A bone snuff box confiscated from the serial killer and grave-robber William Burke before he was hanged in 1829 has fetched more than £2500 at auction in the city where he murdered at least 16 people.

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AT an auction the other day, in Paris, a small Louis XVI snuff-box, without jewels, but enriched with miniature landscapes by Van Blarenbergh, fetched the large sum of ten thousand dollars. No ...