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WEST PORT MURDERS

... little elderly woman ?? seen begging about the lest Port; she entered the 0 sh°P of Mr ]Rymer, near to Burke's house, for this pur- pose, while Burke was there purchasing whisky. He seems rto iav Immediately fixed upon her as a fit subject for his atrecious ...

THE WEST PORT MURDERS

... say the truth, was our curiosity very urgent.. The inspection of Burke's cave had absolutely 'sickened us, and we were glad of an apology for. discontinuing our personal observations. Burke denies ever having used surgical instruments in committing any ...

WEST PORT MURDERS

... on char which hid already been taken down with so much Burke's own request. The Learned Lord recom- mended, however, for the satisfaction of the Lord Provost, nthat the Shenif shouldagain visit Burke, again road over hisdecl~arto and again inquire ofa him ...

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

... stated, that he a had- waited upon Burke and explained to him the reason for refusing acce~ssto .the-individual whom he had mentioned in his letter, and by whom that letter was written, though it was certainly sighed by Burke--.when theiufortunate man mentioned ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24. 1828

... five whets witness and s [I wife left Burke's hostse first. Burke camne to Ilsre's for d them abiott seven, lie tlsitks. Bttrke was not in 1-are's at sliupper ; hut M~rs Burke was. '[le Hares lied left it before e Burke came. .Jolin M' Cullochi, .porter.-On ...

WEST PORT MURDERS

... the floor, and Burke unconcernedly sitting at the waitdow. 'He -asked But'ke wvhy hestiffered snotther man to beat lisi wife'? to wshiri he repsied, 1 she well deserved all smite was getting. After having a dispute with. Hare, Burke' went, to resid' ...

WEST PORT MURDERS

... No doubt they were secretly committed, but the'y were st alo og otinodand Possessed Of the full ind free vy confession Of Burke, we shoulld have imagined crimainality at might easily be attached to Hare. This hardened but tc cautlious Prisoner is an adept ...

WEST PORT MURDERS

... of this article to have'access to Burke. The Learned Lord, it seems, has addressed a letter on the subject to the Lord ?? in which he enters at length into the grounds of tliisrefusal, and, inter alia, states that Burke enitted on the 2d instant a declaration ...

THE WEST PORT MURDERS

... THlE WEST PORT IMURES _~ .1 S. coNFESINS OF BURKE. r Th informaationl from which the following article at~ isdrawn pwehave reqcived from a tno0'st ]respectable a andrt its perfect ?? int all respects may an becnfidntly relied on., In truth, it is. as ...

MURDER BY MEANS OF SUFFOCATION

... generally known that the mear.s employed' by Burke -th e and his associateitoaccomplish the death, of their victims were fer the most part strarngulation, accompanied with w e compression of the respiratory organs. Burke, however, e confessed, that on one occasion ...

THE LATE MURDERS

... That incomparable miscreant, steeped to the very co, teeth in blood and slaughter, the originator of the an assassinations, Burke's mnaster in the art of mur- ats der, and a principal or an accessory in every crime su which has been committed,-in short ...

BARBAROUS MURDER OF A TOLL GATE [ill] AND HIS WIFE

... continued cheers. & l ,, ' Fox entering the House just as Mr Burke trt it sitting down; inquired of Sheridan' 'what tit at House 'was cheering? ' 0, nothing of Cone Jt quencet rephiid Sheridin, ' only Burke d 'knocked down one of Lord Lonsdale'd pins.'-- i.n ...