The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1892-05-26
He ConfeSSes That He Murdered His
Most Recent Wife.
The Insanity Fake Enacted to the End
-.StOry Of the ~DesperadO's
Bloody Career.

from the pOllCe at MelDOuIne Statlng
that the murder of a woman had Just
come to light at Windsor, a suburb of
Melbourne. and that (, ON certain facts
that had been revealed it was thought
that the Windsor murderer had killed
another woman at Rain Hill, a suburb
Of Liverpool.
The police of the latter place at once
started an investigation and soon a
most horrible crime was unearthed,
literally unearthed, for beneath the
hearthstone of a residence known as
"Dinham Villa" at Rain Hill, there
were found the bodies not only of a
woman, but also the bodies of four
little children, all of whom had been
buried in a pit that the murderer had
dug beneath the heaithstone, and after
earth ha been thrown over them the
surface was cemented and the hearth
stone relaid.
1t was soon learned that the house
had been occupied by a man who had
given his name as Williams. but who
it was subsequently, ascertalned was
Frederick Bailey Deeming, whose fam
lily resided in Birkenhead, across the
river from Liverpool. Williams, or to
call him by his right name, Deeming,
had married at Rain Hill a young and
beautiful girl, a Miss Emily Mather,
and had sailed for Australia with her,
and it was her body that had been dis
3 covered at Windsor. She, too, had
| been buried beneath the hearthstone
and her grave had been covered with
a coating of cement.
: The police inquiries into Deeming's
t career 0 0 revealed the fact that he
was a monster Of iniquity, guilty of
nearly ii not quite all the crimes in the
calendar. Numerous swindling trans
actions were traced to him, principally
in mining lands. On one occasion de.
~ tectives followed him to England
o where he was found living in Birken'
e head. The detective, gaining admis
t sion to the house. found that it was oc
cupied by Mrs. Mare Deeming and the
three elder children, whose bodies
n have been recently found at Rain Hill
The fourth child had not then beer
born. Deeming, however, had evadtt
! his pur uer, having lett BirkeuheaC
y that nothing The pursuit was cor,
If tihued but Deeming always managet
h to get away from his pursuers, in on
09 instance escaping by just seven min
utes.
Deeming later appeared in Liver
IF pool under his alias of Williams. HI
paid his addresses to a number of Liv
erpool ladies, among them one which
from his conversation about the "Jacl
the Ripper" crimes, became terribl.
afraid OF him. One night he had al
engagement to take tea at her house
but he did not appear and she neve
7 saw him again. 1t was just about thi
, time that he appeared at Rain Hill
where his wife and family subsequent
ly joined him. Shortly afterwald Mrs
% Deeming aud the children disappeAre
but as Deeming had represented tn
woman as his sister nothing wa
:" thought Of their disappearance.
was not long after this that he maj
ried Miss Mather and sailed for Aus
: tralia. During their voyage he deve
" oped traits ofthoughtful consideration
hardly in keeping with the characte
u' of the man as seer in the light of sui
sequent development. He doctore
as the sick and saved the It'd bits frol
" his table for the sick steerage passer
~ gers. Miss Mather related that in a,
dition to his medical qualities he
=. husband was a skilllul modeller, an
:" that he filled up his time working
W his models in their cabin.
The subsequent facts in connectio
:" with the murder Of the second Mr.
~ Deeming are OF too recent date to nee
detailed mention. After Deemin
y had killed her he became engaged
Miss Kate Housewife, who was on h
~ way to the Southern Cross gold field
in West Australia, to meet and mar
him when she learned of bis arrest f
AZ the murder of his former wife. A 81
JIG nifcant fact in connection with Il
oh proposed MARI .ge was that Deemil
% had already secured a quantity OF
ment, that was found at his home
u the gold feds, and this suggested in
startling name that he had alres