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Excerpt from Trial of William Burke and Helen M'dougal: Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828, for the Murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty The first victim mentioned in the indictment, Mary Paterson or Mitchell, was a person of disorderly life, and is said to have been well known to Burke before be murdered her. She was of low stature, and not calculated to make much resistance, even had the opiates been withheld. She was cut short in her sinful career, and hurried (o, dreadful thought - how much unprepared before the judgment-seat of her offended Maker, at the early age of twenty-one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.