

WEST-PORT MURDERS.  It gives us no small pleasure to be able to inform the public, that the Lord Advocate has caused inquiries respecting these atrocious murders to be resumed with renovated zeal and  activity. On Thursday no less than seven individuals, including four resurrectionists, and three persons who were in the habit of frequenting Hare's house, were examined. It was fermerly mentioned that one of the macers of the High Court of Justiciary had apprehended a woman in Glasgow who had been servant with Hare, and there are no slight grounds to hope, that she and the others will unfold a tale of  horror, which will cause a jury to consign that  acknowledged murderer to the ignominious death  he deserves.  The public at large are making anxious and universal inquiry after Pateison. This man, in stead of checking at once the course of murder, and bringing the murderers to justice, encouraged the homicides and profited by the horrid traffic. Had be procured only such bodies as were indispensable for his employer's ball, dire necessity might have been urged as a slight palliation of his odious conduct, but he enjoined the assassins to " procure as many subjects asthey could," " asked no questions," and it is beyond dispute, that he offered the body of the woman Docherty to an eminent lecturer in town  for 151., who spurned the proposal with merited indignation and contempt. It was proved on Burke's trial that he never paid more than WI. for a body, and had this gtintleman accepted his offer, here was at once a profit to Paterson of five pounds. It will ever be regretted if no se♦erer punishment than universal reprobation and abhorrence overtake this wholesale dealer in the bodies of his murdered fellow-creatures.  With respect to Burke, he is quite resigned to his awful fate. From information received from various quarters on which we:can'depend, we can state that the murders perpetrated by him and his gang will exceed a] dozen, and will certainly be. under a score—a catalogue far too large and horrific, and one for which the blood of a single murderer is but a deplorable atonement. Burke continues to be particularly anxious for the death of his associate Hare—not from vindictive and revengeful feelings—but on the ground of intinanity. When conversing lately on this subject, he stated his perfect conviction that if Hare should be again let loose on society, he would recommence his murderous career when he wanted money. This city is no longer polluted with the presence of his female companion, of horrible notoriety, M'Dougal ; but where she has gone we have been at no pains to enquire. On Sunday, after her confinement in the Lock-up as formerly detailed, this wretched woman related a horribe, but a plausible story, to one of the subalterns of authority. She stated, that one night Burke and Hare were carousing in one of the apartments of Hare's human shambles, on the profit of a recent murder. In the midst of their unhallowed orgies, Hare raised his hand, and in a fit of fiendish exultation, stated that they could never want money ; for, when they were at a loss for " a shot," a body for dissection, they would murder and sell, first'. one and then the other of their own wives. Being in the adjoining apartment, the females overheard and were petrified by this horrible resolution, as they had every reason to be assured that the monsters would certainly carry it into effect. A discussion of some length ensued, and Hare finally succeeded in persuading Burke to consent that when the dreaded emergency did arrive, INl,Dougal should be the first victim. A strong desire is still manifested to see the dens in which Burke and Hare resided. A sage personage observing that Hare's house was daily visited by great crowds, rented it for a specified time, and shows it for a trifle to visitors. Yesterday forenoon there were seldom fewer than a score waiting their turn for admittance. But this is by no means the most marvellous part of the etory. Some people have manifested a taste altogether unique, to be possessed of some article or other which belonged to these peerless criminals. One man boasts that he l got Burke's hammer—another that he }',as Hare's whiskey bottle—while others hare actually carried off small pieces of wood, in or'aer to be convert, ed into snuff boxes or soma articles of fancy.— Scotsman.