Seeking Mr Hare

On the 7th of February 1829 the notorious Irish mass murderer and ''resurrectionist'' William Hare (of Burke and Hare infamy) was freed from a Scottish gaol, put on a coach to Carlisle, left on the roadside there and subsequently disappeared from human view as if he had never existed. His fellow conspirator and provider of fresh ''meat'' for the Edinburgh surgeons'' operating tables had earlier be...