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that the book was thrown at him - as recorded in a contemporary report which begins:
“On Monday the 2nd June, 1823, at Edinburgh, before the High Court of Justiciary, the trial of THOMAS STEVENSON, alias THOMAS HODGE who pled Not Guilty.
Several witnesses were brought forward whose evidence clearly brought home the offence charged. The Jury found the accused Guilty of the Crime. Lawyer, Mr Wilson,
in extenuation of punishment, requested the Court to take into consideration the time which the prisoner had already been confined, and also his ill treatment by the populace of Linlithgow.”
The judge, Lord Pitmilly, reprimanded the Linlithgow mob saying that it was not for them to take the law into their own hands but went on to say that the repeated offence was so grave that
the full punishment of the law was required. Stevenson was sentenced to transportation to Australia for seven years.
When they were found out, William Hare confessed and said that although he had helped carry the bodies and sell them, it was William Burke who had done the killing. He was hanged in Edinburgh in January 1829. To make the punishment fit the crime, his body was then dissected and bits of him sold off. Burke’s death mask and his preserved skeleton form part of the exhibition at the Chambers Street Museum until the end of October.
Burke’s skeleton – along with a bookbinding made from his skin.
Convicts like Stevenson were transported on a 12-week voyage
in the most awful conditions.
I used to ask those attending one of my ghost walks “Who are the most famous grave- robbers in history?” The usual reply I received was “Burke and Hare” – but of course there is no evidence that these two gentlemen ever obtained their bodies by stealing from graves. They murdered their victims
– although they may have got inspiration for their deeds while working as navvies on the Union Canal and hearing tales of how extra cash could be obtained from selling bodies to the medical profession.
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