More Newspaper Articles

[Mayerling]

From Joe.

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=26102

I'm glad these articles that I've located can now be shared with everyone. You'll notice in the Dec 10, 1888 New Orleans Daily Picayune that it was reported that a London detective was on the dock in New York waiting for the La Bretagne to arrive.

A few days ago, I informed Howard Brown of the whereabouts of a handful of "Tumblety newspaper articles." These articles had not been seen before. They are now being displayed on this thread:

An interesting set of articles on the JTRForum website. Thanks for sharing.

Despite the overwritten news essay by Vidette, his account is faulty about the Bidwells. They and their two confederates (one had the name George MacDonald) were not as vastly successful as stealing one million pounds from the Bank of England in 1872-73. They did well though, given the value of a pound in that period. They looted the Bank of about a quarter of a million pounds, so in American dollars they made about one million. Not a bad job - except they were caught. A book on the story was written back in 1969 (and finally published in paperback about 1983) called "Four Against the Bank of England" by Ann Huxley. They set up dummy companies using some of the money they made in earlier swindles, who passed amounts back and forth between branches of the Bank of England, and then used pretty good forged documents looking like Bank of England paper to create new transactions at the expense of the Bank. Oddly enough they almost got away with it in time - one paper had been left unused and the least involved member of the conspiracy presented it to the main Bank branch, but it failed to include an all important signature on it (that usually was on the financial papers that passed muster). In double checking the note to see if it could still be accepted, the Bank clerk discovered that no basis for granting the paper for payment existed, and the fourth man was seized. This led to the unravelling of the scheme. Both Bidwells eventually were released and (I believe) a "reformed" George Bidwell wrote his autobiography, with the "modest" title of "Forging My Own Chains!".

In the lesser "Famous Trials Series" (unlike the more detailed and scholarly "Notable British Trials Series" there is a volume, "The Bank of England Forgeries". Ironically, at one point, George Bidwell almost went to New York City from England on board the White Star liner "RMS Atlantic", but due to police activity near the boat changed his mind. He was lucky - the "Atlantic" hit a rock off Nova Scotia on the voyage home, and sank with the loss of over 500 passengers. [There is something about "White Star" liners....]

I've got to double check this Mrs. McNamara of 70 East 10th Street. Maybe in some old New York City directory she is listed. Also Ralston of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly", a popular weekly paper of the day - he would not accept Doc. T's challenge to a duel, but he was willing to have a serious fight in a hotel with him. Figure that one out!

We know Det. Inspector Thomas ("The Ripper will be caught by me if he turns up in New York City) Byrnes, a strange mixture of the brutal, the corrupt, and the brilliant in American police history (creator of the "Rogue's Gallery, to his credit, and forced into early retirement due to revelations from the Lexow Committee investigation in 1894, to his discredit). Det. Pryor of the 5th Avenue Hotel is a mystery. Was he a moonlighting police detective from the city now working as the house detective in the hotel (which it sounds likely)? He certainly was award of Tumblety's presence in the hotel.

Bidwell's list of notable figures who signed the petitions includes some names that are still famous, and some forgotten. Their motivations might be noted:

1) John Bright - Famous as a leading spokesperson (with Richard Cobden) for "Free Trade" around the globe (which makes his name with arch protectionist Joseph Chamberlain on the petition seem weird - but the subject is not trade). Bright was also interested in prisons and penology (he was an early vocal opponent to the death penalty), so he would be interested in early release of some criminals. He also was very friendly towards to the U.S. (given his "Free Trade" ideas, this seems natural). It was learned in the last century that during the American Civil War Bright frequently praised the North and President Abraham Lincoln, and that Lincoln kept a newspaper clipping of a speech Bright gave praising the President in his wallet - it was still in his wallet the night Lincoln went to Ford's Theatre.

2) Lord Randolph Churchill - Possibly he signed the petition in the interest of Anglo-American friendship, and possibly due to his wife being Jennie Jerome Churchill, daughter of the New York stock wheeler dealer Leonard Jerome. It should also be recalled that his two sons Winston and Jack were half-American.

3) Joseph Chamberlain - the master political party wrecker of his days (first Gladstone's Liberals in 1885, then Balfour's Tories in 1905) was (unlike Bright) a staunch protectionist and tariff lover, wishing with his Unionist followers to create a trading zone out of the British empire. However, he was farsighted about the need to have allies in the world. He tried to make friends (as Foreign Secretary) with Wilhelmine Germany in 1899 and 1901, but his attempts at a logical alliance between the countries failed because the Germans felt he was coming to them from a position of weakness (which he wasn't) and they felt he'd give up valuable colonies to them for their alliance (which he wouldn't). On the other hand he married an American woman (one of his sons - I think it was Nevil - was half American). However,
as Foreign Secretary he made sure that Britain supported the U.S. in the Behring Sea seal controversy of 1899-1900. This is a little surprising as he should have been supporting the Laurier government in Canada! They were the other party at the arbitration, who were somewhat shocked to see the British backstab their claims. However the U.S. appreciated the gesture (why wouldn't we?) and relations improved. No doubt Chamberlain had a long standing belief in hands across the sea, and signing the clemency petition was part of it.

4) Harriet Beecher Stowe - the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was active in several reform movements, including penal reform.

5) Secretary of State Thomas Bayard of Delaware - it was usual for the Secretary of State to get involved in matters of criminal release or lessoning of punishment for Americans abroad. In 1881 then Secretary of State James G. Blaine got the execution of Dr. George Henry Lamson for the poisoning of his brother-in-law delayed to have certain proofs of family insanity in Lamson's own family sent to England - although it did not eventually prevent Lamson from being hanged. Blaine (again Secretary of State in 1889 - 1892) help prevent the execution of Florence Maybrick for killing her husband Jack...err James Maybrick, and getting the sentence reduced to life imprisonment). Bayard's involvement with the Bidwell's was just typical for this activity.

6) General Russell Alger - a major Republican figure (and Governor) of Michigan, Alger would be a Presidential contender in 1892 and 1896. Eventually he was the Secretary of War for President William McKinley at the time of the Cuban-Spanish-American War of 1898. Alger's career hit a bad bump as a result of his being Secretary of War in that war. There was a major scandal (involving some deaths) in the war dealing with canned meat rations that were not properly canned, and were tainted as a result. Alger was forced to resign. As the Bidwells were from New England there was no reason (regionally speaking) for Alger to take any interest. One gets the impression that he signed the petition to help his Presidential dreams.

Jeff

Post Script:

Using Wikipedia I can add two more identified names here.

1) Governor Gray of Indiana - he was Governor Isaac P. Gray of Indiana (he is both 18th and 20th Governors, as he served to non-consecutive terms - at the time you could not serve consecutive terms). He lived from 1828 to 1895. Gray had been a Civil War veteran, and would have big difficulties getting his programs of reforms through the state legislature in his first term. In fact he would get the nickname "the Sisyphus of the Wabash". He'd be appointed our Minister to Mexico in the 1890s, and would die there in 1895, getting a military escort for his body from the Mexican government handing it over to the U.S., as well as the lowering of all Mexican flags in his honor.

2) John C. New (1831 - 1906). New had distinguished himself as the Treasurer of the United States in President Ulysses Grant's second administration (1875 - 76). In the Arthur Administration he became the first "Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1882 - 1885). In 1889 he was appointed our Consul General to London by the Benjamin Harrison Administration. Probably this was why his signature is on the petition for the release of George Bidwell, and through his connection to fellow Indianan Gray it explains his signature as well.

Interesting final point - the article mentions that two New York Detectives and a London Detective in New York were on the pier that Tumblety's ship docked at, and followed him home, but THEIR NAMES ARE NOT GIVEN. Interesting isn't it?

Jeff

[mklhawley]

From Joe,


Thank you for your last post, Jeff. I will need to print that out and study it tonight. As for your last sentence, the NY World identified "Crowley and Hickey" as the two NY cops who were at the dock waiting for the La Bretagne. They were said to have been the two best men working under Inspector Byrnes at that time.


Ok, here comes another newly found clipping:


NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
MARCH 23, 1863
PAGE 3, COLUMN ONE


From the Washington Morning Chronicle.


DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL -- Among the arrivals distinguished personages we note DR. TUMBLETY, who has returned from Frederick to practice his profession in his old quarters, Washington Buildings, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street, room 11. We bespeak for him an extensive practice. (Some testimonials from Frederick, Maryland were displayed next.)


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After the shooting stopped at the Battle of Antietam on Sept 17, 1862, Tumblety left Washington D.C. and set up shop in Frederick. The city wasn't far from the battle site. Tumblety stayed there through February 1863. Tim Riordan wrote in his book, "Huge numbers of wounded from both sides were housed in temporary hospitals around Frederick. Many of them were ambulatory and easy pickings for Tumblety."


Tumblety saw to it that the local newspapers heralded his return to Washington in March 1863. Announcements trumpeting his arrival, like the one seen here above in the National Republican, had appeared in Washington as early as March 2, 1863.


But who won the Battle of Antietam? I've heard some historians call the battle a "draw" but I think Jeff will have none of that!! If I had to bet, I'd place my money on Jeff saying it was a victory for the South.


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I found something unexpected. A brief reference to Dr. Tumblety's Pimple Banisher in a 1962 newspaper. But such a reference did indeed exist in The Kane Republic (Pennsylvania) in the Aug 9, 1962 issue on page 7. That same article appeared on Christmas Day 1962 in The Cumberland News.


Sincerely,
Mike

[Mayerling]

From Joe,


Thank you for your last post, Jeff. I will need to print that out and study it tonight. As for your last sentence, the NY World identified "Crowley and Hickey" as the two NY cops who were at the dock waiting for the La Bretagne. They were said to have been the two best men working under Inspector Byrnes at that time.


Ok, here comes another newly found clipping:


NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
MARCH 23, 1863
PAGE 3, COLUMN ONE


From the Washington Morning Chronicle.


DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL -- Among the arrivals distinguished personages we note DR. TUMBLETY, who has returned from Frederick to practice his profession in his old quarters, Washington Buildings, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street, room 11. We bespeak for him an extensive practice. (Some testimonials from Frederick, Maryland were displayed next.)


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After the shooting stopped at the Battle of Antietam on Sept 17, 1862, Tumblety left Washington D.C. and set up shop in Frederick. The city wasn't far from the battle site. Tumblety stayed there through February 1863. Tim Riordan wrote in his book, "Huge numbers of wounded from both sides were housed in temporary hospitals around Frederick. Many of them were ambulatory and easy pickings for Tumblety."


Tumblety saw to it that the local newspapers heralded his return to Washington in March 1863. Announcements trumpeting his arrival, like the one seen here above in the National Republican, had appeared in Washington as early as March 2, 1863.


But who won the Battle of Antietam? I've heard some historians call the battle a "draw" but I think Jeff will have none of that!! If I had to bet, I'd place my money on Jeff saying it was a victory for the South.


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I found something unexpected. A brief reference to Dr. Tumblety's Pimple Banisher in a 1962 newspaper. But such a reference did indeed exist in The Kane Republic (Pennsylvania) in the Aug 9, 1962 issue on page 7. That same article appeared on Christmas Day 1962 in The Cumberland News.


Sincerely,
Mike

Hi Mike,

Let's give a fair assessment of the bloodiest day of the American Civil War: September 22, 1862. The battle is known as "Antietam Creek" to the North, and as "Sharpsburg" to the South, but history books tend to treat it as "Antietam".

It should have been a Northern victory in total. General McClellan had been removed from command of most of his army in late July to early August 1862 by Secretary of War Stanton with the approval of President Lincoln, to support the creation of a force, "the Army of Northern Virginia" under General John Pope. Pope had been in the western battlefields on the Mississippi near Tennessee, and was credited with several victories there, most notably "Island No. 10", a combined army and naval victory against a fortified Confederal island in the Mississippi River, which was actually less won by Pope than he pretended. The real victor was his naval counterpart, Commodore (late Admiral) Andrew Foote, using his fleet of ironclads to pound the island defenses before Pope took over with his troops. But at that stage of the was (April-May-June 1862) things were pretty bleak in the East, with the seeming failure of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battle which revealed the brilliance of General Robert E. Lee. However at that moment the best western general (Grant, of course) was in a cloud because of how he was surprised by the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing, and only won by a narrow piece of luck (the arrival of fresh troops from Union general Don Carlos Buell in Kentucky). Pope looked more promising, and the new Commander-in-Chief (Henry Wager Halleck) sent for him.

It was a disaster. Scatterbrained and self-important, Pope managed to antagonize the Union army that was stolen for him from McClellan. He lectured the Union troops that where he was from his men always advanced, and never retreated before an enemy. He also signed his memorandums and proclamation, "General John Pope, headquarters in the saddle". After the final mess he made, Lincoln's comment was, "The problem with John Pope is his headquarters are where his hindquarters should be". In a series of blunders Pope lost the battles of Chantilly and then Second Bull Run/Manassas Junction, to Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Pope counted on his being pro-abolitionist, and hoped the Radical Republicans would save him. They did, by getting Lincoln to appoint Pope to another western post - handling the Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1862. Pope managed to defeat the Sioux, barely. He would remain in Minnesota for the rest of the war. Later, he would have his friends in the Army and in the Radical Republican camp crucify McClellan's close friend and associate, Major General Fitz John Porter as responsible for the defeat at 2nd Bull Run/Manassas Junction, and court martial Porter. It was not until the 1880s (in the Chester Arthur administration) that Porter was reinstated in the army and Pope condemned for the defeat.

McClellan had not been exactly at his best either. At one point he got an urgent telegram regarding Pope's predicament and instead of helping suggested Pope should get out of it himself, and McClellan be sent more men to start a new move against Richmond. Lincoln and Stanton were not thrilled by this, and they decided that it would be a waste of time to send McClellan any newly inducted troops. However, they ordered him to bring order to the retreating hoards of Pope's forces. McClellan did this very nicely and quickly (Bruce Catton said that he was at his best at this moment in the war). Then word came that Lee was invading the North. From Lee's point of view it made sense, as most of the eastern battles were in his native Virginia, and to bring war and ruin to the North might make Maryland secede (which it almost did in 1860-61) and force the North to give up Washington and sue for peace. McClellan moved his men (typically slowly) and Lincoln and the government just held their tempers and watched.

Then a piece of luck happened. Jackson was sent by Lee to head for Harper's Ferry and see if he could acquire the weapons and powder there for the Confederacy. He did (as it turned out) and the surrender of 5,000 Northern Troops. But Lee had sent orders to his different junior commanders, including corps commander D. H. Hill. Hill's orders were somehow wrapped around some cigars, and then fell onto the ground. Found by Union troops, they were sent to McClellan. He was jubilant, and said if they were true he had Lee where he wanted him. They were true, but he did not move fast because of his unnatural normal caution, compounded by his being afraid of potential "rear guard" threats from the Radicals, Stanton, and Lincoln in Washington.

Instead of rushing his men by forced marches to corner a weaker General Lee, McClellan moved slowly until he confronted Lee at Antietam Creek. He still was not as good as a field tactician as Lee was, and he sent his larger army in, not en-masse, but by sending in each corps one at a time. This resulted in the carnage that September 22nd, is remembered for, especially in the "Wheat Field" where soldiers had to fight each other amidst huge stalks of wheat. Also a critical point was the bridge over the creek into Sharpsburg, that the Confederate center was located in. Union troops under Major General Ambrose Burnside (for whom the bridge is named today) attacked over the bridge and were repulsed many times, until finally they broke through. However 1) the Creek turned out to really be shallow - they could have crossed in without using the bridge; 2) by the time they cracked Lee's center, Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill (another Confederate General named Hill) arrived finally from Harper's Ferry and reformed the central line. Burnside had to retreat.

There were other points. Lee's firmness as a superior commander to "Little Mac" showed by his being all over the battlefield on that day, while McClellan let his corps commanders keep an eye on things. McClellan also never used an entire corps under Major General William Franklin. Incredibly, it just sat out the battle. Later McClellan claimed he wanted to have readily rested spare troops, but given what was going on this seems a weak excuse.

Lee's army held Sharpsburg, and McClellan's was still facing it (with those added troops of Franklin's). There would be no more fresh troops available for Lee's invasion). Yet (again as a monument to Lee's superiority over McClellan) "Marse Robert" reconnoitered that night with Jackson along the defense perimeter, and looked for any weaknesses he could use against the North. He wanted to re-attack the next day (shows what a military man he was, when you think about it)! Jackson, normally game for further combat, pointed out the men were physically exhausted. So instead, Lee ordered (reluctantly) the retreat of the Confederate Army into Virginia.

Tactically - no question Lee won the battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Strategically, McClellan had forced Lee to leave and so won the battle of Antietam Creek, Maryland. Lee failed to achieve more than the capture of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry and it's troops, and found that (despite their usual pro-South point of view), the citizens of Maryland had been unaffected by war since 1861, and did not like Confederates appropriating animals, crops, and food for the "cause" at their expense. They began to hide such needed items from their formerly admired southern brethren. When the campaign began so hopefully the Rebels were singing "Maryland, My Maryland", which was a definitely anti-North sentiment song [written after a bloody street confrontation with New England troops in Baltimore in April 1861]. By the time the returned, hungry, tired, and hurt from the incursion, the Rebels had changed the song's line to "Maryland, Damn my Maryland!"

In the long run it did not help McClellan's military career. He was gifted but moved too cautiously and did not pick up necessary tactical gifts as fast as he should have (as Grant and Sherman would prove to be able to do). After Jeb Stuart rode around his army on two raids successfully, and after he moved as slowly against the retreating Lee and Jackson in late October 1862 (although he did place his army between their two sections, putting a sixty mile gap between them), Lincoln had enough. In November 1862 McClellan was replaced by Ambrose Burnside as Commander of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan was ordered to his home to await any further orders (he lived in Trenton, New Jersey), and never got any. He would resign from the army in 1864 when he ran as the Democratic Presidential candidate against Lincoln, and lost the election.

Lincoln though had a victory, feeble as it was. He announced in the wake that in the upcoming January there would be a proclamation emancipating the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation would be duly announced on January 1, 1863, although it actually only emancipated ("theoretically") those slaves still in bondage in the South (it did not touch slaves held in the four border states, including Maryland). But Lincoln was always a careful political mover, and politicians always can move like that - far more easily than overly cautious military commanders like "Little Mac".

Jeff

[mklhawley]

Excellent synopsis, Jeff. It was not a coincidence that Dr. T's ads were mail order at the time, because the capital was too hot. He then came back in 1863.

Sincerely,
Mike

[mklhawley]

From Joe.

I printed out Jeff's recent posts and read them over. That man can really bring history back to life. I wouldn't be surprised if he typed that assessment of the Battle of Antietam Creek without using any reference notes! He has a great mind for the Civil War.

Jeff also spoke about Detective Pryor, the house detective of the 5th Avenue Hotel. Pryor claimed that he not only evicted Tumblety out of that hotel, but he also evicted the future assassin Charles Guiteau on the very same day. Tim Riordan figured this double-eviction would have happened between Aug and Nov 1880, even though Pryor mistakenly remembered it to have occurred the following year.

Sometime tomorrow, I will share the whereabouts of some more newspaper articles. They were articles that spoke of Tumblety's obituary and that long probate battle for his estate. Even though I've never seen those articles, I assume that for the most part, they will probably report of things we already know. But if anybody happens to dig them up, and if some new information is found in them that might be worthy of posting, then go right ahead and do it.

[Mayerling]

From Joe.

I printed out Jeff's recent posts and read them over. That man can really bring history back to life. I wouldn't be surprised if he typed that assessment of the Battle of Antietam Creek without using any reference notes! He has a great mind for the Civil War.

Jeff also spoke about Detective Pryor, the house detective of the 5th Avenue Hotel. Pryor claimed that he not only evicted Tumblety out of that hotel, but he also evicted the future assassin Charles Guiteau on the very same day. Tim Riordan figured this double-eviction would have happened between Aug and Nov 1880, even though Pryor mistakenly remembered it to have occurred the following year.

Sometime tomorrow, I will share the whereabouts of some more newspaper articles. They were articles that spoke of Tumblety's obituary and that long probate battle for his estate. Even though I've never seen those articles, I assume that for the most part, they will probably report of things we already know. But if anybody happens to dig them up, and if some new information is found in them that might be worthy of posting, then go right ahead and do it.

Hi Mike,

Tell Joe C. that the long retelling of the events of late July - November 1862 was really easy for me. My history honor's thesis at Drew University in 1975 was "McClellan: "Problem Child" of the Civil War".

I recall the business that Pryor threw out (or claimed to throw out) both Guiteau (Garfield's assassin) and Tumblety at or about the same time - but I was unaware of the name of the house detective. Somehow, the fastidious and formal Doc. T was not likely to have much contact with someone like the excitable and somewhat seedy looking Guiteau. In November 1880 Charles Guiteau (the week the Presidential election occurred) delivered a speech "Garfield v. Hancock" to a bunch of listless end of the evening/early morning Republicans at a rally - the point of the speech was that General Garfield was the man to elect because the Democrat, General Winfield Scott Hancock, was pledged to have the Federal Government assume the debts of the former Confederate states from the war, and have the U.S. taxpayers beggared by paying them off. This was a pet idiocy of Guiteau's, and had no reality in Hancock's intentions. BUT, because the Garfield-Hancock election was the closest in U.S. history in terms of popular vote (not electoral college) and it all hinged on New York State, Guiteau felt the 9,000-10,000 votes that put the state and the election into the Republican column were due to his heroic speech - and put President - elect James Garfield into his debt for a job (nothing much really, either the Minister to Austria-Hungary or the Paris Consulship!; P.S.: Charles Guiteau could not speak (despite his French last name) French nor German nor Hungarian).

We'll never really know. Maybe Guiteau was right. Maybe that tedious, idiotic speech at the end of the evening before some sleepy Republican supporters did convince them to warn 9,000 - 10,000 other jerks to vote for Garfield for such a ridiculous reason. And maybe the belief of the French early Socialist economist, Charles Fourier, will still come true too. He believed (in his madder moments) that one day our salt seas and oceans would turn into lemonade!

Jeff

[Dr. John Watson]

Tumblety spotted thru window, New York Herald, May 15, 1889

In 1889, a reporter with the New York Herald visited a tenement building to check out complaints about noisy neighbors and birds. While looking out an apartment window, he spotted someone he recognized as the infamous Dr. Tumblety and, like a good reporter, inserted his observation between paragraphs on wild chickens and a noisy parrot. Here it is, hope you haven't already seen it. Dr. John

[mklhawley]

Hi John,

Yes, Howard Brown found it: http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=13904

Very interesting, though.

Mike

[Dr. John Watson]

Hi Mike. Should have checked with you first! Never thought of checking forums. I only download the oddball Tumblety stuff that doesn't reference Lincoln's assassination or JTR and this one fit the bill. I'm going to spend an hour at Howard's site updating myself.

[mklhawley]

From Joe.


Here is where you'll find all you want to know about the fight over Tumblety's estate. There are a few obituary articles in there, too.


Indianapolis News
June 28, 1904 page 8

Cincinnati Enquirer
May 29, 1903 page 3

Daily Arkansas Gazette
Nov 27, 1903 page 2

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 26, 1903 page 2
June 28, 1903 page 14
June 20, 1905 page 16
June 22, 1905 page 8
January 11, 1908 page 9
March 21, 1908 page 3
April 16, 1908 page 9
April 19, 1908 page 11

The Decatur Herald
May 29, 1903 page 1

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
June 21, 1903 page 18
June 26, 1903 page 10
June 28, 1903 page 18
July 8, 1903 page 9
July 22, 1903 page 16
Sept 20, 1903 page 18
Nov 14, 1903 page 16
March 12, 1905 page 21
June 23, 1905 page 12
June 27, 1905 page 10
June 29, 1905 page 7
Aug 27, 1909 page 14

This next one has a chance of being pretty good:

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
June 28, 1910 page 13

[David Orsam]

From Joe.

Years ago, Chris Scott posted an article from the Aug 10, 1889 New York World. The article reported that the charges against Tumblety were dropped for assaulting a guy named George Davis. This article below was reported in The Evening World on the day after the violent incident occurred.

THE EVENING WORLD (NY)

JUNE 5, 1889

PAGE 3, COLUMN 3

TUMBLETY ARRESTED

The Man Who Puzzled the London Police Held for Assault.

An Echo from Whitechapel in Jefferson Market.

The Doctor's Accuser Held in Bail as a Witness.

The notorious Dr. Francis Tumblety, who was arrested on Nov. 18 last in London, on suspicion of being the Whitechapel murderer, "Jack the Ripper," was arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court this morning on a charge of assault and battery, preferred by a young man named George Davis, of 168 Allen street.

Davis said that Tumblety met him on Fifth avenue, near Clinton place, about 10:30 o'clock last night, and engaged him in conversation which led to his calling Tumblety a vile name.

Thereupon the doctor broke his cane across Davis's face.

The latter ran one way into the arms of Capt. Brogan, of the Mercer street station.

The doctor fled in another direction, and was captured by Policeman McLaughlin.

Tumblety was held for trial this morning and Davis was detained as a witness.

Tumblety says he is fifty years old, but there are men in New York who claim that he is nearer (to) sixty.

Twenty-five years ago he was a sight in any city which he visited. He used to array himself regardless of cost in the most gaudy dress. He was usually accompanied by a fantastically dressed negro and two bloodhounds.

For women he is said to have an aversion amounting to positive hatred, and this, for one reason, led to his arrest in London as being possibly "Jack the Ripper."

There was no evidence of murder upon which to hold him so he was detained on two less serious, but more degrading charges, but was bailed in the sum of $1,500, jumped his bail and returned to New York.

He has visited and is known personally to many people in every city in the world, but no one ever knew him to have a friend, and his life and antecedents are unknown to any save himself.

He was dressed very shabbily this morning, and claimed that Davis had assaulted him first after he had refused to give the young man money. He showed a book purporting to give an account of himself as a physician.

On the outside was printed that he had references from Gen. Sherman, Alexander Hudnut, S.B. Morse, and the late Emperor Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, and other famous men. These alleged references were printed in the book, but amounted to nothing. They were merely such letters as the gentlemen might write in response to an effusive and uncalled-for epistle from the doctor in the first place.

He lives at 82 Clinton place.

[David Orsam]

From Joe.

The Evening World of New York would circulate at least three different editions of its newspaper each day. The article below may not have appeared in every edition of that New York paper on the given date. The article spoke of how Tumblety used the image of flowing blood to publicly attract attention.

THE EVENING WORLD (NY)

NOVEMBER 24, 1888

PAGE 4, COLUMN 2

DR. TUMBLETY IN BROOKLYN.

He Had No Criminal Career, but Was Notably Eccentric.

Police Supt. Campbell of Brooklyn, when asked this morning for further information about Dr. Tumblety, whom the London have under arrest on suspicion of his being "Jack the Ripper," replied that, as far as any criminal career was concerned, he had none.

During the few years he was in Brooklyn he attended strictly to his own business.

It was true, though, that his eccentricities had caused considerable gossip, and many regarded him as a humbug.

His herb store, at Fulton and Nassau streets, was the centre of much curiosity in bygone days. In one of his windows stood a large array of glass tubes in all conceivable shapes, through which a red-colored fluid was constantly flowing.

A well-known official in Brooklyn said this morning that the doctor's store was at one time the rendezvous of many prominent Brooklyn ladies. He did not think Tumblety guilty of the crimes which he is suspected in London.

The doctor is said to have a goodly amount of money stored away.

[Howard Brown]

"The article spoke of how Tumblety used the image of flowing blood to publicly attract attention."
-Joe Chetcuti-

The article actually reads:

"In one of his windows stood a large array of glass tubes in all conceivable shapes, through which a red-colored fluid was constantly flowing."
"

[mklhawley]

"The article spoke of how Tumblety used the image of flowing blood to publicly attract attention."
-Joe Chetcuti-

The article actually reads:

"In one of his windows stood a large array of glass tubes in all conceivable shapes, through which a red-colored fluid was constantly flowing."
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Not sure where you're going with this one, Howard. Are you merely being picky with detail or are you assuming Tumblety's flowing red-colored fluid was not a model of the circulatory system? Yes, Dr. T was into herbal remedies, but he believed it was the circulatory system that allowed the body to receive the nutrients. Here's what he wrote in his 1893 autobiography:

"The human body, consisting of bones, muscles, sinews, blood vessels, organs of reproduction, nutrition, respiration and of thought, etc., is constructed, nourished and sustained in accordance with certain laws common to organized beings. It is made up of the elements that surround us, such as animals, vegetables and water. These substances, taken into the stomach, undergo the process of digestion, and the chyle or nutritious portion enters into the composition of the blood, and by this means in brought in contact with all parts of the system."

Dr. T literally showcasing his knowledge of how the herbal remedies work in and through the body would definitely have been convincing for potential customers/patients.

Mike

[mklhawley]

From Joe.


CHICAGO TRIBUNE
NOVEMBER 25, 1888

"(Tumblety) had a herb store at Fulton and Nassau streets, with a glass case in front. Among other things in this case was a sort of a glass siphon with a red liquid running through a thin glass tube to indicate blood."



Tumblety projected an image of flowing blood in his window display in Brooklyn. The article in the New York Evening World implied this, and the above article in the Chicago Tribune spelled it out as plain as day. Tumblety's fascination with the topic of flowing blood was also seen in Washington D.C.



EVENING STAR (WASHINGTON D.C.)
NOVEMBER 20, 1888

"I met Tumblety in 1861 in this city...He afterward invited me to his room to see an arrangement of his to show the circulation of the blood."



Let's move on. Here is the next recently discovered newspaper clipping:


DAILY AMERICAN
DECEMBER 12, 1888
PAGE 2, COLUMN 4

Dr. Tumblety, who is suspected to be the Whitechapel Murderer, is expected to arrive in Chicago soon, and may take up his residence here. The doctor may not really be "Jack the Ripper," but if he is, he must change his field of operations. He must not kill women in Chicago, but confine himself exclusively to bad measures before the Council. There is in Chicago a great opening for a "ripper" of this sort at all times. -- Chicago Herald.