TRIAL OF BURKE AT EDINBURGH

... and muddled as he was with liquor and sleep, he thresv Burke off and got to his feet, when a desperate strug- gle ensued. Jamie fought with the united frenzy of mad- ness and despair, and Burke was about to be overpowered, when he called out furiously ...

THE EDINBURGH MURDERS

... her lodgings at Burke's house, and to the suspicion of her having been murdered, David'Paterson, keeper of Dr. Knox's museum, lives in 26, West Port. Knows Burke by sight. Went home about 12 on Friday, the 31st of October. Found, Burke at his dodr, knocking ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 1828
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4899 | Page: 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

HORRIBLE MURDERS IN EDINBURGH

... se.ing Burke in the psassage, and a littl~e womAn iollowiitg him ; they went into Burke's house ; H-are and his wife were in Burke's that evening between siix and seven o'clock ; the little woman was thtere like- wise ; witness remained in Burke's housie ...

MURDERS—TRIAL OF WILLIAM BURLE AND HELEN M'DOUGAL

... Hare's vith his wife, who was in Burke's at Is the time. ?? to Burke's house about nine o'clicsk,' oe for some of her child's clothes; and found the ?? a , woman singing, and Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Hare danciig. so Burke and Hare were driliking. Witness ...

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 ...

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 ...

POLICE FRAUDS

... the honestI and tmanly Captainl Burke [hear, hear !]. 'iThanks were re-I fttsed to this deiierving man, betcause ,forsooth, lie only did hisI ditty. He (Mr. Roositer) would he glad every one did hisI duty. Captain Burke wosild not be thanked, because he ...

WEST PORT MURDERS

... Tshe othert prisoner, dMac- hit cdougal, lived with Burke. There tas a Iscuse on thc i opposite end of' the passage, occupied by a Dir Law.-- :i: -lad seecn blare and his wife couningaobout Burke. Dur- tu ing the last kveek of October a stlt namcd Gray ...

COUNTY MONAGHAN ASSIZES

... previous quarrel bad takeo place between David Burke, lass' several persons mentioned irthe informations, and that the lqtter had agreed to revenge them- selves upan him, either dead'or ?? a few days after- wards Burke died, and was burled in Drunswords Church- ...

HORRIBLE MURDERS IN EDINBURGH

... evening, after a real or pre. hew e tended scuffle betwixt Burke and Hare, during which their riate victim etideavolared to separate them, the ponor deludird wretch deci2 -was pushed over ; and Burke, in presence of the parties before fidet - named, threw ...

COUNTY OF ANTRIM ASSIZES

... prisoner M'Clean there, and a blade of a scythe up his back, under his coat-ivitness lives in Dunsilly-knows where Burke's house Is-Burke is uncle to witness- it was about half way between Antrim and Dunsilly he saw the ?? was Antrim fair evening-witness ...

POLICE OFFICE

... cream ewer; Maria Murray, charged with stealing a, piece of printed calico from a warehouse in town; Dominick Agnew, Molly Burke, and Harriet O'Connor, charged with stealing and receiving a large quantity of plate, stolen from a house in Great George's ...