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- Q5642252 subject Q7213808.
- Q5642252 subject Q8137746.
- Q5642252 subject Q8137936.
- Q5642252 subject Q8504116.
- Q5642252 abstract "The Halifax Slasher was the supposed attacker in an incident of mass hysteria that occurred in the town of Halifax, England, in November 1938 following a series of reported attacks on local people, mostly women.The week-long scare began after Mary Gledhill and Gertrude Watts claimed to have been attacked by a mysterious man with a mallet and "bright buckles" on his shoes. Five days later, Mary Sutcliffe reported an attack on herself. Reports of attacks by a 'mysterious man' with a knife or a razor continued, and the nickname "the Halifax Slasher" stuck. The situation became so serious the Scotland Yard was called in to assist the Halifax police. Vigilante groups were set up on the streets, and several people, mistakenly assumed to have been the attacker, were beaten up; business in the town was all but shut down. Rewards for the capture of the attacker were promised; reports came of more attacks in nearby cities.In the evening of November 29, Percy Waddington, who had reported an attack, admitted that he had inflicted the damage upon himself. Others soon made similar admissions, and the Scotland Yard investigation concluded there were no "Slasher" attacks. Five local people were subsequently charged with public mischief offences and four were sent to prison.On 2 December, the Halifax Courier ran this story: Carry on Halifax! The Slasher scare is over... The theory that a half-crazed, wild-eyed man has been wandering around, attacking helpless women in dark streets, is exploded... There never was, nor is there likely to be, any real danger to the general public. There is no doubt that following certain happenings public feeling has grown, and that many small incidents have been magnified in the public mind until a real state of alarm was caused. This assurance that there is no real cause for alarm, in short, no properly authenticated wholesale attacks by such a person as the bogy man known as the 'Slasher', should allay the public fear...".
- Q5642252 thumbnail Halifax020805.jpg?width=300.
- Q5642252 wikiPageExternalLink Slasher.
- Q5642252 wikiPageExternalLink the-halifax-slasher.html.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q184619.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q3202271.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q6670598.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q7213808.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q8137746.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q8137936.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q826561.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q84.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q847836.
- Q5642252 wikiPageWikiLink Q8504116.
- Q5642252 comment "The Halifax Slasher was the supposed attacker in an incident of mass hysteria that occurred in the town of Halifax, England, in November 1938 following a series of reported attacks on local people, mostly women.The week-long scare began after Mary Gledhill and Gertrude Watts claimed to have been attacked by a mysterious man with a mallet and "bright buckles" on his shoes. Five days later, Mary Sutcliffe reported an attack on herself.".
- Q5642252 label "Halifax Slasher".
- Q5642252 depiction Halifax020805.jpg.