This meant that to the utter disgust of the whole of Edinburgh, if not Scotland (and beyond), Hare walked free. Releasing Hare From Gaolįor those of you who know the trial, or are familiar with it, you’ll know that Hare turned King’s evidence. The questions everyone keeps asking but that no one seems to be able to answer. What I really want to concentrate on is the man after the trial. Some mention that he had scars on his face and brow, but I digress. Historians can also agree that Hare was an uncouth, illiterate and a quarrelsome individual that by all accounts was unpleasant to deal with. It is well known, if you are familiar with the case, that he lodged with Margaret Laird and her husband, taking a fancy to his landlady and quickly taking her as his common-law wife soon after her first husband passed away. William Hare was (or as not) born near Newry in Ireland and came to Scotland as an Irish Navvie, in other words, a manual labourer, to work on the Union Canal which would eventually link Edinburgh with the Forth and Clyde Canal near Falkirk.
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