Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . the great thorough-fare far as the eye could reach, and filled everywindow, roof, and foot of vantage ground. The deephoarse roar of voices rose into a terrible and prolonged yell, on which he threw around him afierce glance of desperate defiance and hatred ; andagain rose the prolonged yell of disgust and half-glutted vengeance when, after hanging the usual ^ time, the body conveyed to the College. West Port.] BURKE AND HARE. 229 The sight of the execution instead of allayingthe passions of the justly-excited peop
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . the great thorough-fare far as the eye could reach, and filled everywindow, roof, and foot of vantage ground. The deephoarse roar of voices rose into a terrible and prolonged yell, on which he threw around him afierce glance of desperate defiance and hatred ; andagain rose the prolonged yell of disgust and half-glutted vengeance when, after hanging the usual ^ time, the body conveyed to the College. West Port.] BURKE AND HARE. 229 The sight of the execution instead of allayingthe passions of the justly-excited people, inflamedthem with a desire to drag his body out andtear it to pieces ; but a grand public exhibitionwas arranged for the morrow, and the white,naked corpse, so loathed, was laid on the black narrow escape from an infuriated mob, accordingto the Weekly Journal. In the den of murdevoccupied by Burke, continues the paper, severalobjects strengthen the general persuasion thatmany other wretches had fallen a sacrifice underthe same roof. The bloody straw in the corner, a. BALLANTYNE S CLOSE, GRASSMARKET, maible table of the theatre, and displayed tothousands who streamed through the entire day. Burke was cut up and put in strong pickle andin small barrels for the dissecting-table, and partof his skin was tanned. The woman MDougal after the execution hadthe daring effrontery to present herself in TannersClose azain ; but the people of the Portsburghrose, and she only found in the watcli-house a i^Frotn a Drawing by IV. Cliatlning.) heap of bloody clothes on the floor, and a pile ofold boots and shoes, chiefly those of females,amounting to several dozens, for which thepretended trade of a shoemaker never can account,furnish am[)le food for suspicion ! The ideasuggests itself that the clothes and shoes belongedto the unfortunate girls whom this monsterdecoyed to his house, intoxicated, and murdered,as he did the poor old wanderer. . The two OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Crassmarket. hous
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