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[Howard Brown]

Mike:

The Evening World article didn't mention this circulatory system presentation, nor did Joe Chetcuti in the post David Orsam provided.

If it was a demonstration of a circulatory system, then the red fluid would have represented blood.

[Robert]

From Joe.







THE TELEGRAPH-HERALD

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

DECEMBER 24, 1888

PAGE 1, COLUMN 4




DR. TUMBLETY




A Grand Rapids Man Who Knows the Fellow Quite Well.




Dr. Tumblety, the man who was suspected of being "Jack the Ripper," is an American, and quite well known to many people. J.W. Holcomb knew him quite well in Toronto, in 1857, where he led quite an eccentric life, and was observed by everybody on account of his queer appearance and ways. He was then doing a quack medicine business. About three years later he came across the Doctor in Brooklyn, where he was doing the same kind of business, and was followed about the streets by droves of dogs.










THE RIVER PRESS

FORT BENTON, MONTANA

DECEMBER 26, 1888

PAGE 4, COLUMN 1




Dr. Tumblety, the supposed Whitechapel murderer, is still in New York, and is being shadowed by the police, yet the Whitechapel murders have not ceased. It looks as though the detectives are on the wrong scent.







(I'm currently trying to obtain these four other newspaper articles about Tumblety.)







DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE

DECEMBER 8, 1888

PAGE 4, COLUMN 2







TYRONE DAILY HERALD (PENNSYLVANIA)

DECEMBER 4, 1888

PAGE 4







FREEPORT JOURNAL STANDARD (ILLINOIS)

DECEMBER 4, 1888

PAGE 1, COLUMN 7







THE DECATUR HERALD (ILLINOIS)

JANUARY 6, 1889

PAGE 2, COLUMN 2

[mklhawley]

Hi all, Here's another:

Tim Riordan wrote in his book that Tumblety took the steamer Nebraska out of New York on July 14, 1869 and the ship arrived in Queenstown on July 23rd.


THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL
JULY 31, 1869
PAGE 3, Column 4

The following are amongst the latest Arrivals at the Shelbourne Hotel.

(More than two dozen names were listed, including F. Tumblety, Esq.)

Sincerely,
Mike

[Scott Nelson]

From Joe.

Here is an article that expressed Tumblety's opinion of the London police.


CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

JANUARY 29, 1889

PAGE 1, COLUMN 3


TUMBLETY'S TWADDLE

Arrested as the Whitechapel Murderer Because He Wore a Slouch Hat.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

NEW YORK. January 28. -- Dr. Francis Tumblety, after two months' silence, has spoken. Since he arrived on the 3rd (sic) of December he has been living at No. 79 East Ninth (sic) street, this city, where he kept under cover. He said to-day: "For twenty years I have been a regular voyager across the Atlantic. I go about London a great deal and am familiar with every foot of it. In company with thousands of others I inspected Whitechapel. The London police, who it might be incidently remarked are uniformed jackasses, think that all Americans wear slouch hats, and because I happened to wear one and was an American, and because some unknown American doctor was suspected, I was arrested, and for no other reason."

"It is said you are a woman-hater?"

The doctor laughed and said: "I don't care to talk about the ladies."

[Scott Nelson]

From Joe.

The Jtrforums recently posted a news clip from the Dec 24, 1875 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle. It reported that Tumblety complained about his name being spelled wrong in that newspaper. I remember Tumblety's name being spelled wrong in the Chronicle on a couple of occasions, but I didn't know that he protested about it. These old newspaper clippings have been in my file for years:

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

DECEMBER 21, 1875

PAGE 4, COLUMN 1


OVERLAND TRAVEL.

The following passengers will arrive in this city to-night:

(One of the passengers listed was Dr. Tingblety, New York.)


SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

DECEMBER 23, 1875

PAGE 4, COLUMN 2


HOTEL ARRIVALS.

PALACE HOTEL

(Listed as one of the hotel guests was Dr. Tumbletz, New York.)


SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

DECEMBER 24, 1875

PAGE 8, COLUMN 6


(The Palace Hotel had listed Dr. Tumblety once again as one of its guests. His name was spelled correctly this time.)

[David Orsam]

The next three articles from Joe came from newspapers in Great Britain.


Dundee Evening Telegraph

Angus, Scotland

June 27, 1903

Page 5

DOCTOR WHO HATED WOMEN

The New York correspondent of the "Mail" writes: --

Dr. Francis J. Tumblety who was arrested in London during the time of the Whitechapel murders because of his hatred of women and was exonerated, and who died recently in a charity hospital in St. Louis, has left an estate worth £27,500. About £22,500 will be distributed among his relatives in Liverpool and America.

[David Orsam]

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
Kent, England
July 4, 1903
Page 2

Dr. Francis Tumblety died recently in the Charity Hospital at St. Louis. A remarkable incident in his career was his arrest on the suspicion that he was "Jack the Ripper." On another occasion he was accused of complicity in a plot to infest the North with yellow fever during the Civil War. Dr. Tumblety left a fortune of over £27,000.


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Western Mail
South Glamorgan, Wales
November 20, 1890
Page 5

A "JACK THE RIPPER" SUSPECTED

WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY

Dr. Francis Tumblety who was at one time suspected of being "Jack the Ripper," has been committed to gaol as a suspicious character. Many valuables were found on him at the time of his arrest.

(Tumblety was arrested and briefly detained. His case was dismissed the next day due to a lack of evidence. - Joe)

[Robert]

From Joe.




Back on Post #25 of this Casebook thread, I listed a bunch of newspaper stories that pertained to the fight over Tumblety's estate. Among them were articles from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. As it turned out, the final five articles that I had listed for that Rochester newspaper were recently posted:

http://jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=26248

The most interesting of the five posted articles was the one on June 27, 1905. It reported that Tumblety had a premonition of his death while at St. John's Hospital. He called for a Catholic priest and asked if the clergyman would make out his will.




Another point that the June 27th article spoke about was that the physicians, nuns, clergyman, and the banker Henry Clewes, all seemed to be in agreement that Tumblety was of sound mind when he made out his will.

[Scott Nelson]

from Joe:

Birmingham Daily Post
August 16, 1875

GOOD NEWS FOR THE AFFLICTED

The great American Doctor from British America has arrived, and can be consulted at 50 Union Passage, Birmingham.* The doctor will describe disease and tell persons the nature of their complaints or illness, without receiving any information from them.* No charge for consultation or advice.

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(Tumblety had a similar advertisement printed in the August 14th issue of that same newspaper.* The Aug 14th ad included Tumblety's poem and a plug for his Pimple Banisher. -* Joe)

[Scott Nelson]

From Joe:

Tumblety sent letters from his residence at 50 Union Passage, Birmingham during Aug 1875. But this is the first time we've seen him open for business in that city. Tumblety left England on Sept 1, 1875 so he practiced medicine very briefly in Birmingham.

Earlier in 1875, he was run out of town in Liverpool. The owner of the Liverpool Leader, a man named Frederick Richardson, waged a campaign in his newspaper to drive Tumblety out of there. That last time Richardson published a lengthy derogatory column about Tumblety was in April 1875.

Then on Aug 14, 1875 Tumblety wrote a vicious diatribe against Richardson, and he called the newspaper owner the Champion Black Mailer of England. Things had been quiet since April, then out of the blue, Tumblety tore into Richardson in mid-August.

One possible scenario was that a journalist at the Birmingham Daily Post informed Richardson that Tumblety was attempting to start a quack business in Birmingham and that he had paid for ads in the local newspaper. Richardson could have reacted to that news by contacting Tumblety, and this communication was viewed as blackmail by Tumblety. Just a thought.

[David Orsam]

From Joe.

I'm sorry for the computer glitch on Post 39. Four individual asterisks popped up during that post when they weren't supposed to !! Anyway, let's march on.

The New York World distributed a lengthy article in the autumn of 1890 that sympathized with people who were arrested as criminals when they shouldn't have been. During that time period, the periodical took pride in its title as the "Attorney for the People." Starting in January 1889, the newspaper decided to show Tumblety in a favorable manner. Here is an excerpt from the autumn 1890 article. It had been telegraphed to Cincinnati.


THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 1890

PAGE 11

DO NOT HAVE A DOUBLE.

Where Alibis Have Been Useful.

Better to Look Like a Horse Than Like a Criminal.

(NEW YORK WORLD)


...Dr. Francis Tumblety, of this city, had the misfortune to be accused and arrested by the astute London police for the still undiscovered Whitechapel tragedies. The doctor looked like some one else who was believed to be the man who carved up so many unfortunate women.

[Robert]

This is from Joe. After clicking into the web link below, you'll find that Post One tells of a lawsuit that Tumblety brought against a New Jersey bank.

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=26166

With the help of the New Jersey State Archives, I was able to obtain some paperwork on this case. The old documents are tough to read, but it looks like Tumblety did some kind of financial business with the "Provident Institution for Savings in Jersey City" on Feb 6, 1869. Then over two years later (on May 15, 1871) Tumblety had his attorney initiate the process of serving a summons to that bank through the court system and the Sheriff of Hudson County, NJ. The summons ordered the bank to "appear before the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, to be held at Trenton on May 23, 1871."




Tumblety claimed that the bank owed him $9,000 as a result of the business dealing that had transpired back in Feb 1869. The bank was "summoned to answer unto Francis Tumblety in a plea of trespass on the case upon promises to his damage (of) Nine thousand dollars..." The attorney for the bank showed up at the court on May 23rd. Apparently, the case was delayed and eventually rescheduled for Oct 3, 1871.




Nothing was found in the archives that provided us with a verdict and there wasn't anything that showed that the case was even heard. But we found a letter dated Sept 7, 1871 which was addressed to the "State of New Jersey Supreme Court of Hudson County" and it was written by a Master in Chancery. The court official wrote of his belief that the bank had a "just defense". I think this simply was an oddball lawsuit initiated by Tumblety that went nowhere.

[Scott Nelson]

Here are a couple of newspaper articles from Joe.


The Buffalo Daily Republic
Friday February 25, 1859
Page 3

ANOTHER OFFER - Dr. TUMBLETY publishes a card in the Express offering to give twenty barrels of flour to the poor, once in every two weeks, if another person will do likewise. Here is an opportunity for some one to come forward and ensure those who are praying "Give us day by day our daily bread," a considerable supply of food. We notice that the Commercial speaks of the Doctor's distribution of flour on Tuesday, as a "beggarly advertising dodge," and a "miserable ostentation of charity." It strike us, these terms are too harsh and altogether uncalled for. Whether the Doctor sells good medicine and good advice, or not, has nothing to do with the fact that he gave the poor good flour, which they needed . Four hundred persons received ten pounds of flour each, and it was distributed by Mr. SHORT, a gentleman who has the opportunity to know those who are really suffering. That Dr. TUMBLETY may expect to gain some pecuniary advantage by his liberality, is hardly sufficient reason for speaking contemptuously of his good deeds.- Courier.


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Evening Star (Washington D.C.)
December 4, 1888
Page 4

If the police are really "shadowing" Dr. Tumblety in New York, they are taking a very certain way of letting him know it by publishing the fact in the newspapers.

[Pcdunn]

Especially if Tumblety kept a clippings book on himself-- as an egotist might do.

[David Orsam]

This is from Joe.


THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE
FEBRUARY 27, 1890
PAGE 2

A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR

That Strange Individual, Dr. Tumblety, Visiting Hot Springs.

His Appearance in a Store Causes a Stampede Among the Salesladies

Interesting Gossip From the Valley of Vapors

Special to The Arkansas Gazette

Hot Springs, Ark., Feb 26. -* That very mysterious cosmopolitan, known as Dr. Tumblety, whose name was last year promiscuously coupled with the strange London White Chapel (sic) tragedy laid to the charge of the unknown "Jack, the Ripper," is now in the valley.* He has for years been a periodical visitor to Hot Springs, and quite many people know him well.

A rather ludicrous incident occurred here yesterday evening in which he unintentionally figured.* Stepping into a well known business on Central avenue in which several young lady employees were alone at the moment, he asked for a young man whom he had known on his former visit.* The ladies did not know the doctor, but when he introduced himself as Dr. Tumblety, the fact flashed across their minds that he was the individual supposed to be "Jack, the Ripper," and for a few seconds there was a stampede to corners, behind counters, dress forms and other places which offered the least bit of protection.* The opportune entrance of a well-known citizen at this "critical" moment relieved the ladies of their terror and Dr. Tumblety of his embarrassment.


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THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE
MARCH 6, 1890
PAGE 5


Dr. Francis Tumblety.

(Hot Springs News.)

A few days ago the News published a little piece about an alleged laughable occurence in a certain store in this city, which was related to a News reporter as being a fact, and in connection with which the name Dr. Tumblety was used.* The News published it as a joke, not thinking that it would wound the feelings of any one.* The doctor, however, felt a little embarrassed and felt like the publication reflected upon him, so he desires the News to publish the following:

We, the undersigned, citizens of Hot Springs, Ark., being personally acquainted with Dr. Francis Tumblety, do hereby certify that he is a gentleman and entitled to the respect and confidence of the public:

(A couple of dozen names were listed by Tumblety, including that of the Mayor.* Tumblety didn't deny that the odd story happened in the clothing store, but the newspaper implied that the matter wasn't serious.)*