Chris G.
05-13-2009, 11:19 AM
Hello all
Here is a map of downtown Baltimore in 1905.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/3528524500_78779c104b_o.jpg
According to the 1900 census, Dr. Francis Tumblety was living in a rooming house at the corner of North Liberty and Clay Streets, shown by the red dot in the upper left hand corner of the map. Stockbroker Major Joseph R. Kemp, named as an executor of a will Dr T supposedly signed in the city in 1901, had an office further down Liberty Street, the vicinity of which is shown by the blue dot. The location of the Home for Fallen Women (http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=6461) at 1 North Exeter Street can be seen on the right side of the map, just above East Baltimore Street, indicated by the green dot. Update May 20, 2009: You will see in the thread for the Home that I now think the Home was actually located on the other corner, the east side of North Exeter, so imagine that the dot is moved across the street. :)
As Tim Riordan and I have been discussing on the thread for "Parallels between Tumbelty & D'Onston: A List" (http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=6454), it might appear that the doctor's Baltimore will might be fraudulent, because Major Kemp's stockbroker business dealing with stocks for a mining company was a type of ponzi scheme. Thus, the $1,000 legacy for the Home for Fallen Women on North Exeter Street promised under the will might have been "window dressing" if that document was in fact bogus and "mocked up" by Kemp and his pals in order to lay hands on the late quack's fortune in a New York banking house.
Baltimore's Cardinal Gibbons was promised $1,000 under the 1901 Baltimore will but ultimately received $10,000 under a St. Louis will that Tumblety signed weeks before his death in St. Louis on May 28, 1903. The city's Catholic cathedral (now the Basilica of the Assumption) and the Cardinal's Residence are just off top edge of the map north of Tumblety's lodgings. A portrait of Gibbons, a photograph of the Basilica, and a postcard view of the Cardinal's Residence may be seen here (http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?p=40659) along with information on Tumblety's fortune from newspaper reports.
Chris
Here is a map of downtown Baltimore in 1905.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/3528524500_78779c104b_o.jpg
According to the 1900 census, Dr. Francis Tumblety was living in a rooming house at the corner of North Liberty and Clay Streets, shown by the red dot in the upper left hand corner of the map. Stockbroker Major Joseph R. Kemp, named as an executor of a will Dr T supposedly signed in the city in 1901, had an office further down Liberty Street, the vicinity of which is shown by the blue dot. The location of the Home for Fallen Women (http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=6461) at 1 North Exeter Street can be seen on the right side of the map, just above East Baltimore Street, indicated by the green dot. Update May 20, 2009: You will see in the thread for the Home that I now think the Home was actually located on the other corner, the east side of North Exeter, so imagine that the dot is moved across the street. :)
As Tim Riordan and I have been discussing on the thread for "Parallels between Tumbelty & D'Onston: A List" (http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=6454), it might appear that the doctor's Baltimore will might be fraudulent, because Major Kemp's stockbroker business dealing with stocks for a mining company was a type of ponzi scheme. Thus, the $1,000 legacy for the Home for Fallen Women on North Exeter Street promised under the will might have been "window dressing" if that document was in fact bogus and "mocked up" by Kemp and his pals in order to lay hands on the late quack's fortune in a New York banking house.
Baltimore's Cardinal Gibbons was promised $1,000 under the 1901 Baltimore will but ultimately received $10,000 under a St. Louis will that Tumblety signed weeks before his death in St. Louis on May 28, 1903. The city's Catholic cathedral (now the Basilica of the Assumption) and the Cardinal's Residence are just off top edge of the map north of Tumblety's lodgings. A portrait of Gibbons, a photograph of the Basilica, and a postcard view of the Cardinal's Residence may be seen here (http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?p=40659) along with information on Tumblety's fortune from newspaper reports.
Chris