Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-15
MILLIONS By BLAcKMAII.
How the Editor of . Famous Paris Rsvie
Lost . Fortune.

noW tne EoftOr q Famous R2fte k4vteN
Lost . Fortune.
The New York Sun publishes . special cable
dispatch from Paris which says that the fscts
will come out soon concerning tbs greatest
private scandal Paris has known In recent
years.
NJ Buloz, editor and managing editor a.
rector OF the Reuue Des Dear Mondss, has
absconded, after paying out to blackmsiers in
the last three or four years the enormous sum
Of l6. 100000 francs
Buloz left his desk three weeks aeo FOR A hol-
tdsy In the suburbs. Letters from MIN were
received daily at his Office and home. few
days ago a note for l00, 900 francs came into
the possession OF his wife. She made Inquiries
and finally went TO his holiday address Her
husband had not been there.
An investigation was pushed and ID brought
out amazing disclosures. IL was found that
the editor OF the greatest literary periodical In
FRANCE had been regularly blsckmsiled for q
long time by demands upon him based on his
relations with three women contributors 10 his
publication.
He was bled not by the women tl,emselyes
but BY certain Of their masculine friends who
were nigh In the society in which Bulez and his
wife had long been in the foremost place.
They led the literary, artistic and scientific
society OF the French capital They presided
over what Is known as the Accidents salon Of
Paris.
II was at most brilliant social event I'm his
own house that the last exorbitant demands
were made upon Buloz. The last sum which
was drawn from him and which caused his
hight Is said TO be no less than GOO. 900 france
The amount Of the shortage in the Reuus des
Den1 Mondes, Of which company Buloz was
president is not known, but ID is certain that
not all the vast sum was taken from its treas
ury: The matter has been placed in The bands
OF the police IL is not known where he has
gone TO escape the blackmailers.
lhe plan OF the blsckmaiers was exceed
ingly simple, and il is thought strange that NJ
buloz. who Is essentially man Of the world,
should have fallen q victim 10 them The
piackmailers are said to be men who moved and
sun move IN good society, and IL ia said that
some Of the best Partisan families win be
greatly shocked when the names Of the con-
splrstors are made known.
inese men had for their accompliees dsso-
lutte women who bad carried on liaisons with
d. buloz. These women impaired 70 the men
an tne secrets OF their relations with NJ Buloz
anu such o.her matters concerning him ss came
70 tnem. Then the blackmsilers would write
M. Buioz threatening TO expose him 10 his
FAMILY ana acqusintances IL he did net nav 70
them certain sums OF money
M Buloz, II appears, was fearful lest kuovl-
eoge OF bis wrong doings should corne 20 the
ears of his wife. and be weakly paid he ,non.v
demanded Of him. Then the demands Of ne
oiackmailers grew by what they were fed upon
ana stronger threats OF exposure were made
unless larger sums were paid
Once in the tolls NJ. Buloz found himself nm
able TO get free from the sharks who we're prev
ing upon him, and il appears they had only 10
demand to receive *. Some time AGO ne tool I.
vacation. He left the city and has not since been
seen. IL Is thought he feared the results of his
weakness, some OF the money be paid out be-
fight
During the first part Of his absence he wrcs.
frequently to his paper and TO his wife. but no
one knows where he now is The knowledge
that be had been blackmailed was obtained
through note made by him that fell into the
hands OF Madame Buloz. who at once started an
investigation that resulted in an expose Of the
whole scheme
Madame Buloz. who was married 10 M.
Buloz In 1873, 10 the da lghter OF Prof Richet.
member Of the Academy Of Sciences She is
deeply grieved and angry at the rnsnner in
which her husband had treated her and has
entered an application for divorce IL Is
scarcely believed that any defense will be made
TO this action. 1t is reported that amsne the
women implicated in the affair are three who
contribute articles TO the paper
The matter is now in the hands of the police.
who are looking for NJ Buloz
The shareholders of the Rerue dos Deux
Mondes will hold q meeting today 20 consider
the situation. IL is prol able that Madame
bnloz viii be made editor Of the periodical
NJ Buloz succeeded his brother Louis and his
father in the direction Of the Recue dss Deur
Mondes, and he made an enviAble name for
himself In Literary, artistic and scientific So
ciety.
The exposure OF NJ. Bulozs derelictisns has
been q great shock 10 his friends, whs savays
Further Developments are awaited win mush
interest