Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-09-30
To Avoid Gazing Into 1t
Women Were Impen-
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.

E&SkN2 page. What do you
make of it?
1t it 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 VIXEN 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 Eys-
teries Of the past few years, ny
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 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. few
weeks ago, and, while these strange
eyes of his looked at their own re-
Election in the glass. shot himself.
6eeled to a bed and died.
But, while his act closed the drama,
1t did not end the mystery. which to-
day Is even more CT 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 abou,
the young man which seemed to In
spire suicide In those with whom be
came into intimate association? And
why did ne end his own life?
Louis Bauduy was the son of a
prominent ST. Louis alienist, a young
man Of prepossessing appearance. cul
tured and well 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 cir
and from the first the young pail
seemed to be very happy. They ha(
pretty apartments at No. 346 Wes
Nry-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 wa!
found dead In her apartment with I
revolver beside her. She had left
note In which she said she had com
mitted suicide because Of something
which she could stand no longer. A
that time nobody guessed that the rea
son might have lain in the eyes OF tn
young man on whom his pretty bride
tragic death seemed to have fallen a
a heavy weight. and who seemed IN
consolable.
The bereaved husband was discor
ISOLATE. but time, especially in he 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 go about his bus
ness with the same enthusiasm as G
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
have opened up bright new chapte
for Louis Bauduy.
But on Dec. 10, 1908, neighbor
smelled gas from the apartment of tn
couple at No. 146 West Eighty-thir
street. The door was burst in an
Rose Bauduy was found dead, wit
the gas turned full on in her room
The young husband was unconsciou
and his life was despaired of until hi
brother sacrificed TRANSMISSION {
blood, which brought Louis back t
health.
Mrs. Bauduy No. 2 had left no not
explaining the cause OF her suicid,
but to friends she had said some tim
before committing the deed that Lii
was growing unbearable to her; tina