The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-05-23
DEFINING EXECUTED.
The Modern Bluebeard Pays the
Penalty of His Grimes.
THE MONSTER DIED LIKE A CRAVEN

Resume of His Remarkable Career
OF Crime.
MELBouRNE, May 23.-The execution
of Deening, the wife murderer, took
place shortly arter 10 o'clock this morn
ing. Seventy persons witnessed the ex-
ecution OF this number forty were
members of the press.
While preparations were making TO
take the condemned man out to the
eaaffold he became u pitiful figure. He
cringed and covered In "a corner of his
cell, first taking down his Bible, then
throwing it from him, muttering to
himself, then speaking loudly and inco-
herently to the chaplain. AS the door
opened to let him out he burst into tears
and begged for few moments respite.
When this was refused his mind appar
emily sunk into stupor. He made one
OF two efforts to speak and then relaxed
from all effort, allowing himself to be
half led, half carried from the building.
The chaplain said subsequently that in
all his experience he had never seen u
more broken creature.
Died Like Craven.
Wheen Deeming was led into the yard
and up to the gallows everybody was
surprised to see that he was not chained,
as had been expected He walked un-
steadily between the guards, and several
times tottered as if about to fall. His
face was ashen and he shook like man
with the palsy Several times when the
chaplain spoke to him encouragingly in
an undertone Deeming parted his lips to
reply, but he uttered no sound. He
seemed to be stupefied by his approach
ing death. When his arms We're pin
ioned he wavered and would have fallen
had he not been caught by the warden.
At first he shook his head when his last
opportunity was given him. Then he
rallied from his stupor, ,and with strong
effort called out: Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit" He tried to say more and
stood with his mouth half 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. He
died without a struggle and almost in-
stantly.
Uncarthing the RainhiIl Murders.
When this news reached Rainhill the
police tore up the floor of Dinham villa
to satisfy their suspicion that the woman
and four children who had been seen
tltse with Deeming might have suffered
the me fate as did Emily Mather
They found under the floors, which
Deeining himself had cemented, the
bodies of the woman and children. The
woman was his wife, nee Marie james,
wi ON he married in England in 1881,
and the children were his own. Deem
ing was caught near Perth, Australia,
late in March, after he had advertised
through matrimonial agency, and had
made arrangements to marry Miss
Rounceville III Perth. After his arrest
and incarceration in Melbourne await
ing trial more or less evidence was
found tending to connect him with
dozens of heinous crimes, including
those of Jack the Ripper, and man
who knew Dee1ning in Halifax came
forward with proof that Deeming, while
there, had written to the Eddowes wo-
man, one of the Whitechapel victims.
The exact truth of the charges was not
and never will be ascertained, as Deem
ing was tried, convicted, sentenced and
hanged for the killing of Emily Mather
only. An idea of the number of crimes
attributed to him, as we'll as of his whole
remarkable career since 1881, may be
gathered from this condensed statement:
As Frederick Bayiey Deeming.
In February, 1881, he married Miss
Marie James at st. Paul's church,
1sS2-Joined by his wife. Sent to
prison for six weeks for theft. He was
at that time supposed to be working as
plumber.
lSs4-Numerous bank robberies took
place in Sydney, the perpetrators not
being detected.
1885 = More robberies, burglaries,
mysterious disappearances and tragedies,
lsS6-Sets up shop in a large way,
,tgr, e., l,,l,
and abseonds from Sydney.
1Ss7-Flies from Adelaide to Cape
Town, after robbing two brothers whom
he met of EGO.
1sss-Nothing known of him. Dur
ing this year six of the Whitechapel
murders were perpetrated.
1SS9-Poses in Durham as3a mining
engineer, going to Johannesburg and
succeeds in obtaining e600 by fraud. In
June, has f3, 1000 pounds advanced to
him in Durham on bogus deeds, obtains
e420 pounds worth of jewelry and de-
camps. About the same time two muir
ders were committed in the Transyaal,
the murderer escanin1-
His Remarkable Career.
Frederick Bayley Deeming was one of
the most versatile and bloodthirsty
wretches in the history of the worlls
SilLue' 1ndb part Oh MS career winch
led Immediately to his arrest, trial and
death at Melbourne began in Rainhlll,
suburb of Liverpool. on July 81, 1891.
He 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
subsequently married. He rented Din
ham villa, on the outskirts of the village,
during his courtship and there received
woman and four young children, who
disappeared shortly before his marriage
to Miss Mather. After the wedding, on
Sept %, he aud his wife took short
wedding journey and on on Oct. II they
sailed for Australia. They went to live
in a house in Windsor, suburb of
Melbourne. There, on Dec. 81, nine
days after their arrival, he killed his
young wife and buried her under the
floor He then disanneared About ten