St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-27
HEILBRoNN's HUSBAND.
-a:0ueer Story of Partisan Life and f'''d"
cidL Speculation.

14s0ueer Story of Partisan Life and ft''dm
ci0I Speculation.
Paris Cor. of the Philadelphia Times.
Tout Paris is discussing this week the suit
between the Viscount de la Panouze, or rath-
er his wife, known in the monde aristique as
Mile. Hebron, and NJ. de Bacourt, mem
Der of the Stock exchange. The suit Is
somewhat of legal curiosity in this that II
is brought to recover the possession OIL pro-
missory notes to the amount OF oOo,Ooo
francs held by the stock broker against the
nobleman under the following clrcumsJan-
ces: The Viscount, a veteran stock gam
bier, took an active part in the operauons
that Immediately preceded the ''krack' Oh
1882 When that Waterloo came he was
squeezed so hard that he was forced TO
sign twelve notes Of $4,000 francs each to
the order of NJ. de Bacourt and which repre-:
scented the amount of his losses on settling
day. The next thingheard OF de la PanouZe
was that he had skipped and gone OIL 10
South America, and when the notes were
protested Bacourt naturally commenced pro-
ceedings in order to secure himself with
Judgement Although the Viscount was alb
sent, his interests were in good hands, those
of his WIFE, She defen ded the case in his
name, and by pleading that the considera-
ton of the notes was an illegal one-a gam
bling debt-secured decision in his favor.
The stock broker carried his case to higher
court where he was again defeated, but as
the court did not order that the notes should
be returned to their maker, Bacourt consoled
himself by inserting advertisements in all
the papers Offering the dishonored paper for
sale. This seems tie have hurt the feelings
of the nobe-born Viscount, who, still, through
the intermediary Of his wife, has had the
cheek to 90 into court and ask for an order
on Bacourt to surrender the notes in ques-
ton. The theory on which this demand is
based is a very simple one. Il have gam
bled in honor" says NJ. de la PanouZe,
''and | have lost. l have not paid my losses,
because there is law that prevents the courts
from interfering to enforce debts Of honor.
The court has decided in my favor, so L
ought to be allowed to get back the notes
which represent this debt, and which, if they
are worthless to the holder, are of value to
me as evidences of my dishOnor."
TIE WIFE.
While the suit is brought in the name OF
the Viscount as matter Of fact it is not he
who is the plaintiff. When in 1882 he left for
South America de la Panouze gave his wife a
general power of attorney, and it is by virtue
of this instrument that the caseis now before
the courts. 1t was quite usual among those
who, toward the close of the eighteenth cen
fury, felt themselves stung by the caustic
tongue and pen of Voltaire to say that there
was some one who had more wit than even
Voltaire, and that PERSONS name was every
body. Nine Hebron, Viscountess de la
Panouze' seems to have pondered over this
SAYING, for she has certainly done her best to
get everybody ON her side by givingthe great
est possible satisfaction to that curiosity on
the part of the public which is always aroused
by everything that relates to the private af-
fairs of those who occupy prominent posi-
ton in the theatrical world. There may be,
and there probably is, in all this shrewd
notion that the scandal will prove an ad-
ditional attraction to draw the pubicto Opera
Comioue, where Mile. Heilbronn MARBLES
three times week the love duos in "Manon
Lescauts'} 1t is true that the Manon Lescaut
of the Able Preyot's Immoral romance has
at least the merit of loving her Chevalier DIES
Grieux, but it is notorious fact that the
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thing but loving and faithful wife to her
absent lord. There are some who say that
de Ia Panouze has not gone to South America
at all, but is hiding from his creditors in Au-
vergne. Be that as it may, he has shown
himself in this affair in the role OF man
who is entirely above all the scrupes as to
matters of honor that ordinary mortals are
troubled with. Those who would palliate the
conduct of this ignOble pair plead in de la
Panouze's favor the sad effects of the passion
of gambling, which, they say, have cost him
so dear-the loss of his whole fortune and an
enforced absence from his native land in or
der to escape prison. In favor of Mile.
Heilbronn it is pleaded that she should not
be held responsible for the debts of her hus-
band, whose faults she has done all in her
power to atone for, and that after all she is
the greatest sufferer from those faults, since
they have SO impoverished her that she is
obliged to sing on the stage in order to gain
her daily bread. Such d recital would draw
tears from the dryest eyes, even from those
of the harlequins of the Opera Comique; but,
unfortunately, the recital is not in the strict
est truth.
A HARDENED GAMBLER.
1891 and for lone time nreViOus1V de In