Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-23
DEFINING EXECUTED
At One Minute After Ten O'Clock This
(Monday) Morning.
A MOST REMARKABLE CRIMINAL
Ends a Career Of Crime That Has Rarely Been
EQ1aled-A History Of the Misdeeds That
MY Surely be Laid at His Door, Though
he is Suspected Of Others.

| hanged at one minute pasI leu ClOSA
this morning.
With the execution of Deeming there
ended the life of one of the greatest
criminals the world has ever dnown.
At the beginning of March last, the
police af Liverpool received dispatch
from the police at Melbourne stating
that the murder of woman had just
come to light at Windsor, suburb Of
! Melbourne, and that from 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 most
| horrible crime was unearthed; literally
unearthed, for beneath the hearthStone
| of residence known as Dinham villa,
| at Rain Hill, there were found the
/ bodies. not only of woman, but also
the bodies of four little children, all OF
whom had been buried in pit the muir
derer had dug beneath the hearthstone
and after earth had been thrown over
them the surface was cemented and the
! hearthstone relaid.
1t was soon learned that the house
had been occupied by man who had
! given his name as Williams, who, 1t was
| subsequently, ascertained, was Frede-
rick Bailey Deeming, whose family re-
! sided in Birkenhead. Williams, or to
call him by his right name, Deeming,
had married at Rain Hill young and
beautiful girl, a Miss Emily Mather and
| had sailed for Australia with her, and
it was her body that had been found at
! Windsor.
She. too, had been buried under the
| hearthstone of the house there and her
grave was covered with coating OF
cement. The police inquiries into
Deemngs career soon revealed that he
was a monster of iniquity, guilty OF
nearly, if not all, the crimes in the cal
endar.
Numerous swindling transactions
was traced to him, principallyin mining
| lands. Detectives had followed him to
England, where it was found he was
living in Birkenhead. The detective
gaining admission to the house found it
occupied by Mrs. Marie Deeming and
| the three elder children, whose bodies
have been recently found at Rain Hill;
the fourth child was not then born.
Deeming, however, had evaded his pur-'
suer, having left Birkenhead that
| morning. The pursuit was confined,
but Deeming always managed to evade
! his pursuers, in one instance escaping
! by just seven miles.
Deeming later appeared in Liverpool
under his alias Of Williams. He paid
addresses to number OF Liverpool
ladies, among them, one who from his
| conversation about the Jack the Rip
per" crimes became terribly afraid of
| him. One night he had an engagement
TO take tea at her home but he did, not
appear and she never saw him again.
1t was just about this time that he ap-
peared at Rain Hill where his wife and
! family subsequently joined him. Shortly
| afterward Mrs. Deeming and
the children disappeared, but
as Deeming had represented
the woman as his sister, nothing was
thought of theiI disappearance. 1t was
not long after this that he married Miss
! Mather and sailed for Australia, Dur-
ing their voyage he developed traits oi
! thoug and consideration hard
! ly in keeping with the character Of the
! man as seen in the light OF subsequent
| developments. He doctored the sick,
and saved tid-bits from his table for
| the sick steerage passengers.
The subsequent facts in connection
with the murder Of the second Mrs
/ Deeming are of too recent date to need
] Inn hnh
! killed her he became engaged TO Miss
| Kate Rounseville, who was on her way
| to the Southern Cross gold fields In
! West Australia to meet and marry him,
when she learned of his arrest for the
murder of his former wife.
A significant fact in connection with
! the proposed marriage was that Deem
ing had already procured quantity OF
cement that was found at his home IN
the gold fields, aud this suggested In a
startling manner that he had already
made preparations to kill and bury his
| bride elect. That he was guilty OF
many other crimes beside murder, is be-
lieved by every one. He was jail.
I bird. having served sentence in Guy
/ land and Australia for other offences.
When he was taken to Melbourne he
assumed a jovial and careless air, but
at his trial he showed in his manner
the terrible mental strain be was under
! going.
After he had been condemned to
death he made speech in court which
in part was:
q" II haven't had a fair trial. 1t IS not
| the law that is trying me, but the press.
| The case was prejndiced even before my
arrival blythe exhibition Of photographs
| in shop windows, and il was By means
Of these that was identified. / leave
il to the jury TO say II II was not the
case that there are hundreds OF people
in Melbourne who would execute
me without trial, while ii
/ conld believe that / committed
the murder would plead guilty
rather than submit TO t-e gaze OF
the people in this court--the ugliest
race of people / have ever seen. am
told that whatever / say will not be be-
! lieved. and even my own witnesses have
been kept out of my way by my cOun-
! sci. People have sworn to seeing me,
whom never saw ia my life.
Another objection have TO this trial is
that no time has been allowed to COM
municate with witnesses in England
and India. It is not pleasant thing
10 confess TO disease-mental or other
wise: but / am determined &c do so in
Justice 10 myself and the community.
ssFor weeks together have suffered
/ lapses Of memory. In my~cw mind 1
know am not guilty Of this thing Ny
! life is ruined. II / were turned into
the street tonight free man, to-mor-