The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-05-26
DEFINING. MURDERER. HANGED
THE DEMON DIES LIKE A COWARD
Career OF One Of the Most Remarkable
Wretones in the Worlds History.


Deemins was hanged one minute after II
O'Clock this morning.
When Deeming was led into the yard and
upon the gallows everybody was surprised
to see that he was not chained. as had
been expected lie walked unsteadily be-
tween the guards, and several times totter
ed, as IL about to fall. He face was ashen,
and he shook like man with the palsy
Several times when the chaplain spoke to
him encouragingly in an undertone. Deem.
ing parted his lips to reply but he uttered
no sound. lie seemed to be stupifie1 by his
approaching death. When his arms were
pinioned he wavered and would have fallen
had he not been caught by the warden. AZ
first he shook his head when his last oppor-,
tunity to speak was given him. Then he
rallied from his stupor aud with strong
effort called out
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit"
He tried to say more and stood with his
mouth wide open, but no words came. AS
the moose was adjusted his knees knocked
together and he would have collapsed had
he not been supported until he was swung
into mid-air. lie died without a struggle
and almost instantly. The body. after be-
ing cut down, was taken in charge by the
prison physicians who will supcrintend the
post mortem examination into the structure
of the skull and brain
REMARKABLE WRETCH.
Frederick Bayley Decming was one of the
most versatile aud bloOdthirSty wretchcs in
the history Of the world crime. That part
OF his career which led Immediately TO his
arrest, trial and death at Melbourne, began
in Rain Hill, a suburb OF Liverpool, on July
81 1891, lie then took lodgings under the
name of Williams at the Commercial Hotel
in that village and shortly began paying
court TO Miss Emily Mather. whom he sub.
sequently married. lie rented Dinham
villa. on the outskirts Of the village during
his courtship, and there received u woman
and four young children, who disappeared
shortly before his marriage to Miss Mather.
After the wedding. on September - he and
his wife took short wedding journey and
on October IL they sailed for Australia
They went TO live in a house in Windsor. "a
suburb of Melbourne. There, on December
~ nine days after their arrival, he killed
his young wife and buried her under the
floor. lie then disappeared.
About ten weeks later when new ten
ants were about to take the house pc
culiar odor was noticed, the floor was taken
up and the body of Mrs. Decming was
found. Marks on her head and neck show
ed that she had been killed by blows When
the news reached Rain Hill, the police tore
up the fioor.of Dinham Villa 10 satisfy their
suspicion that the woman and four children
who had been seen there with Deeming
might have suffered the same fate as did
Emily Mather. They found under the
floors which Deeming himself had cement
ed, the bodies of the woman and children.
The woman was his wife Marie nee James,
whom he married in England in 1851 and
the childreh were his own.
Deeming was caught near Perth in Aus
trala, late in March The exact truth OF
| the charges was not and never will be ascer-
tanned, as Deeming was tried convicted,
sentenced and hanged for the killing Of
| Emily Mather only.
An idea of the number of crimes attribut-
ed To him, as well as of his whole renarka-
Die Aeer since 1881, may be gathered from
;:, .,. SsT ssac4rs ssfsiis Bayies Teeminc 1ssi-
February Married Miss Marie James. Went
alone to Australia.
1ss2-Joined by his WIFE Sent to Jail for
six weeks for theft. He was at that time
supposed to be working as plumber.
| lSSi-Numerous bank rohberies took
place in Sydney, the perpetrators not being
| detected.
1sS5-More robberes, burglaries, mystcr-
ious disappearance and tragedies.
lSS6-Sets up shop in large way, perpe-
from Sydney.
lss7-Flies from Adelaide TO Cape Town
after robbing two brothers. whom he met,
of E00
lSSS-Nothing known of him. During this
ll'ear six of the White chapel murders were
lperpetrated.
lSS9-Poses in Durham as a mining cngin-
eer; going to Johannesburg. and succeeds in
obtaining 1900 by fraud. June-iIas g., ,OOC
advanced to him in Durham on bogus deeds,
obtains ei20 worth of jewelry and dccamps
About the same time two murderers were
committedi in the Transvaa, the murder os
Gaping. July 1.-THE eighth WhiteChape
murder. September l0-The ninth " hi,e
chapel murder. eptember-Turncd up un
eXpectedly in Birkenhead, where his wife
was living. October-ls traced by private
detective, who wanted him for the Trans
vaal robheres, to Camberwell, then &c
Stockton-on-Tees and back again to London
November-Sails for Australia. Leaving
the vessel at Port Said, he doubles on hi'
pursuers and returns To Birkenhcad.
CoNDITION OF BUsINESS