Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-13
KILLED LEBAUDY
TO SAVE CHILD
Woman Declares Emperor
of Sahara Threatened
Daughters Life
ECCENTRIC M VIOLENT
Dead Mans Lawyer Denies
Marriage of His Client
With Slayer

New York. Jan. 13.--Love for her
daughter, not fear of her own life,
prompted Mrs. Jacques Lcbaudy to shoot
and kill her husband, the self-styied
Emperor Of the Sahara" it was said
today.
He met his death In the front hall of
their fine country home. the Lodge. ut
Westbury. l.. l.. about $3.50 o'clock
Saturday night.
The tragedy shocked Nassau County
as moth ng has stirred It since Jack DE
Saulles was killed by his wife. Blanca,
at their residence, the Box. located but
a few hundred feet distant. from the
Lebaudy home.
Mrs. Lebaudy rose from her bed. be-
ing i'll, to fire the fatal shot, and is
now confined to her room under guard.
District Attorney Weeks today took
her case before the Grand Jury. 1t was
reported that Lcbaudy's actions preccd-
ing the tragedy were So crratic that tho
Grand Jury, with all the evidence before
1t, might not indict the wife who killed
him.
Counsel for Mrs. Lebaudy and friends
Of the family revealed some details of
he relations between the lead man and
his family for several years past. 1t
was said that Mrs. Lebaudy has been
greatly embarrassed by her husband.
believing that he was really a p~otentate
Of the Near East. He delighted in call
ing himself Sultan" they said, and
often spoke of his family as his
'harem."
They said that at intervals he would
gaze at his comely daughter, now al
most fifteen years Did, and remark what
Il splendid adornmont she would he for
such u place. Mrs. Lebaudy ut first took
such suggestions as vaporingS Of IN I'M
settled mind, but recently, especially
within the last three months. they had
been repeated so many times that she
put chains and heavy locks upon the
girls room. Whenever Mr.. Lcbaudy
came to the house she hurried her
daughter into that sanctuary.
The ~antagonism of the husband to his
wife, said Harry W. Moore, counsel for
Mrs. Lebaudy, dated back nearly fifteen
years. In 1903 Lebaudy became OBJ
Sessed with the desire to be emperor Of
sahara" He tlrn had $15,O00.0 600 he
had inherited from his father. jules
Lobaudy, the French sugar king He
started or his expedition to set up a
Kingdom on the Moroccan coast. but his
Empress as he called Mrs, Lebaudy,
I'D not accompany him, being i'll in
uSStIS 1T llle llmc.
The longing for a throne unsatistied,
lie joined his wife in the Belgian capital,
where Mr.. Moore SAYS. Il child was orn
10 them on May 5, 1908. The child was
little Jacqueline, to protect who, it IS
aid, the mother committed homicide.
Angry that the offspring was not a
boy. who could succeed him as emperor
OF the kingdom he still believed lie could
establish. the aversion of father toward
daughter and wife began, It was de-
,lared.
When the baby was very young her
father threatened that some day he
would kill her, Mrs. Lebaudy bad told
intimate friends. ~Watchfully she cared
for the child through the years that
followed. The baby grew strong and
beautiful. her silky black trcsses 'and
happy black eyes gaining Tor her Il
way into every heart except her faith
ors. When she was four years old,
it was said, her father changed for the
first time his threat from death to Il
fato worse than death.
Wanderings in Europe
Terrified. yet bound to him by his
occasional outbursts OF affection, Mrs.
Lebaudy remained with her husband in
his subsequent wanderings in Europe
and America. During those ten years
or rowing from city to city abroad, from
hotel to hotel and city to country IN
America, ~Jacqueline rarely left her moth,
er's presence. Despite the publicity hcl
fathers erratic doings caused, hardly
ever was there mention of the fact
that he q a wife and daughter.
Just when they We're about at theil
wits ends Lebaudy would appear, give
perhaps $500 to them TO continue the
establishment and as suddenly disap.
pear. At present, friends stated, the
family is without funds. About three
weeks ago Lebaudy shed most of the
valuable furniture. Only a week ago
on. another trip to the Lodge. he tore out
much of the hot-air heating system