THE WILLIAMS MURDERS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4079, 2 April 1892, Page 2

THE WILLIAMS MURDERS

■ Ailezed Criaog in South Africa. An Addition to -'the Ohaaiber of Horrors. Melboubne, Maroh 31. Detective - Brindo, formerly of Johannesburg, knew Deeming when in South Africa, and has every reason to believe b« is the man wanted for the murder of a British officer named. Graham and two natives in Johannesburg in 1888. The bodies of the murdered people were horribly mutilated. Brindt is engaged investiaiting the case. Shortly after the murder, it is alleged, Deeming was connected with a number of others in swindling the National Bank of Johannesburg out of £102,000. London, Maroh 30. Letters addressed by Deeming to the British Consul,in Monte Video, where lie was arrested for fraudih lently obtaining goods in England, have been discovered. lu' these he complained of the treatmont he received in prison, and threatened the British Minister wfth death unless he took steps to redress his grievance, Madame Tussaud has purchased Denharn Villa, in which Deeming committed his murders, and will re> erect at her exhibition the rooms connected with the crime. Melbourne, April 1. . The police have obtained evidence that Williams and the wife he is sups posed to have murdered at Windsor lived unhappily between the 18th and 24th of December. During, that space ■ of time the wife arranged to take a house- and,live by herself till she could return to Eogland.