The Northern Guardian. — 1892-03-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE RAINHILL MURDERS.  DEEMING'S AUSTRALIAN  CA REEL  HIS ATTEMPTED FLIGHT.  A Liverpool correspondent telegraphs :—With reference to the abeconding of Deeming to South America, and hie arrest there, a gentleman who was on board the steamer Coleridge, in which he sailed from Southampton on March 16th, 100, says the ealoon accommodation was fully engaged, but rather than miss his passage Deeming consented to occupy the ships hospital, dining in the saloon. He soon became well-known among the other passengers. He was placed at the head of the table, and was looked on as  A PERSON OF SOME CONSEQUENCE, having in his possession cards bearing hia name as managing director of the South African Gold Mining Company. On one occasion he told a gentleman that he knew a spot in South Africa where there were tons of gold. A couple of days before arriving at Monte Video he presided at a concert on board, and headed the subscription list with a liberal donation. The subscription was in aid of the Seamen's Orphanage. Scarcely, however, had the vessel dropped anchor at Monte Video on Easter Monday when a steam launch came alongside and an officer stepped on board with a warrant for his arrest. The event canned  A OREAT SENSATION among the passengers, as no one suspected that a man of such courteous manners and apparent respectability could be wanted on so grave a charge. MELSOURNW, March 18. Descriptions of the mardered woman whose body was found at Rainhill have been cabled from England, and have excited extraordinary interest here as they agree with that of the woman who was known at Sydney as Deeming's wife. The certificate of the birth of the child which was born there states that the woman's maiden name was Mary James, that she was born at Pembroke, and that she married Deeming at Birkenhead in February, 1880. It has been further ascertained that she was 6ft. 51n. in height and rather stout in build, that she had black hair, SMALL DARK EYES, and an olive complexion. She joined Deeming at Sydney in 1882, and lived with him there some years, their daughter Bertha being born in 1884. Deeming worked as a plumber, and while resident at Sydney was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for theft. This occurred in 1882. Subsequently he set up a shop of his own and lived upon a most extravagant scale, a course which resulted in a fraudulent 'bankruptcy in 1886. Raving been liberated on bail, Deeming absconded, taking his family with him. The general belief is that they went to South Africa. The keeper of a publichouse in Sydney, who was intimately acquainted with Deeming while he was resident there, states that he last saw him in January of this year, and in reply to inquiries as to  BIS WIFE AND FAMILY he gave him to understand that they had all died at Johannesburg. It has also come to light that after the murder at Windsor Deeming actually applied to a matrimonial agency in this city with the object of procuring another victim, but his quest in this instance proved fruitless. He afterwards went to Sydney, and there proposed to, and was accepted by, a girl named Kate Rounsevell, who resided at Bathurst. He gave her several rings, which are believed to have belonged to his murdered wife, and Miss Rounsevell was actually on her way to Perth to marry him at the moment that he was arrested.