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ternal marks on the body which could have caused death. Her eyes were not projected nor her tongue hanging out, nor were there any marks about the neck, but the lips were soiled with blood. Knox had dealings with both Burke and Tare before, who seemed to act jointly. They frequently brought subjects which had not been interred. Sometimes they disputed.
John Broggau, Carter. The evidence of this witness was nearly the same as Connoways.
Ann Dougal of Gray knows the prisoners. Witness and her husband lodged five nights in their house in the end of October. Saw a stranger woman there on the last Friday of October. She had on a dark sort of gown, and a red stripped bed-gown under it. (Identified them.) She called herself Docherty. Was in the house with her till near dark on Friday. Burke said he met her in a shop, and brought her in about nine oʻclock. Burke put witness and her husband out, because he said they quarreled. He ordered them out of the house directly. Witness left the house at that time, about five o'clock. Burke said they would pay their lodging for them that night, and told them to go to William Hare's. Went ta Hare's with his wife, who was in Burke's at the time Returned to Burke's about nine o'clock for some of her child's clothes, and found the old woman singing, and M'Dougal and Hare dancing. Left Docherty there: and next morning asked M'Dougal where the old woman was, who said she was impudent, and she had turned her out. Witness went to the corner where the Straw was, to look for a pair of her child's stockings. Burke asked her what she wanted, and swore her to get out of that. He was then throwing whisky, under the bed and about the house, and said he wanted it toom, to get more, and he also put some on his breast. Witness was ordered to go under the bed get some potatoes to put on, which she did. The straw was in a corner, at the foot of the bed. Burke would not allow
