Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-05
DEEMING,s CONFESSION.
Again Said TO Have Admitted the White
chapel Crimes--His Trial Will Not b,
pnefpnnaI

Again Said TO Have Admitted the white
chapel Crimes--His Trial Will Not be
Postponed.
MELBOURNE, April 2S.-The Judge to
whom Mr.. Lyle made application yes
terday for further adjournment of the
trial of Deeming, to-day refused to grant
any further postponemcnt
The Standard to-day says it is in a
position to announce without reserve
that Deeming has confessed to his law
yers and the doctors who examined him
that he committed majority Of the
sack, the Ripper" crimes in the White
Chapel district of London. The article
has created great sensation.
DEFINING NOT SO DEFIANT.
The demeanor of Deeming, when he
was arraigned for trial in the central
criminal court to-day, presented a
marked difference from his conduct at
the inquest. To-day he was quiet and
depressed, and he looked very much dis
appointed when the judge decided that
no further delay would be granted and
that the trial should at once be proceeded
with.
MELBOURNE. April 20.--The trial of
for the murder of his wife ut Windsor, a
suburb of Melbourne, was continued in
the central circuit court here to-day. The
prisoner was silent and downcast
Several witnesses were called by the
prosecuting and they all testified to
quarrels that ACQUIRED between Deeming
and his wife while they were living ut
Windsor.
The most interesting witness, however,
was Kate Rounseyille the lady to whom
Deeming who had assumed the name of
Swanston, was engaged to be married, and
who was upon the point of joining him in
the Southern Cross gold fields when he was
arrested.
She narrated the story of how she met
Deeming on steamer bound for Sydney,
and how finally she accepted the proposal
of marriage he made to her, all OF which
has been before reported.
Throughout her evidence Miss Rounse-
vile spoke of Deeming politely and re-
specially. She declared that Deeming's
manner toward her had always been
courteous and kind. A number of
ordinary love letters, written to her by
Deeming, were then handed to her for
identification.
MELBouRE, May 2.-The trial of
Deeming for the murder of his wife was
resumed in the criminal court this morn
ing. The first witness called was DIR.
| Springthorpe, who related Deeming's
explanation of how his wives had dis
peared.
Deeming said that while he and his
first wife were living at Rainfall, near
Liverpool, a man named Ben Young
had told him that his (Deeming's) wife
would leave him for ESQ. He paid the
money and his wife left him. He sup
| posed that Young had killed her while
he (Deeming) was coming to Mel
bourne with his second wife, Miss
Mather, for whose murder he is now on
| trial.
His second wife, Deeming said, con
fessed that she was already married and
she left him in Melbourne because she
was afraid of being implicated in the
murder of his first wife.
After some further testimony by DR.
Springthorpe that did not in any way
tend to clear the prisoner of the crime
charged against him, the defence an.
nounced that its case was closed.
| GUILTY AND NOT INSANE.
MELBOURNE, May 2.-The jury re.
turned verdict of guilty, and added
that the prisoner was not insane.