The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-04-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

IXIIND MURDERS AND FRAUDS IN SOUTH AFRICA.  e superintendent of the Criminal Investigation went in Victoria is stated to have received a ••• 'rem Detective Brant, who has recently Vic,oria,, Polico Force after lengthened a, win, h ti1.!40 implit an Deeming in a fresh series of crimes in the latter od tit% According to Detective Brant's report, that (Aker knew Deeming at the Cape, and is positive that he was guilty of three murders during his ri"ce at Johannesburg in 1888. He was also o teemed in a swindle which was perpetrated on the National Bank at Johannesburg for £162,000. _  On being interviewed, Detective Brant explained that the fraud on the National Bank at Johannesburg was perpetrated by means of bills floated on valueless security. Deeming's share ia the plunder .. -11 :nrunt to .0,-,t P 30,000.  , • • e g to Brant's' account, Giaham, the man , rid at Johannesburg,was in depressed circumstanees, and was employed as a billiard-marker. I).. mine quarrelled with hint in the billiard-room, ]. see, .h.g to the common supposition, sub, ue. 'as laid and murdered him in cold blood. The two natives who were Graham's fellow-victims W.,`, it is believed, accidental witnesses of the crime. and were themselves murdered by Deeming tiler to prevent their giving evidence against li,m. Detective Br i Brant was not employed to nvestigee the ease until six weeks after the murders had been er mmitted. In the meantime Deeming decamped ith Auspitz,his accomplice in the bank fraud. The it ctive traced the pair to Quilimane, on the east cea,t of Africa. The Consul there informed Brant, ii tenoned in their tracks, that two men had reeently visited the place professing to have come I. .t from the Zambesi. It was subsequently r, eit. 11 that Carl Auspitz had died on the road after lessmie Quilimane; but Brant, being suspicious of :7ii uth of the tale, had the man's suppised grave , ii;.'... d, and found that it contained, not Auspitz's lite a egro's corpse. It was ultimately ascertainea that Ausnitz had escaped to India, and Deeming was ofteiwards reported to have died. Mr. Alfred liarferd,who is now in Melboume,was a member of the Ali-a:m(lra Theatre Company in Johannesburg at the tine, v.hen firaham and the two natives were no,rdered in the mining camp. Ile ri lates that one evening .just preciously a farewell supper was given to Peetutng, Carl Auspitz, and several others, who were am the point of leaving for England for the purpose of floating the Great Kruger Gold Mining Company on the London market. The supper was givi n on the stage of the theatre after the performance of the piece then running. During the course of the festivities Deeming sang a song in the Lancael7e dialeet. A day or two afterwards the murders . • .... . 1;; Athi i:z and Dr. c.i:nt.; left the locality by different routes. Auspitz went to Delagoa 14, where lie tried to destroy all traces of his existence by having a negro's body buried in his own Caine. Deeming went to Durban and resorted to exactly the same dodge. In proof of the fact a tombstone is still to be seen there put.portirg to be erected to the memory of Frederick Bayley Deeming. Both men subsequently proceeded ta.Laidon and endeavoured to float the Great Kruger Comps. y. They managed to sell the property for £.110.000; but the brokers through whom the trans' action was being effected discovered the swindle I just in time and returned the deposit money to the retea,:ing purchase's.  DID DEEMING LINN IN SOtTll LONDON?  It is stated that some persons in South London, haying no.iced Deeming's portrait u given in an illustrated paper, affirm that if this be a faithful lik,ness they are ready to identify the original as a man who 'caged with them in 188. Before coming to them this man appears to have hastily quitted a house which he occupied, and to have disposed of Lis furniture. Moreover, a wire and hens:keeper ent jinst then to have mysteriously disapp ared. Further, the man seems to have worked at electric macliimry. or the like, in a workshop Vo ith a cemented door.