The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-24

neighboring hotel, together with small
iron hedstead. an armchair and a table
about four years ago." said Deacon, 81
began TO receive anonymous letters about
my wife and NJ. Abeille. One of them con-
tanned sketch of high hat with horns on
it and other devices. l showed these letters
to M. Abeille, and said: You must not
come to this house again; have too much
respect for my wife to believe that there Is
anything in 1t, and as an American, l OBJ
iect to any word of scandal being attached
TO her name NJ. Abeille agreed with me,
and said he would endeavor to counterfeit
the Impression which had got abroad, and
from that day IN til last May did not even
know for certain that he ever came to the
house or that my wife had ever seen him.
She went out good deal, but as | am not
IN the habit of going to parties, [ had no
opportunity of hearing or seeing anything.
THE FIRST THING THAT AROUSED Suspicious
in my mind was when Mrs. Deacon ap-
peared one night in very fine necklace.
AS she had her own money had no means
OF checking her expenditure before, but at
the period of her appearance in this neck
lace, l had charge of all her money [
asked her how much il cost and she named
a ridiculously low price. On inquiry at
the jewelers. found the value of the neck
lace was four or five times as much as she
had stated, but l never suspected that
Abeille had paid for it. Another item of
about 5000 or 1000 francs, which l could
not understand, l discovered about the
same time as having been paid by Mrs.
Deacon was tor luxurious furniture and
which she could not account for, but said
that her father had given her the money.
In 1888 she went home to attend her
fathers funeral, and then found num-
Der OF bills which proved that she had been
EXTREMELY ExTRAvAeAHT.
"These were the only incidents of i'm
portance until May OF last year, and then
the rupture between my wife and myself
began to assume more serious attitude.
/ She had just been confined and was in deli
cate health. Some people have been good
enough TO insinuate that the child was no,
mine, but have not the slightest doubl
! upon that point. | am very reluctant tc
speak of the children, but l am convinced
that it is my own child. One night, week
or two after she had got up again, very
peculiar incident occurred. l went out tt
dinner, but returned sooner than had eX-
pected. My wife met me in very gush-
ing manner, embraced me and seemed
rather strange. l asked her what it al
meant. She said it was nothing, but
noticed that at that moment one of the
curtains moved little. 1 rushed to SET
| the cause and found
ID. ABEILLE HIDING BEHIND THE CURTAIN
1 was very much enraged, but for the sake O.
my wife, who was still very delicate, | die
not throw him out of the house. Mrs Dea
con has since tainted me about the affair
and said that If had been g man would
have done so. Friends of hers and of mine
had visited her alone and could not say {
| great deal. You know Partisan life doe,
not regard such visits with such a stric
| eve gs Americans or English do hut ar thf
same time l must acknowledge l was wrone
not to have taken
PROMPT ACTION
after discovering M. Abellie behind the
curtain. | afterwards found out from thu
children that his visits had been going or
regularly for some time. My mistake wa:
in not having at that time commenced 81
action for divorce. l spoke to several of my
! 1riar d sr,a -r.a.ss ,,:;s.