The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-03-18
WILLIAMS GRIMES.
The Remarkable Career of a Most
Heartless Sooundrel.
FoRGER, BIGAMIsT AND MURDERER

If Reports Are True He Had Three
Living Wives at the Time He
Murdered His Family at Rainhin
in Order to Marry Fourth--StiII
Searching for Bodies.
LIVERPOOL, March Williams,
whose arrest in Melbourne led to the
discovery of the bodies under the floor
of house at Rainhill, part Of the town
of Liverpool, had a wife and four chill
dren at Sydney before he came to Eng
land, and is supposed to have mur-
dered them on their arrival in order to
marry Miss Mather, whom he has Just
murdered in Australia in order to marry
another girl.
Yesterday gardener, who lives next
door to Dinham villa, where the bodies
were found, recognized the eldest body
as that of woman he had seen in the
back yard of Dinham villa on Aug. 9.
On Aug. 10 he heard children scream
ing. He never saw the woman or chill
dren afterward. Another man recog-
nized the body as that of Marie Deem
ing, who had been in the employ of a
Liverpool tishmonger. Williams had
married her under the name of Deem
ing, describing himself as II mining ell
glleer.
Sentenced for Forgery.
Williams and his wife afterward went
to Hull, where Williams was arrested
for forgery and sentenced to years
imprisonment. On being discharged he
married a young woman in Hull. lie
wished her to go abroad, but she de-
clined. Williams deserted her and re-
turned to Marie, and went to Capetown.
Then they returned to Birkenhead for
some time.
The man believed that Williams was
the same individual who married a
young lady named Matheson at Beverley
i'll 1890, assuming the name of Henry
Lawson. He then described himself as
n large farmer in Australia. He gave
number of valuable presents to Miss
Matheson. After his marriage he de-
serted her and absconded to South
America. Miss Matheson swore out II
warrant charging him with .he theft of
the presents he had given her, and he
was arrested in Uruguay. Williams was
brought back to Hull and was sent to
Jail for nine months. During the time
he was in prison it was ascertained
that he had married and deserted lady
i'll Birkenhead in 1880.
The police have discovered a child's
copybook in the house, inscribed Bertha
Deening. Williams used the alias Deem
ing in Australia. An excited crowd
surrounds the house.
Looking for More Bodies.
So great is the excitement and so
many the rulnors that the police are
continuing their investigations with the
belief that more bodies will be dis
covered at the Dinham villa. A neigh
Dor living near the villa states that be-
fore the arrival of the woman and the
two children who afterwards disap-
peared Williams told charwonan
vino did some work about the place
that he expected a nurse with two chill
dren to arrive there soon. The nurse is
believed to be buried somewhere under
the cement
1t appears that after the murders Miss
Mathet, us the bride of Williams,
vlsltedithe villa. Her husband was in
an untbually jovial mood on the occa-
sion, and danced and sany ioyously over
the very hagstones beneath which his
victims reposed.
The boxes suspected to contain evil
dence of the crimes were forwarded to
Plymouth on the 14th of August last,
and about the same time the presents
made to Miss Mather on the occasion of
the makriage mysteriously disappeared.
The pei ice are still considering whether
Williams may not have been Jack the
Ripperf owing TO the similarity Of the
throat Cutting done on the victims of
DinhaIt villa to the work of the Rip
per nILondon.