DEEMING'S WILL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2390, 2 August 1892, Page 3

DEEMING'S WILL.

The will of the murderer Frederick Bayley Deeeming, which since his execution, has been in the hands of the Crown officials, was a few days ago handed to the Rev. H. F. Scott, Chaplain of the Meldounie Gaol, who attended Deeming in his last moments, and is named in the document as his administrator. The Crown law authorities have intimated to Mr Scott that if he does not administer to the will the property left by the testator will be handed over to the curator of intestate estates. jAt Scott has not yet taken any Bteps as administrator and it is possible that he may decline to do so for the cost of obtaining probate, and the expenses of distributing would probably exceed the value of the effects. There are two allotments of land at Lismore in New South Wales mentioned in the will but Mr Scott has been informed by Mr Marshall Lyle, who was Deeming's solicitor, that so far as he knows the deceased owned no such land. One of the allotments is bequeathed to Mr Lyle, the other to Mr Shegog, Governor of Melbourne Gaol. There is also reference to some gold buried in Lamer, East Africa, but no one is likely to put such faith in Deeming's veracity as to go to any expense to ascertain if such treasure exists. Mr Lyle also comes in for this mythical treasure, which in a former will made in favour of Miss Rounsville, written like the present one, by Deeming's own hand, but. scored through and through with a pen is bequeathed to Miss Bounsville, "in return for' her kindness to me, and as a token of the lie she told in court." His large bible he leaves to Mr Scott, his blue.cloth overcoat to a goal warder, his gold albert chain to his dear brother Edward, several trinkets to the goal governor and warders, and the ladies' clothes brought with him from Western Australia, and found in the box lip Cairnsda'le railway station, tq Maria flickering, of .Bainhill, England.