Show TH AMERICAN WAY Parker Deacon Finds M Afoeille in Bed With Mrs Deacon J He Draws n Revolver and Shoots the French miD Dead Minister Reid Interesting Himself in the Husbands Behalf CANNES Feb 19The most intense excitement ex-citement was caused in the large American colony today by the announcement that one of the most prominent visitors at this place I I dward Parker Deacon a native of the United States had shot and killed a Frenchman connected with the diplomatic service named Arbellle The story is an old one A handsome woman mated to a man whom she betrays forgetting in her infatuation or fancy for another man bringing shame and sorrow upon her fam I y Deacon and wife have been sojourning mmn u time r ocf nt Hotel Snlpndirlp with their fourchildren t For some 1 time Deacon has suspected his wife was unduly inti mate with Arbeillo and kept close watch Last night he Discovered Arbeille in his wifes chamoer He summoned the secretary secre-tary of the hotel and together they went to Mrs Deacons apartment and forced the door Mrs Deacon was alone Her husband hus-band proceeded to the adjoining room and there discovered Arbeille attempting to hide himself behind a chair Deacon leveled lev-eled a revolver at the man and fred three shots fatally wounding the Frenchman Deacon was at once arrested but it is the general opinion among American residents here that he did just the right thing Another report of the affair says Deacon bad gone up to Paris but retuned suddenly and went straight to his wifes bedroom Mrs Deacon it appears had no idea her husband would return so soon Rumor has it Deacons unexpected return was r caused by an anonymous letter said to have been written by a jealous woman When Deacon burst into the bedroom he found the story has it his vife in bed and M Abeille standing by the bedside evidently evi-dently ncving sprung out of bed with the intention of escaping After having reproached re-proached his wife who moaned with terror and crawled from the bed fell on her knees nnd piteously implored him to forgive for-give him the American is said to have turned his wrath upon Abeille who had professed the utmost friendship for the confiding husband and after up braiding him fired three shots The Frenchman French-man screamed with agony and fell back and died on the mat in front of the bed Deacon then turned to his wife and said Killing is too good i for you you shall be reserved for a worse fate You shall live to have the finger of scorn pointed at you during the rest of jour life Never let me see your deceitful face again Mrs Deacon at these words I gave a shriek and fell flat on her worthI swoon Mrs Deacon is a most attractive woman She drsesed with exquisite taste and was the object of considerable attention upon the part of the men Nobody however for a moment imagined she engaged in anything any-thing more than harmless flirtation M Abeille was an attache of one of the French legations and a bachelor He bad been intimately in-timately acquainted with the Deacons for a long time It is not expected Deacon will remain long in custody of the police It was evident evi-dent from the first he had the sympathy of everybody and the police allowed him to pass the night at the hoteL It is reported re-ported United States Minister Ried bas taken a personal Interest in the case and is doing everything possible for Mr Deacon The wife on the other band is not the recipient of much sympathy sympa-thy The Deacons or at least Mr Deacon came from Boston They have lived abroad lor about fifteen years Mrs Deacon Dea-con is a daughter of the late Admiral Baldwin United States navy and wealthy in her own rlgat In Europe and America they moved in the very best circles They havo not it is said been livIng liv-ing happily for some time as the husband is said to have become jealous owing to excesses ex-cesses bv his wife |