Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-05-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TIM HOUSE OP LORDS.* That the man had some misgivings on the subject of police pursuit is suggested by the following fact : Deeming was asked to sign his name and address it; the photographer's hooks. He was, however, unwilling to give a specimen of his handwriting; and, though posing as a member of the English aristocracy and a millionaire, he refused to sign, actually alleging that he "did not know how to write !' When courteously reminded that this was impossible, he said, "I mean lam too ill to write." And this led him to give the young lady in charge of the. books, in explanation of his supposed inability to write, some few details of his personal history. He told her that he had come over "for a lark" to• Antwerp, but that he had been obliged to feign • illness, in order to acconnt for his absence from home and his duties in the House of Lords ! He said he had been nicely caught by his wife and her mother, as in their solicitude for his health, they had followed him to the Continent; and, he added, "As they are coming here to-morrow I most keep up the trick, you know, and that is why I am ill." There W evidence tx show that his wife, murdered at Rainhill, did come over with one of her children, a very fine little fellow of the Lord Fauntleroy type, and the party were often seen in the oaf& near the station, where by their "flashy" conduct they were put down as members of the English "music-hall clam" who frequent the cafes-chantants in that quarter of the city.  Deeming seems indeed to have been haunted by the fear of arrest when staying at Antwerp, for though he had his rooms at an hotel, he made one or two attempts to find shelter for a night in private bombe. One day a family, having relatives at Liverpool, were at tea when a stranger called. He gave the name of the gentleman engaged to the lady's cousin; and seemed to be so well up in the family history, that his statement was credited, and be was invited to tea and to spend the night in the house. But the man was not long able to keep np the delusion, and before the evening wee over he committed himself so much that the gentleman grew suspicious and politely requested him to leave. Nothing daunted, Deeming immediately went to a cousin of his entertainer, also resident there, and now furnished with additional facts gleaned from his recent interview, he proclaimed his " cousinship" and demanded hospitality. Bet the other cousin Leadreached the house first, and Deeming found that the only hospitality offered was the "cold shoulder.' Deeming paid a visit to the house of another English resident, alleging that he wished to have some infermation in regard to the scheme for making a tunnel under the Scheldt. He said that not be ing able to speak French hews. forced to apply to a fellow-countryman for assistance in carrying out some project, and said that the English chaplain had recommended him te apply to the gentleman in question. This latter promised to try and obtain the inform.tion required, and requested beaming to call on thentorrow. He rose to leave, but, catching sight of a photograph of a daughter of the house, Deeming took it up in his hand and exclaimed, "Fine girl that !" This remark, so utterly vulgar and out of place, induced the gentleman to ask the chaplain who the man was. The reverend gentleman repudiated all knowledge of him or his visit. Consequently on the morrow the gentleman refused to see Deeming when he called. "Like his impudence!" exclaimed he in English to the wondering servant. He appears very soon afterwards to have left the city and returned to Hull on board the steamer 'Ashton.  , - ---•..--- - , _ • 11:4e1 ' \\•' Pi. 4'. oi`',l•, 1Jr..., • , , ",,i„ , i * 4 , ~,,,,,,,, --„43,--,;,--.:-..::•. { / ii 1 -2-440 / frIA)  4. I ii R ‘'*43/ . 4, ,_,,, , . i 5.„,..,.... ~ t, . .000 v o-ij A , k_ t, t.,All'oll ... ~ .. ,