The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-25
SUDDEN DEATH
OF D[CHAULNES
DUKE WHO LATELY MARRIED
MIS- SHONTS, DAUGHTER OF
PROMINENT AMERICAN.
THEIR WEDDING TOUR
Brought to Tragic End in Parls--Died
In Arms of His Wife--French
NohiIity Show Their
Sympathy.

Paris, April 2i.--In the presence o
Ihis bride of less than three months
1.-THE Duke D'Chaulnes died suddenh
| from heart failure at II o'clock Thurc
| day night in his bedroom in the hotc
! Iangham, Rue Bodcador Attending
Iphysicians cfIicially bave the cause Of
death as omboIism of the heart.
The duke and duchess who was
Miss Theodore Shonts, youngest
daughter of Theodore Z. Shouts, oI
New York, were married in New York
February 1G. Of this year The wed
ding was a brilliant social function and
the end of the brief honeymoon was
sudden aud tragic. Since the arrival
of the couple here month ago they
had lived comparatively quietly at the
Hotel Langham.
The duke for years has suffered
from "A weak heart and for some
time had been subject to faintins
spells. Several times since his ar
rival here he ccn8ul ed a physician IN
an effort to obtain relief from the all
ment.
Yesterday evening the duke and
duchess returned from a drive in Bols
De Roulogne, dined in their private
apartmcnts. and an hour after dinner
the duke complained of telling i'll, and
retired About II O'Clock he was sud
dculy stricken, gaspcd for breath and
Immediately lost consciousness. The
duchess seized with panic screamed for
aid. Messengers were hurriedly deS
patched for physicians. TWO doctors
arrived simultaneously at the bedside
10 fthe sufferer and administered most
powerful OF heart stimuiants, bus their
efforts were in vain.
Tho duchess was hoidig the duke IN
her arms when he expired, She was
overcome by grief and could not be
ncrsuadrd by some of her American
friends. who visited the apartment to
leave the bedside of her dead husband
and kept vigil there throughout the
night.
Thcreodoro p. Shonts was notified by
cable of his daughters bereavement
aud message was received from him
today SAYING he would take the first
steamer leaving New York and come
to Paris. The dukes family was noti
fed this morning and his sister, the
Duchess De Usez, who was at Diar
ritz started Immediately for Paris.
When the deah of the duke became
generally known today a stream O,
the dukes friends, including number
of the French nobility, called at the
hotel and left cards of confidence.
The refusal of the hotel authorities
during the afternoon to give particu
lars concerning the death of the duke
led to reports that there was som"
mystery surrounding 1t, but these were
completely dissipated by NJ. JeantOn,
police physician, who made an exam
ination of the body in the presence
of other physicians and officially GER
titled that death was due to natural
causes and that there was no neccS
sity for an autopsy. Tonight the body
of the duke was placed in coffin and
tomorrow morning it will be trans
ferrcd to a cryph in the Church of St
Phylippe Du Roule, where it will re
main pending arrangements for the
funeral which it is expected will not
take place until after the arrival of
Shonts from New York
In accordance with traditions of
French nobility the, funeral will he
pretentious function aud will at
tract to Paris representatives of the
most ancient families in France with
which the dukes family Is allied.