MORE ABOUT WILLIAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 69, 22 March 1892, Page 5

MORE ABOUT WILLIAMS.

HIS CAREER TRACED

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March 21.

It is believed thatamongstDeeming's luggage discovered at Plymouth is the clothing of another of his victims.

A Hartlepool merchant, who was the best man at Deeming's wedding in Beverley, declared that the latter swindled him, as well as several tradesmen in Antwerp. Deeming tried to marry a girl in Liverpool in July, and presented her with much jewellery. He regularly attended worship while in Rainhill. He desired Mrs Mather to sell her little property, and it is believed with the object of securing Miss Mather's share. Once he stated that he was a nephew of Sir Wilfred Lawson, by whom he was educated, and that he had taken many school prizes in Australia.

After his wife left the Cape, Deeming and an accomplice obtained £600 in Durham for a Gold Commission, and next he secured the confidence of Messrs Grice and Ansell, who introduced him to a Johannesburg banker, from whom he borrowed In connection with the latter, he gave Capetown references, and these were answered by an accomplice. Deeming made good the bank's advances.

Deeming defrauded Courtney, of Capetown, out of a large quantity of jewellery, and returned to England shadowed by a private detective from the Transvaal, and the police at Birkenhead, Stockton-on-Tees, London, and Pembroke. Finding that he was

dogged, Deeming doubled back to Australia, taking passage by the s.s. Jumna. Another detective boarded the vessel at Thursday Island, but Deeming managed to evade him, and slipped away at Brisbane. He was next heard of at Port Said, and then at Birkenhead and Beverley.