Letter to the Lord Advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets, and other facts relative to the late murders ; with a correct account of the manner in which the anatomical schools are supplied with subjects / by the echo of Surgeons Square.

Paterson, David, doorkeeper to Dr. Robert Knox.

Date:: 1829

Credit: Letter to the Lord Advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets, and other facts relative to the late murders ; with a correct account of the manner in which the anatomical schools are supplied with subjects / by the echo of Surgeons Square. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$should be carried on in the heart of a populous i city, and in so open a manner, without coming | to the knowledge of the men in power ; in care- fully perusing this letter, your Lordship will perceive, that at one period, wh^n a just sus- picion fell upon Burke about the beginning of October last, a pobceman Avas stationed at his door, but even then, he ebided their vigilanc'^, and the body w^as safely deposited in the Lec- ture Room. Your Lordship wiU pardon me for not making farther remarks^ f give verbatim the words of some of the parties said to have acted a conspicuous part h.i tne tragedy. ]\Jy motives for setting the inquiry on foot were these, viz:—To have a cand»d statement from the individuals m 1 he service of Dr Knox, who must have known wh ui rnd how they be- came acquainted with liurke and Hare,—by what means the bodies w ere p^oc.ir^d ; from whence,—and by whom a\e the Anpionf'cal Schools supplied,—w’ho are the parties that examine the bodies beTore dissectio-i,—and if there is any register of opinion kept respecting them. Your Lordship must be aware that the pub- lic eye is fixed upon you, as p.ibhc prosecutor, ' and as the greater j)orllon of that public is ignorant of the regular routine and evidence$