The Windsor Tragedy

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 113, 22 March 1892, Page 2

The Windsor Tragedy

•» PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, March IS. It appears that after Williams was married to Miss Mathers he took his bride to Denhain Villa, and danced and sang over the grave of his victims. The police are now looking for the nurse who attended his wife. * j The Daily News says that the chloride I of lime used by Williams, which was intended to destroy the bodies of his victims, had the contrary effect, and preserved them as evidence against him. The Standard calls him one of the most audacious and cruel scoundrels of modern times. The theory that Williams is Jack the Ripper is negatived by many of the dates on which the crimes were committed. At the inquest on the remains of the victims of the man Williams, Albert Deeming gave eyidence to the effect that seven months ago he had dreamt that his sister-in-law and her children had been murdered. His statement created a sensation. At the funeral, which took place at Eainhill, 10,000 people were present. In the House of Commons to-day, the Right Hon. H. Matthews, Secretary of State for the Home Department, in reply to a question, declared that active negotiations were taking place between the Lancashire police and those in Australia with ! regard to the man William?. | March 19. The inquest will probably result in a verdict of murder embracing the case in every respect, so that if the prosecution fails in Melbourne, Deeming will be brought here to stand his trial on the ! capital charge. Writing from Seyds* Hotel to Joseph Mathers, Deeming blamed him for his harsh conduct to his mother, and concluded, " I am ashamed of your conduct and I leave you in the hands of the Almighty, who some day will repay your sins." When in prison Williams stated that he was separated from his wife at Birkenhead and that he had several nuggets of gold in a distant town. He attempted to bribe several of the gaol officials, and he appeared to be a man of such determination and great resource that the governor ot the gaol refused to allow him to work in the open air and Williams was repeatedly shifted from one cell to another and closely watched. He stated to the officials that he had travelled all over the world — x\ustralia, America, and Africa — and was even a greater traveller than Stanley. The governor of the gaol, considering him to be a daring and ingenious camp, caused a portrait to be taken of him before he left Hull Prison. The medical evidence attributed the death of the wite and children, Mane, Lelia, and Syney, to their throats being cut, while Bertha had been strangled. At the funeral of the remains many attended dressed in blask, and the windows in the city were curtained. The Vicar deliyered a touching address at the grave, the bodies being interred together. The parish defrayed the burial expenses, as the Deeming family are poor. Sydney, March 20. The police are busiJy engaged investigating the houses where Deeming resided in Sydney. j