DEEMING CONFESSES TO THE WINDSOR MURDER.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 134, 10 May 1892, Page 2

DEEMING CONFESSES TO THE WINDSOR MURDER.

(Received May 10, 11.20 a.m.) Melboubne, This Day. Miss Rouasfield has visited Deeming privately, and Deeming gaye her sketches of two tombstones in a South African cemetery, between which he said £11,000 worth of gold was buried. He received the decision of the Executive fixing bis execution for Monday as the best news they could bring him. Deeming has confessed to the murder of his last wife Emily Mather. He says he made four attempts. The first took place in London. Shortly after the raarnnge he was awakened nightly by a visi« tation from his mother's spirit, commanding him to kill his wife. For sometime he resisted these promptings, but the impulse at length became so strong that he crept quietly out of bed and seized a chair with the intention of dashing out his wife's brains. She woke, however, at the critical moment and seeing his iix-* tention jumped to the other side in time to escape his attacks. He managed, by some means to explain away his conduct, and tho couple lived hapnily on their arrival in Melbourne, He was moved once more by the same impulse when it became so strong that be awakened his wife one night and implored her to leave him, and go awny else he would murder her. She threw her arms around his neck and told him she would rather die than leave him. On December 28th he took house in Andrew St., Windsor. On the night of the 19th yielding to the same impulse, he awoke at two in the morning (December 20) and found his wife sitting up in bed pelling an apple with a large clasp knife, He wrenched the knife from her and cut her throat. When the murder was done he was seized with an uncontrolnble fear of the dead body, itnd rushed out of the house. Deeming says he paid a mnn £10 to bury the body and could not account for having purs chased the cement and tools before hand. .1 knife answering the description of thiit said to be used was found among the murderer's effects.