The morning call., 1892-05-23
DEEMING's CAREER OF CRIME.
Record without Parallel in the His
tory Of Mankind.

Record without Parallel in the His
tory Of Mankind.
On Tuesday, July q, 1891. a man giving
the name Of Arthur Williams arrived at
Rainhill, quiet suburb Of Liverpool, given
over to the dwellings Of well-to-dO families,
aad put up for a few days at the CONNER
cial Hotel. BE was coarse and vulgar in
his manner, but he gave out that he had
made millions in the colonies and he was
received at once into the best houses in the
place Seeking a residence for himself. he
was shown a pretty place called Dinham
Villa. and this ne rented for long term,
inducing the agent by his show Of wealth to
fOTegO the first six months rent.
Within few weeks after his arrival at
Rainhill he was Introduced to and at once
began c0uTting Miss MatheT, q young
woman generally admired for her beauty
End other attractions and recognized as a
local belle. They were married and went
to Australia, where they were supposed to
BE- living happily.
In March the people OF Rainhiu were
shocked at q story that came from Aus
tTalia 10 the effect that Williams had been
arrested there for tie murder Of his wife.
Tie story went on TO state that the mans
name was not Williams at all His true
name was Frederick Bayley Deeming, and
Re was the youngest Of three brothers of
the lower class of EHgli n people, poor but
reputable, who had lived in Liverpool in
1880.
The elder brothers were hard workers
and steady, but Frederick had always been
wild and reckless. giving his parents great
trouble, and at the age Of II had run away
to sea, and had followed thereafter such
career Of vice and crime as has never been
parslleled in this world.
As soon as the story Of the Australian
murder became noised about in RanhII,
the people called to mind queer suspicious
that had been afi0at about Williams when
he occupied the Diuham Villa. They re-
membered that one day q woman and four
children had visited the villa to see Will
uaals, and from the moment Of their enter
lug the place but one person had seen any
of them again.
Williams, or Deeming had told the land
lord of the Connecticut Hotel, at the time,
that this was his sister with her children,
and that they bad gone away the next day
a statement that is dispToVed by the fact
that a market gardener, passing the place
on that day, saw two OF the children, a boy
and girl, looking sad and pitiful, Deering
ont between the bars Of the villa gate.
They were called inside by a gruff, mascu-
line voice. Taking all these circumstances
Into consideration the police concluded
that no harm could be done by investigating
and on the 10Th OF March they proceeded TO
the Dinham Villa and began 10 dig up the
ground beneath the fireplace. Soon after
tHeg Ghllb upon tie DOutoa Oh Two CntlQEeH.
The BODY Of one child, boy, Indicated
that the iittle one when killed was about
years Of age, and the other was Little girl
apparently about years Of age.
Both bodies were clad only in little night
dresses, and these were covered with blood
for the throat OF each little one had been
cut from ear to ear. The remains were In a
fair state Of preservation, and neighbors
who had seen tile woman aud the children
AZ once concluded that these were the two
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The digging was then proceeded with, a.
presently there was found the body Of girl
about II years old. She had been strangied
evidently before her throat was cut, aud
her thumbs were tied behind her back, evil
dentlY to prevent her struggling.
Lastly there was recovered the body Of
the woman, who also had been straDgled
and whose throat also was cut. aud repos-
Ing upon her breast. with its throat likewise
cut, was the body Of an infant about
year Old
Deeming had fitted up two of the rooms
oil tho villa and the woman and her chill
dren, his first wife, Mary James. whom he
had married IN BiTkinhead in 1881 arrived
there on Friday, July 81. Deeming had
already purchased q spade and barrel Of
cement and 1t was on that Friday night the
hrst murders were committed. No doubt
the three children went into the back room
and were put to bed BY their mother first
She had partly undTessed before doing this.
as the night was hot. When she went back
into the front room she found her husband
already undressed and sitting in his night
gown, with the sleeves carefully rolled
above his elbows. She put the baby TO
sleep and laid it upon the bed. Then she
proceeded to undress herself. She had got
of all her clothing and .her silk underyest
and her silk stockings and had taken off
her right shoe.
Deeming came over to her, and coneealing
a rope with moose in 1t which he had made
ready before, stood behind her. he may
have leaned over her. as she thought to give
her caress, when she felt IN a fash rope
thrown over her head. The moose settled
about her neck, and before she had time to
more than clutch at it the moose WAS drawn
so tightly that the flesh almost bid II from
view, When she ceased to struggle he lifted
ber body and put ii upon the bed. taxing