Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-08
DEMONIACD DEFINING.
The Fiend Who Executed the
Rainhill Deviltry.
HIS CAREER WILL END SUDDENLY,

Cut Short by a Hempen Necktie-The
Melbourne Jury Finds Him Guilty of
Wilful Murder - Strong Evidence at
London to support the Belief That He
Is Jack the Ripper A Woman
Whom lie Courted supplies some Inn
portant Facts-Eis discriminating Re
mark.
LONDON, April S--A dispatch from, Mel
bourne states that the CUrouer's jury which
Investigated the cause of the death OF Mrs
Deeming, wife of the man who went bv
the name of Williams at Raiuhiil. "A Liv-
erpool suburb, and under the hearthstoue
OF whose residence, Dinham villa. were
found the bodies of his former wife and
children, has brought in verdict OF guil.v
OF wilful murder. 1t will be remembered
that after disposing OF his other wife and
family Deeming married Miss Mather
OF Rainhill, and went to Australia, where
that lady suddenly disappeared, and her
body was found under the hearthstone.
Just like the other bodies. Deeming's OBJ
1ect in numbering his wife was the same as
In the former case-to marry another
woman.
The Jack the Ripper Theory.
While this examination at Melbourne
has been proceeding the London police has
been busy getting at the ends of the
tangled clue that pointed to Deemiug
being the notorious "Jack the Ripper"
who murdered half a dozen or more of the
depraved women of the Whitechapel dis
tllct in 1855; and though the evidence is
not conclusive it presents many facts that
seem to indicate that Deeming and Jack
the Ripper" are identical. Deeming was
In London during the autumn of 1888,
when several of the Whitechapel murders
occurred. On the 9TH of August in that
year, Martha Turner was found dead with
thlrty-nine stab wounds, on a landing in
the model dwellings known as Geroege
Yard buildings, Commercial street. Spital-
fields. On Aug. 81, another woman be-
longing also to the unfortunate class. and
known as Mrs. Nichols, was murdered and
mntllated IN Bucks Row, Whitechapel
The Story OF Dressmaker
And just here it will be well to introduce
the fact that dressmaker living in the
East end of London has. recognized por-
trait of Deeming as that of a man who
courted her under the name of Lawson in
the autumn of ISIS. On Sept came a
murder with which the dressmaker con-
meets 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 a dissect or
The heart lay on the ground, and por-
ton of the remains had been tied around
the neck. Like the other women killed,
she was a dissolute character, and lived in
q wretched and densely populated part of
the city.
Deeming's Significant Remark.
The dressmaker says that she met Deem
Ing or Lawson, as he was known to her
on the afternoon of Sept. 80. They had a
long conversation on the subject of the
Whitechapel murders, and Deeming
showed that he was conversant with every
one OF the horrible details. A remark
was made concerning suggestion in a
newspaper that the murders were COM
mitted shortly after midnight Deeming
seemed to forget to whom he was talking,
and said to the girl; "Look at the time: /
could not have committed the murders. n
The girl was very much struck by this I'M
called-for remark, and she has often since
thought of it.
Had an Hour for the Work.
Though the remark inadvertently
dropped by Deeming, and his subsequent
actions, aroused a suspicion in the girls
mind that Deeming perhaps was the muir
derer, she did not until now communicate
her suspicious to the police The Dress
maker says that the time DeeminQ left her
company on the evening of Sept. z WAS
about an hour before the time at which
medical testimony at the inquest indicated
that the Chapman woman was probably
murdered. A few days after the crime the
man she believed was Deeming disap-
peared, and she never saw him again.
RECORD OF THE MURDERER