The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty.

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Credit: The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.