Mr. Webtter, who has a perfect recolleotion of Deeming and his performances whilst he was in Hull Prison, ridicules the idea (says the Age) that the fits which he had in the train on ...
Article : 289 wordsWe see by the Melbourne evening papers of Thursday that a rumour gained currency that Swanstonwas on board the special mail express train which left Adelaide on Wednesday ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Argus, referring to the Windsor tragedy, says:—It has been surmised that the prisoner will seek to establish a plea of insanity, and his conduct on more than one occasion during his ...
Article : 731 wordsContrary to general expectation (says the special correspondent of the Melbourne Standard) Williams was brought round from Albany to Melbourne on board the P. & O. ...
Article : 514 wordsThe Age of April 1 says that Williams's defence will be that of instinctive insanity. " Instinctive" criminal appears to be the term applied by medical jurists to what the ...
Article : 40 wordsFrom reliable authority we learn that the photograph of Deeming which was circulated among the police in South Australia was a copy of a photograph taken fifteen years ago, ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Marshall Lyle, who has undertaken the defence of the prisoner, took the earliest opportunity of waiting upon him in the gaol. He found Williams in a very surly mood, but ...
Article : 145 wordsAn incident which only serves to bring into greater prominence what appears to be one of the most strongly marked traits in the character of the notorious individual who is ...
Article : 335 wordsIn an interview with an Argut representative Mr. J. S. Smith, who went on board the Ballaarat to see the prisoner, says:—" The accused always gave me the impression of ...
Article : 174 wordsAmongst the early visitors to Williams (says the Telegraph) was Mr. Webster, the Governor of the Hull Gaol, who is now on a visit to the colony. He was conducted to ...
Article : 216 wordsDeeming has been represented as an exceptionally clever and daring man (says the Age), but many little characteristics during his stay in gaol make him appear rather weak minded ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Melbourne Age of April 1 says that on Thursday evening one of their representatives called upon Mr. Alfred Harford at the Alexandra Theatre, and during an interval in ...
Article : 789 wordsThe repulsive blue walls of the Melbourne Gaol, with their smoke-encrusted turrets, are ordinarily sufficient to induce the casual pedestrian to follow the example of the Levite and ...
Article : 394 wordsThe man who occupied the berth in which Williams slept on board the Ballaarat died between Perth and Albany of consumption, and had to be buried at sea. The prisoner ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Melbourne Herald was definitely informed on Friday that Mr. Harry Budd had declined to accept the defence of the accused, and at the prisoner's request that ...
Article : 135 wordsThe following telegram from Sydney appears in Monday's Argus:—With regard to the statement made by Detective Brant in Melbourne about Deeming's actions in South ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Kaiser Wilhelm II. passed Cape Borda at 10.50 on Friday night, and was off the Semaphore at daylight on Saturday morning, some four days before her time. Peculiar ...
Article : 394 wordsComing across in the Customs launch Williams had a bit of a yarn with Mr. Harry Budd, who had been asked to defend him (says the Melbourne Herald). Williams made a ...
Article : 176 wordsDetective Cawsey, on being interviewed by an Age reporter, said he had not the slightest evidence that the prisoner is "Jack the Ripper," and it is not correct, as telegraphed, ...
Article : 213 wordsJohn McKewen, who was indoor apprentice to Deeming in Sydney daring 1886-87, has furnished a Sydney reporter with an interesting account of Deeming's mode of living. ...
Article : 679 wordsThe Hartley vale correspondent of the Lithgow Mercury writes that a lady now residing in Hartley Vale was a fellow-passenger with Swanston, alias Williams, in the Kaiser ...
Article : 76 wordsIn connection with the desire expressed by Williams to see Miss Rounsefell alone (says the Melbourne Herald), Inspector Daly, of Fitzroy, tells the story of how a man once ...
Article : 275 wordsOn his way round from Albany (says the Melbourne Standard) Williams was kept pood company all the way, and proved himself an agreeable companion. Only a few Pressmen ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 9 Apr 1892, Page 36
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