The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-04-15
MURDERER DEFINING
A Story as Told By Late Aus
tralian Papers.
NEW FEATURES IN HIS CASE.
Miss Rounsevilles Terrible Discovery
While on Her Way to Meet him,

She Heard the Newsboys Calling the De-
tails of AN Atrocious Murder, and She
BoughI Copy of the Paper Only to
Find Out that She was About TO be Mar
ried to the Murd srer-she Was wearing
HIS Victims Jewels.
SAN FRANcrsco, April 15-Australian
papers which contain whole pages of the
startling developments in the Deeming
murder case arrived here yesterday.
The discovery of this Australian murder,
which is the most sensational ever known
In the colonies, was brought about by
the stencil which arose from the fire
place in the sleeping room at Windsor
Cottage. The owner of the building,
assisted by several constables, removed
the hearthstsne, and underneath, held
in position by a compact mass of cement,
lay portions of nude body.
The body, which had been squeezed
into a space about two feet wide by two
feet six inches in length, was in an ad-
vanced state of decomposition. The
knees of the dead woman were forced up
over the abdomen, the left hand rested
under the chin, the right arm was
crossed over the body, and in the skull,
from which the skin and hair had com
pletely disappeared, was a large aper-
Jure, into which a man might thrust
three fingers A deep cut was also ap-
parent in the throat. The work of wall
ing the .woman's body in the masonry
was done very skilliully, and but for
the failure TO use some means of quick
decomposition, it would probably never
have been found.
Had Deeming been an ordinary crimi-
nal he would have freed himself of every
object connecting him with his victim
and would have put the ocean between
himself and Australia He did neither
of these things, evidently having great
faith in his masonry work. He put up
at hotel in Melbourne, and brought
with him large amount of luggage.
An object which attracted much at
tention and gave a most valuable clue to
the police in tracking the murderer was
gilt bird cage containing the murdered
woman's canary. He carried this cage
and bird with him in his subsequent
travels, refusing to trust it to any one
else Deeming remained but a few days
in Melbourne. Then he went to Sydney
and Bathurst, and from there back to
Melbourne, where he took steamer for
West Australia
Scarcely a month after he had killed
his wife, and weile in Sydney, he adver-
tised in a matrimonial paper This,
however, came to naught On the
steamer to Sydney Deeming made the
acquaintance of pretty l9-year- old girl,
a Miss ROuusefell, of Bathurst.
The murderer seems to have become
smitten with this young ladys charms
and, being a persuasive talker and an
ardent wOoer, he soon won her promise
TO marry him. He told the girl that he
had never cared FOR women before, and
till he met her he had never contem-
plated matrimony Deeming sealed their
engagement by giving her three very
handsome rings and brooch.
The callousness of the man is shown
in the fact that these presents had been
worn by the woman whom he hacked to
death few weeks before.
When the murderer reached PERTH
West Australia, he sent letter after let
to his betrothed, begging her to join and
marry him. This she finally consented
10 do.
On March 10 the girl left her sisters
house in BATHURST. She reached Mel
bourne all right, and there met a young
man she knew. While walking the
street with him, within an hour of the
time her steamer was to sail, she heard
the newsboys calling the details of an
atrocious murder. She felt a sudden de-
sire to read about the murder, and her
companion bought a paper. She had
read but few lines when she swooned
away on her friends arm.
When she was restored to conscious
ness her explanation was very startling
to her friend. She had recognized the
description and portrait of the murderer
as the very man she was on the way to
marry. Miss Rounsefell at once COM
municated with the police, placing in
their hands Deemings voluminous cor
respondencs and the rings.