Keywords: Daft Jamie.jpg en Not any of the horrid deeds of Burke and Hare aroused in the community of Edinburgh greater sympathy with the victim or a more vehement desire for vengeance on the murderers than did the slaying of James Wilson The Scottish people have ever regarded with especial tenderness those unhappy beings called by our custom innocents upon whom though adult an inscrutable Providence has seen fit to lay the blight of intellectual infancy; and any offence done to such helpless folk was properly deemed a crime as heinous as one wrought against an actual child -- W Roughhead ed Burke And Hare Notable British Trials Series Wm Hodge Co 1921 December 1828 http //murderpedia org/male B/b/burke-william-photos-1 htm original colors restored author Custom license marker 2012 06 12 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Deaths from murder Burke and Hare murder victims |