West Port Murders: Or an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates; Containing a Full Account of All the Extraordinary Circumstances Connected With Them. Also, a Report of the Trial of Burke and M'Dougal. With a Description of the Execution of Burke, His Confessions, and Memoirs of His Accomplices, Including the Proceedings Against Hare, &c.Anonymous
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West Port Murders: Or an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates; Containing a Full Account of All the Extraordinary Circumstances Connected With Them. Also, a Report of the Trial of Burke and M'Dougal. With a Description of the Execution of Burke, His Confessions, and Memoirs of His Accomplices, Including the Proceedings Against Hare, &c.
your bodies or persons, or part thereof, on the body or person
or part thereof of one or other of you, over or upon the person
or body and face of Madgy or Margery or Mary M‘Gonegal, or
Duffie, or Campbell, or Docherty, then or lately residing in
the house of Roderick Stewart or Stuart, then and now or lately
labourer, and then and now or lately residing in the Pleasance,
in or near Edinburgh; when she, the said Madgy or Margery,
or Mary M‘Gonegal, or Duffie, or Campbell, or Docherty, was
lying on the ground, and did, by the pressure thereof, and by
covering her mouth and the rest of her face with your bodies or
persons, or the body or person of one or other of you, and by
grasping her by the throat, and keeping her mouth and nostrils
shut, with your hands, and thereby, or in some other way to the
Prosecutor unknown, preventing her from breathing, suffocate or
strangle her; and the said Madgy or Margery, or Mary M‘Donegal,
or Duffie, or Campbell, or Docherty, was thus, by the said
means, or part thereof, or by some other means or violence, the
particulars of which are to the Prosecutor unknown, wickedly
bereaved of life, and murdered by you the said William Burke,
and you the said Helen M‘Dougal, or one or other of you; and
thus you, both and each, or one or other of you, did, with the
wicked aforethought intent of disposing of or selling the body
of the said Madgy or Margery or Mary M‘Gonegal, or Duffie, or
Campbell, or Docherty, when so murdered, to a physician or
surgeon, or to some person in the employment of a physician or
surgeon, as a subject for dissection, or with some other wicked
and felonious intent or purpose to the Prosecutor unknown: And
you, the said William Burke, having been taken before George
Tait, Esq. sheriff-substitute of the shire of Edinburgh, you
did in his presence, at Edinburgh, emit and subscribe five
several declarations of the dates respectively following,
viz.:--The 3d, 10th, 19th, and 29th days of November, and 4th
day of December 1828: And you, the said Helen M‘Dougal, having
been taken before the said sheriff-substitute, you did in his
presence, at Edinburgh, emit two several declarations, one
upon the 3d and another upon the 18th days of November 1828,
which declarations were each of them respectively subscribed
in your presence by the said sheriff-substitute, you having
declared you could not write: which declarations being to be
used in evidence against each of you by whom the same were
respectively emitted; as also the skirt of a gown; as also a
petticoat; as also a brass snuff-box, and a snuff-spoon, a
black coat, a black waistcoat, a pair of moleskin trowsers,
and a cotton handkerchief or neckcloth, to all of which sealed
labels are now attached, being to be used in evidence against
you, the said William Burke; as also a coarse linen sheet, a
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