Aidan Bourke
Black Dog | |
|---|---|
 An unidentified Dead Rabbit in an 1857 newspaper illustration; this is not a portrait of Black Dog | |
| Other name | Black Dog |
| Occupation | Gang member (alleged) |
Criminal status | Historical identity unverified |
| Allegiance | Dead Rabbits (unverified) |
Black Dog is a nickname attributed in some modern retellings to a member of the Dead Rabbits. No contemporary identity, biographical details, or authenticated portrait have been established.
Neither Herbert Asbury's detailed popular account nor Tyler Anbinder's modern reconstruction identifies a Dead Rabbits member by this name. The attribution is therefore retained only as an unverified part of later gang lore, not as a documented biography.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), chapter 1.
- ↑ Tyler Anbinder, Five Points (Free Press, 2001), pp. 353–354.