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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2786
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Friday, August 01, 2003 - 11:50 am: |       |
The first nine (of sixteen) chapters of The Lighter Side of My Official Life (1910) can now be found on the Casebook at:
http://casebook.org/ripper_media/rps.lighterside.html
The remaining chapters will be placed online shortly. Chapters 8 and 9 are probably of most interest to the Ripper-minded reader.
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2788
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 9:27 am: | |
The remaining seven chapters (and appendix) of The Lighter Side of My Official Life are now on the Casebook at:
http://casebook.org/ripper_media/rps.lighterside.html
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Martin Fido
Detective Sergeant
Username: Fido
Post Number: 108
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 9:37 am: | |
I would scan in for comparison page 358 from Blackwood's Magazine, March 1910, which contains the significant differences in Anderson's original draft (Ch VI of the serialized memoirs). Unfortunately I have scanner problems. Suffice it to say there is clear evidence that Anderson's revisions react to criticism for some supposed AntiSemitism - replacing the generalising "low-class Jews" with "certain low-class Polish Jews", for example, and adding the final apologia about referring solely to the man's ethnic extraction and not his religion. But more importantly from our point of view, Anderson places the ID in time, and possibly inferentially in place, by saying it took place "when the individual whom we suspected was caged in an asylum". And his original recollection was that the witness declined "to swear to him" rather than "to give evidence against him". [The former goes no further than indicating refusal to give an affidavit - and might even mean simply that the started to express doubts about his initial identification. The latter would imply consciously saying he would not appear in court, but then leaves open the question why he couldn't be subpoenaed, not to mention the problem of charging some one caged in an asylum, and thus ipso facto unfit to plead.]
All the best,
Martin F |
Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2789
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 9:42 am: | |
Hi Martin -
If you are able to post me photocopies of the relevant pages I'd be happy to scan them and offer them on the Casebook for comparison. My address is PO BOX 3593, Warrenton, VA 20188, USA.
Thanks!
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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