Jack the Ripper unmasked – new evidence!

Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln

By Tony McMahon – Troubador: publisher – out on May 28, 2024

Order your copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Ripper-Abraham-Lincoln-greatest/dp/1805143646/

Astonishing new evidence reveals that a man suspected of being Jack the Ripper in 1888 was also implicated as a plotter involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

A previously overlooked newspaper report proves that an Irish American called Francis Tumblety was hand in glove with Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and imprisoned with good cause after the president’s murder. The book also shows that Tumblety can be linked to a series of murders before the 1888 Whitechapel killings and at least one copycat killing that happened afterwards.

DISCOVER: The London Monster – forerunner to Jack the Ripper

TV historian Tony McMahon has investigated this celebrity doctor who was well known across North America in the 19^th century as a roguish and flamboyant figure with a very dark secret. Underneath his affable and colourful exterior, Tumblety was a serial killer responsible for a string of deaths throughout his life.

This is a tale of Victorian depravity, corruption, and unspeakable deeds.

• It seems astonishing but a man arrested as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case in 1888 was arrested and jailed over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The evidence from contemporary newspapers, police, and court records is overwhelming. Pause for a moment to consider this…Jack the Ripper was involved in killing President Lincoln.
• Francis Tumblety was an early example of celebrity, notorious as a society ‘quack’ doctor to the rich and famous yet from an early stage in his life, unexplained deaths occurred leading to at least two manslaughter charges.
• As an LGBT author, Tony McMahon investigates his sexuality. Tumblety led a surprisingly open gay life that led him to be under constant police surveillance. But it also afforded him a degree of protection by both Irish American and clandestine gay networks that repeatedly came to his rescue – but clearly didn’t realise his very dark side.
• Why Francis Tumblety should be considered as the most plausible suspect in the Jack the Ripper case and the overwhelming evidence that points to his guilt plus a new theory, based on contemporary police and private detective records, that he may have directed a servant to commit the grotesque murders – as well as other murders earlier in Texas.
• An entirely overlooked eye-witness account proving that Tumblety was on “intimate” terms with Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, introduced him to co-plotter Mary Surratt, and employed yet another of Booth’s gang, David Herold. Surratt and Herold would hang for their part in Lincoln’s death. Tumblety would be jailed then inexplicably freed. But the proof he was part of Booth’s plot is strong.
• The sexuality of President Abraham Lincoln has been hushed up for decades but a century ago was an open secret. The book brings to light the evidence that he slept with his own head of security while President – and other men – then possibly Tumblety.
• The coded messages up until now ignored in the so-called 1913 Littlechild Letter that show Scotland Yard believed Tumblety was Jack the Ripper and would have prosecuted him if he hadn’t jumped bail and fled the country.
• The link between Tumblety and Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula. How the two men shared the same male lover, writer Hall Caine – and why he left Tumblety and Stoker for the pre-Raphaelite genius, Dante Gabriel Rosetti.
• How Tumblety came to be in Whitechapel in 1888, far from his usual base of operation in North American cities like New York, St Louis, and Cincinnati. His arrest and flight from justice and why the United States failed to extradite him back to London and the clutches of Scotland Yard.
• On Tumblety’s deathbed, two cheap rings are found on his person resembling those ripped from the hand of Ripper victim, Annie Chapman. The pathologist in 1888 had coldly observed that two things were missing from Chapman – her rings and her uterus. Tumblety had the rings, and he also possessed a grisly collection of uteruses in a cabinet of curiosities.

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