Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-09-29
To Avoid Gazing Into II
Women Were ImpeIl-
ed to Suicide.
And in the End the Man Himself
Ended His Life, Probably to Es-
cape the Strange Influence That
His Eyes Seemed to Exert Upon
All Who Came Within Their
Influence.

ESsEM BE stares at you from this
Ey3cRAfN page. What do you
make of it?
1t 1t a patrician face, the features
well modelled and regular, the brow
broad and intellectual, the nose
straight and aristocratic, the mouth
not unkind, though perhaps a trife
weak.
But look at the expression of the
eyes. Do they haunt you when you
turn away from them? Is there any
thing forbidding, terrifying in the way
they stare at you? Do they take hold
of you, grip you and seem to follow
you?
They are not cruel and vindictive
eyes, and yet
Yet these eyes, or the owner OF
them, were responsible for one of the
most astonishing and puzzling mys-
tertes of the past few years, a mys.
terry in which three young and beauti,
full women sought to end their lives,
two of them successfully, for no rea'
son other than which each gave:
Il could not help it, because Of
Louis eyes!"
And, as a fitting climax to this ser
les Of mysteries, the owner of the eyes
called down the curtain on his short
but remarkably tragic career by
standing in front of the mirror, a few
weeks ago, and, while these strange
eyes Of his looked at their own re
Election in the glass, shot himself
reeled to a bed and died.
But, while his act closed the drama
1t did not end the mystery, which to
day is even more Of a mystery than Il
was before he added his own suicide
to the list. Today everybody who has
heard Of the case is asking:
Question None Can Answer.
What was there about Louis Bau
duy's eyes to make all three of his
beautiful young wives kill them
selves? What was the mystery aboui
the young man which seemed to in
spire suicide in those with whom hi
came into intimate association? AND
why did he end his own life?
Guy de Mauspassant ono wrote {
story called 1.-THE Evil Eye" the hero
of which found that he was possessed
of that fatal attribute-an eye tina
brought death and destruction to al
on whom he looked affectionately
Rather than have the girl with whom
he had fallen desperately in love sui
fer the same fate as others had, he de
liberately destroyed his sight b!
thrusting a hot dagger into each 0
his eyes,.
1t might have been better for tire,
women had Louis Bauduy done thu
deed which would close his eyes II
sleep before he had met and marrie'
them, but had he done SO the myster,
would never had developed. And tn
strange story Of the man could no
be told.
Louis Bauduy was the son of
prominent st. Louis ~alienist, a younl
man Of prepossessing appearance, cul
tured and we'll educated. He engages
in business In his home town an
then came to New York, where b
married a Miss Bertha Sayer, also 3
st. Louis. She was a beautiful gil
and from the first the young pal
seemed to be very happy. They ha
pretty apartments at No. 346 We
Fifty-eighth street, and were consit
cred to be model examples Of a youn
married pair.
Young Bride a Suicide.
But on Feb. 18, 1904, the wife wa
found dead in her apartment with
revolver beside her. She had left
note in which she said she had con
mitted suicide because of something
which she could stand no longer. a
that time nobody guessed that the ret
8 might have lain In the eyes of til
young man on, whom his pretty bride
tragic death seemed to have fallen a
a heavy weight, and who seemed il
consolable.
The bereaved husband was discor
ISOLATE, but time, especially In Inc cas-
of youth, heals many wounds, and tn
day came when he seemed to hav
rallied from the shock Of his wife
death and began to 90 about his bus
ness with the same enthusiasm as 9
old. And then he met another gil
who attracted him and helped hir
forget the first tragedy Of his life
They were married and life seemed t
have opened UP a bright new chapte
for Louis Bauduy.
But on Dec. 10. 1908, neighbor
smelled gas from the apartment Of til
couple at No. 148 West Eighty-thir
street. The door was burst in an
Rose Bauduy was found dead, wit
the gas turned full on in her roon
The young husband was unconsciou
and his life was despaired Of until hi
brother sacrificed a TRANSMISSION Z
blood, which brought Louis back t
health.