The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-18

PANS, Nov. IT.-In the Deacon case
to-day the advocate general reviewed
the case. He said that both Mr.. and
Mrs. Deacon had acted wrongly. Mrs.
Deacon's adultery with Abeillc had
been proved, as had also been the fact
Mr.. Deacon had violent temper. Mr..
Deacon, he declared, had condoned his
wife's adultery with Abeille. The advo-
cate general urged that pending the
divorce proceedings instituted by Mr..
Deacon the court give judgment annull-
ing the decision placing the children in
the custody OF Mr.. Deacon, and that
the daughter now in possession of Mrs.
Deacon be semitic convent, where Mr..
and Mrs. Deacon could visit her. While
the decision in the case will not be
made known till the 22d inst, there is
reason that it will be in accordance
with that urged by the advocate
general.
Mrs. Deacon has always steadfastly
refused to give her side of the case, but
to-day her friends made what appears
to be an authoritive statement in her
defense. According to this statement
Mr.. Deacon has treated his wife since
the first weeks OF their marriage with
brutality which Mrs. Deacon says she
endured. A great many OF these brutal
acts, say Mrs. Deacon's friends, had not
witnesses, but certain charges it is
claimed can be established by sworn
testimony.
In February, 1880, Eve days after the
birth of their first child, at the Hotel
Brighton, Paris, Mr.. Deacon left for
England, leaving his wife alone for ten
davs, and upon his return, finding her
still an invalid, he went into terrible
rage. His violence was such that the
physician and nurse had to interfere
and forbid him access to her room.
During eight years, 1t is alleged, Mr..
Deacon obliged his wife to lead vaga-
bond existence. In all the hotels where
they stopped he treated her like a slave,
forbidding the servants to wait upon
her, and not allowing basket OF wood
to be brought without his written order.
HIS conduct was such that occupants OF
adjoining apartments would inquire II
monsieur had beaten madame badly.
In Paris, during the winter OF 1884.
Mrs. Deacon was about leaving for
ball. She learned that one OF the
nurses mad gone out without permis-
sion. II Is claimed that Mr. Deacon
insisted upon his wife going alone,
promising TO join her later. At l
o'clock; uneasy at his delay, she re-
turned home and found her maid wait
ing for her outside. Mr.. Deacon had
given orders for the concierge not to
let his wife enterand had himself bar
ricaded the door OF their apartment.
When at last an entrance was effected
Mr.. Deacon was found rushing about
undressed in state OF frenzy
The accusations continue to the effect
that in 1885 the Deacons lost child,
and one night, while the mother was
weeping, Mr.. Deacon, after reproaching
her for her tears, beat her so cruelty
that the maFksremainedform many days.
In 1885 Mrs. Deacon inherited con-
siderable fortune from her father, the
late Rear Admiral @. H. Baldwin, of the
American navy. The lady claims that
since that time Mr.. Deacon has reso-
lutely refused to contribute one cent to
the household expenses, or the support
OF his family.
II is further alleged that in the win
ter Of 1889, while returning from tho
theatre, Mr.. Deacon became furious
and throwing himself upon Mrs. Dea-
con, attempted to choke her. Mrs.
Deacon's story is that she jumped from
the carriage and walked home through
snow, distance Of over a mile. Mrs.
Deacon's friends moreover say that
charges OF intemperance can easily be
proved against Mr.. Deacon. They also
alieee that even the children were not
exempt from his cruelty.