The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-23
TIE CANNES CASE
Mr.. Deacon Continues at Police
Headquarters.
HE WILL CONFRONT HIS WIFE
He VIII Ask for Divorce Because She De
clared He Knew OF Her Intrigue with
Mr.. Abeiile-She Hates Him.

He VIII ASK for Divorce Because She De
clared He Knew of Her Intrigue with
Mr.. Abeiile-She Hates Him,
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
CANNES, Feb. 22.-Your correspondent
has just had an interview with young
gentleman who passed the whole of yester-
day with Mr.. Edward Parker Deacon, at
Grasse. He is relative of the well-known
solicitor of Paris who teleRraphed an offer
of his services in case Mr.. Deacon needed
them in his Interrogation, and who is
PREPARING THE CASE
for the assizes. The young gentleman in
question came to me at Mr.. Deacon's re-
quest, and, as he said, mainly to correct
certain statements which have been made |
by numbers of French newspapers with
regard to the Shooting of M. Abeille. Mr.. |
Deacon has read all the accounts of the
affair and is much angered at the number !
Of inaccuracies which have been printed |
contrary to information which, as you are
aware, has been current all day. Mr..
Deacon is again a prisoner in one of the
rooms of the hospital at Grasse which !
y
the headquarters Of police. 1t is true he |
had engaged rooms at one of the hotels, |
and he gets all his food from there, but he |
will not be allowed his liberty sur eau
ton until after the conclusion of the in
quiry. He will be confronted by Mrs. |
Deacon Tuesday and will probably there
fore be released on Wednesday next. In
discussing
THE DETAILS OF THE SHOOTING
with Mr.. Deacon, he described them in
exactly the same terms as you have used in
cabling them TO San Francisco but he in-
sists on his statement that he had no inten-
ton Of killing NJ. Abeille. Il thought too
much OF my Children he said, to wish
having his blood on my head, aud until to-
day. he added, L had NO intention of bring
ing any action against my wife for adul-
terry and divorce, but after what she says
in her interrogatory this morning believe
[ shall have her arrested
1.-The remark Of Mrs. Deacon to which
her husband referred; but first l must
tell you she went from Cannes to Grasse in
q carriage this morning at the request of
the judge, to whom she said when interro-
gated as to what justification she could
offer for her conduct My husband was
quite aware Of
MY INTRIGUE WITH NJ. ABEILLE
and has winked at it for quite long time
If he has not condoned it,
This remark enraged MIR. Deacon very
considerably and he pulled out of his
pocket two cartridges for the revolver
with which he had killed NJ. Abeilie. He
offered me one and l did take that as a
souvenir OF this sad affair. L was sorry
when l first heard of her remark. did
not use them for her, but now for the sake
of my children l am glad after considera-
| ton it was lot so.'
Mr ~ foo
affair in a cool headed philosophical way.
The cartridge he gave me is a Smith g.
| Wesson No. 3S, such as he has always used,
and he IS known to be dead shot. He
says he was perfectly sober on the night of
the shooting and that he went deliberately
| to his room to get his revolver but at that
time he
ONLY INTENDED TO MARK HIS MAN.
After hearing Mrs. Deacons lire of defense
today, however, he seems to have altered
his opinion on that point, or at all events
he seems much less concerned about the
fate of NJ. Abeille and he has no doubt that
he will be acquitted when the case comes
up for trial at the aisizes."
1t ls currently represented that the juge
Construction has stated privately that for
the sake of appearance he cannot release
MIR. Deacon, but as soon as it is possible
he will do so on Mr.. Deacon's giving some
dSSuTduCcS u COm0 up lQf trial
when called upon. The only points which
this official says have puzzed him as they
have people here generally, are Mr.. Dea-
cons hitherto persistent refusal to proceed
against Mrs. Deacon on
THE CHARGE OF ADULTERY,
and also why he didn't shoot her at the
same time as he did her lover. 1t must,
however, be remembered, say the papers,
that she is completely estranged from him
and that this intrigue had been going on
for several years, SO that all passionate feel
ing has passed out of existence as far as
MIR. Deacon was concerned. That the sec
rotary Of the Hotel Splendide, who accom-
panied Mr.. Deacon on his mission of ven
geance, confirms all this and says that the
| whole affair was carried out in the most
deliberate and cool headed fashion, and
while Mr.. Deacon was laooring under the
} excitement natural to such situation, he
never lost his head throughout the whole
: bcSiness.
Mrs. Deacon has not gone to Antilles as
has been stated, nor are her children from
her. She went last Nigh with them 10 her
stepmotner, Mrs. Baldwin, to Hotel Met.
ropole, which is situated at the town limits
midway between Cannes and the gulf of
, Juan. Your correspondent has spoken to
several people who have seen her. and they
all concur in saying that she has behaved in
THE COOLEST AND MOST UScoNcERNED WAY,
her conduct generally scarcely rejecting
9 the position in which this tragedy has
, placed her. Mrs. Deacon attempted to
= leave the city Saturday night for the north,
after having seen Mrs. Baldwin, her
stepmother, and her children, who
{ are in Mrs. Baldwin's charge al
( the Hotel Metropolis, just outside Of Can.
7 mes, but she was informed by the police
8 that this could not be allowed, as although
not actually under arrest, she was under
a surveillance and could not leave until she
e had been Intercepted and confronted with
I her husband Tuesday She was requested
4 to go to Grasse yesterday morning and she
: arrived there at 10 O'clock.
SHE WAS DRESSED IN BLACH
I and her face, which was covered. looked
|, somewhat white and gave the expression
Il that she fatigued. She behaved in The
e coolest and most of-hand manner durlns
g the intcrrogatory which took place OF
/ Friday. Yesterdays Interrogation wa,
It only preparatory to that which is TO TAX,
i place Tuesday. Mrs. Deacon said: at il
r still 20 be proved that l have been unfaith,
8 full to my husband, but if l have it was Mr.
D Deacon's own fault. for he was a most un
II lovable man, and not only neglected me
{ but left me alone for long periods at time
s M. Abeile, on the other hand, was a mos
i entertaining gentleman, and had for sew
e eral years been most intimate member O
n the family. If had carried on an in trlgu,
d with him it was
I. WITH Mr.. DEACoN's KNOWLEDGE,
s and therefore, maintain, with his consent
J. ! He has emOlOVed detectIves RI uatch r,