Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-04-02
CONFESSED.
The Fiend Doening Is Said to- p
Jack the Ripper
The Slayer of the whitechapel U.ondonl
Outcasts-A Mania for Murder and Mo.
tilation-IIe Contesses to tho MUIR
der of Ills Family In Liverpool.

Outcasts-A Mania for Murder and Mu.
tilation-IIe Contesses to tho MUIR
der of Ills Family In Liverpool.
MELBOURNE, March 2s.-Considerab bic
excitement was caused here by state.
ment published by The Argus which |
declared that Deening, the murderer.
had made confession There has been
a strong suspicion entertained here and
in England that Deening is none other
than the notorious Jack the Ripper"
the slayer of the Whitcchapel Nondon)
outcasts, and this suspicion is borne out
in a measure, not only by Deening's
appearance, which closely tallies with
the description given of the White.
chapel fiend, but by his alleged con.
fession.
The Argus is reliable newspaper,
and there is. no reason to doubt the
truthfulnsssof the statement it makes
that. Decning has acknowledged that
-ha4 ll6&a4s4s wife and four children at
Dinham villa at Ram Hill, near Liver.
pool, and that he murdered and mutil.
were found in the purlieus of White.
chapel. Although he has confessed
that these two Whitechapcl women fell
victims to MS 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 OBJ
ject in mutilating the bodies of his
Whitechapel victims and removing GER.
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 ofhavlng murdered his wife
at Windsor, a suburb of Melbourne.
Deening secured counsel and made q
strong 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 n sensation was created
| in Australia by the mysterious disap.
| pearance of the wife and two children
of a man who then went by the name
of Williams, but who turns ont to be
Deeiiing. 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
&nfsmurder being lacking the matteE4yRas
ilowed to drop. Deening subsequent.
Nv went 10 England, and then IL was he
| married the woman whose nv ~
wv confesses.
pNpoN, March 2S.-Thc p
rday published the sta1
xconfession, which
elbourne. The 81
81 intense excitemen
z2hapel, and the papers IL
wildfre Ever since the seSlJSof nj
ders was started in that district Ynnn
of the class to which the VII
longed have been il mortaf
their lives.