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
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