Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-04-14

LONDON, April S.-A dreesmaker of
London has identified the portrait OF
Deeming as that of man who, in the
autumn of 1888. was paying attention
to her with a view to matrimony. He
showed great excitement over the rip
per- murders. of which several were per-
petrated that year, and left her COM
pany few hours before the murder of
Mrs. Chapman, whose body was found
in Hamburg street. Whitehapel, ON the
morning of September s, 1888, she having
been murdered the previous night. Other
Ripper murders occurred about that
time in rapid succession, the list of those
mysterious crimes having begun in
Christmas week of the previous year,
1887, with the killing of an unknown
woman near Osborne and Wentworth
streets, Whitechapel If the dressnaker
is as correct as she is positive in her rec
objections, Deeming was in London dur
ing the autumn of 1878, when sew
eral of the murders occurred. On
August in that year Martha
Turner was found dead with thirty-nine
stab wounds, on landing in the model
dwellings known as George Yard build
ings, Commercial street. Spitafelds. On
August 81. another woman. belonging
also to the un fortunate class. and known
as Mrs Nichols. was murdered and mu-
tilated in Bucks row, Whitechapel.
Then, on September Z, came the
murder with which the dress
maker connects Deeming. Mrs. Chap
man was the fourth victim, and
her body was found on the morning of
September s. Her throat had been cut
from car to ear and the body cut open
as if by dissector. The body lay ON
the ground and a portion of the remains
had been tied around the neck. Like
the other women killed, she was a
dissolute character, and lived in a
wretched and densely populated
part of the city. There never was
any doubt that her murder was
committed by the same man who had
perpetrated the other three. the victims
all having been murdered by knife, in
an identical manner. The police, it is
well known, were signally unsuccessful
in their efforts to detect the criminal.
The dressmaker says that the time
Deeming left her company on the even
ing of September was about an hour
before the time at which medical testi-
mony at the inquest indicated that the
Chapman woman was probably muir
dered. A few days after the crime the
man she believes was Deeming disap-
peared. and she never saw him again.
The chronology of Decming's record. SO
far as ascertained agrees with the dress
makers story. 1t is as follows:
Frederick Bailey Deeming marries
Miss Mary James, leaves England for
Cape Town-1sS0.
Deemire joined by his wife fnow
identified as Mary james, in Sydney
1882
Deeming received six weeks iInprison-
ment for theft-1SS2.
Absconds from sydney on charge of
fraudulent insolvency-iss6.
Returns to England August II. and to
Birkenhead, leaving that place and his
wife after the birth of his fourth child,
about four months afterward-1sS9
Deeming returned from South Africa
in the spring of 1890. He had a formula
BILE assortment of knives. Samuel Mer-
c1er. of Rain Hill, who was well ac-
quainted with Deeming, says: .-Deeming
represented himself to me to be mill
tary man. and said he had fourteen scars
on him" He went on to talk very
glibly as to the engagements OF hand tc
hand encounters which he had gone
through as inspector in the army He
would not call himself soldier alto
gether. although he had said that he
chad been under fire." Deeming showed
me various weapons. including swords,
knives, spears and an assegai which be
said he had got from Zululand"