Frederick Bailey Deeming

Frederick Bailey Deeming was an Englishborn Australian gasfitter and murderer. He was convicted and executed for the murder of a woman in Melbourne, Australia. He is remembered today because he was suspected by some of being the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

Deeming was born in AshbydelaZouch, Leicestershire, England, son of Thomas Deeming, brazier, and his wife Ann, ne Bailey. He was a difficult child according to writers Maurice Gurvich and Christopher Wray. Atyears of age he ran away to sea, and thereafter he began a long career of crime, largely thieving and obtaining money under false pretenses. He was also responsible for the murder of his first wife Marie, and his four children, at Rainhill, England, on or aboutJuly 1891, and a second wife, Emily Mather, at Windsor, Melbourne, onDecember 1891.

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