LF: Revealed: How Jack the Ripper fled to YORKSHIRE to continue his killing spree

Title: Revealed: How Jack the Ripper fled to YORKSHIRE to continue his killing spree - but was finally hanged in Australia
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -finally-hanged-Australia.html
Published: Aug 28, 2016
Author: Francis Scott
Post Date: 2016-08-28 08:36:40 by cranky
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Jack the Ripper, aka Frederick Bailey Deeming, 'one of the most evil men in British history,' fled to Yorkshire to continue his killing spree after his Whitechapel Murders, claims a historian.

In 1892 Deeming was hanged in Melbourne, Australia, before being touted as the infamous Jack the Ripper by the international press.

Local historian Mike Covell has chronicled the killer's journey in his book Jack The Ripper – Or Something Worse?, describing the man as 'one of the darkest characters associated with the Whitechapel Murders'.

Jack the Ripper was very likely Derbyshire-born Frederick Bailey Deeming

Piecing the story together from years of research, Covell dived into archives across the UK and Australia, and into long-lost Home Office and Scotland Yard files.

He found Derbyshire's Deeming, born in 1853, had emigrated Down Under with wife wife Marie James where he was in trouble with he law for fraud, reports the Sunday Express.

They travelled back to England estranged and by 1888 the man was living alone in Whitechapel, just as The Ripper murders started.

His name came up in Scotalnd Yard files surrounding the killings, and a London dressmaker even appeared in court to claim Deeming was The Ripper.

Yet dismissed as a suspect, he fled London to East Yorkshire, where he presented himself as a millionaire Australian rancher called Frederick Lawson.

In the guise of another man he married 21-year-old Nellie Matheson, while still wed to Marie, in 1890.

Soon after marriage he was jailed for nine months for fraud after he fled to Montevideo in Uruguay before being extradited back to England on a charge of 'obtaining goods by false pretenses'.

In 1892 Deeming was hanged in Melbourne, Australia, before the international press touted him as the infamous killer

Shortly after his release in July 1891, Mary Jane Langley, 18, was found dead in a ditch just by the jail with her throat slit.

Shockingly Deeming then returned to his first wife, who he murdered with their four children, burying them in cement under the kitchen floor.

And he had already met wife number three, 25-year-old Emily Lydia Mather, the daughter of a widowed local shopkeeper.

Local historian Mike Covell has chronicled the killer's journey in his book Jack The Ripper – Or Something Worse?

Piecing the story together from years of research, Covell dived into archives across the UK and Australia, and into long-lost Home Office and Scotland Yard files

In November 1891 the pair traveled to Australia by steamship, and by December she was dead too.

Deeming strangled her on Christmas Day, covering her body with cement under the hearthstone of one of the bedrooms.

Yet this time the killer was caught, and police found a collection of knives, swords and axes at the home.

Scotland Yard finally took interest when the bodies of his family were found, and rushed over to Melbourne where he was hanged for murder.

Historian Mr Covell, 37, said: 'Previously Deeming was thought to be in prison at the time of the Whitechapel murders.

'But I have found out this was not the case. A newspaper stand vendor described how Deeming always bought loads of newspapers after the murders and seemed very excited to read about them.'(4 images)

Someone recently allegedly came up with a DNA match between a piece of evidence found at one of the scenes (a bloody piece of cloth) and a descendant of one of the 5 Scotland yard suspects.