Robert Knox regular basis. After 16 more transactions, in what became known as the West Port Murders, on 2 November 1828 Burke and Hare were caught, and the whole city convulsed with titillated horror, fed by ballads, broadsides and newspapers, at the terrible deeds of the pair. Hare turned King's evidence, and Burke was hanged, dissected and displayed. Knox was not prosecuted, which outraged many in Edinburgh. His house was attacked by a mob of 'the lowest rabble of the Old Town,' and windows were broken. A committee of the Royal Society of Edinburgh exonerated him on the grounds that he had
Trams in Edinburgh Princes Street and Leith Walk, to Bernard Street, Leith, replacing a horse-drawn carriage service. Edinburgh Northern Tramways began the first cable-hauled tram services in January 1888. The Levenhall to Port Seton section was replaced by motor buses. Expansion in the 1930s added routes Gorgie to Stenhouse, Braids to Fairmilehead and North Gyle to Maybury. At the time of closure, the total tram route was 47 miles long. The Corporation's last electric tram ran on 16 November 1956. After six years in which the controversial scheme suffered from long delays and over-spending, the new Edinburgh Trams system finally began operation on