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Arthur Conan Doyle JTR?
Yes i know this sounds like a crazy idea like the possibility that Lewis Caroll or Walter Sickert was JTR but look at the possibilites. He is in the right time frame for a start, He wouldn't be out of place in an identity parade of JTR's witnessed at the time. (take a look at his photo, Wikipedia)
He qualified as a physician and worked for some time on a whaling boat as ships surgeon, where it was noted that "He took a sadistic pleasure" in the cruelty of the whaling industry, enjoyed the sight of the blood & whales being cut up.
When he completed his doctorate it was in Edinburgh 1885 specialising in the medical condition called tabes dorsalis sometimes called locomotor ataxia which is usually caused by syphilis in its third stage & worse stage by attacking the spinal cords.
While in scotland Banardo another JTR suspect was also studying at the university of Edinburgh for his medical degree. They could have quite easily been known to each other, and may have worked together for a while at the London hospital Whitechapel.
They would have both been used to the numerous passageways and tunnels that are like a warren under the Scottish city, similar to tunnels in London that could act as good escape routes, like the one for example under the Hoop & grapes pub in the East End where a tunnel allegedly goes to the Tower of London (it is bricked up now)
Also interesting is the fact that although brought up & educated at a Roman Catholic Jesuit school he became a freemason later in life.
All this and the fact that he had a brilliant mind and could write crime thrillers so adeptly that for alot of people Sherlock Holmes became a real life detective. His knowledge of victorian london and its underworld came to life in his books.
Oddly he never let Holmes try to crack the Jack case although news of it was all around him at the time
Of course all this is hypothesis and there is so little of him mentioned anywhere in JTR lore. Perhaps someone else has more info i could look up?
the red dahlia x
He qualified as a physician and worked for some time on a whaling boat as ships surgeon, where it was noted that "He took a sadistic pleasure" in the cruelty of the whaling industry, enjoyed the sight of the blood & whales being cut up.
When he completed his doctorate it was in Edinburgh 1885 specialising in the medical condition called tabes dorsalis sometimes called locomotor ataxia which is usually caused by syphilis in its third stage & worse stage by attacking the spinal cords.
While in scotland Banardo another JTR suspect was also studying at the university of Edinburgh for his medical degree. They could have quite easily been known to each other, and may have worked together for a while at the London hospital Whitechapel.
They would have both been used to the numerous passageways and tunnels that are like a warren under the Scottish city, similar to tunnels in London that could act as good escape routes, like the one for example under the Hoop & grapes pub in the East End where a tunnel allegedly goes to the Tower of London (it is bricked up now)
Also interesting is the fact that although brought up & educated at a Roman Catholic Jesuit school he became a freemason later in life.
All this and the fact that he had a brilliant mind and could write crime thrillers so adeptly that for alot of people Sherlock Holmes became a real life detective. His knowledge of victorian london and its underworld came to life in his books.
Oddly he never let Holmes try to crack the Jack case although news of it was all around him at the time
Of course all this is hypothesis and there is so little of him mentioned anywhere in JTR lore. Perhaps someone else has more info i could look up?
the red dahlia x
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