Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-06-26

In Labauchere's Truth Mrs. Emily
Crawford writes as follows from Paris,
under the caption 'Frou-trou al
Cannes"
THE Deacon trial and the revival OF
'Frou-Frou' at the Francois fell well
together, though that drama is not quite
up to date. Indeed, 'Frou-Frou' as now
played is a good deal in the nature OF
champaign that has, after revel, lain
all night in a glass There were some
who, Saturday night at the Francois
saw in Gilberte the Anticipated parent
of the rich. titled and triumphant socl-
ETY. beauty whom Mrs. Deacon, 10 her
career of self-gloritication, had oppor-
tunities Of seeing at the Princess da
Sagan's and Nine. Edmond Rothschlld's
and immitating successfully.
"Tbe social state, expressed with tell
ing freshness in 1869 by this "Frou'
Frou," LED TO that Of which such a
woman as the receiver Of the jewels
stolen by NJ. Mellerio from his mother,
and the Americaq belle described in the
Nice Court House by the procurator OF
the republic have been bright orna-
ments.
THAT legal luminary, be it remem-
bered, is in social relations with the
gilded Bohemia (the worst Bohemia OF
all, despite the royal patronage 50 often
extended to it), of the Riviera. lie Is
not only a grand official, but count OF
ancient Italian lineage, and mixes freely
with the heavy swelldom Of Cannes ana
hn
ness of his knowledge?
"You may be curious TO hear, since
the London papers have somehow over
looked the most significant part or his
speech: Nobody in this case is inter
esting. Mrs. Deacon hungered for the
frivolous pleasures of what it is agreed
to call Partisan thigh life" and gave
herself, without love, to NJ. Abeille THE
milionaire). Abeille was only too glad
TO be talked of in his set as the lover OF
fashionably elegant and very pretty
woman, the daughter OF the celebrated
Admiral Baldwin. Deacon killed Abe
lille; but when he did so, was he JUSTIFIED
by the circumstances OF the moment?
No. do not see that technically
0egalement) there was then hagrant
delft.
cat any rate, can it be held that the
accused gave way to an ungovernable
burst of passion, since he had during
four years known of the intimacy be-
tween Abeille and his wife? For how
can he pretend that he was ignorant OF
the character of their relations? Why
did be not sue for divorce when he
found Abeile hidden behind the cur
tains OF Mrs. Deacon's bedroom? Were
there not also her exclusions TO the ltal-
ian lakes and letters of guilty nature?
II he shot Abeille it was less because he
was jealous than because he hated him
with peculiar hatred. 1t is only fair
to admit that money affairs Q'interet)
did not enter into his motives
Seeing what the role of French
procurator is in the presence OF an &C
cused party, it was hard for the one
quote TO say less againsi Deacon with
out giving mortal oiIense to the parquet
or board Of criminal Investigations,
who found that there was case against
him for trial. The judge Of instruction
and all the other law officers who had
prepared the case against Deacon would
have had a bad mark at the ministry OF
Justice If the procurator unsaid what
they had deliberately written.
TWO KINDS OF "FRoU-FRoU.