Widnes Examiner. — 1892-04-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.  MELBOURNE, Fainay.—The hearing of the case against Deemifig for the Windsor murder was resumed this morning. Featherston, the carrier, who conveyed the luggage belonging to the prisoner and his wife to the house at Windsor, was cross-examined as to the identity of the latter with the woman whose remains were shown to him at the morgue. He said her face was much contracted, but he recognised her by her auburn pair. When first asked to identify Deeming he:saw him in the gaol among twenty others. Other witnesses were then called to prove that the prisoner and his wife occupied the house at Windsor, and that about Christmas a neighbour was awakened at night by hearing curious noises a9lif carpenters' or plumbers' work was being carried on in the dwelling-house. Alfred Spedding, another of the witnesses examined at the inquest, deposed to having found a printed card in the house on which, although the writing was almost illegible, could just be deciphered the words, " Albert Williams, commercial, Rainhill." Louisa Atkinson, another witness,was cross-examined with respect to a woman whom she said she saw about Christmas running down the lane adjoining the house in Andrew-st., Windsor, wringing her hands and cryinz. Counsel endeavoured to fix the exact date of this occurence, which witness gave as the 23rd or 24th of December. Witness was positive that it was one of these two days. Further evidence was then taken as to the movements Of the accused, and his assumption of various aliases, but nothing transpired to vary the facts elicited at the inquest. Miss Rounseville testified that the prisoner twice proposed marriage to her. The first proposal was made at Coogee, a waterside suburb of Sydney, upon the day she arrived at Sydney from Adelaide. She had met Williams under the name of Swanston on the steamer. Williams said:he would go to Bathurst and consult her sister concerning the marriage, as she did not wish to marry without her sister's consent. He went to Bathurst with her, and his second proposal was made at Bathurst. She again accepted him. On the way to Bathurst he offered her the clothing which he said had longed to his sister. She refused it, not liking the idea of wearing a dead person's things. He seemed very devoted to her, and anxious to make her happy He was kind and jolly, and said he was deeply in love with her. As far as she had seen there was no differ_ ence between his action and that of other men who were courting women whom they proposed to marry. She had returned to Williams the money sent her for her passage to West Australia. Max Hirchfield was cross-examined as to the nature of the fits from which Deeming suffered during the railway journey from Perth to Albany. According to this witness the first seizure lasted a considerable time, during which it was necessary for four men to hold the accused. The secorld came on an hour and a half later, but was of briefer duration and the prisoner was much quieter. In neither fit was there any foaming at the mouth. A constable who travelled In the adjoining carriage to the prisoner deposed to the violence of his struggles whilst the seizure lasted.  I bui  1 beli  The case for the prosecution was still incomplete when the court adjourned till to-morrow. The trial will probably be concluded on Monday next Deeming's demeanour is greatly depressed, and he seems to have abandoned all possible hope.