The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-10-08
To Avoid Gazing Into 1t
Women Were Inpel-
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.


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make of it,
It 1t 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 trifle
weak.
But look at the expression of the
eyes. Do they haunt you when you
turn away from them7 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
your
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-
teries of the past few years. a mys-
terry In which three young and beauti-
tul women sought to end their lives.
two of them successfully, for no rea-
son other than which each gave:
II could not help 1t, 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 q bed and died.
But, while his act closed the drama.
It did not end the mystery, which to-
day is even more Of mystery than 1t
was before he added his own suicide
to the list. Today everybody who has
heard of the case is asking:
Question Mono 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 about
the young man which seemed to In
spire suicide In those with whom he
came into intimate association? And
why did he end his own life?
Guy de Mauspassant once wrote a
story called "The Evil Eye" the hero
Of which found that he was possessed
Of that fatal attribute-an eye that
brought death and destruction to all
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 by
thrusting a hot dagger into each OF
his eyes.
Il might have been better for three
women had Louis Bauduy done the
deed which would close his eyes III
sleep before he had met and married
them, but had he done SO the myster,
would never had developed. And the
strange story Of the man could mo-
be told.
Louis Bauduy was the son OF
prominent st. Louis alienist, yount
man of prepossessing appearance, cui
tured and well educated. He engaged
in business in his home town ant
then came to New York, where N
married a Miss Bertha Sayer. also o
st. Louis. She was beautiful CIR
and from the first the young pal
seemed to be very happy. They ha'
pretty apartments at No. BAG Yves
Fffty-eighth street, and were consio
cred to be model examples OF younl
married pair.
Young Bride Suicide.
But on Feb. IS, 1904. the wife wa
found dead in her apartment with
revolver beside her. She had iert
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 res
son might have lain In the eyes OF IN
young man on whom his pretty bride
tragic death seemed to have fallen q
a heavy weight. and who seemed IL
consolable.
The bereaved husband was discor
ISOLATE. but time, especially In the cas-
Of youth, heals many wounds. ana th
day came when he seemed to nav
rallied from the shock of his wire
death and began to go about his pus
ness with the same enthusiasm as
old. And then he met another gil
who attracted him and helped hill
forget the first tragedy Of his III
They were married and life seemed
have opened up bright new chapte
for Louis Bauduy.
But ON Dec. 10, 1908. neighbol
smelled gas from the apartment OF tn
couple at No. 146 West Eighty-tnir
street. The door was burst In an
Rose Bauduy was found dead, wit
the gas turned full on In her roof
The young husband was unconscio'
and his life was despaired Of until h
brother sacrificed q TRANSMISSION
blood. which brought Louis back
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