peddling questionable medical pamphlets. He mainly sold them in Rochester and Canada during the 1850s. The literature was of a sexual nature.
  3.   Rochester Union (5 April 1881)
  4.   Document 1769, Turner-Baker Papers, Record Group 94, Records of the Adjutant Generalâs Office, NARA
  5.   Brooklyn Citizen (23 November 1888). Discovered by Roger Palmer
  6.   Riordan, T., Prince of Quacks : The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect (McFarland, 2009), pp.96â7
  7.   Robert Ressler coined the term serial killer in the 1970s. While working for the FBI, he was credited for establishing the methods of offender profiling.
Bibliography
Riordan, T., Prince of Quacks : The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect (McFarland, 2009)
Tumblety, Dr F., A Sketch of the Life of the Gifted and World-Famed Physician (Brooklyn: Eagle Printing Company, 1889)
Tumblety, Dr F., A Sketch of the Life of the Gifted and World-Famed Physician, second edition (1893)
Evans, S.P. & Gainey, P., Jack the Ripper: The First American Serial Killer (Kadansha, 1998)
Other Sources
âRecollections of a Police Magistrateâ in Canadian Magazine , Vol. 54 (Nov 1919âApr 1920). Discovered by Stephen Ryder.
Brooklyn Citizen (Courtesy of Roger Palmer)
Brooklyn Standard Union (Courtesy of Roger Palmer)
Bucks County Gazette
Buffalo Morning Express (Courtesy of Tim Riordan)
Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago)
Evening Star (Washington)
Morning Freeman
The New York World
Rochester Union
San Francisco Chronicle
www.casebook.org
www.jtrforums.com
www.mcafee.cc
Acknowledgements
Appreciation goes to Roger Palmer for sharing the illustration of Francis Tumblety. Special thanks goes to John Spanek for assisting in the technical aspects of this report.
After twenty-two years in the medical profession, Joe Chetcuti retired in 2004. He has contributed numerous articles for two prominent London periodicals that deal with the Victorian era (The Whitechapel Society Journal and Ripperologist ). Joe was born and raised in the San Francisco peninsula and still lives there. He is an active member of the Jack the Ripper Writers website. He is pleased with the growth of interest in the Martha Tabram murder case and senses that crime was a significant aspect of the Whitechapel mysteries.
10
Prince Albert Victor
M.W. Oldridge
Jack the Ripper was only the trade name, as he himself (or, more likely, someone ghostwriting his infernal letters) would have had it; but, from the very first, the day-to-day identity of the Whitechapel murderer was tantalisingly unknowable, occluded by the East End’s trademark peasouper, or otherwise lost to sight in the Minoan maze of its bloody streets. The sensational sangfroid of the culprit thrilled and appalled – the killer wandered the streets unsuspected by the police, committed homicides of astonishing audacity, and fled again, all unseen. His work was an anonymous, effortless reflection on the horror of chance, anticipating the mad juxtapositions of the dreamworld, shortly to be mapped by Freud, and the accidental, abstract semantics of Dada and Surrealism. When the scare died down, all that remained of the Ripper was his cognomen, a Saussurean signifiant detached from its signifié , the chief symbol of his popular terror. Behind the soubriquet, however, he seemed to have abandoned his mission as invisibly as he had taken it up.
And so began the instinctive hunt for meaning. Out of the jigsaw pieces of his victims, the task of assembling the image of the Ripper commenced, haphazard, fumbling. The disjunction of this aimless mystery offended logic, and solutions were sought everywhere – the doctor bent on revenge, the sociopathic Russian agent, perhaps even the social reformer pushing the envelope of charity. And then, in 1962, with rival administrations on separate
  3.   Rochester Union (5 April 1881)
  4.   Document 1769, Turner-Baker Papers, Record Group 94, Records of the Adjutant Generalâs Office, NARA
  5.   Brooklyn Citizen (23 November 1888). Discovered by Roger Palmer
  6.   Riordan, T., Prince of Quacks : The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect (McFarland, 2009), pp.96â7
  7.   Robert Ressler coined the term serial killer in the 1970s. While working for the FBI, he was credited for establishing the methods of offender profiling.
Bibliography
Riordan, T., Prince of Quacks : The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect (McFarland, 2009)
Tumblety, Dr F., A Sketch of the Life of the Gifted and World-Famed Physician (Brooklyn: Eagle Printing Company, 1889)
Tumblety, Dr F., A Sketch of the Life of the Gifted and World-Famed Physician, second edition (1893)
Evans, S.P. & Gainey, P., Jack the Ripper: The First American Serial Killer (Kadansha, 1998)
Other Sources
âRecollections of a Police Magistrateâ in Canadian Magazine , Vol. 54 (Nov 1919âApr 1920). Discovered by Stephen Ryder.
Brooklyn Citizen (Courtesy of Roger Palmer)
Brooklyn Standard Union (Courtesy of Roger Palmer)
Bucks County Gazette
Buffalo Morning Express (Courtesy of Tim Riordan)
Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago)
Evening Star (Washington)
Morning Freeman
The New York World
Rochester Union
San Francisco Chronicle
www.casebook.org
www.jtrforums.com
www.mcafee.cc
Acknowledgements
Appreciation goes to Roger Palmer for sharing the illustration of Francis Tumblety. Special thanks goes to John Spanek for assisting in the technical aspects of this report.
After twenty-two years in the medical profession, Joe Chetcuti retired in 2004. He has contributed numerous articles for two prominent London periodicals that deal with the Victorian era (The Whitechapel Society Journal and Ripperologist ). Joe was born and raised in the San Francisco peninsula and still lives there. He is an active member of the Jack the Ripper Writers website. He is pleased with the growth of interest in the Martha Tabram murder case and senses that crime was a significant aspect of the Whitechapel mysteries.
10
Prince Albert Victor
M.W. Oldridge
Jack the Ripper was only the trade name, as he himself (or, more likely, someone ghostwriting his infernal letters) would have had it; but, from the very first, the day-to-day identity of the Whitechapel murderer was tantalisingly unknowable, occluded by the East End’s trademark peasouper, or otherwise lost to sight in the Minoan maze of its bloody streets. The sensational sangfroid of the culprit thrilled and appalled – the killer wandered the streets unsuspected by the police, committed homicides of astonishing audacity, and fled again, all unseen. His work was an anonymous, effortless reflection on the horror of chance, anticipating the mad juxtapositions of the dreamworld, shortly to be mapped by Freud, and the accidental, abstract semantics of Dada and Surrealism. When the scare died down, all that remained of the Ripper was his cognomen, a Saussurean signifiant detached from its signifié , the chief symbol of his popular terror. Behind the soubriquet, however, he seemed to have abandoned his mission as invisibly as he had taken it up.
And so began the instinctive hunt for meaning. Out of the jigsaw pieces of his victims, the task of assembling the image of the Ripper commenced, haphazard, fumbling. The disjunction of this aimless mystery offended logic, and solutions were sought everywhere – the doctor bent on revenge, the sociopathic Russian agent, perhaps even the social reformer pushing the envelope of charity. And then, in 1962, with rival administrations on separate
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