Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-17
THE CANNES CRIME
Retold by the Man Who Sent.
M. 4beille Out of This
Wicked World.
MRS. DEACON WAS TRUE
Until Her Head Was Turned by
French Flattery.
AN AWFUL ANTIPODAL CYCLONE
Tears Up the Forests and Lashes the Shores
Of New Zealand.
MRS. DEACON WAS TRUE
AN AWFUL ANTIPODAL CYCLONE
THE HAVOC is BEYOND COMPUTATION

PARIS, Nav 16-The Dir -Neasi7ne S;acl
to-day publishes long history of the mar.
ried life of Mr. Edward Parker Deacon, who
is now awaiting trial before the Assize court
of the Alpes Maratimes on the charge OF
manslaughter, growing out of the killing OF
NJ. Abeille, who Mr.. Deacon discovered in
his wife's apartments at the HotelSplendide
at Cannes, on February 19. The newspaper
asserts that the story it publishes was told
BY Mr. Deacon to his solicitor. According
to this story, Mr. Deacon says that few
days previous to this tragedy and again on
the evening the shooting occurred before he
left the hotel to attend the ball given by
the Cercle Nautique, he urged his wife to
consent to a divorce.
He had a very strong suspicion that his
wife's relations with Abeille were not what
they should be, and he thought if he could
procure his wife's consent not to contest an
action for divorce much scandal could be
averted. Mrs. Deacon, however, objected
to this course, and notwithstanding all the
arguments her husband advanced she re-
fused TO consent to divorce proceedings
NJ. Abeille Entirely at Fault
Nh. Deacon, the story adds, declared that
his wife's conduct was exemplary until
man became assiduous in his attentions to
Mrs. Deacon and Mr.. Deacon frequently
protested against his unpleasant actions
Abeille then left the country and Mr.
Deacon who, while thinking his wife had
acted unceremoniously, had no doubt as to
her honor, believed that the whole trouble
was settled.
A short time after Abeille had gone away
Mr. Deacon began to receive letters from an
anonymous source stating that his wife was
deceiving him. One day he received six
such letters. Subsequently he found letters
that Abeille had written to his wife, but his
suspicious as to her fidelity were not thor
oughly aroused until he found Abeille on
one occasion hidden behind a curtain in his
wife's room at their Paris residence. After
this occurrence scenes between himself and
his wife were frequent, and Mrs. Deacon up-
braided him in very strong language, ac-
cusing him of tyrannous and infamous con-
duct While they were at Moritz she be-
came so violent that he threatened to send
for the police and have her taken into Gus
tody
She retorted: "Send for them; 1 am
tired Of this life, and don't want you to
communicate with me except through my
attorney"
Always Anxious to Prevent Trouble.
He atterward apologized to his wife and
reconciliation occurred. Some little time
after he went to the United States and upon
his return his wife declined to see him until
Christmas Though they then lived to-
gether they never afterward resumed mari
tai relations The details of the shooting
as told by Mr.. Deacon are essentially the
same as those already reported in these
dispatches The date of the trial of Mr..
Deacon has been definitely fixed for the
Goth inst. This date was fixed upon by the
President of the Court of Assizes, the Pro-
curer of the Republic, and NJ Edgard
Demange, Mr.. Deacon's counsel Mr. Ed
gard Demange is member of the Paris bar
snd is a man of considerable talent He is
an eloquent speaker and has great dialec-
teal skill He has already won fame in
connection with various causes celebresua
Mrs. Deacon will not be present at the
trial, but her position will be read to the
jury.
The State prosecution will be in the
hands of NJ. du Noiron, the Procurer of the
Republic. The members of the jury who
have been appointed by drawing lots, are
chiefly residents of the country round about
Nice
The hall in which the trial will take
place is of small dimensions, and in view of
limited accommodation it affords, Partisan
and foreign reporters are already forward
ing their requests for seats, which are all at
the disposal of the President of the court