NOTED MURDERERS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1185, 27 September 1882, Page 2

NOTED MURDERERS.

In connection with the horriblo

crimes committee many years ago in Edinburgh, by two miscreants, Ballantyne, in his late published book of " Experiences," relates the history of Hare's existence, subsequent to the hanging of Burke, his fellow murderer. For those who may be ig lorant of the circuinstancesalludedtoitmaybebriefly stated that Burke and Hare had driven a horrible trade in murderer. Their plan was to suffocate their victims, with pitch platers clapped on to tho mouths. The bodies -were then dis posed of for dissecting purposes to the surgeons, who had been strangely careless in ascertaining how the subjects which they purchased from these ruffians had come by their death. An accident revealed the ghastly secret. Burke was hanged. His fellow criminal cheated the gallows only to meet a perhaps more terrible doom. "It is now some fifteen years ago," writes Mr Ballantyne, "that a man of middle height and porportionately stout, clad in one of the ordinary white smocks worn by laborers, guided by a dog, and holding in one of his hands a metal saucer, might be seen slowly perambulating the streets of London. His sightless eyes, turned upwards, appealed to the passer-by. This man wosllare, the accompliceof Burke, who had been admitted as a witness against him. Subsequently to the trial he obtained employment in another name upon some lime works. His fellowlahorers found out who he was and threw him into one of the pits, the contents of which caused the lost of his sight. There was a woman who was accustomed to join him at the end of the day, and apparently accompanied him to wherever he lived. I have often seen those two meet, but nevor noticed a smile on the face of either of them."