The Windsor-Ramhill Tragedies

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 118, 2 April 1892, Page 2

The Windsor-Ramhill Tragedies

IS WILLIAMS "JACK the RIPPER ?', It is alleged that Williams has admitted not only that he committed the Rainhill murders, but that he perpetrated the last " Jack the Ripper" murders. The Melbourne detectives have all along been strongly of opinion that Williams was no other than the notorious Whitechapel murderer. One officer expresses the belief that the wife murdered at Rainhill (England) knew of his Whitechapel misdeeds, and that he decided to murder her in order to silence her tongue. To effectually carry out his designs he also found it necessary to get rid of the children. Deeming, or Williams, disappeared from Sydney in 1887, and in the following year, three months after his disappearance, the first Whitechapel murder took place. It would appear as if Williams was in England about this time, for in the beginning of 1890 he married a Scotch girl in Hull under the name of Lawson. A comparison has been made between Williams' writing and the facsimile of a letter written by " Jack the Ripper," and a strong resemblance can be detected in several characters, particularly in the letter " D." " Jack the Ripper's" letter, however, was written three years ago, and the writing may possibly have been disguised. The possibility of Williams being "Jack the Ripper" ha 9 caused a great excitement amongst the detectives, as there is a very large reward offered for the arrest of " the Ripper."