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candyflip · 06-23-2008, 04:20 PM

Jack The Ripper for sure. One of the suspects who a large number of "experts" think did it was from the US and buried a few miles from my house.

"Dr" Francis Tumblety (c. 1830/3?1903). Seemingly uneducated or self-educated Irish-American raised from an infant in Rochester, New York, where he sold pornography to canal boats passing along the Erie Canal. He earned a small fortune posing as a quack doctor throughout the United States and Canada and occasionally travelling across Europe as well.[1] He was commonly perceived as a misogynist and was connected to the deaths of some of his patients and charged by the authorities in Canada but skipped the country. It is uncertain if these deaths were deliberate or not. He was also charged with supplying herbs to procure an illegal abortion. He gained a reputation for his eccentric, ostentatious clothes frequently of a military nature. He was arrested and incarcerated in the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but released upon the plea of mistaken identity.

Tumblety was in England in 1888 and had visited the country on other occasions; during one such earlier trip he became closely acquainted with Victorian writer Thomas Henry Hall Caine, with whom it was suggested he had an affair and from whom he tried to borrow money as his finances had become precarious. He claimed to have treated many famous English patients, including Charles Dickens, for a variety of illnesses. He was arrested on November 7, 1888, on charges of "gross indecency", apparently for engaging in homosexuality. Awaiting trial, he instead fled the country for France on November 24, 1888. It has been suggested that he was released on police bail before the final canonical murder of Mary Jane Kelly (on November 9). Notorious in the United States for his scams, including selling forged Union military discharge papers during the American Civil War and impersonating an army officer, news of his arrest led some to suggest he was the Ripper.

Tumblety was mentioned as having been a Ripper suspect by former Detective Chief Inspector John George Littlechild of the Metropolitan Police in a letter to journalist and author, George R. Sims dated September 23, 1913.[1] Claims that Scotland Yard sent an officer to the United States in 1888 to try to bring Tumblety back in connection with the crimes have been disputed by recent research, although there are anecdotal American newspaper reports to suggest that this was the case. One objection to Tumblety's viability as a suspect lies with his alleged homosexuality, since in general male homosexual serial killers kill other men.

He died in a St Louis hospital in 1903, possibly of syphilis, and is buried in Rochester, New York.

06-23-2008, 04:20 PM
candyflip Carpe Visio Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: New York Posts: 43,068	Jack The Ripper for sure. One of the suspects who a large number of "experts" think did it was from the US and buried a few miles from my house. "Dr" Francis Tumblety (c. 1830/3?1903). Seemingly uneducated or self-educated Irish-American raised from an infant in Rochester, New York, where he sold pornography to canal boats passing along the Erie Canal. He earned a small fortune posing as a quack doctor throughout the United States and Canada and occasionally travelling across Europe as well.[1] He was commonly perceived as a misogynist and was connected to the deaths of some of his patients and charged by the authorities in Canada but skipped the country. It is uncertain if these deaths were deliberate or not. He was also charged with supplying herbs to procure an illegal abortion. He gained a reputation for his eccentric, ostentatious clothes frequently of a military nature. He was arrested and incarcerated in the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but released upon the plea of mistaken identity. Tumblety was in England in 1888 and had visited the country on other occasions; during one such earlier trip he became closely acquainted with Victorian writer Thomas Henry Hall Caine, with whom it was suggested he had an affair and from whom he tried to borrow money as his finances had become precarious. He claimed to have treated many famous English patients, including Charles Dickens, for a variety of illnesses. He was arrested on November 7, 1888, on charges of "gross indecency", apparently for engaging in homosexuality. Awaiting trial, he instead fled the country for France on November 24, 1888. It has been suggested that he was released on police bail before the final canonical murder of Mary Jane Kelly (on November 9). Notorious in the United States for his scams, including selling forged Union military discharge papers during the American Civil War and impersonating an army officer, news of his arrest led some to suggest he was the Ripper. Tumblety was mentioned as having been a Ripper suspect by former Detective Chief Inspector John George Littlechild of the Metropolitan Police in a letter to journalist and author, George R. Sims dated September 23, 1913.[1] Claims that Scotland Yard sent an officer to the United States in 1888 to try to bring Tumblety back in connection with the crimes have been disputed by recent research, although there are anecdotal American newspaper reports to suggest that this was the case. One objection to Tumblety's viability as a suspect lies with his alleged homosexuality, since in general male homosexual serial killers kill other men. He died in a St Louis hospital in 1903, possibly of syphilis, and is buried in Rochester, New York. __________________ Spend you some brain. Email Me