Originally posted by The Rookie Detective
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Good question about the original source for this info. I can say that Deeming's wiki article mentioned that he ran away to sea when he was 16, so if that is right, and the other article is right about the murder occurring shortly before that, it would mean that the murder happened no later than 1870, and probably happened either in 1869 or 1870. Wiki doesn't give a citation for this fact, but from their other citations, the article as a whole seems to rely heavily on The Scarlet Thread: Australia's Jack the Ripper, A True Crime Story by Maurice Gurvich and Christopher Wray.
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