Connecticut western news., 1892-05-26
FRED B. DEFINING.

he not been supported until he was swung into midair He died without struggle and almost instantly The body, after being cut down, was taken in charge by the prison physician who will superintend the post mortem examination into the structure of the skull and brain. Deeming's conduct at the last was a surprise to all who have been near him since he was sentenced. Sunday evening he seemed to realize for the first time that all hope was gone.
 While preparations were making to take him out to the scaffold he became a pitiable figure. He cringed and covered in a corner of his cell, first taking down his Bible, then throwing it from him, muttering to him. self, and then speaking loudly and incoher- ently to the chaplain. AS the door opened to let him out he burst into tears and begged for a few moments respite. When this was refused his mind apparently sunk into a stupor. He made one or two attempts to speak and then relaxed from all effort, al- lowing himself to be half led, half carried from the building. The chaplain said sub sequently that in all his experience he had not seen more broken creature.
 Frederick Bayley Deeming was one of the most versatile and bloodthirsty wretches in the history of the worlds crime. That part
  arrest, trial and death at Melbourne, began in Rainhill, a suburb of Liverpool, on July 21, 1891. He then took lodgings under the name of Williams at the Commercial hotel r in that village and shortly began paying court to Miss Emily Mather, whom he sub seQuently married. He rented Dinham villa, on the outskirts of the village, during his courtship, and there received a woman and four young children, who disappeared short. ly before his marriage to Miss Mather.
 After the wedding on Sept. g he and his wife took short wedding journey and Oct. r they sailed for Australia. They went to live in house in Windior, suburb of Mel bourne. There on Dec. 24, nine days after their arrival, he killed his young wife and buried her under the floor. He then disap- peared. About ten weeks later, when new tenants were about to take the house, pc culiar 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 this news reached Rainhill the DO lice tore up the floor of Dinham villa to satisfy their suspicion 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 England in 1881, and the children were his own Deeming was caught near Perth in Australia late in March after he had advertised through a matrimonial agency, and had made arrangements to marry Miss Rounces veil in Perth.
 After his arrest and incarceration in Mel bourne awaiting trial more or less evidence was found tending to connect Deeming with dozens of heinous crimes, including those of "Jack the Ripper" and man who knew Deeming in Halifax came forward with proof that Deeming while there had written to the Eddowes woman, one of the Whitechapel victims. The exact truth oi the charges was not and never will be as certained, as Deeming was tried, convicted sentenced and hanged for the killing oi Emily Mather only.
 Deeming's defense at his trial was insanity but in their verdict the jury found expressly that he was sane.