The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland . n the judgment day when their dust lay peacefully be-side the village church, it was also possible for Him to callthem to Him though their particles lay far apart. There is one other point which must not be omitted in aAvork of this kind. The transactions in the West Port ofEdinburgh, in 1828, gave new words with a peculiar signifi-cance to the English language. A burker was unknownbefore the crimes of Wilham Burke were made public ; burk-ing- was an undiscovered art until he disc
The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland . n the judgment day when their dust lay peacefully be-side the village church, it was also possible for Him to callthem to Him though their particles lay far apart. There is one other point which must not be omitted in aAvork of this kind. The transactions in the West Port ofEdinburgh, in 1828, gave new words with a peculiar signifi-cance to the English language. A burker was unknownbefore the crimes of Wilham Burke were made public ; burk-ing- was an undiscovered art until he discovered it. This initself is another testimony to the effect the crimes chronicledin this book had upon the minds of the men and women of theperiod. Many other words similarly derived have had a briefpopularity, and dropped into oblivion, to be only hunted up bythe philological antiquary, but these have retained their signi-ficance, and, by their aptitude to many actions in all phases oflife, have attained to a classical position in the language towhich their usefulness, rather than their origin, entitle M^ Hare and Child. From a Sketch taken in Cour-t ) APPENDIX APPENDIX. THE CASE AGAINST TORRENCE AND WALDIE. At page twenty-four ante a brief note is given of the caseagainst Torrence and Waldie for the murder of a boy for thepurpose of disposing of his body to the surgeons. The accountthere given is founded upon a brief jotting in the EdinburghEvening Courant, and, as the case is one of considerableinterest, the following more lengthy record is taken from theScots Magazine for 1752 :— Helen Torrence, residenter, and Jean Waldie, wife of astablers servant in Edinburgh, were tried, at the instance ofthe Kings Advocate, before the Court of Justiciary, forsteahng and murdering John Dallas, a boy of about eight ornine years of age, son of John Dallas, chairman in indictment bears, that in November last the pannelsfrequently promised two or three surgeon-apprent
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