Francis Tumblety
Few days after my group have presented the prosecution of James Kelly, we have to defend Francis Tumblety in the next session. Francis Tumblety was born in 1833 and died in 1903 at the age of 70.

He earned a small fortune posing as an Indian Herb' doctor throughout the United States and Canada and has commonly perceived as a misogynist quack. He was connected to the death of one of his patients, but escaped prosecution. In 1865, he was released without charge. Tumblety was in England in 1888, and was arrested on 7 November, apparently for engaging in homosexuality, which was illegal at the same time. Avoiding trial, he fled to France and then to the United States. Already notrious in the states for his self-promotion and previous criminal charges, his arrest was reported as connected to the Ripper murders. American reports that Scotland Yard tried to extradite him were not confirmed by the British press or the London police and the New York City Police said, " there is no proof of his complicity in the Whitechapel murders, and the crime for which he is under bond in London is not extraditable." In 1923, Tumblety was mentioned as a Ripper suspect by Chief Inspector John Littlechild of the Metropolitan Police Service in a letter to journalist and author George R. Sims.

During the class, after facing all kinds of questions from the audience, we managed to defend Francis Tumblety that he was not guilty.