| Description Of Item | A case report setting out the indictment, judges, defences, speeches, opinions, evidence and debates involved. There is a black and white illustration of William Burke and William Hare as well as Helen M’Dougal.
Title page states that the trial was ‘Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on Wednesday, December 24, 1828.’
The preface is 18 pages, and the trial is 200 pages.
Shorthand taken by Mr John Macnee, writer.
Published by Robert Buchanan, George Street, Edinburgh, 1829. |