Suspected to be 'Jack the Ripper.' Francis Tumuelty (often spelled Tumblety, though his grave marker has Tumuelty) was born in Ireland. His family immigrated to Rochester, New York, a few years after his birth. He left home around 17, and set himself up in business, selling herbal remedies and medicinal elixirs which he claimed were secrets of the American Indians. He was connected to the death of one of his patients in Boston, but escaped prosecution. In 1858 he returned to Rochester apparently a rich man, making an ostentatious display of his wealth, and claiming that it had was through patenting of his medicinal cures. In 1865, he was arrested for alleged complicity in the Abraham Lincoln assassination, because the police believed that he was an associate of one of the conspirators. There was nothing to tie him to the plot, so he was released without charge. He was known for denouncing women but showed a special hatred for prostitutes, blaming a failed marriage on a prostitute. In his home he displayed a collection of uteruses preserved in jars to his guests at a dinner party. He visited Europe several times, and set up an office in Liverpool in 1874, offering his elixirs and medicines for sale. He fled to London after one of his customers died after taking one of his medicines. Newspapers reported the stories and he had a biographical pamphlet written to try to clear his reputation. He lived in a boarding house in the Whitechapel district during the brief period of the rampage of Jack the Ripper. The Metropolitan Police arrested him on charges of gross indecency, apparently for a homosexual encounter, which was illegal at the time. While awaiting trial on this charge he fled to France, then he returned to the United States. Already notorious in the United States, his arrest in London was reported in The New York Times as being connected to the Ripper murders. He again published a pamphlet about himself, in which he attacked the rumors but omitted any mention of his criminal charges and arrest. He returned to Rochester, then to Baltimore in 1900, then to St. Louis, where he died in 1903 of heart disease.