Tumblety and the British Press

[Simon Wood]

Hi All,

Here's an [unnamed] Tumblety report from the Echo, Monday 3rd December 1888, the day after he arrived in New York and a week before the Old Bailey woke up to the fact he'd flown the coop.



It's a pound to a penny that Chief Inspector Littlechild did not let this profile influence his 1913 letter.

Regards,

Simon

[corey123]

Mark,

Wounderful find.

Yours truly

[m_w_r]

Nice find. Well done.

Maybe Littlechild read it.

Hi Simon,

Perhaps. But it's pretty obvious that he got his information about Tumblety, given in detail in his letter, out of the large dossier, held at Scotland Yard, to which he refers therein.

Regards,

Mark

[Simon Wood]

Hi Mark,

Nice find. Well done.

Maybe Littlechild read it.

Regards,

Simon

[mklhawley]

Hi,

I'm not really up to speed with Tumblety, but I thought that this, from the Western Mail, published in Cardiff, Wales, on 20 November 1890, was interesting.

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Obviously, this report originated in the USA, and was picked up by the Western Mail in their foreign correspondence section - it's not a disclosure by Scotland Yard, or anyone close to it. But it is an example of Tumblety's name being linked with the Ripper crimes in the pages of a British newspaper prior to 1993.

Regards,

Mark

Awesome Mark! Previous arguments state that the British papers were completely silent about Tumblety (regardless of their source), while the U.S. papers were the ones pushing his suspect status (a great counter-argument to Tumblety). This demonstrates that they not only discussed Tumblety, they also discussed him as a JTR suspect, albeit only one tiny little article (but hey, if you find one cockroach, chances are there are dozens). I do have an honest question. If the British papers did indeed reject his suspect status, then why would this article be written at all?

Sincerely,

Mike

[m_w_r]

Hi,

I'm not really up to speed with Tumblety, but I thought that this, from the Western Mail, published in Cardiff, Wales, on 20 November 1890, was interesting.



Obviously, this report originated in the USA, and was picked up by the Western Mail in their foreign correspondence section - it's not a disclosure by Scotland Yard, or anyone close to it. But it is an example of Tumblety's name being linked with the Ripper crimes in the pages of a British newspaper prior to 1993.

Regards,

Mark