St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-18
MRS. DEACON SCORED
Mr.. Deacon's Advocate Gives
a History Of Her Connee-
ton With Abei1le.
Her Intrigue With Her Para
mour Carried on for a
Long Time.
She Is Declared to Be q Bad
Woman and a Worse
Mother.
All Glasses Of Englishmen
Fleeeed by a King Of
SWindlepS.

PARIS, Nov. 1.-THE room in which
the first chamber of the court of appeals
| holds its session was crowded with a
| fashionable tbrong today to listen to
the proceedings in the appeal of Mrs.
Deacon from the decision of the trib-
unal of the Seine awarding the custody
| of the Deacon children to the father.
| Among those present were number OF
! Americans whose sympathies through
| out the case have been with Mr.. Dea-
! con.
Maitre Clunet, who appears for Mr..
Deacon, continued his argument begun
| yesterday against the court of appeal
reversing the Judgment of the lower
court. Yesterday in presenting Mr..
Deacon's case, M. Clunet gave the his
! tory of Mrs. Deacon'S laiSiOn with
Abeille from it's beginning to the time
Abeille was shot by Mr.. Deacon at the
Hotel Splendide. Mrs. Deacon, he said,
had brought an action for divorce in
Paris 80 that she mightavoid condemna-
ton for adultery by the court at AK.
He
Denied That MIR. Beacon
had misused his wife and said that the
statements that he was man OF vio-
lent temper were untrue. The tribunal
of the Seine. before which Mrs.
Deacon had brought proceedings for a
divorce, had given to Mr.. Deacon the
custody of his much loved eldest
| child. Mrs. Deacon had abducted the
child as soon as she learned OF the
courts decision, and threatened that
Mr.. Deacon would never see the girl
again unless his suit against her for in
| fidelity we're abandoned. Mrs. Deacon
in her appeal asked the court to With
draw Mr.. Deacon's rights as the nat
ural guardian of the child. Mrs. Dea-
con was woman of pleasure. Her in
trigue with Abeille was not sudden
weakness. Five weeks after her con-
finement Abeille was found with her.
Mrs. Deacon admitted this. Then she
left Paris for Cannes. She stopped at
the Hotel Noailles at Marseilles. and
there Abeille joined her under an as
sumed name. He adopted the name
Adam, and Mrs. Deacon used the child
to screen her conduct.
nj. Clunet concluded his case by de-
clarlng that woman who behaved as
Mrs Deacon had done was not fit to
have the custody of child.
A Bad Woman.
This morning he was none the less
severe in his arraignment of Mrs. Dea-
con. He said that Abeille, under his
assumed name of Adam. took rooms in
the Rue d'Anjou. Mrs. Deacon. heavily
yelled, constantly resorted to these
rooms for the purpose of meeting her
paramour. They stayed together for
hours. The liaison was an habitual
one. Mrs. Deacon. M. Clunet declares,
was a bad woman and worse mother.
She took a two months trip with
ADeille in Switzerland, and all this
! time she had her children with her. She
was degraded, immodest and cynical
| woman. .'Can the court" he asked,
deprive the father of his natural
rights for this creature?"
! In conclusion M. Clunet declared that
Mr.. Deacon was generally respected,
and was devoted to his children, whose
| future required their fathers guardian
| ship. He demanded that the court of
appeal reitera+e the order OF the tri-
| bunal of the Seine, directing that Mr..
Deacon have the custody of the chill
| dren: that Mrs. Deacon be compelled to
surrender the child she had abducted,
and the court impose fine upon her in
| order to prevent her. from further
treating the court with contempt.
The court announced that it would
| reserve its decision until Tuesday.