St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-23
HAD FEW EQUALS.
Deeming One of the Worst Grim
inaIS of History.

DeeminS One OF the w orSt GRIM
inals of History.
MELBOURNE, May 2S.-Frederick B.
Deeming was one of the most versatile
and bloodthirsty wretches in the history
of the worlds crimes. That part of his
career which led Immediately
to his arrest. trial ard death a
Melbourne began in Rain Rill, suburb
of Liverpool, on July p, 1891. He then
took lodgings at the Commercial hotel
in that village. and shortly began pay
ing court to Miss Emily Mather. whom
he subsequently married. lie rented
Dinham villa Oh the outskirts of the
village during his cOurtship, and there
received Il woman and four young chill
dren, who disappeared shortly before
his marriage to Miss Mather. After
the wedding on Sept. %. he and
his wife took short wedding journey,
and on Oct. II they sailed for Australia.
They went to live in house in Windsor,
a suburb Of Melbourne. There, on Dec.
24, nine days after their arrival, he
killed his young wife and buried her
under the floor. He then disappeared.
About ten weeks later, when new ten
ants were about to take the house,
peculiar OdOr was noticed. The floor
was taken up and the body of Mrs.
Deeming was found. Marks on her
head and neck showed that she had
been killed by blows. When the news
reached Rain Hill the police tore up the
floor of Dinhall villa to satisfy their sus-
piclOn that the woman and four children
who had been seen there with Deeming
might have suffered the same fate as did
Emily Mather. They found under the
floors, which Deeming himself had
cemented, the bodies of the woman and
children. The woman was his wife. nee
Marie James, whom he married in Eng
land in 1881, and the childlen were his
own. Deeming was caught near Perth,
in Australia. late in March, after he had
advertised through matrimonial
agency and had made arrange
ments to marry Miss Rounce-
will in Perth. After his arrest
and Incarceration in Melbourne.
awaiting trial, more or less evidence
was found tending to connect Deeming
with dozens of heniOus crimes, includ-
ing those of Jack the Ripper, and man
who knew Deeming i'll Halifax came
forward with proof that Deeming, while
there, had written to the EddOWeS WOm
an, one of the Whitechapel victims.
The exact truth of the charges was not
ing was tried. convicted, sentenced and
hanged for the killing of Emily Mather
only. An idea of the number OF the
crimes attributed to him. as well as of
his whole remarkable career since 1881.
may be gathered from this condensed
statement.
AS Frederick Bailey Deeming, 1881, Feb. =.
married Miss Marie James at st. Paul's
| church, Higher Tranmere. Went alone 10
Australia.
1SS2-Joined by his wife; sent to gaol for
six weeks for theft. He was at that time
supposed to be working as plumber.
Instantaneous bank robberies took place
Sydney, the perpetrators not being de-
ected.
1SS5-More robberies. burglaries, mysteri-
GUS disappearances and tragedies.
1SS6-Sets up a shop in a large way, perpe-
trates fraudulent bankruptcy and aDsconds
from Sydney.
ISS7-Fles from Adelaide to Cape Town
| after robbing two brothers. whom he met OF
ESQ
16SS-Nothing known of him. During this
| year six of the Whitchapel murders were
| perpetrated.
1SSg-Posts in Durham as a mining engin-
! eer, going to Johannesburg and succeeds in
| obtaining ESQ by fraud.
June-Bas $1,000 advanced 10 him In Dur
| ban on bogus deeds, obtains 442) worth of
! jewelry and decamps. About the same time
| TWO murders were committed in the Trans
vasl, the murderer escaping.
July-The eighth Whltechapel murder.
Sept. 10.-The ninth Whitechapel murder.
eptember-Turned MP UNEXPECTEDLY in
| Birkenhead, where his wife was living.
July 26.-The fve-fold murder is com
mitted.
Sept. 22.-Marries Miss Emily Mather at
| Rain Hill.
Oct. 17-Sails with his wife from London
/ to Australia.
| Nov. 27.--Miss MatheI's last letter posted
| Oh the way out at Colombo.
| Dec. 24.-Miss Mather murdered.
| SWanstOn, January 1S92-Applied for anOth-
| er wife in a Melbourne matrimonial agency.
| Recognized i'll Sydney by publication. Pro-
poses 10 and is accepted by Miss Rouncevill,
| at Perth, Western Australia.
| February-Wrote to Miss MattisOn at Bev-
| erly. repeating previously made request
that she should JOIN him. Arrested on the
eve of his marriage to Miss Rounceviil.
Deeming's defense at his trial was in
sanity, but in their verdict the jury
found expressly that he was sane. Sub
| SeQuently Deeming confessed to the
| prison clergyman that he killed Mrs.
Mather-Deeming, but he did not remem-
Der any of the circumstances. Deeming
was about fOrty-fve years old, and of a
respectable English family. This story
of his life, written by himself in prison,
he left, with his other effects, to his
=. lawyer, Mr.. Lyle, with instructions that
One-tenth of the proceeds of the sale of
his autobiography be given to Miss