The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-13
Special Cable from the international
News Service)
By IA VOYAGEUSE,

BY IA VOHAGEOSE.
Paris, Aug. 13.-Gossips of the
French capital are still gossiping OF
the sensational incidents ATTENDING
the recent marriage of the American
girl. Miss Dorothy Deacon to Prince
Radziwill, when the bride-to-be was
kept waiting at the church, while
her family considered the eleventh
hour demand of her prospective hus.
band, that sum of money had been
promised on marrying Miss Deacon be
increased to a much larger amount
AS l. told in previous letter. the fam
lily capitulated to this heartless and
despicable hold up" for the Deacon
family was determined to land that
princely title at no matter what cost
This incident has served to create
more gossip for the scandal mongers
and busybodies. who are recalling to
each other that this is by no means
the first and only sensational incident
recorded in the Deacon family. The
first and foremost was that of the
murder Of the Frenchman Abeille, Mr.
Deacon. father of the new princess,
found in his wife's apartment and shot
him while the cause of his domestic
unhappiness was hiding under a sofa.
Mr.. Deacon was tried in the French
courts and convicted, but died in a
Massachusetts, insane asylum after,
wards. Mrs. Deacon, or rather Nine
Baldwin, as she has been known since
the murder, is a daughter of the late
Rear Admiral Baldwin of the United
States navy. She was born in Cali
fornia. Until the sensational murder
Mrs. Deacon had the entree to the
best society of New York and New
port. Although the Deacon family has
maintained a home for years in the
Rue Jean Goujon, in one of the mos:
fashionable quarters in Paris. Nine
Balwin' spends most of her time in
London.
For years the Deacon girls, of which
there are three, have cut quite dash
in Paris society, Dorothy, the young
est and least sensational having been
the most popular.
Gladys, the eldest, first called at
tention to herself by an attempt to
have her nose changed from some.
what of the pug type to that of the
Grecian form, after being flatteringly
told by one of the best known artists
of Paris, Your one and only defect is
your nose: in everything else your
feminine features are perfect and fit to
be taken as a model of absolute beau
ty.''
After that of course. what was
there left for Miss Gladys but to has
ten to a professional beauty special
list" He undertook for large fee to
make the desired alterations, but after
frequent injection of a certain prep.
aration containing spermacetti into
the Deacon nasal organ and weeks of
intense suffering on the part of the
young woman. she was forced to fore
go the realization of her ambition. The
nose remained the same.
Then came the episode of the youth
full Crown Prince of Germany. who be-
came so smitten with the fair Gladys
that in a particularly intense moment
of alteration he bestowed on her ring
highly priced in the Princes family as
heirloom. Miss Deacon chose to re-
gard it as an engagement ring and the
entire Deacon family were enraptured
at the thought that possibly some day
Gladys might become Empress of Ger
many. The Kaiser however strongly
disapproved of his sons action, and
the diplomatic wheels were started an
effort to obtain the return of the pre-
cious ring. The powerful influence of
the German emperor prevailed, and