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Thread #59418   Message #3758768
Posted By: Rapparee
16-Dec-15 - 08:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Here's another:

While visiting Edinburgh at Tanner's Close in 1828, Kathleen McBride met "and became familiar with" William Burke. Working as a servant in the house he shared with William Hare and his wife, Burke confessed that she showed Hare and himself the fastest way to obtain "the beef" for Dr. Knox. After capture she was freed after turning against Burke and Hare (and due to her "delicate condition"), and she was run out of England, Scotland, Wales, the Isles of Man and Jersey, and Cornwall by mobs, barely escaping back to Dongle with her neck unstretched. Her subsequent book about her trip to Scotland was an international worst seller and placed on the Index Liborum Prohibitorum as "Vomitus etiam obscena nimium in animis legentium Hibernorum" -- all copies were seized, burned, and the ashes thrown in the sea.