, 1892-04-27

ISuLlcIlt. Liz G1J6l Prise III EuCotAOh.
ever, terminated in bankruptcy of afraudnlent
character, to evade the penal consequences OF
which he absconded from Sydney. His next
recorded appearance was at Adelaide, whence
he made his escape in 1887 to Cape Town,
after having robbed two brothers, it is als
legged, of sixty pounds. Two years later IN
June, 1889, ne achieved considerable local
notoriety at Dur ban in the character of q
mining engineer bound for johannesburg.
His first achievement was to obtain by fraud
q sum of six hundred pounds then he in
duced some over trustful banker to advance
him three Thousand five hundred pounds on
the security of several bogus deeds, bought
four hundred and twenty pounds worth OF
jewellery con credit" and decamped with his
spoil to the Transvaal. Two murders We're
committed during his ~sojourn in that State,
both of which are ascribed to him, as we'll as
q robbery Of the Cape mail to the amount of
FIVE Thousand pounds. In September, 1889.
he TUNED up Unexpectedly at Birkenhead,
where Mrs. Deeming was living, but hadto
leave early in the following month, being
wanted" for his Transvaal feats by the po-
lice. who tracked him to Camberwell,
Stockton on Tees, and back again to London,
whence he sailed Tor Australia in November
still followed by detectives. Discriminating
at Port Said, he doubled on his pursuers, and
returned to Birkonhead. D. ing these evo.
lutions be had changed his name from Deem
ing to Ward and from Ward to Lawson, It
was under the latter alias that he married
Miss Matheson at Beverley early in March
1890, obtained aquantity Of j~ewellry by false
preterces at Hull and got away with his booty
to Monte Video, where he was arrested in
April, and brought back to his native coun-
try.
On July 10, 1901, three days after his dis
charge from goal, at the expiration of his term
of imprisonment, a Miss Langly was assassi-
mated at Preston, near Hull, Itho murderer es-
Gaping detection, and on the 21st "Albert
Oliver Williams" put up at the Commercial
Hotel in Rainhill, where his wife - Mrs.
Dceming. of INSTRUMENTATION tea and lunche-
on with him on the 22nd and 23rd respectively.
The latter date was an e~ventful one, beng that
of the day on which he signed an agreement
of tenancy o~ntitling him to take immediate
possession Of Dinh9m Villa, and received first
barrel Of cement forwarded from st. Helens to
that dwelling by order Of Emily Mather. On
the 25th Mrs. Deeming and her four children
arrived Mt the villa, and it is supposed that he
murdered them in the course Of the following
day. for on the 9th he returned to the hotel
at Rainhill where he continued to stay until his
departure from that place, on the eve of which
August 26-hs gave a banquet to several OF
its inhabitants, the invitations being issued by
Miss Mather in the name of ''Mr. A. y. Viii
liams, Inspector Of the Indian Army Service.
At this feast his health was proposed, accord
ing to the Prescott Reporter, in q delicious
speech, expressing the hope that the many
friendships he had made in Rainhill would re-
cur to his mind while on foreign service AT
this entertainment he favoured his guests
with musical selections, - exactly a month,
supposing him to be az bad aR the
worst said of him, after he had murdered
his wife and children, and cemented their re-
mains down under the kitchen floor OF Dlnham
Villa. Before Christmas he had married
Emily Mather, taken her out to Melbourne,
and slain her in cold blood at Windsor. Early
in January he applied toa Melbourne matri-
monial agency for another wife, but apparently
without success, for we next hear OF him at
Perth, Western Australia, as a candidate Tor
the hand Of a Miss Rouncesvell. TlAs lady
accepted his offer, and it was on the eve OF
the day appointed for their wedding that
Deemlng was arrested on the charge OF having
murdered his wife at Windsor. Meanwhile he
had written to Miss Matheson, the girl whom
he bad Enormously married at Beverly IN
February, 1880, asking her to IeIoln hlm ID
Australia. It is stated, moreover, that lew
years ago, during q brief stay in New Aea-
land, he married three or four young LADIES