The Northern Guardian. — 1892-03-26 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

NENSATIONAL TELEGRAM.  Mai.noultivic, Saturday. !kerning has confessed to the Rainhill murders, mil to tw,,i Whitechapel murders. Tho report of Deeming having committed two of fizz Whitediapel murders ia generally discredited, tfiough 11;,; reappeared at Birkenhead shortly after one of the crimes, and had formidable knives in IhiapusOMiou.  Thaseries of murders whieh thrilled the whole eia•ilised aerial with horror during 1887-8-9 would i seem to be o point nearer solution if the telegram ' which we publish front Melbourne to-day is to be relied ueon. Deeming, alias William, alias Lawson, it is stated, has confessed to two of the sensational murders known to the v-erld liB the Whitechapel tragedies. TEe perpetration of these fiendieh outrages has 14the.te been ascribed to ",Jack the Ripper," who fiat and t4st has been credited with close upon a - ' doyen meeders. Up to the present, all the rcfnurces af the metropolitan awl provincial police and various other agencies, which at the time were set in motion have been powerless to arrive at anything like a satisfactory clue. The nature of these brut-, hacking murders are too fresh in the neitinory to need mind' mention here. The •' Whitechapel murders " commenced in August, 1.387, when the body of a woman whose name never transpired was found transfixed with a i great number of wounds, apparently caused by a ' bayonet. or some similarly sharp weapon. Thisl crime is now generally put down to the account I of. the mysterious murderer, "Jack the Ripper" Although the event above-mentioned ' Call Fad a geod deal of sensation at the ' thee, it we's not elaseed among the murders attrikited to "Jaek the Ripper" for some considerable perlotl. Within a month or two all London was again startled by a fresh discovery, that of a womati'e Isaly, which was found lying in a dirty tale atreet in Whitechapel, shockingly mutilated. As in the firetenamed case, the criminal was never beoljalti, to .ieatice, and public excitement gradually ebeTed nail early one morning only a few weeks afterwards enother female body was found, mailetel aeil cut in almost precisely the same ineeeete see t whichbore evidence of havingbeendone be C.lO saw.-, hand. Wit' ' a month or two yet , another !Hely was found under exactly similar circurintanees and in a position very near that in %Walt the other victims had met their deaths. A veritable ..-eign of terror set in in Whitechapel. %natal hardly- ventured to set soot out of doors after dark, the police force was doubled, megteur detectives in hundreds patrolled the idte7ttlia mid a state of affairs prevailed which it is scarcely possible to describe. Another ettel Yet another victim were added to the list, until eight crimes had been committed, all among women of:the " unfortunate " class, and all bearing evidence of being the work of the same murderer.. Ur the occasion of the last murder, the policeon ditiy in the street where it occurred just sa ate! securing the assassin by a minute or two, ' t 4 victim being barely dead when he reached her ale. After that event the murders ceased, and ettliough ft'equent letters were received at the valiee statiana and at various newspaper offices in tionden threatening a recomtneneement of the erixne% their renewal never took place.. It is a remarkable fact. that the whole of the crimes weriacommitted wil.hin an extremely circumscribed area which literally swarmed with police, both in tiqUorin awl plain clothed, and it is equally worthy orittonder that the assassin never left, in any one cam, a sinekt trace to give a clue to his identity or aelie4eaboute. In the caw of the latest murders it will taetentetnhered that a ship's fireman named Sadler wsq.arreatcd and charged with the crime-. It was int übtedly the case that he was with the in ered woman a few minutes prior to her death, int,khe was able to satisfactorily account for his (lowa dari.ag those few minutes, awl he was iteenolingly released.