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WILLIAMS LEFT FOR MELBOURNE. PRISONER ADMITS HIS GUILT OF THE RAINHILL MURDERS. ALSO OF TWO " JACK THE RIPPER 1? MURDERS. (Received, March 26, 11 a.m.) Perth (W.A.), This Day. Williams has left for Melbourne. The confession of the accused is alleged to have been made to Mr Hayns, who is defending him. Hayns demanded to know the whole strength of Williams' defence, and the latter replied he would make a clean breast of it. He said he was guilty of the Ramhill murders, but on the subject of the Windsor murder careful reticence was observed on both sides. Hayns then asked about the Whitechapel murders, and desired to know whether his client was or was not "Jack the Ripper." Williams replied he 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 the fact that the crime is alleged to have been committed on the 24th December, while he can produce witnesses' the deceased was in Mcl bourne on the 29th— five days later. He will assert that deceased cleared out with another man.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 115, 26 March 1892, Page 2
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