New York, USA
18 November 1890
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.