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Show Ill .jfij ,' ! TI,E MU ot' k ViU MA' jjj,' 9to, Boik Inquiries bav been made la Tl wlii regard loth particulars In tb Orcm. A 'iKl log cate alluded loin the forelgu dls- E? " Kf t patches. In the hlttory of criminal f bS anthropology, perbapa th story of I n Frederkk llayley Deeming, the mur SU . , b3 ' dererezeoute J In Melbourne, Auitra ttjf- ! I Ila, on Monday last, makes on ol the HI'; V M moat startling chapters. An account N 'r II i 'M' E""J wo'1' ' luuhll "e" 'lr lftr ' 'l Liverpool, England, and also the do. i fl! Lw tt"l ' '' caPure fkD subsequent jmi) Hi" ' : deods In Australia were glveu In thesu "left- I OJlumne eome lime ago. 7P'3l!i The hlstery of llila man's lllo rhowa ' ' lv that he possessed nerve, self.posiesslou ii ' 5 1 and audacity far beyond tli usual a. I , , lotmeuttu the average mortal, liven i 1 whenconfrontai with the most horrl. I, lying proofsof his work this self.pos. I i j. seulon did not desert hloi, and i ' U V after sentence was pissed, and up , ,, li 1 1 so tno evening beroro bis esocutlon, he . t) milutalned hlsutual compoiure and ! ,i Indifference. He told hli Jailors that T v j 1- he was notbrn lobs hanged and that 'it I ami hawoulj yet obtain freoJom and poy f( 'fl', bck his persecuUrs. ' L Qnthe morning of the eiecutlon, f ." howfver, all this deserted him. He L. ha J to bn assisted to the soatWd, an J il. several times totters! as If about to ) fall. He sUolc like a man wllU the -aifeJ-lA pall, fctj.1 liU fsc prftenUJ au !, II1IJ appnrancfi. When th 'chip lalnvpokatohloihe caul J not Vpl. Juntai th rop wan about lo m a J Juited he wu told that thli wa lili lait 6ppottunltjr to (cak. With ao nTurt ht utttrJ Ui word. "Ijord Jmui, receive my uplrlt," but not an other word couIJ he epeak. Hli tongue ermt-i paralyteJ, hit kaeei tolterttJ, aodhligiaeraldemeinor preiented a ipectacleof inlur an I deipalr fearfgl (o 09Dtemplate, Within th prUon wallt about Mteutr phyitcUui and reported wltoetieJ the tratce y, while thouiandithroofel thnalrepta ouUtde It wai eipecUd ttiat DmhijC would makencoufeiiloa. bJthedld uot. In rrpljr to the chaplain the evening prrttloun to hi execution ho a!J: Ttjeonly murJer I erer committed waa whoa I killed l'.mllr Mtttitr. If I did kill her. I wti craty wlien I did ltt and tho men who more aw mjr IITt at the trial hra mot tt amwer for than It" lleeiprenedaom regret for th la Jurrbautrl to Mln Uauncewell, hh Auitra'hn flancr, fer th notoriety he bad brought un her. However, letter have been found which h wrote to a girl In Kagland. Inviting hvrtocom l Australia, at the aam time that Mln Ibuncewell wai on her way to marry him. It hu been proved beyond a doubt thath committal alx munlen, four of tb vlctlmn being hi own i hlldren and twohltwlvr. Another murder wai prevantcd In a rather fortunate way, During hli ramble la Kngtaud he marrleJ a Yorkshire gtrl named Nelly Mathton. He lived with her about two monthi, but h auipcuUd eonie blng wrong and returned to her father. It la auppoied that ber fat would have been alniltar to that of tb other had the remained with hlm.becaui at th Urn of thli marrlag the wife and children whom h murdered at Liverpool Liver-pool were alive. Deeming waa on of thro brotheri. native of Illtkenhead. near Liverpool. Kngland, and wan alure boyhood a wild, recklru fellow, alwaya engaged In criminal work of aoro kind, but alwavi escaping the police. Hehai written au autobiography, but tin credence li placed In thvitatemenla It contains. Hli brain bai ben iam Ined alnce hli deceaae, but no report of the phyalclam has yet been publlihed. |