The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-15
Nothing in Wost AustralIa's His
tory hos So Stirred the Colony
AS The DISCOVERY OF HIS DEEDS.
How He Murdered Ills Last Victim.
His Meeting With Miss RounsfoII.
1t Is Probable that IIc is Jack,
tho Rippor-.!rhotosraphs Found In
Ills Posscssion..ono OF Them Taken
in ohio...lTas This Greatest Crimi.
nal Of Modern Times Operated In
the Duckoye State?

San FEANcIsco, April 14.-Sydney
and Melbourne papers received to-day
show that nothing since tho early days
OF tho settlement OF West Australia has
stirred the colony as the discovery Of
Albert Deemlng's murder OF his wife
aud subsequent developments, All bust.
ness was stopped at every place
through which Deening passed oil his
way to Melbourne All classes OF pco.
plc turned out to look at the criminal.
The crushed and mangled body Of a
woman was found in u populous suburb
OF Windsor, five miles east Of Mel.
bourne, March ). and n week later
Dceming was in custody, charged with
the murder.
The last occupant OF the house was
man who gave tho name OF Drew and he
disappeared suddenly. ue complained
OF the lcaky condition Of tho walls OF
tho house and told the landlord that lie
was practical man and ii he bought
some cement would patch up the walls
himself. lilo ccmcntcd his wife up in
one OF the walls.
Drew was apparently OF sporting pro-
clivitics. He dressed in tho height OF
iashion--was bedcckcd with diamonds
and carried himself with the air of n
lord. lie was traced to theSsteamsliip
Kaiser Wilhelm, where he was identi-
fed as Albert Williams. Eight days
after tho crime Williams sought an-
other victim through q matrimonial
agency in Melbourne and went to sgd
ney by steamer. On the voyage he
made desperate love to young lady
passenger named Miss kutc Rounsieli,
OF BATHURST, and when they arrived at
Sydney she had promised to become bis
wife. lie was then travelling under the
name OF Baron Swanson, and in glowing
terms pictured to her his vast estates
and handsome revenues, and made glor-
ious promises for their future. Step by
step detectives traced him, aided in
their search by his ostentatious display
OF diamonds and general bearing, and
his slove entang!ements with Miss Rouns-5
fell eventually led to his capture.
Swanson, in spite OF the damning
proofs against him, declares his inno-
cence. \ number OF photographs be-
longing to the murderer may prove
clues oivalue, nnd@hRve been handed
over to the police. One is of cabinet
size and presents young woman fash
ionably dressed. It is believed it rep
resents Mrs. Williams, victim OF tho
Windsor tragedy. One is that OF a
young woman another OF lad and an
other OF an infant. From the photo.
graph OF the woman. supposed TO be
the Windsor victim, the imprint ap-
pears to have been carefully removed.
Other photographs, according to the
imprint on their backs, were taken at
Sheffield, White Haven, Liverpool,
England; Ohio, United States; sydney,
New South Wales, and Rock Hampton,
Quebec.
a number OF Swanson's hats arc also
in the possession OF the police and
these may play an important part in
his trial.
1t has not been established that
Decmin2 is the notorious "Jacil the
Ripper" but five more brutal murders
have been traced to him and the evi.
dencc thus far gathered points to him
as the White Chapel fcnd. =,