The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment from the Criminal Annals of Scotland

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T.D. Morison, 1884 - 303
 

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Strona 15 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Strona 264 - ... and in any such action the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Strona 119 - That albeit by the laws of this and of every other well governed realm, murder is a crime of an heinous nature and severely punishable ; yet true it is, and of verity, that you, the said Wm. Borke and Helen M'Dougal, are both and each, or one or other of you, guilty of the said crime, actor or art and part...
Strona 258 - ... and whereas the legal supply of human bodies for such anatomical examination is insufficient fully to provide the means of such knowledge: and whereas, in order further to supply human bodies for such purposes, divers great and grievous crimes have been committed, and, lately, murder, for the single object of selling for such purposes the bodies of the persons so murdered...
Strona 263 - ... case of conviction of any prisoner for murder the court before which such prisoner shall have been tried shall direct such prisoner either to be hung in chains, or to be buried within the precincts of the prison in which such prisoner shall have been confined after conviction, as to such court...
Strona 120 - April 1828, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of March immediately preceding, or of May immediately following...
Strona 264 - Ireland shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being duly convicted thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, at the discretion of the court...
Strona 210 - ... day or two after the pensioner's death, Hare proposed that his body should be sold to the doctors, and that the declarant should get a share of the price. Declarant said it would be impossible to do it, because the man would be coming in with the coffin immediately ; but after the body was put into the coffin, and the lid was nailed down, Hare started the lid with a chisel, and he and declarant took out the corpse and concealed it in the bed, and put tanner's bark from behind the house into the...
Strona 282 - Pigburn, on or about the 9th of October last. I and Williams saw her sitting about eleven or twelve o'clock at night on the step of a door in Shoreditch near the church. She had a child four or five years old with her on her lap. I asked why she was sitting there. She said she had no home to go to, for her landlord had turned her out into the street. I told her...
Strona 258 - An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy. 1. Reciting that a knowledge of the causes and nature of sundry diseases which affect the body, and of the best methods of treating and curing such diseases, and of healing and repairing divers wounds and injuries to which the human frame is liable, cannot be acquired without the aid of anatomical examination...

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