Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-27
HAS HE CONFESSED !?
IT IS ALLEGED THAT DEFINING, The AUS
TRAIIAN MURDERER
Is None Other Than sack, the Ripper" Who Has
So Many Foul Crimes Laid at His DOOr-Ths
Rain Hill Victims Were Not His First
A Reputable Paper Vcuehss for l.

MELBOURNE, March 26. = Considerable
excitement was caused here to-day oy a
statement published By the Argus which
declared that Deeming, the murderer, had
made confession. There has been sus-
picion entertained here and in England
that Deeming is none other than the noto-
rious sack the Ripper" the slayer of the
Whitechapel, London, outcasts, and this
suspicion is borne out, in measure, not
only by Deeming's appearance, which
closely tallies with the description given
Of the WhitechsDel fend, but by his al
legged confession.
The Argus is reliable newspaper, and
there is no reason to doubt the truthful
ness Of the statement 1t makes to-day that
Deeming has acknowledged that he killed
his wife and four children at Dinham villa,
at Rain Hill, near Liverpool, and that he
murdered and mutilated the last two wo-
men whose bodies were found in the pur-
heus Of Whitechapel. Although he has
confessed that these two Whitechapel wo-
men fell victims 10 his mania for murder,
he, while not denying, does not admit that
he killed the other Whitechapel women
whose murders at the time attracted 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 of he will confess not only
these murders but others of which the po-
lice know nothing.
In his confession the Argus says Deeming
makes no mention of his object in mutilat-
ing the bodies of his Whitechapel victims
and removing certain Of their organs. but
it adds there is scarcely doubt the man Is
afflicted with disease similar in some re-
spects TO nymphoriia. The case is most
peculiar one in all its aspects and public
curiosity here is excited to the highest
pitch to learn all the details Of Deeming' s
many crimes.
II lis said Deeming made his confession to
an official at Perth, West Australia, where
he was arrested on the charge OF having
murdered his wife at Windsor, a suburb OF
Melbourne. Deeming secured counsel and
made strong fight against being sent back
10 Melbourne, but the court ordered his
surrender to the authorities of this city,
and yesterday, in custody of 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 unfortunate
whose BODY was found together with those
Of her four children under the floor of the
Rain Hill residence, was not Deeming's
first wife. Some years ago sensation was
created in Australia by the mysterious ais
appearance of the wife and two children
of man who then went by the name OF
Williams, but who turns out to be Deem
ing. The family then resided in Sydney.
There was grave suspicion of foul play at
the time, and the essential proof of murder
being lacking, the matter was allowed to
drop. DEFINING subsequently went to Eng
land and then it was he married the woman
whose murder he now COnfesSeS.