Wednesday 25 November 2009

Ripper Walk Transcript continued... (with added bits)

Another Ripper suspect who also fits both profiles is Francis Tumblety. Ireland was where Tumblety was born and raised before he moved to the East End in 1888, which incidentally was just before (and spanned the entire duration of) the ripper murders.
He was known for hating women, especially prostitutes. Tumblety liked to give small lecture tours where he was also known for saying that the only way to deal with the prostitution was to kill the prostitutes. However, impartial to his strong dislike of women, he had a tendency to carry around female sex organs with him in little jars.

In a testimony given by Colonel Dunham, he stated that he had been invited to Tumblety’s house one night for dinner and continued by voicing the suspicious air unintentionally conjured by their host and the strange tendencies he seemed to house. He proclaimed;

"Someone asked why he had not invited some women to his dinner. His face instantly became as black as a thunder-cloud. He had a pack of cards in his hand, but he laid them down and said, almost savagely, 'No, Colonel, I don’t know any such cattle, and if I did I would, as your friend, sooner give you a dose of quick poison than take you into such danger.' He then broke into a homily on the sin and folly of dissipation, fiercely denounced all women and especially fallen women.

He then invited us into his office where he illustrated his lecture so to speak. One side of this room was entirely occupied with cases, outwardly resembling wardrobes. When the doors were opened quite a museum was revealed -- tiers of shelves with glass jars and cases, some round and others square, filled with all sorts of anatomical specimens. The ‘doctor’ placed on a table a dozen or more jars containing, as he said, the matrices (uteri) of every class of women. Nearly a half of one of these cases was occupied exclusively with these specimens.

Not long after this the ‘doctor’ was in my room when my Lieutenant-Colonel came in and commenced expatiating on the charms of a certain woman. In a moment, almost, the doctor was lecturing him and denouncing women. When he was asked why he hated women, he said that when quite a young man he fell desperately in love with a pretty girl, rather his senior, who promised to reciprocate his affection. After a brief courtship he married her. The honeymoon was not over when he noticed a disposition on the part of his wife to flirt with other men. He remonstrated, she kissed him, called him a dear jealous fool -- and he believed her. Happening one day to pass in a cab through the worst part of the town he saw his wife and a man enter a gloomy-looking house. Then he learned that before her marriage his wife had been an inmate of that and many similar houses. Then he gave up all womankind." Excerpt taken from http://www.casebook.org/suspects/tumblety.html

Tumblety was brought in for questioning on Mary Kelly but somehow escaped and fled to France. The police followed him to France but by the time they found out where he was living in Bordeaux, he had gone to upstate New York. He was living in Rochester for nearly six months before he disappeared again. During he’s brief stay in New York, 3 prostitutes were murdered with knives. They were murdered in not exactly the same fashion but in a similar enough way to link them to the previous London murders.Tumblety disappeared for almost 19 years before reappearing in the southern state of Macuri as a very wealthy man. People often speculate what they believe he was up to in all his years of public absence, but no one really knows for sure.

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