Portraits of William Burke and Helen McDougal, on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders.
Featured on PDR in the collection The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)
“Of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland,” George MacGregor writes in the introduction to this History of Burke and Hare,
Also appearing in the collection…
Helen McDougal and William Burke
Artist
Date
ca. 1829
From
The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times
