The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-25

MELBOURNE, May 22.-Deeming was
hanged at l0:0l o'clock this morning.
With the execution of Deeming there
ended the life Of the greatest criminal the
world has ever seen. AT the beginning of
March last the police at Liverpool received
a dispatch from the police at Melbourne
station that the murder OF O woman had
just come TO light at Windsor, a suburb of
Melbourne, and that from certain facts
that had been revealed it was thought
that the Windsor murderer had killed
another woman st Rain Hill, suburb of
Liverpool. The police of the latter place
at once started investigation and soon
a most horrible crime was unearthed, for
beneath the hearthstone of a residence,
known as Dinham villa, at Rain Hill,
there were found the bodies not only of q
woman, but also the bodies of four little
children, ali OF whom had been buried in
pit that the murderer bad dug beneath
the hearthstone, and after earth bad been
thrown over them the surface was
cemented and the hsarthstone relaid.
Tho Coils Tighten.
It was soon learned that the house had
been occupied by a man who had given
his name as Williams, but who, il was sub
sequently ascertained was Frederick
Bailey Deeming, whose family resided in
Birkenhead, across the river from
LIVERPOOL. Williams, or TO call him by his
right name. Deeming, had married at Rain
Hill, young and beautiful GIRL Miss
Emily Matther, and had sailed for Aus
tralia with her and il was her body that
had been found at Windsor. She too,
had been buried under the hearthstone of
the house and the grave was covered with
a coating of cement. The police inquiries
into Deemings career soon revealed that
he was a monster. guilty OF nearly. il not
all the crimes in the calendar. Numerous
swiBdling transactions were traced to him,
principally in mining lands. Detectives
followed him TO England, where he was
found living in Birkenhead. The detec-
tives gained admission to the house, found
it occupied by Mrs. Marie Deeming aud
the three elder children whose bodies have
been recently found at Rain Hill. The
fourth child was not then born. Deem
ing, however, had evaded his pursuer,
having left Birkenhead that morning.
smooth Criminal.
The pursuit was continued, but Deem
ing always managed to evade his pursuers.
in one instance escaping by just seven
minutes. Deeming later appeared OF
Liverpool under his alias of Williams. He
paid addresses to a number of Liverpool
ladies, among them one who, from his
conversat ion about the Jack the Ripper
crimes, became terribly afraid OF him.
One night he h ad an engagement to take
tea at her home, but he did not appear
and she never saw him again. 1t Yves
Just about this time that he appeared at
Rain Hill, where his wife and family sub
sequently joined him. Shortly afterwRrd
Mrs. Deeming and the children disap-
peared, but as Deeming had represented
the woman as his sister, nothing was
thought of their disappearance. 1t was
not long after this that he married Miss
Matther and started for Australia. Dur
ing their voyage he developed traits OF
thoughtfulness and consideration hardly
in keeping with the character of the man
as seen in the light ofsubsequent develop
ments.
The Rounsevsn Case.
The subsequent facts in connection with
the murder of the second Mrs. Deeming
are OF too recent date to need detailed
mention. After Deeming had killed her,
he became engaged 10 Miss Kate Rounse
veil, who was on her way to the Southern
Cross gold fields, in West Australia, tc
meet and marry him, when she learned oi
his arrest for the murder of his wife. a
significant fact in connection with the
proposed marriage was that Deeming had
already procured quantity of cement
that was found at his home in the gold
fields, and this suggested in a startling
manner, that he had already made prepara-
tions to kill and bury his bride-elect.
That he was guilty of many other crimes,
including murder, is believed by every one.
He was jail-bird, having served sentence
in Cuyaland and Australia for theft. In
Melbourne he assumed a jovial and care
less manner, but he showed in his manner
the terrible strain he was undergoing.
His speech In Court.
After be had been condemned to die be
made a speech in court which in part is
as follows:
law that is trying me, but the press. The
case was prejudiced even before my ar
rival by the exhibition of photographs in
shop windows and it was by means Of
these that was identified. leave it to
the jury to say if it is not the case that
hundreds Of lpeople in Melbourne would
execute me without a trial. II could be-
lieve that 1 committed the murder,
would plead guilty rather than submit TO
the gaze of the people in this court-the
ugliest race of people have ever seen.
am told that whatever | say will not be
believed and even my own Witnesses have
been kept out OF my way by my counsel.
Pannia hnYa aXOTn 10 seeing me