The murderer William Burke was hanged in Edinburgh OTD 1829. A student, Thomas Hume was part of the huge crowd on the Lawnmarket that day & left a rare eyewitness account, which is digitised here (also with a great blog by @burkeandhare.bsky.social). https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-collections/thomas-hume-autobiography/1223018
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