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Show NEWS FKO.M OTHER LANDS. Nile Tells a Very Lame SUiry. London, Feb. 33, Mrs. Deacon has made a long tatcment to the Tthfntpn'x Paris correspondent. cor-respondent. She declures that there was nothing to justify her husband ill shooting Abeille. She states that when her husband came to the door she was quietly conversing with Abeille, who was iu evening dress, except ex-cept that he wore a smoking jacket. Abeille could easily have escaped, if there had been anything to he ashamed of. He merely sought shelter behind the sofa to avoid Deacon's revolver, (she did not open the door qiii'-kly when summoned, because she was alleged to go lirst to her bedroom to ight a candle, ."she asserts that she was accustomed to bad treatment from her husband hus-band and wanted to obtain a divorce. |