28 DECEMBER 1951, Page 16

Burke and Hare

SIR,—Mr. Harold Nieolson writes "when Burke and Hare were hanged." Hare was not hanged ; he turned King's evidence and .was released, living for many years. Long after, a mob on one occasion discovered his identity, and threw him into a lime-pit whereby he lost his sight. My father (183.5-1904) has told,Ine of seeing Hare, an old blind man, selling laces in the gutter at the corner of Wellington Street unknown to any but my father's journalist informant—Yours faithfully,