BURKE AND HARE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2898, 10 July 1882, Page 2

BURKE AND HARE.

Sergeant Ballantyne, in his new book, thus refers to one of the actors in a now almost-forgotten tragedylt is now souo fifteen years ago that a man of middle height and proportionately stout, clad in one of the ordinary white smocks worn by laborers, guided by a dog, and holding in one of his hands a metal earner, might be seen slowly perambulating the streets of London. His sightless eyes, turned upwards, appealed to the compassion of the passer-by. TMs man was Hare, the accomplice of Burke, who had been admitted as wtness against him. Subsequently to tie trial, ho obtained employment in aiother name upon some limeworks. Eis fellow-laborers found out who ho vas, and threw him into one of the pits, tie contents of which cost him tho loss o'his sight. There was a woman who whs accustomed to join him at tho end o: tho day, and apparently accompany hpi to wherever he lived. I have often sien these two moot, but never noticed a anile on the face of either of them, .