New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-02
NAN LEBAUDY'S FATE.
THE BLACKMAILING SCHEMES THAT
BROUGHT HIM TO HIS DEATH
ror.LEvARD JOURNALISM AND ITS EFFECT on
THE MILITARY AvTHoRlTlEs-Mll'i~

rOr.LEyARD JOURNALISM AND ITS EFFECT on
THE MILITARY AUTnoRlTIEs-MIId>
IONS OF FRANCS EXToRTED
Paris Jan 1.-THE scandal which has just
come to head here bids fair eclipse the scandals
relating to the Panama Canal, the gambling cluDs'
the railroads OF the South. the Matchmaking OF the
Transatlantic Steamship Company and other puphc
or private affairs The present AFFAIR reIates 10 u'
life and death OF Nj. Max Lebaudy. VINO was sur
rounded BY d shoai Of sharDers and swinGleFs most
OF them belonging 70 Paris journalism, or rather
~ what Is called the "boulevardiere' press lie
baudys father was sugar refiner who had acc"i'iu
lated a great fortune. Max the son, muitl-InhI-
ionaire was in 1894 OF the age at which al frehch
Young men are drafted into military service. lie
was assigned a mounted regiment OF the quar-
termaster's Department. and sent to the barracks
at Fontainebleau. The military service was eX-
tremely severe upon him. and he fell sick Then ne
annIed for a change Of garrison. which was granted.
and then for his release from service, as being
ircapacitated through sickness. AT that time Il
furious campaign was opened IN the newspapers 10y
writers who contended that the Millionaire soldier
should be treated Ike any other They ADDED that
any favor shown him could not be interpreted
otherwise than as having been bought by the
wealthy conscrpt through bribng his military
chiefs and the regimental doctors. None OF these
officials therefore, dared to treat him as lenienty
as II he had been ordinary poor conscript, ana
permission was refused him to leave the army. lie
was well taken care Of. however at AmeAe les
Bains. a military sanitarum In the region OF the
Pyrenees But Max Lebaudy was really Sick ana ne
died in the hospital. surrounded by his friend Nile
Narsv an actress Of the Theatre Francois, and by
his two brothers lie had his lips. as II in
terror the name Of the so-caled Ccmte de cest' 81
whom the diving man said: II have given him ten
pairs OF horses and hundreds Of thousands francs.
and It is he who IS killing me-"
This adventurer. Cesti, was tho one who had organ
lied the Matchmaking campaign. which was con-
Quoted on two different lines on the hand.
money was extorted from young Iebaudy, under the
preext Of substituting newspapers to write In favor OF
his release from military service as being SICK man,
and OF paying the military commander ard surgeons
who would support Lebaudys request for his dis
missaL On other hand. the alleged friends OF
the millionaire soldier bled him In immense sums on
the plea that they needed them to stop In some news
papers the articles-most Of them Inspired or written
nv themselves-in which It was said that he not
really sick and that no & should be shown TO
him any more than TO the poorest conscript.
II is said by the Paris papers. which are publish
ing two or three columns day on this subject. that
ont OF % 900 900 OF francs inherited by Max LeOaudy
some TO- 900 1900 600 francs have already disap-
peared into the pockets Of the blackmalers The
same Paris papers reluctantly admit that these
blackmailers belonged to the press more or less
directly and that Of them had served terms Of
Imprisonment a fact which ought to have closed 10
them the doors OF respectable newspaper offices. I'm
fortunately the careers of these swndlers not
investigated and thus, the Figaro" the "Gaulois
the Temps" the "Vie Parisienne." and other perl
odicals entoved the dubious honor Of numbering
among their editors writers reporters, eXconvicts
ike Rosenthal alias Jacques 81. Cere Uric de Cvry
Charvolo earle des Perreres. George de Labruyere
and others.
| As Rochefort said in his paper. L1ntransigeant,
1t looks as II the whole Armorial' or peerage list
| OF France would be represented in Mazas jail; for
| oil these blackmaiIers had appropriated to them
selves titles Of counts. viscounts and the noble pre-
fix de" without having the right to do so. Comtc
de Cestl was legally Lionel Werther a German Jew.
Ike Jacques St Cere who was simply Mr.. Rosen-
thai also of German Hebrew origin. George de
/ abruyare stood for NJ. Poidebard and earle des
Perri6res for NJ. Possonner. Uric de Civry was
the son of an negitimate daughter Of the famous
Duc de Brunswick. with some show OF a title TO
The particie de He was ex,raditei from Eng
land in 1880 and sentenced 10 three years imprson-
nent for swindling Jacques ST. Cere. Rosenthai,
mbo wrote for the Figaro" had been fentenced
IN thirteen months imprisonment Tor swndllng
some fifteen years ago re succeeaen IN esIap,hs
,eIl-known writer, Sachcr Masoch. and eloped with
the latters wife. Afterward ne married me oil.
CONT Herbert Bismarck. Rosenthal, whose alleged
talent as writer on international P P,, was
sneered at by such an auinor'y .phc Iondnn
rtos has committed several swindles since his
retmrn 10 France under the pseudonyine OF jacques
s., csre one o n0sG OF OF A e Dumas r.
Hit he managed to avoid criminal prosecution ana
like De Cesti. ulrc de Svry ana one and cxtrava
gance which has dazzled the BouevaTus, ~ b'S,
of the men involved in the scandaious hepauuy
dinar,,W interesting because It will throw add,,
tiona light upon that class of ad,enturers 20 wen
s%soSsa by ., sI a come a Humaine