A Deeming Incident

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 13, 19 July 1892, Page 4

A Deeming Incident

♦ The Deeming case has been revived by the death of Mr Simeon Solomtns, who was notable through his purchase of the prisoner's trick canary. His death was brought about in a singular way. He was crossing a street when he was endangered by a tramcar, and in an effort to escape being run down by it he slipped and fell. The shock to the nerves caused by the danger and intensified by the fall induced an epileptic fit, and though the sufferer was removed at once to his home and given the best attention by Dr Charles Ryan and more than half a dozen other medical men, he never rallied. Mr Solomons incurred the displeasure of Deeming because he proauced the canary at the inquest, and the convict struck him a violent blow on the face one morning as he was taken into the Coroner's Court, and on another morning tried to strike him again. It is a curious fact that the canary itself met its death a few hours after Mr Solomons. It came out of its cage the morning after his death and met its fate at the hands, or rather the teeth, of a prowling cat.