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West-Port Murders!




A Full and Correct Account of the

TRIAL

OF WILLIAM BURKE,

AND

HELEN M'DOUGAL,

BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY,

On Wednesday the 24th Dec. 1828, for the wilful Murder of Mary Campbell or Docherty, with the felonious intent of selling her body to a Surgeon, as a subject for Dissection,

AND OF THE

SENTENCE, CONFESSION,

AND

EXECUTION

OF BURKE.





FALKIRK:

PRINTED BY T. JOHNSTON.