The last news concerning the Australian murderer is a report
from Melbourne that a detective named Brant has identified Deeming's photograph as that of a man wanted for three murders committed at Johannesberg, in South Africa, in 1888, where a white named Graham, a Kaffir, and a Hottentot were all murdered, and, as it is asserted, by a person exactly resembling Deeming. It further appears that while in prison at Albany, the prisoner secreted a medicine. bottle, and with a broken piece of it partly cut off his moustache, assisting the operation by plucking out a great deal of it by the roots. The jailers say that in this way he effected so marvellous a change in his appearance, that if they had not known him to be the same man, they would hardly have recognised him. And no doubt Deeming hopes that this change in his appearance will render his identification difficult in his trial at Melbourne, where he has just arrived.
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