Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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The Merry Ballad of Burke and Hare


There was no point "Ghouls" as ingenious as Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare.
William Burke William Hare met one day in 1827. November or December, Mr. Hare does not remember.
Mr. Burke came from a good Irish Catholic family, he had fled. In Scotland, where his travels had led him, Mr. Burke married a young woman had seven children who all died, except one boy, or ... or it was not just two, no one really knows because Mr. Burke is fairly secretive.
Burke works and meets a young woman named Helen McDougal. It pleases him, that Helen, so he takes to his heels, fled again and abandons wife and children, he proposes marriage to his new love he said yes, and odd jobs in small trips, Mr. Burke and Ms. Helen Burke moved to Edinburgh.
At the end of 1827 he found a small room in a dingy little house, the famous Tanner's Close, held by Margaret Hare. Mr Burke met the husband of the latter, Mr. Hare, and with a glass of wine, maybe two or five, both William fun to wear the same name, are surprised to have a course Similarly, recall of childhood because they originate from the same place, almost the same place, but it's the same thing, surprised again for traveled to Scotland before coming to Edinburgh, where Mr. Hare said he fell in love with his tenant, Mrs. Laird, then married, and he said, glass in hand, how he became the new owner of Tanner's Close when Mr. Logue died taking his place behind the counter, driving him his place at table, and its place in the bed still warm and the arms of Margaret, widow of white lace.
Mr Burke and Mr Hare shake hands and clink glasses to this new friendship.
the view of the whole household, they became inseparable friends. In an atmosphere of
filth, vice, fog or smoke cigars, murder or rape - listen cries in the street! - Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare attended one day, quite helplessly the death of a tenant, an elderly man in poor health who was Mr. Hare the modest sum of £ 4.
Then Mr. Burke has a great idea. He heard not long ago, the echoes of the street. He just remember. He heard the turning lane, that medical schools were short of bodies, the despair of students and their teachers. Why, Mr. Burke said, why not sell the body to science, rather than bury it? It will at least something that corpse! It will not feed the worms! Worms are also enough fed. They may keep a few things that belonged to the dead. There are no small profit. Better! Mr. Hare will surely pay off.
A corpse comes at a price. A corpse that has a price. Not really, there are no small profit.
Mr Burke and Mr Hare then meet at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Robert Knox. It accepts the body without hesitation. Imagine the joy of the students! The body will be cut in part to his next class, the matter is heard. Blood flow under the eyes of students, and they will learn their craft by searching the cold flesh of the dead. The body is priced at £ 7. It's a good price. Mr. Hare
displays a grin happy: yes, Mr. Burke, he is totally repaid.
Burke - who has an eagle eye - Landmark in the house, another tenant who appears very ill. Joseph the Miller is sick, and Joseph the Miller knows. The two friends invite him to take a drink, to tell, why not a story ... the man speaks, and Mr. Burke takes a look at Mr. Hare: their motus operandi has been found, a few minutes. See if it works! They would rub their hands, while Father Joseph speaks and speaks ... and while he speaks, he says, he remembers, Mr. Hare rises, a few steps, stops behind the patient and suddenly, the fact silenced by the gag of his hands. The method is so simple then! Just lengthen the man, still gagged by him while Mr. Burke sat on his chest. Man suffocates. It's almost natural, and no suspect, ever, that Joseph is not the Miller died of his illness. The dying choking while accomplices let their imaginations wander. Mr. Hare
dream at the end of the story of Joseph.
Burke imagines the end of this story.
Then undress the dead, he took her jewelry and trinkets - like a few letters in his pocket - and Dr. Knox paira handsomely.
few days later, his hands in pockets, Burke and Hare look around. Burke climbs the stairs, while Mr. Hare comes down, and when they occur in the living room, one must go to the obvious: no one is sick.
But Mr. Burke, never short of ideas, already imagining the next shot ... and on the street, Mr. Hare? People chosen at random, people lost in the fog late at night, men who have gone fuck whores and sluts who wander the streets in their sorrow ill-fame?
Mr. Hare thinks. M Hare applauds. The two friends
chase, catch, kill, undress, admire jewelry, body, perhaps even palpate the flesh they laughing if a woman, and no matter if young or before, they both in their small morgue. It is no longer so important. The dead women are all alike, without the flame. Perhaps they have been charmed by the youth of Miss Peggy Haldane who, seeking his mother, unaware that she had already died from the cold hands of Mr Burke and Mr Hare. Sometimes, Margaret or Helen decides to take part in the hunt nightlife. Sheltered in the little house, they are bringing one of their friends. The friend holds out his arms, unaware that a gloved hand on approach to his mouth, another smother the by weighing all his weight on it. Oh no, that neither Ms. Ostler nor Miss Anne Dougall had imagined! If Miss Dougall was a virgin, she never imagined that his first would be the last time, she never imagined that the men climbed over the girls like that, no way, that their bodies would weigh so heavy that she would die. Suppressed for love, yes.
And if only they had killed an overflow of love! Love is beautiful, it is chosen by the purest and best of luck, thinks Miss Ann exhaling, eyes rolled back. It's beautiful love, oh yes, it's beautiful like the night is like death. To hell with romance, Mr. Burke replied! Just enjoy what these women will bring us. And they tell us. 10 pounds in their pockets for their empty carcasses, their naked bodies at Dr. Knox, who rubs his hands!
Mr. Burke is the raptor lowlands. It spreads fear. How sad then, that nobody knows, nobody can guess!
It sets its sights on James Wilson. Daft Jamie, as they call it in the corner. It is known, Jamie. He is a young man a little delayed. He has a mother who loves and seeks every second of the day, when it escapes him. When sitting on his chest, Mr. Burke never imagined he would much rebel ... it is the first time! Mr. Hare comes to his aid. They are not too crazy to kill the two lanes. Ah! It should have put a flea in their ear, this breach in the mechanics. They should have chosen someone else, someone they did not know, maybe. Mr. Burke said he aimed too high? While Dr. Knox takes his scalpel, a student thinks he recognizes Jamie ... regardless, his face is already more than muscle and nerves, and sanguinolent red mass on which a fly alights. Knox balance the skin. Plus nobody needs. Especially not Jamie. Not even Mom, who seeks her young in the streets, loudly.
The dog on the corner, the hungry dog, will perhaps enjoy them, this skin shriveled.
Lewis Carroll would have loved to visit the household to observe, through a small hole, Burke Brain and his sidekick Mr. Hare, observe as they take a drink, they laugh by sharing small parts. Oh yes, he would have liked. Although it would have rewritten history, he would have tea in glasses, he would have preferred to Mr Burke who murders a hatter time rather than its relatives, but Mr. Hare would have intrigued many.
Ah, Mr. Hare! As mad as a March hare! If it takes
crazy fun murder, the hare. Without informing Mr. Burke, he finds a girl and kills her, alone. What a pleasure to him, the only responsible for his groans of agony! Ms. Marjory Campbell
Doucherty comes the next day, take a room in the company of couples Gray. Burke rushed into her room when she is alone. Madam, I had to see you. Absolutely. My mother, Madam, was born Doucherty! What a coincidence! and he throws himself on her, the bedridden, and stifles. It is still unclear, Mr. Burke, because he does not then that pride, that his name will soon be famous.
But Mr. Burke has forgotten the couple Gray. And here they are returning from a stroll. In the dark staircase, they hear muffled sounds. They are not alone. The neighbors also heard. They are worried. Ann Gray, who is a shrewd, expressed surprise that Mr. Burke does not let her approach the bed of Mrs. Doucherty. Ann would like to get it down the left it there! Advantage that it is alone in the house, inspects Ann. Soon, she shrieked in discovering the corpse of the lady under the bed. Ann is a strong woman. She runs to tell her husband, they hurry, you have to get a policeman! Before leaving, grabbing their coats, they meet Helen, trying to coax, which lowers the rental price of the room while she is ready to give everything but please, not the police!
Poor Helen, but in vain!
Mr. Burke was soon confronted by the police. He is surprised. He asserts that Ms. Doucherty is part early in the morning, around 7am. Helen arrives. The heartfelt, hair in eyes, fell into the arms of police officers and a shrill voice proclaims that Ms. Doucherty left yesterday evening. Burke frowns, sighs and shakes his head. Mr. Hare and his wife were arrested within hours.
Betrayal at the approach of Christmas. Here we propose to testify against Mr. Hare his friend, his accomplice and partner. You will be saved, Mr. Hare, think! Peace deserves an olive tree.
He accepts. As mad as a March hare.
Poor Mr. Burke! On January 28, 1829 is a grim morning. Wednesday sinister, sinister days of children and innocents! Betrayed, deserted, hanged soon. And that's it. It will choke like all his victims, as Joseph and as Ann Dougall. It gathers in front of the gallows. What a glorious day for them, children, friends of those who have been sold, and Ms. Wilson. They nibble and laugh, here the barking of a dog, here, the cries of children playing. Two of them are fighting, not far from the gallows in the middle of the square : The little blonde says he is Mr. Burke. The little brown said no no! I would be Mr. Burke! Small came to blows, while the crowd screams, because she screams, this thirsty crowd, this is a huge sound that propagates in it, a sound that vibrates the solid Edinburgh, a sound lives and will die in it, crashing against its gray stone walls, and applause burst forth, and jumped on another hurray hurray, when the body of Mr. Burke has finally stopped wriggling.
Mr. Burke, the little blonde and Mr. Hare, the little dark, delighted at the corner of my eye the pretty little girl with curls and rosy cheeks that goes by, they grin at his haughty air, and then, quietly, they go to their taste. Hands in pockets, half-heartedly, they hum a duet ballad of Burke and Hare.

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