Luckily i had two new suppliers, Mr Burke and Mr Hare, and the bodies were fresh so i took a strictly ask no questions policy, they said they were friends, acquaintances and relatives and they both looked like proper, respectable gentlemen so i was ready to take them at their word.
These bodies taught me much about the human body worked which i passed on during lectures to my students and as time went on these kind men brought me several males and female bodies, at one point over the ten months that they supplied me, my lab was chock-a-block with all their freshly passed-on pals for which i paid them them the overly generous sum of £7 10s each.
It was going well until one day a Policeman came and asked if i had seen a certain gentleman, he had been a lodger at Mr Hare's house who had gone missing, i was being honest when i said that i hadn't or least not until the next day when Burke and Hare dragged his dead body in and lay him on my slab.
Being an upright citizen i contacted the police who arrested the two gentleman and charged them with the murder of at least 16 people, all of which were in bits and pieces held in jars on my lab shelves.
Hare was set free after an offer was put to him granting immunity from prosecution if he turned king's evidence and he provided the details of their murderous past-time and Burke was hanged and in a magnificent twist of irony, his body was handed to me to dissect and his skeleton displayed at the Anatomical Museum of Edinburgh Medical School.
There were persistent rumours that i must have known what was going on so to avoid all the awkward questions i packed my bags and went to work in a Cancer Hospital in London but all i did i did to advance medical knowledge so my path was paved entirely with good intentions, and human organs.
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