Quiz: Who is this former Montrealer involved in some very very nasty things?

   This is Francis Tumblety, a quack snakeoil salesman who sold medicine and had countless brushes with the law, including one that saw him suspected of involvement in the Lincoln assassination. He was also one of the top suspects in the Jack the Ripper investigation. Oh, and he was well-known to despise women and showed off his collection of womens uteruses which he boasted came from all classes of women. So it's possible that he murdered women in Montreal during his stay.
 Tumblety had planned to live in Montreal (he stayed at posh hotels wherever he went) from September 1, 1857 to May 1, 1858. Apparently he won a steeple chase and was sought to run for government.
   The welcome mat was pulled for Tumblety, as it did with so many of the towns he lived in, when he got into trouble.
   His thing here was that he charged $20 to a woman named Philomene Dumas for what she said was an abortion pill.
   He denied it. He was charged 23 September but the charges ended up with a "No true bill" verdict (what's that? - Chimples) thanks largely to his high-powered Irish Catholic lawyers, Lewis Thomas Drummond and Bernard Devlin.
   It turned out that he had been set up by a Detective Simard who had used the prostitute to get a case against Tumblety who had widely been suspected as an abortionist. La Minerve, Le Pays and The Witness sided with the police. The Pilot, Herald and Commercial Advertiser opposed the police prosecution.
   Tumblety, in an open letter, called the prosecution a "foul and criminal conspiracy by which it was sought to ruin my character and degrade me in your esteem." John Birks, chemist, sniffed the Tumblety's potion and said it was "black helebore." He also served out pills made of "cayenne peppers, aloes, oil of savine and cantharides" which were deemed to have the qualities that would induce an abortion.
   It was the first abortion trial in Montreal. Tumblety produced multiple character witnesses and what was surely a fake claim of medical training in France. He was acquitted and returned to Toronto. If you're curious about how that photo came about, here's a long interview dealing with that very question.