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Excerpt: "We have heard a great deal of late concerning "the march of intellect" for which the present age is supposed to be distinguished; and the phrase has been rung in our ears till it has nauseated us by its repetition, and become almost a proverbial expression of derision. But we fear that, with all its pretended illumination, the present age must be characterized by some deeper and fouler blots than have attached to any that preceded it; and that if it has brighter spots, it has also darker shades and more appalling obscurations. It has, in fact, nooks and corners where every thing that is evil seems to be concentrated and condensed; dens and holes to which the Genius of Iniquity has fled, and become envenomed with newer and more malignant inspirations. Thus the march of crime has far outstripped "the march of intellect," and attained a monstrous, a colossal development. The knowledge of good and evil would seem to have imparted a fearful impulse to the latter principle; to have quickened, vivified, and expanded it into an awful and unprecedented magnitude. Hence old crimes have become new by being attended with unknown and unheard-of concomitants; and atrocities never dreamt of or imagined before have sprung up amongst us to cover us with confusion and dismay. No one who reads the following report of the regular system of murder, which seems to have been organised in Edinburgh, can doubt that it is almost wholly without example in any age or country. Murder is no novel crime; it has been done in the olden time as well as now; but murder perpetrated in such a manner, upon such a system, with such an object or intent, and accompanied by such accessory circumstances, was never, we believe, heard of before, and, taken altogether, utterly transcends and beggars every thing in the shape of tragedy to be found in poetry or romance. Even Mrs. Radcliffe, with all her talent for imagining and depicting the horrible, has not been able to invent or pourtray scenes at all to be compared, in point of deep tragical interest, with the dreadful realities of the den in the West Port. To show this, we shall endeavour to exhibit a faint sketch of the more prominent circumstances attending the murder of the woman Campbell or Docherty, as proved in evidence at the trial."
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GenreLiterary Classics, Mystery and Thriller
Length13 hrs 40 mins
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Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1LIST OF PLATES.
17WILLIAM BURKE.
2THE WEST PORT MURDERS.
18TOWN-COUNCIL OF EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21.
3Trial of William Burke and Helen M‘Dougal. (pt. 1)
19CONFESSIONS OF BURKE.
4Trial of William Burke and Helen M‘Dougal. (pt. 2)
20PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION.
5DECLARATION OF BURKE.
21REMOVAL TO THE LOCK-UP-HOUSE.
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6VERDICT.
22OCCURRENCES ON THE STREET.
7SENTENCE.
23THE EXECUTION.
8CONDUCT IN LOCK-UP-HOUSE.
24PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF BURKE.
9ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
25PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HARE.
10CONDUCT IN JAIL.
26WILLIAM HARE.
11HARE’S BEHAVIOUR.
27HARE’S APPEARANCE, &c.
12BURKE’S AND HARE’S HOUSES.
28CONFESSIONS OF WILLIAM BURKE.
13MURDER OF MARY PATERSON.
29OFFICIAL CONFESSIONS OF BURKE IN THE JAIL.
14JANET BROWN’S STATEMENT RELATIVE TO THE MURDER OF PATERSON.
30HELEN M‘DOUGAL.
15MURDER OF “DAFT JAMIE.”
31MARGARET LAIRD OR HARE.
16DISCUSSIONS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF HARE AND THE SOCII CRIMINUM.
32FOOTNOTES:
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