DEEMING

Temuka Leader, Issue 2371, 18 June 1892, Page 4

DEEMING

A gentleman, who gave important evidence at the trial of Deeming, has received a,Jetter from one of the relatives of Emily Mather, dated from Rainhill, thanking him for the interest he had taken in the case, and f >r the favourable statements he had made concerning her. The letter also records the fact that the pair of pliers so often mentioned throughout the case, and which Deeming was wont to boast were made by him, were really the handicraft of Miss Mather's uncle, who gave them to her for a keepsake. It was further mentioned that this uncle had so dearly loved his niece Emily that her tragic end had hastened his death. The item of information concerning the pliers has a strange interest, since the-e articles, which were very neatly aud cleverly worked, furnished tho fiiy.t clue to the presence of Deeming in Western Australia, and thus played an important part in his arrest. It was a curious coincidence that an uncle's gift should have had so much to do with the discovery of the murderer. Mr Kaynes, tin solicitor who defended Deeming when before tho Police Court in Perth, Western Australia, has been interviewed by the local press as to his connection with the murderer. Mr Haynes taid in the course of the interview ; «My impression of him was that he was a man incapable of speaking the truth. One remark which struck me a.% being perhaps the only true statement he made was in reply to an observation of mine that he wa. suspected ol a murder in •Queensland. No,' he said,' I never committed a crime till after I left Sydney.' on the morning he was brought before the bench he handed me a note upon which was written these words : ' For my solicitor, —Would it not do for me to make th.-* following answer to the charge when read out to me in CJiirt: That lam not guilty, but if it is Emily Williams who is killed, which I doubt very much, I know who the murderer is?' Add»d to this was a. memo, about writing out the particulars of the 'Hi!L ; meaning the Rainhill murders, ' so that you cau put Mr Bilbort (his solicitor in Hull) of the Hull police on the trace of them.' 'That little djcument completely upsets the theory of insanity,' said Mr Haynes, 'in respect to bjth murders.'"