Widnes Examiner. — 1892-04-16 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

APPLICATION AT WIDNES FOR A WARRANT.  AT the -Widnes Police Court, on Monday morning, before Mr. J. Biminill and Lieutenant-Colonel an application was made by Mr. Paxton, Liverpool, on behalf of the Public Prosecutor, for a warrant for the apprehension of Frederick B. Deeming, for the murder of his wife and four children at Hainhill. ' The Court was adjourned For an hour, in order to allow Mr. Paxton to read the depositions taken at the inquest to the various witnesses. .  Mter this had been accomplished, Mr. Paxton returned into court,-and said: lam instructed by the Public Prowater to make an application for a warrant for the arrest of Frederick Bayley Deeming, .who is charged with the murder of his wife and four children, at Raiuhill, on the 28th July last year. The application la made under the. Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, under which an offender who is convicted of a crime in England, the punishment for ;which is greater than twelve montheimprisonment with hard labour, is liable to be brought tacit from any one of her Majesty's possessions, and charged with the offence. Your worships will at any rate (now by rumour that a man has been arrested in Australia, and brought to Melbourne, and charged with the murder there. There can be no doubt that this is the same man who is charged with the murders in Rainhill. Of course if he is tried and convicted, the probability is the warrant Would not he required ; bid in the event, and it appears lobe very unlikely, that he will get Itit there, we will take steps to bring him back to this. country. I have a number of witnesses present who will give a series of facts which will leave do doubt in your worships' minds that Deeming is the man, wanted. Mr. Lewin ' (deputy magistrates clerk),` then read the evidence, as given at. the inquest, of the following persons :—Albert Deeming, fitter, of 55, Canning-st., Birkenhead ; George Pattison, Police Inspector Widnes; Police Sergeant Chi pclutse, Dr. M'Lennon, Widnes ; Mrs. A. Deeming, sister of the deceased ; Mrs. Dove Mathe:, widow, of ; Mrs. Hayes, landlady of Dinham Villa; Mrs. Lally, Henry Short, landlord of the Commercial. Hotel, Ha inhill ; Miss Jane Hall, housekeeper at the Commercial Hotel, Miss Barry, barmaid of.the Cornmercial Hotel; Thomas Duxbury ; Benjamin Young; Walter Hewn, High-street, Present, plasterer ; ' Richard Whitfield Ferguson, goods checker at St. Helens Junction ; and Superintendent Keighley. : Mr. Paxton said, that one of the witnesses, named Richard Hackett, who had been summoned by the police in the same manner as all other witnesses, had not turned tip. As his evidence was very importent, it would he necessary to have him present to swear to his depositions. He therefore applied for a summons to compel Hackett to attend. The summons was granted, and it was then decided 110 adjourn the priteeedintrs until Wednesday morning. Superintendent K iighley informed the Court what the arrangements of the police were with regard to the preservation of public order it Rainhill. Mr. Birchall expressed his satisfao!ion, and the Superintendent, then said that before Good Friday there would be nothing left i of Dinham Villa. .