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  2. DEEMING'S CRIMES.

    The circumstances of the crime for which Deeming has suffered the last penalty of the law are necessarily so fresh in the minds of everyone that it is not desirable here to do ...

    Article : 438 words
  3. EARLY INDICATIONS.

    The family stayed nearly two years, and then moved to St. Helens, where in 1857 the son Walter was born. In the following year the father got work at Birkenhead, and ultimately ...

    Article : 195 words
  4. [?]EEMING THE MURDERER. LAST HOURS OF HIS LIFE.

    Cablegrams from London, dated May 19, stated that Lord Halsbury, the Lord Chancellor, presided over the Full Court on that date, the House of Lords adjourning for the purpose, to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 276 words
  5. OUT ALL NIGHT.

    One night, when he was between 11 and 12 years of age, he was missed from home, and could not anywhere be found. The next day, when he thought his father had gone to work, he came ...

    Article : 322 words
  6. VISITED BY THE BISHOP.

    On May 20 a very unusual visitor entered the portals of the Melbourne Gaol. This was no less a personage than the Bishop of Melbourne. He was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Scott, the gaol ...

    Article : 222 words
  7. LAST EFFORT FOR A REPRIEVE.

    The following reply was received to a letter sent on May 17 by Mr. Marshall Lyle to the Governor appealing for a postponement of the execution on the grounds of the appeal ...

    Article : 218 words
  8. DEEMING'S CHARACTER ANALYSED.

    Contemplation of the Rainhill criminal's career compels one (says the TIMES) once more to repeat that process of enlarging one's conception of human folly which is, perhaps, the most ...

    Article : 454 words
  9. THE MOTHER'S PRESENTIMENTS.

    Four or five nights after the boy's disappearance the oratorio "Messiah " was to be performed at the Queen's Hall, Birkenhead, and as one brother was going to sing in the choruses ...

    Article : 636 words
  10. BIRTH AND BOYHOOD OF DEEMING.

    As attention is now being directed to the plea of insanity which is to be put forward on behalf of Deeming, we have (says LLOYD'S of April 17) obtained from a [?]ustworthy source an ...

    Article : 556 words
  11. DEEMING'S HEAD.

    The inquiries instituted by the doctors who trid to secure Deeming's head after execution, although fruitlees so far as their main object was concerned, have, however, brought to ...

    Article : 790 words
  12. REMARKABLE INCIDENT.

    The DAILY CHRONICLE says: A most singular affair, writes a correspondent, has occurred at Madame Tussaud's in connection with the notorious Deeming. As is well known, the ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. LAST HOURS.

    MELBOURNE, Monday, 9 a.m.—The doomed man Deeming's last hours have been marked by a composure on his part that has considerably surprised the prison ...

    Article : 609 words
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