Author : William Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Body snatching
ISBN : UCAL:$B268799
West Port Murders
William Burke
West Port Murders
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West Port Murders, Or an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates
William Burke
Author : William Burke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0332849376
West Port Murders, Or an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates by William Burke Pdf
Excerpt from 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 Q. Did Burke bid you clean the house? A. No but I said it would be better to wash the floor, and put a little sand on it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
West Port Murders
Various Authors
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066420772
West Port Murders by Various Authors Pdf
"West Port Murders" by Various Authors. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Burke & Hare
Owen Dudley Edwards
Author : Owen Dudley Edwards
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043682314
Burke & Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards Pdf
"In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist. They make a profit of £3 and 10 shillings. After this encouraging outcome, Burke and Hare decide to suffocate another sickly tenant. So begins the criminal career of the most notorious double act in serial killing. Here is the unvarnished, human story behind the infamous Burke and Hare murders. We delve into their past, their personalities and the circumstances that made them resort to murder as a money-making scheme.It?s a tale of desperation and greed, of outsiders, ambition, corruption and betrayal. And it?s all true!" -- Provided by publisher.
West Port Murders, Or an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates
William Burke
Author : William Burke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 025986157X
West Port Murders, Or an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates by William Burke Pdf
Excerpt from 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 Ehre' s Appearance Letter from the Sherifi' to the Right Hon. The Lord Provost' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Anatomy Murders
Lisa Rosner
Author : Lisa Rosner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780812203554
The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner Pdf
Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.
West Port Murders
William Burke
Author : William Burke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101679133X
West Port Murders by William Burke Pdf
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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
William Burke,Helen M'Dougal
Author : William Burke,Helen M'Dougal
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1376518260
West Port Murders: Or, an Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associates, Containing a Full Account of by William Burke,Helen M'Dougal Pdf
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West Port Murders
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0371715229
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WEST PORT MURDERS OR AN AUTHEN
William 1792-1829 Burke,Helen M'Dougal
Author : William 1792-1829 Burke,Helen M'Dougal
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 136336815X
WEST PORT MURDERS OR AN AUTHEN by William 1792-1829 Burke,Helen M'Dougal Pdf
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West Port Murders
William Burke
Author : William Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Body snatching
ISBN : OXFORD:N11125174
West Port Murders by William Burke Pdf
Burke and Hare
Brian Bailey
Author : Brian Bailey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780573755
Burke and Hare by Brian Bailey Pdf
'My Lord, You are aware that, at this moment, the public feeling is strongly excited against the perpetrators of the late foul and cold blooded murders that have taken place in the very centre of a populous and civilised city . . . Your Lordship is aware, that in all civilized nations, blood calls for blood . . .' From ' Letter to the Lord Advocate . . . By The Echo of Surgeons' Square' Early nineteenth century Edinburgh was gripped by fear of body snatchers. New graves were constantly under threat from unscrupulous ghouls keen to profit from the medical school's voracious appetite for corpses. In 1828, Burke and Hare, a pair of opportunistic low-lives, took the practice to a new extreme. They murdered at least 16 innocent victims, including a 12-year-old boy, in the name of medical science - and the freshness of the corpses they delivered for dissection earned them extra money. The names of Burke and Hare have become synonymous with body-snatching, but the true details of their crimes have been obscured by mythology and questions still surround the case. In Enlightenment Edinburgh, how were Burke and Hare able to carry on their repulsive and murderous trade undetected for so long? Why was only one of the homicidal due brought to justice? And what were the roles of Burke and Hare's common-law wives, the medical students who took delivery of the corpses and Dr Robert Knox, the distinguished teacher of anatomy whose dissecting table was the final resting place of the unfortunate victims? Bailey reveals a sordid side to a society which was famed for its intellectual and progressive thinking, yet depended on predatory criminals for the advance of medical knowledge. In this compulsive and absorbing book, the evidence is thoroughly re-examined - and startling conclusions are reached.
The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times
George Mac Gregor
Author : George Mac Gregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : UCAL:B4285339
The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times by George Mac Gregor Pdf
Burke and Hare
William Roughead
Author : William Roughead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Body snatching
ISBN : UCAL:$B234643
Burke and Hare by William Roughead Pdf
William Burke, William Hare, and Helen M'Dougal were associated in the murder of more than sixteen persons. This volume deals especially with the trial, in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal who were indicted for the murder of three of the victims, in December, 1828. The trial of William Hare for the murder of James Wilson is included. [Source unknown].
The Infamous Burke and Hare
R. Michael Gordon
Author : R. Michael Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786454563
The Infamous Burke and Hare by R. Michael Gordon Pdf
Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo evolved from petty theft to premeditated murder, they unwittingly brought attention to the medical practices of the era, leading to Burke's death by hanging. This account not only explores the work of the resurrectionists, it reflects the nature of serial killers, 1820s criminal law, and Edinburgh's early role as a seat of European medical research. Readers interested in the legal aspects of these crimes will find the trial testimony included to be a valuable resource.