The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
BORN A MONSTROSITY.
Demon Deeming Couldn't Resist
Bloody Impulses.
THAT is HIS ONLY DEFENSE.
His Conduct in the Court Room-A
Woman Whom He Courted Thinks
He Is Jack the Ripper.

MELBOURNE, April 7.-Although the Jury
returned verdict of wilful murder against
Deeming, he has not altered his demeanor,
and is jocular and insolent at times. Every
day additional evidence is received show
ing that the man is entirely devoid of con-
science, although his bravery is ques-
toned, as his victims were women and
children.
During the inquest yesterday the cor
| oner read note signed Lille" The
writer said the coroner must treat Deem
ing with great impartiality, for if he did
not get justice the writer would take the
coroner's life i'll open court. The letter is
supposed to have been written by crank
or to be hoax.
In spite of his semblance of ease, Deem
ing in periods of abstraction is visibly hag-
gard. He has lost flesh, and his features
are becoming pointed. The Jail wards
keep close watch upon him all the time.
for it is believed he will kill himself if he
gets chance. He studiously paid no at
tention to the evidence except at times
when he laughed at certain statements
that were made. A newspaper reporter
was busily preparing verbatim report of
the proceedings, and the reporter of the
Associated Press, who was present with
the correspondents of other press associa-
tions, prepared his cable messages in the
courtroom. After time Deeming no.
ticed the messengers of the cable company
passing and repassing. and asked: what
have people abroad got to do with q MUIR
der committed here?"
When Miss Bonneville, his Sydney
fiancee, went to the table to sign her testi-
mony, Deeming called to her, saying:
katie, come to me-" Miss bonneville
paid not the slightest attention to him.
In nearly every place that Deeming has
been he has shown a really valuable COL
lection of weapons of various types. At
the inquest he produced battle-ax and a
knife which Sergeant Mullins said he
thought might have inflicted the wounds
that killed Mrs. Deeming.
In an interview which he had with his
solicitor, Deeming supplied Mr.. Lyle with
abundant material for his defense at the
coming trial. The facts which he gave
dated from the time of his birth and in
clude much information regarding his in
fancy. During his conversation with the
solicitor, the prisoner remarked: "The
world produces moral as well as physical
| monstrosities." The line of defense which
will be adopted at the trial is probably
! that Deeming's nature received a
| malignant impress at his birth,
which has marked all his actions
during his life and has left him mentally
incapable of overcoming the homicidal
impulses with which he has been afflicted.
In fact, that he was what the prisoner
himself had described as moral mon
strosity." After the coroner's jury found
Deeming guilty off numbering his wife his
trial was liked for April II.
LONDON, April IA dressmaker living
in the east end of London has recognized
the portrait of Deeming as that of man
who courted her under the name of Law
son in the autumn of ISIS. She saws they
were walking together on the night of SEN
TENDER %, and parted from each other at
IL O'Clock. The following morning the
shockingly mutilated bodies of the women
Stride and Eddowes were found in the
Whitechapel district. The next day the
dressmaker and Lawson heard about the
murders, and the latter inadvertently
said: Look at the time I could not have
committed the murders" He immedi-
ately disappeared, and she has not seen
him since.