Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-18
A LONG LIST
OF Crlmss BslDg Made Up
Against Murderer Williams,
Alias DEFINING, Of Melbourne, Austrslia
...he Had q Mania
For Marrying and DESERVING Young
Women and Stealing Their Valuables.

LIvxRrooL, March II Ii has trans.
pited that before coming TO England. VIII
| liAms, the man whose arrest At Melbourne
led to the uuearthing of ths bodies at Rain
/ HUI, was living at Sydney. N. s. ".
Shortly after he left that city his wife and
/ four children disappeared, and il 10 sup
| posed that they followed Williams to EGG
/ land.
The police expect TO prove that the bodies
found yesterday are the wife and children.
Williams killed them to carry out his in
tenti0n TO marry Miss MAther without
mole station. Williams did marry the girl
in question and took her 20 Melbourne.
whore he killed her to marry another girl.
/ Today the gardener who lives next door
/ to ihe Dinhsm villa where the bodies were
/ found, feee gniEsd the eldest body ~ the
woman he had seen IN the back yard Of
1 Dinhsm villa on August 9 last. On Au-
! gust 10 ho heard the children screaming.
/ He paid no attention, thinking that per-
hsps some Of the children were hurt. He
never saw the woman or children after
wards.
| Another man recognized the body ~
Marie Deeming, who had been in the en-
| ploy of Liverpool hshmonger. Wiliiams
married her under the name of Dseming,
at the time describing himself As mining
engineer. Williams and wife, the man
SAID, sfierwsrd went TO Hull where vii
lisms WAS arrested and coHyich for for
gerry, being sentenced to t-o years imprii-
onment.
On being discharged he married the
young woman in Hull and wished her to 20
abroad, but she decliued, Williams de-
serted her and returned TO Marie. Accom-
panied by Marie, Williams went to Cape
Town where he remained for a time.
lie then returned TO Birkenhead. and
took up his residence there, remaining
some time.
Marie had three brothers and two sisters
in Bitkcnhesd
The man believed Williams WAS the same
individual who married young lady
named Mstheson at Beverly ia 1890, as
sumiHg the name OF Harry Ls~son. lie
described hims sit as q large farmer In Aus
trxlis. lie gave number of vAluSbls
presents to Miss Mslhesou.
After his marriage to Miss Mstheson he
deserted her and absconded to South
America Miss Mathsrson swore ont 4
warrant against HIM, charging him with
theft Of the presents he had given her and
| he was ARE sted in Uruguay.
/ Williams wss brought to Hull and sent
to jail for ninc months. During the time
he was in in prison it was sscertsined that
| he married and deserted lady in Birken-
| head IN 1889.
Murderer Identified.
| 1t has been learned that the name Of viii
| lisms Was assumed, and that the murdsrer's
proper name is Deemng. Deeming has 3
brother in Birkenh osd, and the latter wa.
summoned to attend the coroner's inquest
| on the bodies Of Mrs. Deeming and the
/ four children. He arrived at Rain Hill
this afternoon.
| Ae bears a striking resemblance to his
/ brother, and some people in the crowd
/ thought Il Was the murderer himself. The
| news spread rapidly that the murderer had
/ reiurUcd. The crowd hooted, yelled. and
n sie threatening rush for Deemng. The
1 latter fed to ho,el followed by the yell
/ ing crowd 10 the very door Of the hotel,
/ T~o sisters OF Marie Dism'ng, with the
/ brother Of Deemi0R, alias Williams, today
4 identified the remains OF the woman and
/ four children, whose names were Bertha,
/ Marie, Lille and Sydney
| The murderer, Frederick Deeming, isa
member Of a good family residing in Birk-
/ enhesd. He has led a rowing life. He
married Marie ,mP, in 1850 and she sc
/ Companied him 10 Austraiis.
! She remsi1ed in that COuntry q number
/ Of years, but returned to Eoglsnd in July
/ last. bringing her four children. The
woman and children remained with her
sisters until they myste riously disappeared.
| The excavations 10 Rain Hill Wills were
/ continued throughout the day but no more
! bodies were found.