The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland . oms, and was there informed thatduring his absence Hare had brought a subject and had beenpaid for it. Returning to the house he upbraided his partner,charging him with unfairness and breach of honour. Harestill denied the accusation, and from high words they got toblows. They fought long and fiercely, so that the neighbours,attracted by the noise, gathered round the door to mtnesswhat was going on; but neither of the combatants allowed aword to escape them as to the cause of the
The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland . oms, and was there informed thatduring his absence Hare had brought a subject and had beenpaid for it. Returning to the house he upbraided his partner,charging him with unfairness and breach of honour. Harestill denied the accusation, and from high words they got toblows. They fought long and fiercely, so that the neighbours,attracted by the noise, gathered round the door to mtnesswhat was going on; but neither of the combatants allowed aword to escape them as to the cause of the quarrel betweenthem. At last they were exhausted—possibly Hare wasworsted, for Burke, without mentioning the fight, stated in hisCourant confession that Hare then confessed what he haddone. He does not say whether or not he received any por-tion of the proceeds from the sale of the body of the victimmurdered during his absence. It was probably owing to this quarrel that Burke and HelenMDougal removed from Hares house in Tanners Close tothat of John Broggan, whose wife was a cousin of Burke, S I G N AT U R E. BURKES NmV RESIDENCE. 85 This house was not far from their old lodgings, being but twocloses eastward in Portsburgh. Grindlays Close was betweenit and Tanners Close, and it was entered from a back court toAvhich admission could be gained from the street either by anunnamed passage, or by Weavers Close, still further was able to gain a detailed description of this place,and it is well worth quoting :— In a land to the eastward ofthat occupied by Hare, in Tanners Close, you reached it afterdescending a common stair and turning to the right, where adark passage conducted to several rooms, at the end and atright angles with which passage there was an entrance leadingsolely to Burkes room, and which could be closed by a door soas to make it altogether secluded from the main entry. Theroom was a very small place, more like a cellar than the dwell-ing of a human
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