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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3011
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 8:40 am: |       |
The complete text of Chapter 3 of Doctor In the Nineties (1959), entitled "Jack the Ripper" is now available on the Casebook at:
http://casebook.org/ripper_media/rps.halsted.html
Halsted was a doctor in Whitechapel at the time of the murders, and he describes in vivid detail his memories of the crimes, as well as of the general suspicions against medical men at the time. He believes the Ripper to have been a syphilitic, possibly a seaman.
(Message edited by admin on March 04, 2004)
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
Casebook: Jack the Ripper |
Christopher T George
Chief Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 651
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 2:10 pm: | |
Hi, Stephen:
Good work putting this material on the Casebook. As you may know, I have written about Halsted for Ripperologist, I believe back in 1998, one of my first articles in the magazine where I now serve as North American editor. N. P. Warren has looked further into Halsted's career and shown that Halsted was not a fully fledged doctor at the time of the Ripper murders but rather a resident or intern.
One other thing, although the main part of Halsted's discussion of the Ripper murders and being in Whitechapel at the time of the crimes is contained in the chapter you have put on Casebook, I think you will find that there are a couple of paragraphs in the following chapter. Therein he talks about going to work as a doctor with the North Sea fleet and talks I think a bit more about his theory about the Ripper expressed in the prior chapter that "I believe that after the last murder in November he joined the North Sea fishing fleet, where he was well out of the reach of the Law, and his presence would pass almost unnoticed among the scum of humanity who were to be found on those ships."
All the best
Chris |
Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3015
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 2:46 pm: | |
Hi Chris:
As Halsted was only 22/23 in 1888, it would not surprise me for him to have been more of an intern than a full-fledged doctor. Here is a photo of Halsted in the 1880s:
And here is the additional text from the following chapter, detailing Halsted's suspicions that the Ripper was a North Sea fisherman:
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
Casebook: Jack the Ripper |
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