The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-12
LEBAUDY SHOT
DEAD BY WIFE
AFTER BATTLE
Self-styled Emperor of Sa-
hara" Tried to Choke Her,
Says Daughter.
5 BULLETS TAKE EFFECT
Tragedy Occurs at Phoenix
Lodge, Adjoining House of
De Saulles Crime.
5 BULLETS TAKE EFFECT

Jacques Lebaudy, eccentric self
styled Emperor of the Sahara was
shot and killed last night by Nine. lie.
baudy, about whose throat his fingers
had closed as he struggled for admis-
sion to Phpnix Lodge, the country
place Nine. Lebaudy obtained from
him and held under series of court
orders which denied him admission to
the place.
Phoenix Lodge Is on Hampstead
Plains, between the Meadow Br9ok
Hunt Club and Westbury. and inciden-
tally adjoins The Box, where year
ago last August the beautiful Chilean
wife OF John Longer De Saulles. shot
the famous football player to Sdeath
over the custody OF their little son.
Nine. Lebaudy collapsed after she
killed her husband. She left his body
lying just inside the entrance to the
big house that stands upon the estate,
went up stairs and to bed. Her daugh-
ter Jacqueline, about Is and possess
sing much Of her mothers striking
beauty, witnessed the shooting OF her
father
As Nine. Lebaudy went quietly up
stairs with the little revolver stin In her
hand. JacQuellne moved to n telephone
in room just Off the hallway where her
father lay dead and sent in call for
Harry w Moore, Nine. Lebaudys law
yer, whose home is at Hampstead. Mrs.
Moore answered the telephone.
Omcials Are Summoned.
Jacquelins said. according TO Mrs.
Moore. Mother has just shot father
during dispute in which he tried to
choke her" Jacquel!ne, after that an
| nouncement, asked Mrs. Moore to send
help to Phoenix Lodge Mr.. Moore called
Charles r. Weeks. District Attorney OF
Nassau county: Phineas Seaman. Sher-
IN. and Leonard Thore. Deputy Sheriff,
the same official company that was sum-
moned to The Box after the De Saulles
tragedy.
They found the body of Lebaudy just
where Nine Iebaudy left It. lie had
been sho, five times, Two OF the bullets
entered his chest near the heart Two
struck him in the face. The fifth hit
him IN the back.
Details OF what happened Immediately
before Lebaudy was killed were unavail-
able for a long time after the shooting
because OF the condition OF Nine. Le-
baudy. When District Attorney Weeks
reached Phoenix Lodge Nine, I,ebaudy
was barely conscious
Wife Unable to Explain.
They found her in n room on one of
the upper floors. She was so completely
unnerved that she was unable to an
swer even the simplest question Jac-
queline was almost equally unnerved
and was able TO give the officials only a
partly intelligible story OF the murder.
! Apparently. however. the visits of the
eccentric man whose queer outbursts had
enlisted the interference Of half a dozen
governments in the years since he had
come into possession OF fortune in ex-
cess Of $4,000 from his father. who
was known as the French Sugar King"
have been growing more frequent In the
! last few weeks
Whence he came. however. was a mys-
terry even after he had been killed
Even his wife did not know where he
had been living, and 1t had been his
habit for years to make as much OF a
mystery regarding his dwelling place as
he did OF some Of the weirdly fantastic
undertakings that marked his turbulent
career.
Nevertheless, occupants OF other es
tates near Phoenix Lodge said that after
lapse of several months in which
events at the Lodge had gone quietly, Le-
baudy began appearing there again sev
eral weeks ago. Nine. Lebaudy. who I:
popular with her neghbors had &C
CURED the habit OF employing deputy
sherif:s to guard her and the Lodge
That custom was dispensed with seyrra
months ago, after Lcbaudy for severa
months had not annoyed her
His Visits Resumed.
Then his visits were resumed Neigh
bors said that few weeks ago ~
appeared there, stormed and ranted, an.
in the short time-perhaps less thur
half an hour that he was at the Lodge
destroyed furniture and other things
worth several thousand dollars Nine
Lebaudy, her maid and Jacqueline
neighbors eaid. drove Lehaudy OF or
that occasion and did not see him agail
until about two weeks ago.
Again he got inside the house Thi
time he reached the side OF his wife
the neighbors said last night, hd. a,
usual tried to assault her Again h,
was driven of vowIng never to return
He was not seen again until last night
Nine. Lebaudy had received ucl
treatment on her husbands last vis!
10 the Lodge, Jasqueline said, that sh,
had been In bed almost constantly from
then until his temperance last mig hi
Jacqueline WAS in a room just OF
the ,Inain entrance to the big house
The door opened quietly and In
moment. she said, she heard her fatho
shouting wildly. Jacquel!ne ran int
the hallway just as her mother, havin
heard the rumpus, got out OF bed an
started downstairs.
Jumped at His Wife.
As Nine. Lebaudy reached the foot q
, the stairway. Jacqueline said, Iebaud
, Jumped at her. shouting and acting lik
: the madman he often had been called
, Before Jacqueline knew what was har
. pening she heard shots and her fathe
was lying dead on the floor. Walter 7
= Jones. acting Coroner of Nassau count,
, when he saw the body perhaps nm hou
' after the shooting. said Lebaudy prct
: ably had been killed by the first bulle
= It apparently entered his heart.
Lebaudy wore big fur coat and cal
= ried q leather bag. In tho bag the Shei
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