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	Burke and Hare in Edinburgh
		Burke and Hare were not the only resurrectionists to operate in Edinburgh, let alone 19th century Britain, however they were amongst the most prolific.
		One of Burke and Hare's main clients was Edinburgh University professor Dr Robert Knox.
		Hare was released and reportedly died a pauper in London.
	www.wyrdology.com /edinburgh/burke-hare.html (466 words)

	Burke and Hare the body snachers, Edinburgh, Scotland - UK History
		William Burke and William Hare, two Irish immigrants from Ulster, came to Edinburgh to work as labourers on the then New Union Canal and took up lodgings with Maggie Laird and Nell Macdougal, women of low virtue, in the sleazy district of the West Port (near Tollcross).
		According to testimony of the shop boy at the trial however, Burke claimed that he was related to Docherty and offered her breakfast at his lodgings.
		It is believed that William Burke and William Hare are responsible for the deaths of between 13 –30 people but Burke was the only one prosecuted and then only for the murder of Mrs Docherty.
	www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk /burke.html (878 words)

	West Port murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The West Port murders were perpetrated in 1827-1828 by William Burke and William Hare who sold the corpses of their 16 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection.
		By 1827, Burke and his mistress, Helen MacDougal, were regular tenants at Hare's lodging house in Edinburgh.
		Hare's testimony led to Burke's death sentence in December 1828 but Helen MacDougal was released, her complicity to the murders was found to be not proven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burke_and_Hare (1149 words)

	West Port murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Hare's later testimony, the first body they sold was that of a dead tenant, an old army pensioner who owed Hare £ 4 rent.
		Burke and Hare argued over the boy but then Burke broke his back and sold both bodies for £8 each.
		Burke lured her into the lodging house by claiming that his mother was also a Docherty but he had to wait because of James and Ann Gray who were lodging with them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Burke_and_William_Hare (1149 words)

	MURDER IN THE UK - BURKE & HARE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke inquired her name, and on her mentioning the name of Campbell he at once claimed acquaintance and relationship with her, and finally took her away with him, saying that he would provide her with lodging for the night.
		Hare and his wife were then there, and had brought in some spirits with them, and they were all merry, and laughing and singing together.
		The verdict consigned Burke to an ignominious fate by a declaration of his guilt; but the jury, contrary to all expectation, declared, that as to Mrs M'Dougal, the offence alleged was 'not proven', a finding which relieved her from all immediate consequences upon the indictment.
	www.murderuk.com /serialkillers/burkehare.htm (5240 words)

	Burke and Hare Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke and Hare took this to its, for them, logical conclusion: cutting out the tiresome business of digging up corpses by murdering carefully selected victims so their bodies could be sold.
		Burke and Hare removed (and sold) Mary Docherty's body before the police arrived, but told inconsistent stories about her when arrested: and then Docherty's body was found at Knox's anatomy school.
		Hare was released, and is said to have been blinded during an attack by a lynch-mob, later dying as a beggar in London.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/burkeandhare.html (1064 words)

	After Sex All The Animals Are Sad
		Burke and Hare are ridiculed in the play as two amoral drunks hypocritically justifying their acts of murder as a necessary social service.
		Burke and Hare, once arrested for their crimes, begin to philosophise on the issues of morality and justice.
		Burke and Hare sit on either side of the stage, facing the audience and their imagined jailers.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /edinburgh2003/morbid/burke.htm (577 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke and Hare downfall came on Halloween, October 31st 1828 when a female lodger discovered a naked body in her room.
		Burke and Hare denied murder and medical evidence was insubstantial, the pair were not charged straight away.
		Burke was tried and hanged, his body donated to medical science, Hare moved to London where is allegedly died a beggar and Dr Knox’s career laid in ruin.
	www.urbanchillers.com /serial/serialkiller.asp?sk=10 (296 words)

	Broadside regarding the Burke and Hare trials
		Hare is a rude ruffian, with all the outward appearance of ruffian, drunken, ferocious, and profligate, and appears to have been the more deeply designing of the two.
		Burke was the only one of the two qualified to manage the out door business of the copartnery, and he it was, accordingly, that always went out to prowl for victims, and to decoy them to their destruction.
		Hare's wife was set at liberty lately, and in crossing the Bridges, was recognised by some person who had seen her in jail.
	www.nls.uk /broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15228/criteria/Burke (2411 words)

	BURKE & HARE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke and Hare began by robbing bodies from graves, but soon turned to murder to meet the demand.
		Burke was executed in 1829 on the basis of evidence provided by Hare.
		Hare was released and sent to England by the authorities, where he vanished.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/BURKE+%2526+HARE (259 words)

	William Burke and William Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hare lodged in a filthy bedsit in Tanner’s Close, in the West Port area of Edinburgh and began an affair with the owner’s wife, Margaret Logue.
		Burke left the house on the pretence of purchasing more whiskey, but his objective was more sinister, he had already decided that Mary was to be his next victim, he had left the house to search for Hare.
		Burke and Helen McDougal were separately questioned; each gave differing accounts as to how Mary came to be at the house and the circumstances surrounding her death.
	www.thecrimeweb.com /william_burke_and_william_hare.htm (3887 words)

	Graverobbers! The Trial of Burke and Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke and Hare were very successful graverobbers indeed.
		The anatomists who used Burke and Hare's services didn't ask many questions about the corpses that were brought to them at the medical school under the cover of darkness.
		Ironically, the anatomists to whom Burke and Hare supplied bodies were never brought to trial.
	www.tartans.com /articles/graverobbers1.html (659 words)

	The Newgate Calendar - WILLIAM BURKE
		Hare was a rude ruffian, with all the outward appearances of his nature -- drunken, ferocious, and profligate; and far likelier to repel than to ensnare any one by a specious show, which he was quite incapable of putting on.
		Burke was, indeed, the only one of the two qualified to manage the out-door business of the co-partnery; and he it was, accordingly, who always went out to prowl for victims, and to decoy them to their destruction.
		Burke had availed himself of the short interval of twenty minutes, during which her companion, Janet Brown, was absent, to execute his horrid purpose, when she was asleep, by stopping her breath; and that very afternoon, between five and six o'clock, her body was taken to the dissecting-room and disposed of for eight pounds.
	www.exclassics.com /newgate/ng601.htm (7612 words)

	Burke & Hare: The Edinburgh Body Merchants - Famous Criminal - Homepage - Crime And Investigation Network
		William Burke and William Hare were probably the most notorious multiple murderers in 19th Century Scotland; their trial, for providing fresh corpses for the rapidly developing medical & surgical profession, sparked huge public interest, and the hanging of William Burke drew one of the largest spectator crowds ever assembled in Edinburgh up to that time.
		Burke and Hare spent with increasing abandon, so much so that they had to pretend to have inherited money, to explain their new affluence to curious neighbours.
		Burke summoned Hare, and Docherty was duly despatched, her body hidden under a bed until she could be transported to Surgeon’s Square for payment.
	www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk /famous_criminal/11/home/1/Burke_Hare_The_Edinburgh_Body_Merchants.htm (2536 words)

	Blather: Waking the Dead: Burke and Hare
		What separated Burke and Hare from the other dealers in dead body parts, was the simple fact that they didn't wait for bodies to be buried: they cut out the middle man (Death) and produced the bodies themselves.
		Burke and Hare first met in Edinburgh: two immigrants who had left their homes in Ireland to work on the Union Canal in Scotland.
		Burke was hung at the end of January, on the 28th.
	www.blather.net /blather/2007/01/waking_the_dead_burke_and_hare.html (1320 words)

	BURKE and HARE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the year 1827, when Burke and Hare met, the medical profession, especially the anatomists, were hampered by very strict laws concerning human dissection.
		Burke and Hare hit upon their scheme almost by chance - one of Hare's tenants, a man known only as Donald, died unexpectedly in bed one winter's night in 1827, whilst still owing the sum of four pounds- a good deal of money.
		Burke and Hare were successful graverobbers but soon, greed led to murder.
	www.geocool.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /burke%20hare.htm (485 words)

	Robert O'Hara Burke
		Burke and Wills were sent by the Victorian government to travel from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		However, Burke was afraid that Stuart who was sent by the South Australian government, would get there first and decided not to wait.
		Burke and Wills died at the end of June while waiting to be rescued.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/burke/robert.htm (1071 words)

	Cannes and Burke
		Burke and Hare hailed from Ulster and moved to Scotland to work as labourers on the Union Canal.
		The evidence Hare and his wife provided sent Burke to his death on the gallows on 28 January, 1829 while his mistress Helen MacDougall escaped when the charges against her were found not proven.
		Burke and Hare killed their victims by strangling them using a method they had perfected which left no obvious trace of foul play and little evidence of the murder which they had committed.
	firthfriends.com /periodicals/05scots513burke.html (2444 words)

	Knowledge Base - Burke and Hare
		Hare tried to get away from Edinburgh to start anew, but the scandal ensured that he was faced with angry mobs everywhere he went.
		Burke’s body was used as an example for dissection, his skeleton still being preserved in the Anatomy Museum at Edinburgh University Medical School.
		Reaction to the Burke and Hare case was a major factor in the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832, which made it possible for bodies to be donated to science.
	www.scan.org.uk /knowledgebase/topics/burkeandhare_topic.htm (669 words)

	William_Burke_and_William_Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke and Hare originated from Ulster (modern-day Northern Ireland) but moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to work as laborers in the Union Canal.
		The last victim was Mary Docherty; Burke lured her in by claiming that his mother was also a Docherty but he had to wait because of James and Ann Gray who were lodging with them.
		Hare's testimony lead to Burke's death sentence December 1828 but Helen MacDougall was released because her complicity to the murders could not be proven.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=William_Burke_and_William_Hare (1047 words)

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		Burke and Hare hailed from Ulster and moved to Scotland to work as labourers on the Union Canal.
		The evidence Hare and his wife provided sent Burke to his death on the gallows on 28 January, 1829 while his mistress Helen MacDougall escaped when the charges against her were found not proven.
		William Hare is said to have died a penniless pauper in London in 1859.
	www.crimezzz.net /serialkillers/B/BURKE_HARE.php (430 words)

	William Burke
		This was the period of the body-snatchers or Resurrectionists, and Hare and Burke, aware that money could always be obtained for a corpse, sold the body to Dr. Robert Knox, a leading Edinburgh anatomist, for £7, 10s.
		The latter turned king's evidence, and Burke was found guilty and hanged at Edinburgh on the 28th of January 1829.
		From Burke's method of killing his victims has come the verb "to burke", meaning to suffocate, strangle or suppress secretly, or to kill with the object of selling the body for the purposes of dissection.
	www.nndb.com /people/235/000102926 (292 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Statue of pair runs against the grain
		A spokesman for the waterways authority said murderers Burke and Hare had been chosen as the subject of the sculpture because the pair had originally worked on the canal as labourers, or navigators - men who later become known as navvies.
		Mr Lievesley said Burke and Hare had seemed the natural choice, but they were chosen not as murderers, but as canal workers.
		A spokeswoman for the Edinburgh Dungeon, where visitors see the characters of Burke and Hare in their better-known occupation of heartless murderers, said that their past as navigators was "irrelevant".
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=473402003 (814 words)

	Justia Legal Web Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burke and Hare--The Bodysnatchers - Information on bodysnatching in 19th-century Britain, how the infamous duo operated, and what happened after they were caught.
		Burke, William (1792-1829) - Biographical entry on the convicted murderer, from the 1911 EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica.
		The Trial of Burke and Hare - Introduction to the partners with a gruesome trade, and information on movies based on their deeds.
	directory.justia.com /crime/Society/Crime/Murder/Serial_Murder/Serial_Killers/Burke_and_Hare (415 words)

	THE STORY OF BURKE AND HARE
		Hare accosted her and enticed her to his den, where she was stupefied with drink, and put to death in the manner they afterwards pursued, by covering and pressing upon the nose and mouth.
		Hare himself could not answer them; but he was anxious to get away, yet afraid to venture.
		Hare, on being liberated, barely escaped the rage of the mob, but eventually reached Glasgow, where she embarked to her native country, Ireland, in the Clyde steam-ship Fingal, to become a wanderer on the earth.
	members.fortunecity.com /gillonj/burkeandhare (1756 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Burke and Hare - the Bodysnatchers - A702802
		At any rate, it was this idea which led to Burke and Hare placing a weight instead of the body into the coffin, which was laid into the ground with everyone presuming that Donald lay therein, and removing the body to Edinburgh's Medical School.
		Hare was smuggled, alone, out of Edinburgh, and is rumoured to have lived as a beggar for the rest of his life.
		The case of Burke and Hare so shocked decent society that the British parliament was prepared to legalise the dissection of dead bodies in order to stop the fl market trade in them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A702802 (1769 words)

	burkandhare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macdougal and burke traveleld about the country selling wares, buying old clothes, and collecting skins, human hair, He also used to purchase quantities of old shoes, and, after cobbling them in the best he could.
		Both Burke and Hare continued to do this line of work until the end of 1828 there is not a true count on how many victims ended up on the tables at Edinburgh Medical Schools but they were suspecting of musdering between 13 - 30 people but there was not enough evidence to convict.
		Burke was found guilty of Murder and executed in January 1829 his body was given to the Medical School
	celticcousins.homestead.com /burkandhare.html (367 words)

	Broadside regarding the Burke and Hare trials
		The case of the Burke and Hare murders outraged and disgusted both Edinburgh's and Scotland's citizens.
		Burke and Hare were Irish bodysnatchers and murderers, who worked around Edinburgh's Canongate area - eventually becoming local legends.
		Hare turned King's Evidence and so was acquitted, but this secured the conviction of Burke, who was hanged on the 28th January 1829.
	www.nls.uk /broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15228 (217 words)

	Burke And Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Hares do not bear their young below ground in a burrow as do other Leporidae, but rather in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form.
		Young hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection offered by a burrow by being precocial, born fully furred and with eyes open.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/31972-burke%20and%20hare.html (672 words)

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