The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times - Free Audiobook

Author(s): George MacGregor,

Language: English

Genre(s): Non-fiction True Crime

1 / 48Preface and Introduction. The Resurrectionist Movement—Its Contributing Causes and Results

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1. Preface and Introduction. The Resurrectionist Movement—Its Contributing Causes and Results
2. Ch.1 Early Prohibition of Dissection
3. Ch.2 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Students
4. Ch.3 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Doctors
5. Ch.4 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Professional Body-Snatchers
6. Ch.5 The Early Life of Burke and Hare
7. Ch.6 Negotiations With Doctors
8. Ch.7 New Prospects
9. Ch.8 Qualms of Conscience
10. Ch.9 Unknown Victims
11. Ch.10 Old Mary Haldane and her daughter Peggy
12. Ch.11 A Narrow Escape
13. Ch.12 Jealousy
14. Ch.13 “Daft Jamie”
15. Ch.14 Daft Jamie on the Dissecting Table
16. Ch.15 The End Approaches
17. Ch.16 An Ill Excuse
18. Ch.17 The Arrest of Burke and M‘Dougal
19. Ch.18 Public Excitement
20. Ch.19 The Indictment against Burke and M‘Dougal
21. Ch.20 Public Anticipation of the Trial
22. Ch.21 The Trial of Burke and M‘Dougal
23. Ch.22 The Trial
24. Ch.23 Burke Sentenced to Death
25. Ch.24 The Interest in the Trial
26. Ch.25 Burke’s Behaviour in Prison
27. Ch.26 “The Complicity of the Doctors”
28. Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife
29. Ch.28 Burke’s Spiritual Condition
30. Ch.29 Lecture on Burke’s Body
31. Ch.30 Hare’s Position after the Trial
32. Ch.31 Hare’s Case before the High Court of Justiciary
33. Ch.32 Popular Feeling against Hare
34. Ch.33 The Confessions of Burke
35. Ch.34 Murderers, but not Body-Snatchers
36. Ch.35 Burke’s Account of his Life
37. Ch.36 The Fate of Hare
38. Ch.37 Dr. Knox’s Connection with Burke and Hare
39. Ch.38 Inquiry into Dr. Knox’s Relations with Burke and Hare
40. Ch.39 English Newspapers on the West Port Tragedies
41. Ch.40 The Relations of the Doctors and the Body-Snatchers
42. Ch.41 “Burking” in London
43. Ch.42 The Passing of the Anatomy Act
44. Ch.43 Conclusion
45. 44 APPENDIX - The Case Against Torrence and Waldie
46. 45 APPENDIX - Interview with Burke in Prison
47. 46 APPENDIX - Confession of Bishop and Williams, the London “Burkers”
48. 47 APPENDIX - Song and Ballads

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From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an interest as those which took place during what have been called the Resurrectionist Times, and notably, the dreadful series of murders perpetrated in the name of anatomical science by Burke and Hare. In the preparation of this work the Author has had a double purpose before him. He has sought not only to record faithfully the lives and crimes of Burke and Hare, and their two female associates, but also to present a general view of the Resurrectionist movement from its earliest inception until the passing of the Anatomy Act in 1832, when the violation of the sepulchres of the dead for scientific purposes was rendered unnecessary, and absolutely inexcusable."

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