All four members of the London Burker gang were arrested while still awaiting payment.

"You tried, you bloody burker," shouts Robert, supporting the weak-kneed hero.

The constables came, and the crowd grew hotter, smashing the windows, hurling stones and screaming, Burker!

"They won't let you go, Bob," yells the woman who called Dr. Clanny a burker, "because they're using this cholera as just another excuse to hack up our loved ones!"