Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-08
A Dressmalier's Story.

LONDON, April 8.-A dressmaker OF
London has identified the portrait ct
Deeming as that of man who, in the
autumn Of 1888, was paying attention to
her, with a view of matrimOny. lie
showed great excitement over the
"ripper" murders, of which several were
perpetrated in that year, and left her
company few hours befor the murder
of Mrs. Chapman, whose body was
found i'll Hanbury street, Whitechapel,
on the morning of Sept 8, 1883, she
having been murdered the previous
night.
Several 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 dressmaker is as correct as she
is positive in her recollections, Deeming
was in London during the autumn OF
1888. when several of the murders oc-
CURED.
On Aug. 7, in that year, Martha
Turner was found dead with thirty
nine stab wounds on a landing in the
model dwellings, known as George Yard
buildings, Commercial street, Spltal-
fields.
On Aug. 81, another woman, belong
ing also to the unfortunate classes, and
known as Mrs. Nichols. was murdered
and mutilated in Bucks Row, White
| chapel.
Then on Sept. 7 came the murder
with which the dressnaker connects
Deeming.
Mrs. Chapman was the fourth victim,
and her body was found after daylight
on the morning of Sept. s. Her throat
had been cut from ear to ear, and the
body cut open as if by dissector. The
heart lay on the ground, and portion
of the remains had been tied around the
neck. Like the other women killed,
she was a dissolute character, and llvod
in a wretched and densely populated
part of the city. There never was any
doubt that her murder was committed
bv the same man, who had perpetrated
the other three, the victims all having
been killed by knife i'll an identical
manner.
The police, it is well known, were
signallv unsuccessful in their efforts to
detect the criminal.
The dressmaleT says that the time
Deeming left her company on the even
ing of Sept. 7, was about an hour before
the time at which medical testimony 81
the induest indicated that the Chapm0 L
woman was probably murdered. A teN
days after the crime the man she be
lieves was Deeming, disappeared, anC
she never saw him again.
Deemihg's Chronological Record.
s The chronology of Deeming's record
so far as ascertained, agrees with th'
dressmakers story. 1t Is as follows:
Frederick Bailey Deeming married
Miss Mary James, leaves England
for Capetewn-lSSO.
Deeming joined 10y his wife (now lden
tilted as May James,, in Sydney 1852
Deeming received six weeks imprls
onment for theft-12S2.
Absconds from Sydney on charge o
fraudulent lnsolyency-1SS6.
Returns to England 11th of August
and to Birlenhead, leaving that plac
and his wife after the birth of hi
fourth child, about four months after
wards-1SS9.
Deeming returned from South Afrie
in the spring of 1890. He had a fol
midable assortment Of knives.
Claimed to be soldier.
Samuel Mercer, of Rain Hill, VINO wa
well acquainted with Deeming, says
"Deening represented himself to me
be military man, and said he ma
fourteen sears on him. He went ON
talk very glibly of the engagements an
hand-to-hand encounters which he ma
Z gone through as inspector IN the arm!
He would not cali himself soldier att
0 gether. although be had said that .
had been under fire. Deemlng Shove
me various weapons, including SWORD