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Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 668
Registered: 4-2003
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Found this detailed account of the extradition of Deeming from Perth to Melbourne. Hope it's of interest.
Port Philip Herald (Australia)
24 March 1892
THE WINDSOR MURDERER
DEEMING AT PERTH
REPORTED CONFESSION BY THE PRISONER
ALLEGED CONNECTION WITH THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
(From the "Argus" Special Reporter)
Perth, Wednesday.
The proceedings for the extradition of Williams have ended as I surmised yesterday. The remand to Melbourne has been granted after a protracted hearing in the police court, during which the question of the authenticity of the warrant and the identification of the prisoner were subordinated to a mass of extraneous evidence, but it may be said at once that all hope of getting the accused away by the Balhurst (?) on Saturday is at an end, and that the departure will be delayed until the following Friday. Mr. R S Haynes proposes to accompany him to Melbourne.
On the remand to Melbourne being granted, Mr. Haynes gave notice of appeal to three grounds. It is preumed that he will now apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus to delay the departure of the prisoner, and as the warrant will probably be served today the departure of the accused is almost certain to be delayed until next week, when Mr. Haynes has arranged to visit Melbourne himself.
In the meantime the priosner preserves his customary contemptuous demeanor and stoutly proclaims his innocence. One thing may now be considered as certain. He is fully aware not only of the main materials of the present case, but also of the discovery at Rainhill and all that has happened since. To all outward seeming this knowledge has not the slightest effect upon him.
Detective Cawsey, through a private channel, has been informed that Williams has been urged to make a confession, and that his confession is of so terrible and startling a nature that it seems almost inconceivable. According to this statement, Williams, in a conversation with one of those privileged to see him, confessed himself guilty not only of the Rainhill murders, but of the last murder of the series attributed to Jack the Ripper.
THE POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS AT PERTH
EXTRADITION OF DEEMING GRANTED
DEPARTURE ON FRIDAY FOR MELBOURNE
(From the "Argus" correspondent)
Perth, Wednesday.
The hearing of the application for the remand fo Deeming, alias Swanston, to the custody of the Victorian detective came on today at the police court. Mr. Cowan, P.M., presided, and adjudicated alone, but a large number of honorary justices were present, who took their seats on the Bench, but no part in the proceedings. Every available portion of the courthouse was so crowded as to leave scarcely standing room. All the windows were crowded on the outside, and the vicinity of the courthouse was thronged.
Swanston, when he entered the courthouse, looked thinner, and occasionally wore a haggard and hunted expression on his face. As a rule, however, he kept his features well under control, and barely moved a muscle when looked at until Mr. Hirschfeldt gave his evidence. Swanston's face then settled into a scowl, and he scarcely removed his eyes from the witness. He smiled occasionally at what he considered points made by his counsel. His chief betrayal of restlessness was when he caught anyone engaged in making a sketch of his features, and to prevent them doing this he frequently changed his position.
The proceedings were of a very formal character, and were conducted by Inspector Waldock on behalf of the Crown, Mr. R S Haynes appearing for the prisoner.
Detective Cawsey went into the box and produced the original warrant.
Mr. Haynes objected, on the ground that the figure 1892 had been altered to 1891.
The objection was disallowed.
Detective Cawsey proved that the warrant was issued by Mr. Nicholson, P.M. He stated that he arrested the prisoner on that warrant on the previous day. He then produced a "Police Gazette" of 1883, notifying the operation of the Fugitive Offenders Act, Victoria, and referring to the "Government Gazette" of that colony for the same month.
Mr. Haynes objected to this summary evidence of the operation of the act, but he was overruled.
Later on a copy of the "Government Gazette" of Victoria was produced, to which Mr. Haynes again objected on the ground that primary evidence could not be given after secondary evidence had been taken.
The objection was disallowed.
In cross examination, Detective Cawsey stated that he did not know as a fact that the name of the murdered woman was Emily, but, that there was some doubt whether her name was Emily or Nellie.
Mr. Haynes endeavord to make him swear that her name was Emily, but Detective Cawsey refused to be bound down.
Mr. Hirschfeldt deposed to the voyage in the Kaiser Wilhelm from England to melbourne, this account being similar to that laready published in the papers. He identified the prisoner in the dock as the man who was his fellow passenger on the vessel.
In cross examination by Mr. Haynes, witness said that when he saw Swanston in the lock up in company with others, he picked him out at once. He did not know the other men, but he would know them again if he saw them.
This concluded the evidence.
Mr. Haynes moved that the prisoner be not remanded into the custody of the Victorian police, upon the grounds that the provisional warrant was bad in form, that the prisoner had been wrongly arrested, and that the original warrant was bad, being without a seal; that there was uncertainty in the description of the murdered woman, as she was called Emily in one and Nellie in the other. Lastly, he opposed the remand on the ground that Mr. Hirschfeldt's evidence of identification was insufficient to show that the Williams mentioned in the warrant and the Swanston in the dock were the same person.
The magistrate decided against Mr. haynes on every point, and remanded Swanston to the custody of Detective Cawsey.
Mr. Haynes gave notice of appeal.
Swanston was then removed to the Waterside lock up in a covered carriage van. As he stepped out of the police station adjoining the courthouse and made his way through the crowd several women abused him in round terms, and as he drove away the crowd hooted and groaned him.
In the course of his address to the bench Mr. Haynes assured the Court that the foreign telegrams relating to the murder which had appeared in West Australia were all wrong.
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