"Burke -" Butcher, Hare "," Thief ": The life of unscrupulous William Hare

The alleged birthplace of William Hare in Ireland caused some assumptions. Some say he was born at Poinzpass, others say Newry, and still others say he was born in Derry. In addition to doubts about his place of birth, there are also some arguments regarding the year in which he was born with some sources, claiming that it was 1792, while others said that it was in 1804.

Whatever the origin of his birth, it is known that Hare, like Burke, so that he would eventually become notorious, moved from Ireland to Scotland to work as a worker on the Union canal and historically settled in Edinburgh.

He became friends with a man named Logay, who ran a guesthouse in the Edinburgh area of ​​the city’s West Port, and it was here that he met Margaret Laird, who was the wife of common law Loge. After the mysterious disappearance of Logheta in 1826, Hare and Margaret Laird began to live together, since the man and the wife, and the pension, the Lodge, was renamed the pension, Hare.

It was around this time that Hare met William Burke and his general affairs partner, Helen McDougall, and they all lived together for a while in a boarding house, although they often quarreled and quarreled together, especially when they drank. However, Burke and Hare were to become partners in a crime when they embarked on their infamous murder.

Although not much is known about the duet as humans, it is known that Hare had a much darker personality than Burke, who was described as charming and socially attractive. The applicant, on the other hand, was known to be cruel and suspicious, enjoying the misfortune of others.

True to his character, when the killers they committed were thrown back, Hare turned the King into evidence against his former partner Burke to save his neck. When he was released by the authorities in February 1829, Hare refused Margaret and disappeared, and he was no longer heard. There are some suggestions that he saw him south of the English city of Carlisle, and a popular fairy tale was told that he went to London, where his identity was discovered, and he was thrown into a lime pit, blinding him. In the same tale, Hare lives the rest of his days in destruction like a blind beggar. Although there is no convincing evidence to confirm this, there is no doubt that no matter what happened to Hare, he would have had little sympathy for him wherever he went.