Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Deacon. [ARTICLE]

Deacon.

One year’s imprisonment for the murder of Abeille, the nominal penalty inflicted yesterday upon Beacon, will scarcely encourage in France that recourse to law or the courts which is supposed to prevail in civilized lands when wrong is to be righted.—Boston Globe. Everybody in town yesterday was chattering about the Deacon verdict. He was not well known in town, and sympathy for him was of the sporadic kind. The opinion seemed to be that he had given himself away by his weakness ih remarking that he deserved some punishment. A French jury is a very literal lot of men. When they see a culprit who thinks he ought to be punished they more than likely give him a dose of it. So Mr. Deacon goes to jail and Mrs. Deacon to—well, who knows? She has no mother, as Mrs. Drayton has, to throw a protecting cloak about her, and no powerful family influence to back her up. Her future must be lost in obscurity.— New York Recorder.