Francis Tumblety
Deceased Person
1830 – 1903
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Who was Francis Tumblety?
Francis Tumblety was an Irish-born American mountebank and medical quack who earned a small fortune posing as an "Indian Herb" doctor throughout the United States and Canada. He was an eccentric self-promoter and was often in trouble with the law. He has been put forward as a suspect in the notorious and still unsolved Jack the Ripper murder spree in Whitechapel, London, in autumn 1888.
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- Born
- 1830
Ireland - Died
- May 28, 1903
St. Louis - Resting place
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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