| Show CRIMES 1 I 1 A part fart of the bloody history of a ilaman monster monitor frederick deeming who was convicted oi of I 1 the murder ot of life bis wife formerly miss mather lather iby by a jury at melbourne on the 2nd and to Is uni ual ono one of uio the worst wretches that avei eve lived below la is given the facts acts ot of hu his criminal career so far oa no known but it Is certain that tie be has committed many others not known kofl one day last july a man who gave his hamd u A 0 williams arrived at rain mil hill a val vage about nine miles from liverpool and put up at a local hostelry the Comm ercla kotel hott 1 deseri describing bing himself as an inspector lie he rented denham villa ellla f rom a at mra ohp kept a shop in inthe the village and who was the agent for the owner during the negotiations he bo became acquainted with miss mather and after a brief courtship he married her last september A few days at ter r williams arrival at rain hill ho he was vla ts cited on one or two occasions iclona by a strange woman accompanied by several children the woman and children suddenly disappeared and williams accounted tor for this by saying that the woman was wad lid sister and that sho she had bad gone to join her husband in port said after the wedding williams AV illiams and his bride left for london on their way to australla aus t ralla i letters were regularly received by mrs mra mather I 1 LK other describing their journey and saying that they were very happy soon the letters ceased and then came a cablegram i 1 ing IDS the discovery of mrs williams body in melbourne the body was found under a freshly laid cement floor in front of the kitchen fireplace in the windsor house boum the t skull kull kulawas n was as fractured the face was beaten la in and the h head cad was nearly severed from the body these facts were telegraphed to england and the liverpool police recalling the mysterious disappearance of the woman and children who had visited williams at rain hill end nd also albo having learned that during his stay at dinham villa williams had cemented the kitchen floor decided to investigate they found the body of a woman her throat cut wrapped in an eiderdown eider down quilt then one after another four children were unearthed a girl of 12 who had been strangled a 7 year 01 old dg girl ir I 1 a 5 year yea ro old boy and an infant all with their throats threats cut all of the bodies were well dresse dand the woman wore a wedding ring the dead woman was identified as the em aloye of a liverpool costermonger and whom the murderer had bad married under the name deeming describing himself as a mining engineer they left liverpool and went to hull hall where williams was afterwards convicted of forgery and served a year in prison after bli deleme ha bot marr E 2 MIM cathl abla whom he afterwards deserted and returned to his first wife then followed his engagement to miss mather and the butchery of his first wife and children the discovery of the bodies at rain hill and the peculiar atrocity of the murders suggested the idea to the police of both melbourne and london that deeming was none other than jack the ripper nod and they went diligently to work to find evidence corroborative ot of this theory one important fact in this connection Is that the murders began about the time that williams william or of deeming Is a supposed to have arrived in england and since last july when be arrived at rain HUI bill there ocre have been no more east end outrages of that description it la 13 also maintained as that while at rain hill he be visited london from saturday to monday and nearly all the murders were committed either on saturday night or sunday morning those who knew deeming in rain mil hill say that he be answered in every detail the description of jack the ripper both in his personal appear ance and in his walk specimens ol of deem ings handwriting were compared by the london police with the letter ot of jack the ripper and they were found to resemble it very closely on the other hand bandit it seems bulto certain that deeming was not in england when some me ot of the murders were committed |
