Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-09-30

KW3QnM0I page What do you
q szneo make of It?
1t 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 tri1e
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-
taries of the past few years, 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 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, 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.
p,,% III n
1T 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 None Can Answer.
What was there about Louis Bau-
duys 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 1.-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 suf-
fer the same fate as others had. he de-
nberately destroyed his sight by
thrusting hot dagger into each OF
his eyes.
1t might have been better for three
women had Louis Bauduy done the
deed which would close his eyes in
sleep before he had met and married
them, but had he done so the mystery
would never had developed. And the
strange story of the man could not
be told.
Louis Bauduy was the son Of a
prominent st. Louis alienist, a young
man of prepossessing appearance, cul-
tured and we'll educated. He engaged
In business In his home town and
then came to New York, where he
married Miss Bertha Sayer, also OF
st. Louis. She was beautiful girl
and from the first the young pair
seemed to be very happy. They had
pretty apartments at No. 346 West
F1fty-eighth street, and were consid.
cred to be model examples of young
married pair.
Young Bride Suicide.
But on Feb. Is, 1904, the wife was
found dead In her apartment with a
revolver beside her. She had left q
note In which she said she had com.
mitted suicide because of something
which she could stand no longer AT
that time nobody guessed that the rea.
son might have lain in the eyes Of the
young man on whom his pretty brides
tragic death seemed to have fallen as
a heavy weight, and who seemed in.
consolable.
The bereaved husband was discon-
solate, but time, especially in the case
of youth, heals many wounds, and the
dey came when he seemed to have
rallied from the shock of his wifes
death and began to go about his bust
ness with the same enthusiasm as OF
old. And then he met another girl
who attracted him and helped him
forget the first tragedy OF his life.
They we're married and life seemed to
have opened up bright new chapter
for Louis Bauduy
But on Dec 10, 1908. neighbors
smelled gas from the apartment of the
couple at No. 146 West Eighty-third
street The door was burst In and
Rose Bauduy was found dead, with
the gas turned full on In her room.
The young husband was unconscious
and his life was despaired of until his
brother sacrificed a TRANSMISSION of
blood, which brought Louis back to
health.