The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-07
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
DeoInlng's Crimes as Brought Out
at the Coroner's Inquest
OVER HIS VERY LATEST VICTIM.
Another Whom ho had Selected to
Followthe Others to the Grave Tcsti.
flcs Against IIlm...An Assault In nm
English Railway Compartment.
French Anarchists Still Operating
Despite tho Vigilance of tito Police.

MELBOURNE, April G.--Tho inquest
into tho death OF Mrs. Dcoming, who,
it Is charged, was killed by her husband
and buried under coating OF cement
beneath tho floor OF her house at Wind.
sor, suburb Of Melbourne, was con-
tinued in the city court room to-day.
An immense crowd was present aud
every word OF tho testimony was eager
ly listened to. al
The bearing OF Deeming was insolont
throughout tho proceedings, and he con.
tinnallv interposcd remarks whilo the
witnesses were tostifying. lie con.
vcrsed freely with persons who sat near
him, and secmed in no way dismaycd
at the evidence that Is piling up against
him. Everybody hero believes that no
is tho most diabolical wretch ever
known, a large number OF newspaper
correspondents attended the inquest
and long reports OF the proceedings arc
tclcgraphcd and cabled in cycry dircc.
tion.
The first witness called to-day was
Mrs. Atkinson who lives in the house
next to the ono occupied by tho Deem
ing, at Windsor. She testified to hear
ing man and woman quarreling in tho
Decming house at about tho time tho
murder is supposed 10 have been com.
mittcd. Other evidence was given
showing that Deeming had sold quan.
tlty OF objects known to have belonged
TO his wife. Ono witness, IN ironmon.
ger, said that he had bought pan and
spade from Deeming, on both OF which
q quantity Of cement had dried.
Kate Rounsoville, tho tiancee OF
Deeming after he had murdered his
wife here, and who would probably
have mot tho same fate but for his op-
perfume arrest, as preparations were
under way for her marriage to him in
western Australia, gave her testimony
to-day. She is a resident OF Sydney.
She said sho had met Dccming on a
steamer while going from Melbourne
to Sydney. lie had accosted her in n
friendly manner, and with the usual
absence of social restrictions that
prevails among fellow travellers sho
had entered into conversation with
him. Ho treated her with gentlcmanly
courtesy and she became very much in
tercsted in him. He had impressed
her with the belief that he was an indi.
vidual OF some consequence. lie told
her that he was Baron Swanston. This,
by the way, is the title he assumed
whilo ho.was in the Southern Cross gold
field, and signed to a letter he sent to
the managers OF Frazcr's gold mine dc.
manding part OF his salary that he
claimed was due him. He gavo her n
diamond ring, which she has since
learned belonged to the murdered wo-
man.
Since his arrest Decming has re.
quested her to return the ring to him,
so that he might sell it and with the
proceeds help dcfray the costs OF his dc.
Tense. Size had declined to surrender
it TO him, rs she believed he was guilty
OF the murder Of his wife. Shortly
after Deemine had given her the ring
she promised to Join him in Western
Australia, where il was arranged that
they should be married. She was al
most upon the point OF starting for
Perth when she lcarAed OF Dccming's
arrest on tho charge OF murder.