THE WINDSOR TRAGEDY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9390, 1 April 1892, Page 2

THE WINDSOR TRAGEDY.

* DEEMING'S CAREER AT THE CAPE. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! (Per Press Association. ) Adelaide, March 31. (Received March 31, at 11.45 a.m.) AVilliams has arrived here from Albany. Detective Cawsey states that AVilliams' confession with reference to two of "Jack the Ripper's " murders was made in his presence. Melbourne, March 31. (Received April 1, at 1.10 a.m.) Detective Brindt, formerly of Johannesburg, knew Deeming when in South Africa, and has every reason to believe he is the man wanted for the murder of a British officer named Graham and two natives in Johannesburg in 1888. The bodies of the murdered people were horribly mutilated. Brindt is engaged investigating the matter. Shortly after the murder it is alleged that Deeming was connected with a number of others in swindling the National Bank of Johannesburg out of L 162,000. London, March 31. (Received April 1, at 1.10 a.m.) Letters addressed by Deeming to the British Consul in Monte Video, where he was arrested for fraudulently obtaining goods in England, have been discovered. In these he complained of the treatment received in prison, and threatened the British Minister with death unless he took steps to redress his grievances. Madame Tussaud has purchased Denham -villa, in which Deeming committed the murders, and will re-erect at her exhibition the rooms connected with the crime. AATien Deeming, alias Baron Swanston, was arrested at the Southern Cross goldfields, West Australia, he was examining the mail, which had just arrived. He had a paper in his hand and was reading a brief telegram that a woman's body had been found buried in cement under a hearthstone in AVindsor, when the constable entered and said, "I arrest you in the Queen's name for murder." Swanston, as he was there called, was staggered for a moment, but quickly recovering his composure, and pointing to a telegram in the paper he was reading, he said, "Is this the murder I am accused of?" Presently he said, "I think I know the party who has been murdered; she was such a good little thing that I can't believe that anyone could hurt her." The constable replied, " There is always soni motive; perhaps she was murdered for her money." The accused then answered that the girl he knew had no money at all. He constantly protested his innocence, but fretted continually. The house which Swanston was to occupy with his bride at Southern Cross was rapidly approaching completion under his personal supervision. There is a gruesome significance in the fact that his first purchase for the new building was a barrel of cement, and that the floor of the main room was neatly cemented under his personal supervision.