THE MURDERS IN ENGLANDAND MELBOURNE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3084, 26 March 1892, Page 2

THE MURDERS IN ENGLANDAND MELBOURNE.

THE ALLEGED CONFESSION. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Maroh 25. Seventeen additional witnesses for the inquest apoa the bodies disinterred at Bainbill have been secured. It is reported in Liverpool that a lady who was an intimate friend of Mrs. Deeming is prepared to swear she visited her on a bank holiday, a week and some days after the supposed murder on the night of July 26. Sight-seers rushed tbe villa today, overcoming the police on guard. The owner intends to demolish the bouse and rebuild in the vioinity. PERTH, March 26. Swanston, alias Williams, alias Deeming, has left for Melbourne. The confession of the acoused is alleged to have been made to Mr. Haynes, who is defending him. Haynes demanded to know the whole strength of Swanston's defence, and the latter replied tbat be would make a olean breast of it. He said be was guilty of the Rainhill murders, but on tbe subject of the Windsor murder oareiol retioence was observed on both sides. Mr. Haynes then spoke of tbe subject of the Wbitecbapel murders, and desired to know whether his client was or was not "Jack, the Ripper." Swanston replied that be had committed the last two murders in 1890, but knew nothing of those previously committed. The prisoner bases his defence to the Windsor murder upon tbe fact tbat the crime is alleged to have been committed on tbe 24th December, while he can proda 08 witnesses tbat she was seen in Melbourne on tbe 29th, five days later. He will assert that she cleared out with another man.