Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-10-03
WHEREIN LIES
THE MYSTERY
OF THISFACE?
To Avoid Gazing Into Ii
Women We're ImpeIl-
ed to Suicide.

Aio LyCo OSchcu W bACht OpOh
All Who Came Within Their
Influence.
1ySJy5ASl EW YORK-Take a long
ER. VIad5 look at the face OF the
EtgM VEea young man which
Es5s ESNS E6l stares at you from this
EsEFd plNsl page. What do you
tA'''A AL M make OF it2
II 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 ulle
weak.
But look at the expression of the
eyes. DO they haunt you when you
turn away from them? Is there any.
thing forbiddlng. 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 vindlctlve
eyes, and yet
Yet these eyes. or the owner Of
them, wero responsible for one of the
most astonishing and puzzllng mys-
teries OF the past few years. a mys-
terry in which three young and beauti-
ful 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 his 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-
hoction In the glass. shot himself,
reeled to u bed and died.
But. while his act closed the drama,
Il did not end the mystery, which to-
day is even more of a mystery than II
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 ne 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 tnat
brought death and destruction to all
on whom he looked affectionately.
Rather than have the girl with whom
he had fallen desperately I'm love suf-
fer the same fate as others had. he de-
liberately destroyed his sight by
thrusting hot dagger into each Of
his eyes.
II 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 alienlst, young
man Of prepossesslng 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 a beautiful girl
and from the first the young pair
seemed TO be very happy They had
pretty apartments at No. SAC West
nrty-eighth street, and were consid-
cred TO be model examples of a young
married pair,
Young Bride a Suicide.
But on Feb. Is, 1904, the wife was
found dead In her apartment with a
revolver beside her. She had left a
note in which she said she had com.
mitted suicide because of something
which she could stand no longer. Al
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
heavy weight, and who seemed In
consolable.
Tho bereaved husband was discon
solate, but time, especially in :he case
of youth, heals many wounds, and the
day came when he seemed to have
rallied from the shock of his wife's
death and began 70 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 were married and life seemed tC
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-thirt
street The door was burst in and
Rose Bauduy was found dead, with
the gas turned full on in her room
Tho young husband was unconscious
and his life was despaired of until hi.
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