A series of very cold-blooded and remarkable murders has been
discovered, which are at present connected with the name of a man called Deeming, who had also gone by the names of Williams, Swanson, and Lawson, and who has been apprehended at Perth, in Western Australia, on a charge of having murdered his wife near Melbourne, and buried het- after completely encircling her body in cement. As the man's history has been partially traced, and it is believed that he was lately in Liverpool and took a house at Rainhill, where it was known that he had been actively engaged in- cementing the floor, the Liverpool police took up the floor, and found there five bodies, the bodies of Mrs. Deeming and four children, who have been identified by Deeming's rela- tives. Another wife, from Beverley in Yorkshire, and two children are believed to have disappeared mysteriously in Sydney (New South Wales), and the Melbourne police assert that Deeming, under the name of Williams, had been con- nected with many swindling transactions in England, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Sydney. The man was just about to- marry a fourth victim when he was apprehended at Perth.
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