The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-15
GRAND JURY HALTS
 LEBAUDY HEARING
Adi0urns Until Tomorrow So District Attorney May
 Search for Evidence.

Nineola. L. l., Jan. 15-The grand jury. which has been hearing wit l nesses regarding the killing of Jacques Lebaudy, "The Emperor of Sahara" by his wife, Mrs. Augustine Lebaudy, adjourned Monday until . Thursday to enable District Attorney Weeks to search, for evidence which l might justify an indictment of the woman on charge of homicide in some degree. Because he regards the testimony as conflicting in some degree District Attorney Weeks has decided to place every fact with the l least bearing on the case before the grand Jury. in order to enable 1t to decide whether Mrs. Lebaudy was l justified in killing her eccentric hus- band by the fear that he intended violence to her and her daughter,
 The storiss from the servants at 1 the Lebaudy house and the statements | of Father William E. McGlnnis and | Dr. J. A. kerr4gan have corroborated l the declaration Of Mrs. Lebaudy that | her daughter was in continual dan ger from her father. According to her lawyer, Mrs. Leabaudy was fore | ed to use chains, barricaded doors, 1 bodyguards and police signals to pro- l teet her and her daughter, becau=% | 1t was hopeless to attempt to send | the man to an asylum. While Le- i baudy had been confined in hospitals l for observation after some of his acts, he was always able, 1t was stat l ed, to assume a busIness-like gravity l and calnness when his reason was on trial before observers, While alien l jsts had come to the conclusion that | he was a pafaHoiao, their opinions
 never weighed in court against the l apparent clearness and acutehess of
 mind which Lsbaudy could exhibit when he was under a 5udiC--l exam | inatien,
 Mrs. Mary Bentley, an aiienist Of
 the Kings Park State Asylum, who
 examined Lebaudy whan he was sent 1 there several years ago, found him i to be a paranelao She expressed
 at the time the opinion that his men 1 tai condition closely resembled that I of Harry Thaw.
 Friends of Mrs. Lebaudy said
 yesterday that sine had taken the girl l out of the Brentwood Academy, l where she had been sent to school, | because she feared that Lebaudy 1 would make an attempt to kidRap her | and wanted the girl where she could
 protect her. Believing herself un-
 able to obtain protection from the
 courts, Mrs. Iebaudy made a small | fortress of her room and her daugh-
 ter's, according to her counsel, and
 then provided herself with a revolver, | which sine obtained from man she
 had formerly employed as a guard
 for herself and the child,
 District Attorney Weeks refused
 yesterday to discuss the chance that
 Mrs. Lebaudy would not be indicted
 at all. After the CaFHaan and de
 Saulles eases there is a streng sen 1 timent in the county against having
 a sensational murder trial at Mineeia if it is clear that it will serve Re
 useful purpose,
 Meanwhile the girl, JaequeIine, has
 been taken under the protection of Mrs. Charles de Saulles, near
 neighber, and may go with her to At lantic City for a time, If it becomes
 necessary for the child and her nasaaar to be separated.
 II w. Moore, lawyer for Mrs Le- baudy, said yesterday he had found another witness to whem Lebaudy had eonfded his intention of killing his wife.
 He would net name this witness Other witnesses have been found who
 knew both Lehaudy and his wife ir
 London in 1903 and 1903. wher
 Lehaudy was the 'tHnperer of Sa- | harsp and his wife the young "IaIn. pressS Augustinep They may be call ed if Lebaudys estate, said to bt , worth s4,86a, ,o6e or sste06,Hea, | throzEn into court hy fhe claim ef kir