Brooklyn Daily Eagle
New York, USA
28 January 1889
Twombley Was in Brooklyn.
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In England He Was Suspeted of Being "Jack the Ripper."
Dr. Twombley, the American doctor who in England was suspected of
being "Jack the Ripper," the Whitechapel murderer, says to-day's
Evening Sun, has turned up in Brooklyn under the alias of
common, every day Smith. He first appeared in Brooklyn some ten
days ago at the boarding house of Mrs. Helen Lamb, at 204
Washington street. There he engaged rooms and took his meals.
Apparently he did not work, and informed the landlady that he was
an ordinary citizen with plenty of money which he had made years
ago from a patent medicine. One of the boarders at the house is
said to have found Twombley out in this way: A young man yesterday
called at the house while that rain storm was in progress. The
bell was answered by one of the boarder[s] who was just going out.
The young man asked for Dr. Twombley. The gentleman replied that
there was no one of [t]hat name in the house. The young man was
about to leave when the gentleman we had known as Smith arrived.
The young man greeted Smith with a cordial "Howd'y do, Dr.
Twombley?" Then the two men held a hasty, whispered conversation,
at the end of which Tumblety, alias Twombley, alias Smith, hastily
called on his landlady, paid his bill from a big roll of bills,
packed his trunks, had them put on a truck, which the young man had
summoned, and drove off into the rain, disappearing as silently and
as mysteriously as he had appeared.
