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	\| image = A Dog Fight at Kit Burns.jpg		\| image = A Dog Fight at Kit Burns.jpg
	\| caption = A dog fight at Kit Burns's Sportsmen's Hall in 1868; no authenticated portrait of Toner is known		\| caption = A dog fight at Kit Burns's Sportsmen's Hall in 1868; no authenticated portrait of Toner is known
	\| other_names = Jack the Rat; Dick the Rat; Jack		\| other_names = Jack the Rat<br>Dick the Rat<br>Jack
	\| occupation = Saloon worker ~~and underworld~~ performer		\| occupation = Saloon worker<br>Underworld performer
	\| criminal_status = Later fate unknown		\| criminal_status = Later fate unknown
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	{{SHORTDESC:19th-century New York underworld performer}}		{{SHORTDESC:19th-century New York underworld performer}}
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	\| name = ~~Jack the Rat~~		\| name = Richard Toner
	\| image = A Dog Fight at Kit Burns.jpg		\| image = A Dog Fight at Kit Burns.jpg
	\| caption = A dog fight at Kit Burns's Sportsmen's Hall in 1868; no authenticated portrait of Toner is known		\| caption = A dog fight at Kit Burns's Sportsmen's Hall in 1868; no authenticated portrait of Toner is known
	~~\| birth_name = Richard Toner~~		\| other_names = Jack the Rat; Dick the Rat; Jack
	\| other_names = Dick the Rat; Jack
	\| occupation = Saloon worker and underworld performer		\| occupation = Saloon worker and underworld performer
	\| criminal_status = Later fate unknown		\| criminal_status = Later fate unknown
	}}		}}
	'''Richard Toner''', known as '''Jack the Rat''' or '''Dick the Rat''', was a 19th-century New York underworld figure and the son-in-law of ~~saloon keeper~~ Kit Burns. Accounts of Burns's Sportsmen's Hall say Toner performed for customers by biting the heads from mice and rats.<ref>Michael Batterberry, ''On the Town in New York'' (Routledge, 1998), p. 104.</ref><ref>Gerald R. Gems, Linda J. Borish and Gertrud Pfister, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sp7b2C68xFAC&pg=PA156 ''Sports in American History''] (Human Kinetics, 2008), pp. 156–157.</ref>		'''Richard Toner''', known as '''Jack the Rat''' or '''Dick the Rat''', was a 19th-century New York underworld figure and the son-in-law of [[Christopher Keyburn\|Kit Burns]]. Accounts of Burns's Sportsmen's Hall say Toner performed for customers by biting the heads from mice and rats.<ref>Michael Batterberry, ''On the Town in New York'' (Routledge, 1998), p. 104.</ref><ref>Gerald R. Gems, Linda J. Borish and Gertrud Pfister, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sp7b2C68xFAC&pg=PA156 ''Sports in American History''] (Human Kinetics, 2008), pp. 156–157.</ref>

	Toner later helped operate the Water Street premises after Burns died in 1870.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1871/01/02/80311385.pdf “The ‘Band-Box’ of the Late Kit Burns”], ''The New York Times'', January 2, 1871.</ref> ~~No reliable source reviewed identifies him as a member of~~ the [[Dead Rabbits]]~~; his connection~~ is ~~to Burns and the wider New York~~ underworld.		Toner later helped operate the Water Street premises after Burns died in 1870.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1871/01/02/80311385.pdf “The ‘Band-Box’ of the Late Kit Burns”], ''The New York Times'', January 2, 1871.</ref> His connection to the [[Dead Rabbits]] is through later underworld histories; formal membership has not been established.

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{{SHORTDESC:19th-century New York underworld performer}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name = Jack the Rat
| image = A Dog Fight at Kit Burns.jpg
| caption = A dog fight at Kit Burns's Sportsmen's Hall in 1868; no authenticated portrait of Toner is known
| birth_name = Richard Toner
| other_names = Dick the Rat; Jack
| occupation = Saloon worker and underworld performer
| criminal_status = Later fate unknown
}}
'''Richard Toner''', known as '''Jack the Rat''' or '''Dick the Rat''', was a 19th-century New York underworld figure and the son-in-law of saloon keeper Kit Burns. Accounts of Burns's Sportsmen's Hall say Toner performed for customers by biting the heads from mice and rats.<ref>Michael Batterberry, ''On the Town in New York'' (Routledge, 1998), p. 104.</ref><ref>Gerald R. Gems, Linda J. Borish and Gertrud Pfister, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sp7b2C68xFAC&pg=PA156 ''Sports in American History''] (Human Kinetics, 2008), pp. 156–157.</ref>

Toner later helped operate the Water Street premises after Burns died in 1870.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1871/01/02/80311385.pdf “The ‘Band-Box’ of the Late Kit Burns”], ''The New York Times'', January 2, 1871.</ref> No reliable source reviewed identifies him as a member of the [[Dead Rabbits]]; his connection is to Burns and the wider New York underworld.

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