02551nam a22004211a 4500 b20443791 CaSfIA 20250317232246.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 850313s1829 stkce o 000 eng 40022980 (OCoLC)506067495 OCoLC CaSfIA e-uk-st Burke, William, 1792-1829. Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24. 1828, for the murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty / Taken in short hand by Mr John Macnee, writer. With an illustrative preface. ... Edinburgh : Robert Buchanan ... William Hunter ... John Stevenson ... and Baldwin & Cradock, London, 1829. 1 online resource ([9], vi-xviii, 200, [8] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, plan (lithographs)) Edited by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe. William Burke, William Hare, Mrs. Hare and Helen M'Dougal were associated in the murder of more than sixteen persons. Hare having turned King's evidence, William Burke and Helen M'Dougal were tried for the murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty. The final four leaves contain "Rhymes On Reading The Trial ... "; "The Lament"; "A Letter To ... The Caledonian Mercury. ... "; and "Letter to the Jury ... ", the last two signed "Candidus". These four leaves (not called for by the list of contents) were issued gratis with the Trial according to a later MS. note inside the Wellcome copy. Colophon, p.[208]: "Printed By J. Hutchinson, Edinburgh" Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: John Drury cat. 74 Note: Bound (1) with the Supplement to the trial, 1829. p. ix-x (f.a3) repeated after p.xviii. C20th half calf. With MS. list of related works and later pencil note on front endpapers. Stamp "J. Adams, Binder, Wilmington ... ". C20th woodcut bk-pl. (horn over barrel, initials JT and DF) R348874. bl. Trials (Homicide) Grave Robbing. Forensic Medicine. Homicide legislation & jurisprudence. Edinburgh (Scotland) Electronic books. Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781?-1851. M'Dougal, Helen, b. 1795?. Macnee, John, reporter. Hare, William, 1792?-1870? Scotland. High Court of Justiciary. Scotland Edinburgh. digforensics. dig19th. https://archive.org/details/b20443791 Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6406399M Additional information and access via Open Library b20443791 ark:/13960/t3wt1890p