The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-31
mrs. DEACON ANXIOUS.
Her Efforts to Prevent the Com
ing Trial at Grasse.
ATTEMPTS TO BRIBE A VALET

He is offered Fifteen Hundred
Francs to Disappear from France.
Deacon Rejects All Offers to Com.
promise the Case.
LONDON, Oct, 3i.-Edward Parker
Deacon has come to London to pass q
few days, after which he will go to the
Rievera to consult with his lawyers as to
the hearing of his wife's appeal from the
court in Grasse, where she was to have
been tried for criminal adultery, The
appeal will beheard in about three weeks
before full bench Of seven judges. Mr..
Deacon has engaged M. Coirard, of AK,
to assist M. Pillate, of Nice, and NJ. Bret,
of Cannes, in looking after his interests.
If the appeal be dismissed the adultery
case against Mrs. Deacon will be heard
as soon as the witnesses can be got to-
gether, that is about one week later.
Mr.. Deacon has been approached since
the proceedings in Grasse by M. Bar
boux, Mrs. Deacon's lawyer. Through
him she offered to compromise matters
with her husband. If Mr. Deacon would
abandon the criminal adultery case she
signified her willingness to allow him
unopposed action in obtaining divorce
in France. Mr.. Deacon, however, re-
jected the offer, because French di-
vorce allows both parties to it equal
rights over the children.
As soon rs Mr.. Deacon declined abso-
lutely to consider the compromise M.
Barbour sellt out detectives to scour
London and Paris for the purpose of
getting every detail of Mr.. Deacon's life
in both cities. He has secured, further
more, three witnesses who will swear TO
the correctness and chastity of Mrs.
Deacon's life. Repeated efforts have
been made to bribe Blanchard, Mr..
Deacon's valet, who testified at Mr..
Deacon's trial that Mrs. Deacon used to
motion Abeille should come when her
husband went out, and the intimacy be-
tween Mrs. Deacon and Abeille was so
patent that all servants knew of it and
laughed about it, Not long ago Blanch-
ard received an offer of 1900 fancs, to
be paid as soon as he would pledge him
self TO disappear from France.
In consequence of the many complica-
tions involved In the discussion of the
appeal in the Grasse court recently, the
nature of the proceedings has been unin-
tentionally misrepresented somewhat in
English, French and American news
papers. The following statement is
authoritative:
The object Of the appeal is to deter
mine whether or not Mr.. Deacon con-
doned Mrs Deacons unfaithfulness and
abandoned all idea of getting divorce
when he wrote certain letter to Mrs.
Baldwin, Mrs. Deacons mother. M.
Barboux contends that by writing that
letter Mr.. Deacon did condone Mrs. Dea-
cons offenses, did express his decision to
abandon all idea of divorce proceedings,
and thus forfeited all righ o to prosecute.
The letter on this phrase Of the case is as
follows:
DEAR Mrs. BALDWIN, have given
the strictest pledge to my lawyers not to
commune with my wife by word or
letter. Will you tell her that do not
believe the wicked falsehoods circulating
in Paris about her, also that after my
trial | shall never permit her name to be
mentioned before me disrespectfully.
| Please tell her have the very greatest
anMety-far more than for myself-as
to her future. l pray God that she may
be brave and honest woman. / love heI
most dearly, and still wish her well. She
will understand this to be an answer tc
her letters"
The Paris falsehoods mentioned in the
letter were the stories to the effect that
Mrs. Deacon received money from
Abeille.
In opposing the appeal, Mr.. Deacon
will place in evidence an extract from q
;. letter which ne wrote to Mrs. Baldwin
on the day before he wrote the above
letter. In this letter of March 26 ht
said: when you know from the evi
dence how my wife used the children tc
cover her adultery, think you will moi
consider her proper women TO have
charge Of them. If she behaves with de
cency | will not have her arrested, bu
will proceed for divorce in the ordinar,
manner.