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William Burke
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Believed to have died in England under an assumed name. From Burke's method of killing his victims has come the verb "to burke," meaning to suffocate, strangle or suppress secretly, or to kill with the object of selling the body for the purposes of dissection.
See George Macgregor, History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (Glasgow, 1884).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'William Burke'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/w/william-burke.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'William Burke'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/w/william-burke.html. 1910.
