Supplement to the trial of William Burke & Helen M'Dougal : containing the whole legal proceedings against William Hare, in order to bring him to trial for the murder of James Wilson, or Daft Jamie. With an appendix of curious and interesting information, regarding the late West-Port murders. Illustrated by a lithographic print of Mrs Hare and her child, as they appeared in the witness box / [William Burke].

  • Burke, William, 1792-1829.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Supplement to the trial of William Burke & Helen M'Dougal : containing the whole legal proceedings against William Hare, in order to bring him to trial for the murder of James Wilson, or Daft Jamie. With an appendix of curious and interesting information, regarding the late West-Port murders. Illustrated by a lithographic print of Mrs Hare and her child, as they appeared in the witness box / [William Burke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reason for indulging tlie prosecutors with the utmost streich of the statute; and certainly there can be no reason for trans- gressing it. On the contrary, in the circumstances already stated, the ends of justice require that the petitioner should be instantly relieved from the state of close imprisonment, in which he has been now so long kept, and should be allowed free communication with his counsel and agent. May it therefore please your Lordship, to consider what is above set forth, and to release the petitioner from the state of close imprisonment in which he is at present kept, and to give him such other relief in live premises, as to your Lordship shall seem propkri According to justice, &c. (Signed) DUN. M'NEILL. Upon this petition the Sheriff pronounced this interlocutor : * —f The Sheriff having considered the within petition, and the c bill of advocation, suspension, and liberation, produced; In 6 respect that the time of the petitioner's close confinement ex- ' pires to-morrow evening, and that by deliverance of the Lord 6 Justice-Clerk on the said bill of advocation, suspension, and ' liberation, all further proceedings in the precognition are 4 sisted until Monday next, at ten o'clock, before which time, 6 the time of the petitioner's close confinement will have ex- 4 pired, grants the prayer of this petition, and releases the pe- 4 titioner from the state of close imprisonment in which he is * at present kept; and appoints intimation of this petition 4 and deliverance to be made to George Monro, S. S. C, 4 agent for Janet Wilson, senior and junior. (Signed) 4 Ad. Duff.' 4 23d January 1829.—Nine p. M.—Intimated the within pe- 4 tition and deliverance to me,—but I understand Hare is not 6 to see his counsel and agent till to-morrow afternoon. (Signed) 6 Geo. Monro.' The bill of advocation came to be advised by the whole Court, on Monday the 26th January,—and, on hearing coun- sel f for the parties, their Lordships pronounced the following interlocutor :— * 23. January 1829. | It is unnecessary to give the viva voce Pleadings of Counsel on this oc- casion, as the printed Informations contain the whole of the argument urged on either side of the Bar. B