Simon Wood
06-23-2009, 05:08 PM
Hi All,
Rochester Democrat and Republican 3 Dec 1888—
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.
Mr. Edward Haywood, of the Bureau of Accounts in the State Department, has known Tumblety since boyhood, and when it was first mentioned in the newspapers that there were suspicions connecting Tumblety with the Whitechapel murders Mr. Haywood immediately said that the theory was quite tenable.
"I am in my fifty-second year," said Mr. Haywood to a World correspondent today, "and I fancy Frank Tumblety must be two or three years older. I remember him very well when he used to run about the canal in Rochester, N.Y., a dirty, awkward, ignorant, uncared-for, good-for-nothing boy. He was utterly devoid of education. He lived with his brother, who was my uncle's gardener. About 1855 I went West. Tumblety turned up in Detroit as a 'doctor.' The only training he ever had for the medical profession was in a little drug store at the back of the Arcade, which was kept by a 'Doctor' Lispenard, who carried on a medical business of a disreputable kind.
"A few years later I saw him here in Washington and he was putting on great style. He wore a military fatigue costume and told me he was on General McClellan's staff. Lieutenant Larry Sullivan, who belonged to a Rochester regiment, came up to him one day. He tried to palm the same tale off upon Sullivan, but the latter being perfectly familiar with McClellan's staff, told the imposter plainly just how great a liar he was. During the war and for some time after Tumblety remained in Washington and played the 'doctor' as he had done in Detroit. He got up some sort of a patent medicine, and at one time the walls were covered with large posters advertising the virtues of the Tumblety Pimple Destroyer. He must have made money, for he was able to spend plenty and live in the most extravagant elegance.
"Knowing him as I do I should not be the least surprised if he turned out to be Jack the Ripper."
Edward Haywood was born on 18th August 1837 at 45 Troup Street, Rochester, New York, the youngest of nine children. His father, William Haywood, died 16th June 1837, two months before Edward's birth, and his mother was Almira Haywood [nee Taylor].
On 1st November 1861, at the age of 24, he joined the State Department in Washington DC as a temporary clerk, married Julia Charlotte Dayton, aged 17, on 30th October 1862, and by 1870 was in charge of the Bureau of Domestic Records. In 1873 he became Chief of the Bureau of Accounts at a salary of $2,100. He then left the State Department for a year, returning in 1874 as a fourth class clerk at a salary of $1,800.
By 1895 he was chief bookkeeper of the Bureau of Accounts, but in October of that year was asked to resign, together with his departmental head, by US Secretary of State Richard Olney. Irregularities in the bureau's accounts had been discovered. $9,000 was missing. The following years are a blank. He died at Gaithersburg, Maryland, 9th March 1914, aged 76.
Edward Haywood remembered Tumblety "very well . . . he used to run about the canal in Rochester, N.Y., a dirty, awkward, ignorant, uncared-for, good-for-nothing boy. He was utterly devoid of education. He lived with his brother, who was my uncle's gardener."
His father had one brother—John Haywood, born Devon, England 1797; died Rochester, 19th July 1873. A hat and fur merchant, he was the uncle who employed Lawrence Tumblety as gardener at No.9 N. Fitzhugh Street, one block east of Sophia Street.
1875 Rochester Street Map—
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Haywood's description of Tumblety is told very much from an adult perspective. But even so, why in 1847 the 17 year old Tumblety should have registered on the 10 year old Haywood's social radar is unclear.
We are on less certain ground with Haywood's later Tumblety encounter in Washington.
"A few years later I saw him here in Washington and he was putting on great style. He wore a military fatigue costume and told me he was on General McClellan's staff. Lieutenant Larry Sullivan, who belonged to a Rochester regiment, came up to him one day. He tried to palm the same tale off upon Sullivan, but the latter being perfectly familiar with McClellan's staff, told the imposter plainly just how great a liar he was."
Only two soldiers named Larry Sullivan fought in the American Civil War. Both were Privates—one in the 16th Regiment, Illinois; the other in the 14th Regiment, Kansas.
Larry is a nickname for Laurence or Lawrence.
Five Laurence Sullivans [all Privates] were in New York regiments—the 179th, 15th, 100th, 14th and 170th.
Three Lawrence Sullivans [all Privates] were in New York regiments—the 174th, 162nd and 1st NY Cavalry.
No Lieutenant Larry, Laurence or Lawrence Sullivan is recorded on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html, so we should treat this part of Haywood's story with caution.
Haywood's knowledge of Tumblety was peripheral to say the least, so what qualified him to state that "Knowing him as I do I should not be the least surprised if he turned out to be Jack the Ripper" is a mystery.
Regards,
Simon
Rochester Democrat and Republican 3 Dec 1888—
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.
Mr. Edward Haywood, of the Bureau of Accounts in the State Department, has known Tumblety since boyhood, and when it was first mentioned in the newspapers that there were suspicions connecting Tumblety with the Whitechapel murders Mr. Haywood immediately said that the theory was quite tenable.
"I am in my fifty-second year," said Mr. Haywood to a World correspondent today, "and I fancy Frank Tumblety must be two or three years older. I remember him very well when he used to run about the canal in Rochester, N.Y., a dirty, awkward, ignorant, uncared-for, good-for-nothing boy. He was utterly devoid of education. He lived with his brother, who was my uncle's gardener. About 1855 I went West. Tumblety turned up in Detroit as a 'doctor.' The only training he ever had for the medical profession was in a little drug store at the back of the Arcade, which was kept by a 'Doctor' Lispenard, who carried on a medical business of a disreputable kind.
"A few years later I saw him here in Washington and he was putting on great style. He wore a military fatigue costume and told me he was on General McClellan's staff. Lieutenant Larry Sullivan, who belonged to a Rochester regiment, came up to him one day. He tried to palm the same tale off upon Sullivan, but the latter being perfectly familiar with McClellan's staff, told the imposter plainly just how great a liar he was. During the war and for some time after Tumblety remained in Washington and played the 'doctor' as he had done in Detroit. He got up some sort of a patent medicine, and at one time the walls were covered with large posters advertising the virtues of the Tumblety Pimple Destroyer. He must have made money, for he was able to spend plenty and live in the most extravagant elegance.
"Knowing him as I do I should not be the least surprised if he turned out to be Jack the Ripper."
Edward Haywood was born on 18th August 1837 at 45 Troup Street, Rochester, New York, the youngest of nine children. His father, William Haywood, died 16th June 1837, two months before Edward's birth, and his mother was Almira Haywood [nee Taylor].
On 1st November 1861, at the age of 24, he joined the State Department in Washington DC as a temporary clerk, married Julia Charlotte Dayton, aged 17, on 30th October 1862, and by 1870 was in charge of the Bureau of Domestic Records. In 1873 he became Chief of the Bureau of Accounts at a salary of $2,100. He then left the State Department for a year, returning in 1874 as a fourth class clerk at a salary of $1,800.
By 1895 he was chief bookkeeper of the Bureau of Accounts, but in October of that year was asked to resign, together with his departmental head, by US Secretary of State Richard Olney. Irregularities in the bureau's accounts had been discovered. $9,000 was missing. The following years are a blank. He died at Gaithersburg, Maryland, 9th March 1914, aged 76.
Edward Haywood remembered Tumblety "very well . . . he used to run about the canal in Rochester, N.Y., a dirty, awkward, ignorant, uncared-for, good-for-nothing boy. He was utterly devoid of education. He lived with his brother, who was my uncle's gardener."
His father had one brother—John Haywood, born Devon, England 1797; died Rochester, 19th July 1873. A hat and fur merchant, he was the uncle who employed Lawrence Tumblety as gardener at No.9 N. Fitzhugh Street, one block east of Sophia Street.
1875 Rochester Street Map—
5678
Haywood's description of Tumblety is told very much from an adult perspective. But even so, why in 1847 the 17 year old Tumblety should have registered on the 10 year old Haywood's social radar is unclear.
We are on less certain ground with Haywood's later Tumblety encounter in Washington.
"A few years later I saw him here in Washington and he was putting on great style. He wore a military fatigue costume and told me he was on General McClellan's staff. Lieutenant Larry Sullivan, who belonged to a Rochester regiment, came up to him one day. He tried to palm the same tale off upon Sullivan, but the latter being perfectly familiar with McClellan's staff, told the imposter plainly just how great a liar he was."
Only two soldiers named Larry Sullivan fought in the American Civil War. Both were Privates—one in the 16th Regiment, Illinois; the other in the 14th Regiment, Kansas.
Larry is a nickname for Laurence or Lawrence.
Five Laurence Sullivans [all Privates] were in New York regiments—the 179th, 15th, 100th, 14th and 170th.
Three Lawrence Sullivans [all Privates] were in New York regiments—the 174th, 162nd and 1st NY Cavalry.
No Lieutenant Larry, Laurence or Lawrence Sullivan is recorded on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html, so we should treat this part of Haywood's story with caution.
Haywood's knowledge of Tumblety was peripheral to say the least, so what qualified him to state that "Knowing him as I do I should not be the least surprised if he turned out to be Jack the Ripper" is a mystery.
Regards,
Simon