The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-02
CONFESSED.
The Fiond Deening Is Said to Bo
"Jack the Ripper"
Tho slayer OF the whitechapei (London)
Outcasts-A Mania FOR Murder and Mu-
tilation-Ho ConteaSes to the Mur-
der of His Family in Liverpool.

Outcasts-A Mania FOR Murder and Mu-
tiIntion-He Contesses to the Mur-
der of His Family in Liverpool.
MELBOURNE, March 2e Considerable
excitement was caused here by n state
ment published by The Argus, which
declared that Deening, the murderer,
had made confession. There has been
strong suspicion entertained here and
in England that Deening is none other
than the notorious Jack the Ripper"
the slayer of the Whitechapel London)
outcasts, and this suspicion is borne out
in measure, not only by Deening's
appearance, which closely tallies with
the description given of the White
chapel fend, but by his alleged con-
fession.
The Argus is reliable newspaper,
and there is no reason to doubt the
truthfulness of the statement it makes
that Deening has acknowledged that
he killed his wife and four children at
Dinham villa at Ram Hill, near Liver
pool, and that he murdered and mutil-
ated the last two women, whose bodies
were found in the purlieus of White
chapel Although he has confessed
that these two Whitechapel women fell
victims to his mania for murder he,
while not denying, does not admit
that he killed the other Whitechapel
women whose murders at the time at
tracted the attention of the. whole
world. 1t is believed, however, that
when he finds all hope of escape from
the clutches of the law cut off he will
confess, not only these murders, but
others of which the police know moth
ing. In his confession, the Argus says,
Deening makes no mention of his oh
ject in mutilating the bodies of his
Whitechapel victims and removing cer-
tain of the organs, but, it adds,
there is scarcely doubt that the man
is afflicted with a disease similar in
some respects to nymphomania.
1t is said that Deening made his con-
fession to an official at Perth, West
Australia, where he was arrested on
the charge of having murdered his wife
at Windsor, suburb of Melbourne.
Decking secured counsel and made a
strony fight against being sent back to
Melbourne, but the court ordered his
surrender to the authorities of this
city, and Friday he started in custody
of the officers on his return. He told
the Perth official to whom he made his
confession, that he was not guilty of
the Windsor murder. His wife, he
claimed, had eloped with another man.
1t has transpired that the unfortun-
ate woman whose body was found, to-
gether with those of her four children,
under the floor Of the Rain Hill resi-
dence was not Deening's first wife.
Some years ago a sensation was created
in Australia by the mysterious disap-
pearance of the wife and two children
of man who then went by the name
of Williams, but who turns out to be
Deening The family then resided in
Sydney. There was grave suspicion of
foul play at the time, but the bodies
were not found and the essential proof
of murder being lacking the matter was
allowed to drop. Deening subsequent
ly went to England, and then it was he
married the woman whose murder he
| now confesses.
LONDON, March 2s.-The papers here
Saturday published the story of Deem
ings confession, which was cabled
from Melbourne. The story caused the
most intense excitement in White
chapel, and the papers sold there like
wildfire. Ever since the series of mur-
ders was started in that district women
of the class to which the victims be.
longed have been in mortal terror OF
their lives.