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. — John Shaqi
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.
coarse pillow-case, a dark printed cotton gown, a red-stripped
cotton bed-gown, to which a sealed label is now attached; as
also a wooden box; as also a plan, entitled “Plan of Houses
in Wester Portsburgh and places adjacent,” and bearing to be
dated Edinburgh, 20th November 1828, and to be signed by James
Braidwood, 22, Society, being all to be used in evidence against
both and each of you, the said William Burke and Helen M‘Dougal,
at your trial, will for that purpose be in due time lodged
in the hands of the clerk of the High Court of Justiciary,
before which you are about to be tried, that you may have an
opportunity of seeing the same. All which, or part thereof,
being found proven by the verdict of an assize, or admitted by
the respective judicial confessions of you the said William
Burke and Helen M‘Dougal, before the Lord Justice-General, the
Lord Justice Clerk, and the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary,
you, the said William Burke and Helen M‘Dougal, ought to be
punished with the pains of law, to deter others from committing
the like crimes in all time coming.
A. WOOD, _A.D._
LIST OF WITNESSES.
1 George Tait, Esquire, sheriff-substitute of the shire of
Edinburgh.
2 Archibald Scott, procurator-fiscal of said shire.
3 Richard John Moxey, now or lately clerk in the sheriff-clerk’s
office, Edinburgh.
4 Archibald M‘Lucas, now or lately clerk in the sheriff-clerk’s
office, Edinburgh.
5 Janet Brown, now or lately servant to, and residing with,
Isabella Burnet or Worthington, now or lately residing in Leith
Street, in or near Edinburgh.
6 The foresaid Isabella Burnet or Worthington.
7 Elizabeth Graham or Burke, wife of Constantine Burke, now or
lately scavenger in the employment of the Edinburgh police, and
now or lately residing in Gibb’s close, Canongate, Edinburgh.
8 The foresaid Constantine Burke.
9 Jean Anderson or Sutherland, wife of George Sutherland, now or
lately silversmith, and now or lately residing in Middleton’s
Entry, Potter-row, Edinburgh.
10 William Haire or Hare, present prisoner in the tolbooth of
Edinburgh.
11 Margaret Laird or Haire or Hare, wife of the foresaid William
Haire or Hare, and present prisoner in the tolbooth of Edinburgh.
12 Jean M‘Donald or Coghill, wife of Daniel Coghill, now or
lately shoemaker, and now or lately residing in South St.
James’s street, in or near Edinburgh.
13 Margaret M‘Gregor, now or lately servant to, and residing
with, John Clark, now or lately baker, and now or lately
residing in Rose street, in or near Edinburgh.
14 Richard Burke, son of, and now or lately residing with, the
foresaid Constantine Burke.
15 William Burke, son of, and now or lately residing with, the
foresaid Constantine Burke.
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