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Listener discretion is advised. got. So they had fine clothes, these people, and as it got towards needing to

murder somebody else, the clothes all went into a sort of pawn shop and they

had to trade things for money, and then when they murdered somebody somebody the fine clothes came back out.

After several weeks of holiday William Burke returned from Bannock Byrne with

Nellie McDougal who was still very much alive. This of course came as a big

disappointment to the Harris. They had hoped that Burke would return from his

trip with his dead wife stashed on his horse and cart. Because Nellie was Scottish, not Irish like they were,

Margaret Hare didn't trust her one bit. She was plotting against them, Margaret argued.

But this was just one area of tension between the two men.

When the couple returned to the boarding house in Tanner's close,

William Burke became enraged by something far more atrocious, as historian Janet

Philip explains.

Before they went off to Banachburn, the hares fine clothes had gone back into

Hock and when they came back from Banachburn, The hair's fine clothes had gone back into Hawken.

When they came back from Banachburn,

the fine clothes were back on again.

So Burke was suspicious that something had happened.

Where did the money come from?

Burke demanded to know.

Hare denied killing anyone, and he tried to retract his earlier suggestion about offing

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