West Port
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.
作者：Anonymous
体例：段 章数：29
字数：588,873 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 29 段- As it was morally certain that a vast crowd would be assembl
- Mr. PATRICK ROBERTSON then addressed the Court in support of
- The DEAN OF FACULTY, in reply to the Lord Advocate, argued p
- Q. Is there another door in the same side of the passage, a
- Q. After this conversation, did your wife and you leave it?
- Q. Was there a fight there between Burke and your husband? A
- Compeared William Burke, present prisoner in the Tolbooth of
- Gentlemen--the chain of evidence in this case is very comple
- With respect to the _socii_, his Lordship said they were ent
- The personal appearance of Burke and M‘Dougal has been alrea
- Stories have been sent abroad of his anxiety to shun the pub
- In answer to her subsequent inquiries and those of Mrs. Wort
- Now, we contend that this is altogether erroneous in point o
- Though we dissent from the summary mode of procedure which m
- Burke was remarked to be of a very social and agreeable disp
- But after once gaining what to them was a large sum of money
- The murders were,
- We cannot believe that these very respectable functionaries
- From six to seven o’clock a great concourse thronged every a
- No comparison can be drawn between a man who is executed for
- It was really amusing to observe the different emotions disp
- The smallness of the organ of Wit is in direct opposition to
- Even if the principle of law and the authority referred to h
- Lord PITMILLY approved of the manner in which the case had b
- On the 2d February, and probably within half an hour of the
- During the whole forenoon Mr. Fraser was apprehensive for th
- And the last was the old woman Docherty, for whose murder he
- Burke is thirty-six years of age, was born in the parish of
- _Edinburgh, 13th Feb. 1829._