Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-23
CRAVEN END
He Collapses Completely When
 the Moose is Adjusted.
HIS DEATH WITHOUT A STRUGGLE.

Utterly Broken Down in His Last Hour
 His Conduct . Complete Surprise to
 AII-Doubt as to the TruthfulnesS of His MELBOURNE, May 23.-Fr6derick Bay ley Deeming was hanged one minute af- ter 10 o'clock this morning. Seventy reporters and physicians gathered in the | prison yard to witness the execution, | and in front of the outside wall thou sands upon thousands waited from 6 o'clock this morning to watch the black flag and wait for the signal that all | was over.
 When Deeming was led into the yard | and up to the gallows, everybody was | surprised to see that he was not chained as had been expected. He walked un-' steadily between the guards and several times tottered as if about to fall. His face was ashen and he shook like a man with the palsy. Several times when. the chaplain spoke to him encouraging l ly in an undertone, DOeming parted his l lips to reply but uttered no sound. He seemed to be stupefled by his ap- | proaohing death. When his arms were | pinioned he wavered, and would have l fallen had he not been caught by the Warden. At first he shook his head when his last opportunity to speak was l given him. Then he trallied from hiR l stupor and with strong enort called | out:
 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" l He tried to say more and stood with. his mouth half open, but no words came. As the moose :was adjusted his | knees knocked together, and he would have collapsed had he not been support | ed until he was swung into mid-a1r. H0 died without a struggle, and almost in stantly. The body, after being cut down, was taken in charge by the prison physician, who will superintend the post-mortem examination into the struc- ture of the skull and brain. { While preparations were making to | take him out to the scaffold he became a pitable figure. He cringed and covered l in a corner of his cell, first taking down his bible and then throwing 1t from him, muttering to himself and then speaking loudly and incoherently to the chaplain. When this was stopped his mind appar- ently sunk into a stupor. He made one or two attempts to speak and then re- faxed from all effort, allowing himself to be half led, half carried from the building The chaplain said subse- quently that in all his experience he had not seen a moro broken creature.
 MT. Lyle, Deeming's lawyer, says ha has not decided what to do with Deem l 1nR AC 1oS AOO you had time to read much of the manuscript and what he has read has let him to think that it has few claims to being Q | truthful narrative. The spelling and writing are bad, he says, and there is evidently so much incoherent philoso- phizing in the work that he fears nobody will be willing to undertake the fnan- cial risk of publishing it. The result of the post-mortem examination of Deem- inR's brain will not be known probably. for several days.
 Frederick Bayley Deeming was one of the most versatile and bloodthirsty wretches in the history of the world' & crime. That part of his career which led immediately to his arrest, trial and death at Melbourne began in Rainhill, 8 suburb of Liverpool, on July 21, 1S91- He then took lodgings under the name of Williams at the Commercial Hotel in that village, and shortly began paying court to Miss Emily Mather, whom he l subsequently, married.
 He rented Dinham Villa, on the out~ skirts of the village, during his court ship, and there received 8 woman and four young children. who disappeared shortly before his marriage to Miss Mather. After the wedding on Septem- Der 23 he and his wife took 8 short we'd , ding journey, and on October IF they sailed for Australia. They went to live l in 8 house in Windsor, a suburb of ! Melbourne There on December 24, nine days after their arrival, he killed his young wife and buried her under the floor and then disappeared.
 About ten weeks later, when new ten- ants were about to take the house, a pe- culiar odor was noticed, and 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 reached Raiphil the police tore up the floor of Dinham Villa, to satisfy their suspicion that the woman and four children who hadlbeen 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 5 woman was his wife, nee James, whom '. he had married in England in 1881, and the children were his own. Deemines
 was caught near Perth, in Australia,
 late in March, after he had advertised ! through a matrimonial agency, and
 had made arrangements to marry Miss
 RounsevelI in Perth.
 After his arrest and incarceration in
 Melbourne, 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 Hali-
 fax came forward with proof that Deem
 ing while there had written to the Ed
 doves woman, enc of the Whitechapel
 victims. The exact truth of the
 charges was not and never will be as. u certained as Deeming was tried, con
 victed, sentenced and hanged for tho
 killing of Emily Mather only.