Burke and Hare by Bailey Brian

Author:Bailey, Brian [Bailey, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 2011-09-29T22:00:00+00:00

Mr and Mrs Gray, who had blown the whistle on the murderers, were now lodging in the Grassmarket with a coal merchant named McDonald. A public subscription was raised to reward the couple, whose unswerving integrity had been instrumental in bringing the killing to an end. But less than £10 was collected for them, and their only reward was the satisfaction of a clear conscience.

In prison, Burke received the ministrations of both Catholic priests and Presbyterian clergy. He was visited by Father Reid and Father Stewart, as well as Rev. Porteous and Rev. Marshall. It was perhaps under their earnest exhortations that he volunteered to make a confession, and did so on 3 January after a week in the condemned cell, thus revealing to the authorities that he and Hare had become the most prolific serial-killing partnership in British judicial records. Burke naturally tried to shift much of the blame onto Hare.

Lord Cockburn (as he became) committed to print, many years later, a curious opinion of Burke:

Except that he murdered, Burke was a sensible, and what might be called a respectable, man; not at all ferocious in his general manner, sober, correct in all his other habits, and kind to his relations.6

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