Aidan Bourke
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Aidan Bourke | |
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 An unidentified Dead Rabbit in an 1857 newspaper illustration; this is not a portrait of Bourke | |
| Other name | Black Dog |
| Occupation | Gang member (reported) |
Criminal status | Historical identity not independently documented |
| Allegiance | Dead Rabbits (reported) |
Aidan Bourke, known as Black Dog, is identified in later Dead Rabbits lore as a member of the Dead Rabbits. No contemporary biographical record or authenticated portrait has been located, and details of his life remain unknown.
The identification is not found in Herbert Asbury's detailed popular account or Tyler Anbinder's modern reconstruction. It should therefore be treated as an uncorroborated later attribution rather than a documented biography.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), chapter 1.
- ↑ Tyler Anbinder, Five Points (Free Press, 2001), pp. 353–354.