Brooklyn Daily Eagle
New York, USA
18 November 1890
Dr. Tumelety Again.
This Time He is Arrested in Washington as a Suspicious Character
Washington, D.C., November 15.
Dr. Francis Tumblety, who is known to the police of all the large
cities of America and Europe, and who was under the surveillance of
the Scotland yard force when the Jack the Ripper excitement was at
its height, was arrested in this city last night on the charge of
being a suspicious character. At the station the doctor was
searched and a large number of valuables were found on him,
amounting in worth to several thousand dollars. In his pocket was
a pamphlet containing the names of a number of prominent men, both
of this city and elsewhere, and a letter from a well known
congressman. The testimonials were chiefly devoted to elaborate
praise of the doctor's character. Beside the pamphlet the doctor
had an article replying to the charge advanced against him by the
London authorities and which spoke of his escape unscathed from the
villifying statements of the newspapers.
