When was william hare born

Serial killer who avoided conviction by giving evidence against William Burke in William Hare, like William Burke, was an Irish navvy a manual labourer who had come across to Scotland to work on the Union Canal in the s. Born near Newry, Ireland he was described as being uncouth, illiterate and quarrelsome, altogether a thoroughly unpleasant person by all accounts. When his employment on the Union Canal ceased, Hare moved into Edinburgh and took up residence in a lodging house in Tanner's Close, an overcrowded area of the town between King Stables Road, the Grassmarket and West Port.

Whilst in the lodging house he took a fancy to the wife of the owner of the lodging house, Margaret Laird, which resulted in him being thrown out of the house.

However, when the owner died shortly aftrewards he moved back in and took over the running of the lodging house. He claimed to not have heard the rumours before and dismissed them perhaps a little too easily.

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SALE view all sale items They were followed by the elderly prostitute Mary Haldane, and then her daughter Peggy Haldane, when she tried to find out what had happened to her mother. Mary Haldane was well known in the area and finally suspicions began to be voiced about Burke and Hare.

Their next victim was even better known, a young man known as Daft Jamie. Several of Knox's students recognised him. Knox denied that the corpse was Daft Jamie, but unusually commenced the dissection on this face. Her body was discovered hidden under a bed in the lodging house by two lodgers, James and Ann Gray.

Burke and Hare removed and sold Mary Docherty's body before the police arrived, but told inconsistent stories about her when arrested: and then Docherty's body was found at Knox's anatomy school. The case was reported in the Edinburgh papers on 6 November The prostitute, Janet Brown, went to the police, and was able to identify clothing found at the lodging house as belonging to Mary Patterson. Despite all this, the case against Burke and Hare was not watertight, so Hare was offered immunity from prosecution if he confessed and agreed to testify against Burke who had, according to Hare, committed the actual murders.

His testimony led to Burke's execution on 28 January Burke's body was then made available for dissection, and some of his skin was allegedly used to bind a book now on view in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Hare was released, and is said to have been blinded during an attack by a lynch-mob, later dying as a beggar in London. Helen MacDougal was released, almost lynched, and fled to Australia, where she remained.