Front matter
Reading edition
WILLIAM BURKE,
as he appeared at the Bar, taken in Court.
Published by Thomas Ireland Junr. Edinburgh.
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, INCLUDING THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HARE, &c.
ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS AND VIEWS.
“O horror! horror! horror! tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!” Macbeth.
EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS IRELAND, JUNIOR, 57, SOUTH BRIDGE STREET. 1829.
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