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(per jpkess association— copybight. J London, March 23. Amongst other roles Deeming played he claimed at Birkenhead to be a doctor practising in Manchester. He gave a man who watched him cementing the grave of his wife and children five sovereigns. The barmaid at the Commercial Hotel identified a photo of Mrs Deeming as that of a woman who u=ed to visit him. Deeming was in the habit of carrying a number of preoioua etoues in his pocket carelessly screwed up in paper. He consulted a Rainhill doctor on the Wednesday of the week in which the murders were oommitted, and appeared to be anxious that the doctor should not visit the villa. The doctor told him that he was only pretending illness. (Received March 25, 11.35 a.m.) Sydney, This day. Williamß, formerly steward of the s.s. Iberia, is not the man in custody for the Windsor murder, and the leading newspapers apologise for connecting his name with it. Pbbth, This day. Detective Cawsey, of Melbourne, has been informed through a private channel that Williams admits having committed the Rainhill murders, and was the perpetrator of the last " Jack the Ripper" murder in England. [dkiayed wibbs.] London, March 22. The Liverpool Courier assorts that the details published regarding the criminal Deeming do not diaoloee his location at the time the " Jaofe the Ripper " outrages were being perpetrated. March 23. Deeming has been proved to have a continuous record of crime in England, Canada, and Antwerp. The press contains columns about him evety day.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6413, 25 March 1892, Page 2
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