THE WILLIAMS MURDERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4071, 24 March 1892, Page 2

THE WILLIAMS MURDERS.

Tno Kutderer'a Doings atSoxa§i.',

swindles in Afrloa.

Tito Moused Breaking Down.

London, Maroh 21

Deeming and Emily (Mies Maths eta) stayed at Hastings in October, where he was in tbe habit of flaunting a hundred guinea chronometer. Crowds of sightseers are still at Rainhill,

On 14th September Deeming wrote to Mr James, the father of his first wife, stating that he would bring his wife to see him shortly, and urged Mr James to send him his gold watch .toget.it repaired. ~ This, however, Mr James, fortunately for himself, did not d 0......

Deeming left church in the middle of the service on the Sunday after lie had murdered his wile and children. While posing as Lawson, an Austra. lian millionaire, he was the guest: of several merchants iu West Hartlepool for some .week

All lettew teceived by the Mathers from Australia were full of expressions of happiness.

Blood-stained bedding and shirts have been discovered in an hotel at Rainhill, where they are supposed to have been left by the murderer, Deeming is supposed to have passed under the names of Wilson, Cleves and Webster, as well as numerous other aliases.' .'■■'• : .

The Mathers. identify, articles found in the) possession l of Williams when arrested as answering to the description some their daughter's husband took away with him. Messrs Uook and Sons state that a man giving the name of. A. W. Williams paid a deposit on the 27th of October lasb to secure two second cabin passages from' Southampton • to Melbourne in. the steamer Kaiser 'Wilhelm. The balance of tbe money was paid the following day, also in the name of A. E. Williams;.' 1 . i Deeming with another man taller than himself, stayed at Chester in Ootnber, 1889, where he bought a gun, and ordered it, along with, cartridges, to be sent to H.Lawsbn, care of the Mathesons, in Beverley; A receipt for the articles was sent on the 17th November, signed " Gr, F. Gray for H. Lawson," and written on paper bearing the printed heading '• Mount House Farm, Rockbampton," Deeming's accomplice at the Cape circulated a report that Deeming died at Durban.

Many swindles were perpetrated at Port Elizabeth in 1889, and it'has now been ascertained that they were the work of Deeming and his acoom> plice,

' The polioe have traced- all the women who were known to have visited Deeming during his residence inßainhill, and they will be called at the inquest. Deeming purebssed a considerable quantity of scent shortly beforn the murder of his wife and four children, _ A neighbour who casually called in alDenham Villa found Deeming on his knees cementing the floor, and quietly smoking a cigar, with a glass of port wine beside him. ■■/-.

Sarah Oatesj a great .friend of Emily Mather's, and Mrs/Mather, are completely prostrated at the terrible revelations which have been made during the last few days.. ' While residing at Hastings Deoming attempted to swindle a publican out of £SO. ■ ■■.'■'.

.'■.:■■■ Perth, March 28,'' ..BaronSwanson has been ramande,d until Friday.-' ....'.,., ~.: • ;'• ;Tlio prisoner, hag, now been con-t chisively idemified as Deeming. He appears to be breaking down.' A striking deficiency occurred in the returns from the gold mine at Southern Cross during Swanson's engagement. ,' "'■■■'■

When arrested Swanson had just received a newspaper containing the announcement of the discovery of the woman's body under the floor of the cottage he occupied at Windsor., Melbourne, March 28. The inquest on the body-of Mrs Williams, found under the floor of the cottage in Windsor, has been adjourned for a fortnight.