The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-13
DFEMIN CAREER,
sUPPOs.
On TO BE JACK THE RIPPER"


-., Man is Accused of at Least Six
..en Atrocious Murders, and Was in
,ondon When the Grimes OF the
nPinper" Are Known to Have Been
comn1itted-His Various Courtships
ND the Discovery In Dinhan Villa
r,o, the Nelu York Commercial Advertiser.
IoypoN, April 9.-The chief of the Liver.
III nolice force left London this afternoon
lfst,- prolonged conference with the Scot
I.,d Yard detectives relative TO the Deem
80 murders Ever since the arrest Of
nsaming for killing his wife at Windsor,
,bs Melbourne suburb, and the subsequent
discoveries at Rainhlll, near Liverpool, all
london has been discussing the theory that
tha Australian demon is the " hitechapel
sand. Jack the Ripper. The public has ar
,i,,ad at the comfortable conclusion that the
MYSTERIOUS scourage of the WhitechapeI
distriot is at last safely confined in an anti
podean jail.
Your correspondent Is informed that the
conference between the detectives of Lon
don and Liverpool has led them to the same
conclusion. 1t may be well to give a brief
summary Of the known facts on which they
bese their conclusion. and possibly to throw
little additional light of the series of
tragedies which they assume to have traced
n its source, starting with the Rainhill
murders, as antedating the crime for which
Deaming is now held IN Melbourne
One day last July man, who gave his
name as A. o. Williams, arrived at Rain
Mn, a village about nine miles from Liver
rool. and put up at local hostelry, the
commercial hotel, describing himself as al
Inspector. He rented Dinham villa, from
a Mrs. Mather, who kept stationers shop
in the village, and who was the agent for
the owner. During the negotiations he be-
came acquainted with Miss Mather, and,
after brief courtship, he married her last
September. A few days after Williams
arrival in Rainhill he was visited on one
or two occasions by a strange woman, &C
companied by several children. The woman
and children suddenly disappeared, and
Williams accounted for this by saying
that the woman was his sister, and that she
had gone to join her husband In Port Said
After the wedding Williams and his bride
left for London, on their way to Australia.
Letters we're regularly received by Mrs
Mather describing their journey, and say
ing that they were very happy, Soon the
letters ceased, and then came a cablegram
announcing the discovery of Mrs. Williams
body in Melbourne. The body was found
under freshly laid cement floor, in front
Of the kitchen fireplace, In the Windsor
house. The skull was fractured. the face
was beaten in and the head was
yearly severed from the body. These facts
we're telegraphed to England, and the
Liverpool police, recalling the mysterious
disappearance of the woman and children
who had visited Williams at Rainhill, and
also hav ing learned that during his stay at
Dnham villa Williams had cemented the
Kitchen floor, decided to investigate. They
found the body OF a woman, her throat
cut, wrapped in an eiderdown quilt,
Then, one after another, four children were
unearthed-a girl OF II. who had been
suangled, a Z year-old girl, s.
year-old boy and an infant, all with their
throats cut All Of the bodies were we'll
dressed, and the woman wore a wedding
ring. A nurseryman, who lived in the next
house to Dinham villa, told the police that
Oh a Saturday in last August woman aud
four children arrived at the villa. He had
some conversation with two of the children.
While he was talking to them, Williams
called to them sharply to come into the
house. None Of the party was ever seen
again alive.
The dead woman was identified as the
employee of Liverpool costermonger, and
whom Williams had married under the
name of Deeming, describing himself as a
mining engineer. They left Liverpool and
went TO Hull where Williams was after
ward convicted of forgery and served a
year 10 prison. After his release he married
a Miss MathieSon, whom he afterward de-
serted and returned to his first wife. Then
followed his engagement to Miss Mather
and the butchery Of MS first wife and her
children.
So much for the Rainhill murders. The
Windsor tragedy was similar, except that
there was only one victim-his last wife,
Miss Mather. The discovery of the bodies
Of RalnhlIl, and the peculiar atrocity of
the murders, suggested the idea to the
Police Of both Melbourne and London that
Deeming was no other than Jack the Rip
psT, ana they went diligently to work to
tld evidence corroborative of this theory.
One important fact in this connection is
that the Whitechapel murders began about
the time that Williams, or Deeming,
Is supposed to have arrived in England,
and since last July, when he went to
live at Rainhlll, there have been no more
East End outrages of that description 1t
Is also mentioned as significant that while
hRainhill he visited London, from Satur>
DAY TO Monday, and nearly all the White
chapel murders were committed either on
Ha1uIuaY nlgnb or sunday morning. Those
who knew Deeming in Rsinhill say that he
answered in every detail the descriptions Of
JACK the Ripper, both in MS personal ap-
peaFance and in his souchIng walk.
Specimens of Deemings handwriting
We're compared by the London police
with the letter of Jack the Ripper,
sad they were found to resemble it
very closely. But the strongest evidence is
Ile statement of dressmaker, living in the
East End of London. who says that she
recognizes portrait of Deeming as that of
man who courted her under the name of
lawson In the autumn of 1888. She says
mat they We're walking together on the
evening Of Sept. 30 and parted about IL
VcIock. The following morning the shock
ngly mutilated bodies of the women Stride
snd Eddowes were found in the White
chapel district. The next afternoon they
aeI again, and while they were discussing
Ne murders of the night before the girl
uHed attention to the statement in the
LLsN"spapers that the women must have been
Aed soon after midnight. Deeming un-
Eardedly replied: Look at the time
Gllunt have committed the murders" The
sNl was very much impressed by this re-
@ark During the afternoon Deeming was
very much agitated and eagerly read the
sss"spaper comments on the crime. A few
Jays atterward he disappeared and the girl
uS never seen him since.
me ten Whitechapel murders were COM
United on April 5, Aug. Z, Aug. 81, Sept. 6,
wv '"G 90 Sept. 80 and Nov. 9, 1888; July IA
S euu Sept 10, 1899, and Feb. Is, 1890. The
aessmaker's story proves that Deeming
was In London or rba 80 ba