Burke and Hare murders two men were hanged in December 1831 for the crime. A bill was quickly introduced into Parliament, and gained royal assent nine months later to become the Anatomy Act 1832. This Act authorised dissection on bodies from workhouses unclaimed after 48 hours, and ended the practice of anatomising as part of the death sentence for murder. The events of the West Port murders have made appearances in fiction. They are referred to in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1884 short story, "The Body Snatcher", and Marcel Schwob told their story in the last chapter of "Imaginary Lives" (1896), while the Edinburgh-based author
North-West Mounted Police in the Canadian north 1913 at Port Nelson, where the police established their divisional HQ. Patrols up into Baker Lake and Coppermine River in 1915-16. Indians in the north typically had prior experience of Europeans, and there was little conflict between the police and the native population. Police were not popular with the Indians, and often blamed for government policies. Few crimes committed. Police got on much better with Inuit, who had less experience of Europeans, and took a liberal attitude towards them. Again, few crimes committed; informal justice (making up laws) used with Inuit. North-West Mounted Police in the Canadian north The history