The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-15
A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL.
VIEW ATUREs OF THE DEFINING CASE
HEARD FROM AUSTRALIA.

The Girl RE wooed and Won n Few Week.
After killing His Young English WIFE
She Was the Way to Wed Him whet
She Heard the Melbourne Newsboy,
Crying the News CT His Arrest
SAN FRAScrsco. April lathe Australian
newspapers which reached here to-day con-
tain whole pages OF startling developments In
the Deeming murder case. which Is the mos'
sensational over known In the colonies. There
arc many significant facts that were moi
touched upon In tho cablegrams. and tina,
throw flood OF light upon Deening's charac'
ter and show him to be an adventurer Of
unsurpassed nerve. who is at the same
time as sentimental as q schoolgirl. Fancy
red.handed murderer travelling abou,
Australia. after he had murdered his young
wife. carrying her canary In gilt cage. and
fancy this same man. not one month after the
last In his series OF atrocious crimes. writing
ardent love letters to young woman whom
he had induced to give him promise OF mar
rage. Even tho mails were too slow for this
infatuated lover. for he sent repeated tele.
graphic dispatches full OF love and longing.
Tho man who had done his wife to death gave
hcr jewelry to o young girl. and mado the
grim comedy moro complete by swear
he had ever loved. Nor can one
Imagine q fugitive. seeking to hide great
crime. indulgine in buster and brag on the
steamer which took him to the gold digGlnGs
in West Australia. This shows that the foar OF
discovery could not eradicate the natural
traits OF tho vulgar. SNOWY ndventurer who
delighted to parade jewelry and tell lies OF his
wealth.
If Deeming had thrown some quickime
over the body OF the English wife whom he
murdered at Windsor. Victoria. probably no
would have lived to wed and murder several
other women. The odor from the fireplace in
the sleeping room at Windsor Cottage. however.
led the owner to make an investigation.
and after about two hours work with pick
and shovel the constables removed the hearth
stone. This done. they encountered slate
slab. which was cemented In. 1t was l.eld in
position by a compact mass OF cement. and un-
derneath lay portions OF the nude body. When
they had broken up the cement and detached
some portions OF it they found 1t concealed the
corpse OF woman The body had been
squeezed into n space about eighteen inches
wide by two feet six inches In length. The
knees We're forced up over the abdomen. the
left hand rested under the chin. the right arm
was crossed over the body. and in the skull
was large aperture into which a man might
have thrust three fingers. deep cut was
also apparent in the throat. 1t was evident
that tho victim had been struck by some heavy
instrument. and afterward had her throat cut.
The work OF wallinG tho woman's body in
with masonry was done very skilfully. and but
for the failure to use some means OF quick de-
composition it would probably never have
Naturally. one would think that o man. who
had committed such crime would have freed
h inns ~ W
tween himself ana Australia. But Deeming
Believed in the virtue Of bis masonry worS. lie
put up at hotel IN Melbourne. ne had
large smouRt 81 and an Object %hSa
bird cage Containing the murdered woman's
nished as good a tracer as tho big paiy. Of or;
eoarks Ioas ater Rns reer Sea
which enabled the police to track him straight
Deeming remained only few days in Mel
Bathurst, and from there, back. to Melbourne.
While in Sydney. scarcely month after he had
killed his wife. he advertised in matrimonial
as he did not oow this up hut on
the steamer to sydney he became acquainted
with Miss Rounsefeil OF Bathurst. not nineteen
and soon induced her to promise to marry him.
BEFORE Sydney was reached DeeminG bad be-
tion and. affairs. aud strangely enough he
seems to have told tho truth in many partiru-
lars About her facts Of his story there is a
grim hnmor that Is Supplying in the light OF
He said over and over again that he had
whom he could love: He had never cared Tor Tor
women before and till he met Miss Roun sefel
he had me never . contemplated matriimony: He
was that the two became engaged and Deem
ing tine BY gyngI her
ious. hnrdened character OF the man has been
described. bit there is something apnalling;
y savage in th ;n fact that tn so presents had
death u few weeks before.
When the murderer reached Perth. West
TO bis betrothed begging her to Join him. she
fSld ne p nf was GONE !" MeTt Asstap to
the girl delayed tho marriage. she was not
prepared. her health was had and she did not
beginning Of March slie Decided e make ths
souhorn Gros ~ and s as st two lstteas
route TO he taken to the IIsginss..
,2oto pay her traveiIinc cypcnses: On March
ss SSs an SoM yGht arH thI,s
street with, him for an hour heforetho steamer
sailed sh" heard tho nrwsboys calling tho de-
tails OF mn atrocious murder at the Windsor.
sho felt sudden desire to read about tho muir.
DER and her com pnnion. at her request. bought
right was brought about BY the lady swooning
on his arm. and when she had been restored
to cons seriousness the explanation was sufIlci-
emily startling.
She had recognized in the description and
portrait Of the murderer tho verymanshe was
on the way to marry, Miss Roun.efel at once
commun Gated with the police. She placed in
the hands Of tho detectives Dcemlng's volu.
ninous letters and the rings, Deeming tried
to spare her by sen ling her despatch to Mel
bourne telling her to go home but he gave no
police.
Dceming's arrest and his contradictory
stories. rs vol ms the evidence Of his murders
In England and his long trail OF swindIrs
from the Caro- Of Good Hore TO Alden and
His, picture. obtained from England IL mis-
leading. His face Is Older. harder. and smooth
shaVen. except for n ginger-colurrd nous
thchr His law is square and massive. and his
gray eye Is cold and shrewd.
Ate Cheap Candy and HE'D.