It started, innocently enough, with a proposal (though any innocence that could conceivably have existed had already been drowned in thought and would soon be drowned in deed as well): “It is simple, Bill- a matter of supply and demand. And a demand only the cunning, the devious, can supply. And that, Bill: those curious and devious suppliers, can be us! The only rogues in the city daring enough to make the demands of medicine, and of science, into an honest day’s work.”
And that is how the grizzly business began. Doctors in need of bodies were supplied with the means to the advancement of knowledge by the two men happy to supply them for cash, the last gasps of air becoming akin to the cash register‘s merry ring.
Every man or woman killed and transported in secret kept the pair solvent and able to continue. However, the illegality of murder was the couple’s only problem, the only sticking point in the plan. And twas the very reason the police of Edinburgh were to ultimately follow their bloody trail to an ultimate conclusion and the present scene:
A couple who’ve shamed Scotland. A couple brought together in crime before a crowd eager to see death come to those who bring about death themselves: the justice of the courts that will deliver them to Lucifer himself. A couple about to dance a gruesome jig that will shake everything out of their bodies from their basest substances to their very lives themselves.
And that is how the grizzly business began. Doctors in need of bodies were supplied with the means to the advancement of knowledge by the two men happy to supply them for cash, the last gasps of air becoming akin to the cash register‘s merry ring.
Every man or woman killed and transported in secret kept the pair solvent and able to continue. However, the illegality of murder was the couple’s only problem, the only sticking point in the plan. And twas the very reason the police of Edinburgh were to ultimately follow their bloody trail to an ultimate conclusion and the present scene:
A couple who’ve shamed Scotland. A couple brought together in crime before a crowd eager to see death come to those who bring about death themselves: the justice of the courts that will deliver them to Lucifer himself. A couple about to dance a gruesome jig that will shake everything out of their bodies from their basest substances to their very lives themselves.
NB: When writing this I had every intention of actually researching Burke and Hare. In the end, however, I wrote this before looking into them, I'm not sure why (probably just "for a laugh"). See if you can spot the glaring error here (if you didn't already spot it, that is).
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