Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-08

ENSE4AG page What do you
Iz71e<z,-1Az- A1<a make of it?
1t it 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 trifie
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-
teries 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 it, because of
Louis eyesi"
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,
it did not end the mystery, which to-
day is even more of a mystery than it
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 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 suf
fer the same fate as others had, he de
iberately destroyed his sight by
| thrusting a hot dagger into each o.
his eyes.
1t might have been better for three
women had Louis Bauduy done the
deed which would close his eyes IL
sleep before he had met and married
them, but had he done so the myster!
would never had developed. And thu
strange story of the man could no
be told.
Louis Bauduy was the son of
prominent St. Louis alienist, young
man of prepossessing appearance, cul
tured and well educated. He engage'
in business in his home town an,
then came to New York, where h
married a Miss Bertha Sayer, also O
St. Louis. She was a beautiful cir
and from the first the young pal
seemed to be very happy. They ha
Fffty-eighth street, and were consit
married pair.
Young Bride a Suicide.
But on Feb. Is, 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
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that time nobody guessed that the re;
son might have lain in the eyes of tn
| young man on whom his pretty bride
' tragic death seemed to have fallen g
: | q heavy weight, and who seemed Il
! | consolable.
j The bereaved husband was discol
4 ISOLATE, but time, especially in the cas-
i of youth, heals many wounds, and tt
: day came when he seemed to hay
|. rallied from the shock of his wife
e death and began to go about his bus
o ness with the same enthusiasm as
/ old And then he met another gi
who attracted him and helped hi
] forget the first tragedy of his lif
{ They were married and life seemed
n have opened up a bright new chapt
: for Louis Bauduy.
8 But on Dec 10, 1908, neighbo
; smelled gas from the apartment of Il
couple at No. LAG West Eighty-thil
street The door was burst in al
n Rose Bauduy was found dead, wi
d the gas turned full on in her rool
e The young husband was unconscio
0 and his life was despaired of until b
I brother sacrificed a TRANSMISSION
F blood. which brought Louis back
health