The sun., 1919-01-15
NINE. LEBAUDY
MAY BE FREED
IN FEW HOURS
Grand Jury Expected to Elk.
onerate Her by To-mor-
row Night.
SLAIN MAN A PARANOIAC
Mysterious Woman Tells of
His Recent Threat to
"Finish" Wife.

finished yesterday the major part OF
It's labcrs centring about the killing OF
Jacques Lebaudy and adjourned until
tomorrow. By tomorrow night 1t is
likely Nine. Marie Augustine Lebaudy
will know whether she Is to go free
after having shot her husband. as she
said, to protect her daughter Jacoueline.
Nine. Lebaudy was not called among
the witnesses who appeared before the
Grand Jury yesterday. She still lay In
bed IN her home, Phoenix Lodge. AT
westbury. where the shooting occurred
Friends who saw her to offer sympathy
agreed she was more composed than on
any day since the shooting. though still
weak and with the imprint of the scene OF
the shooting resting heavily on her mind
in fact she told two OF her visitors. DR..
Joseph A. KerrIEan--her physician
and his wife that this picture would
haunt her for the rest OF her life and
that II she had acted for any other rea
son except 20 save her daughter. she
would either have killed herself or have
died from remorse.
Messenger to he witness.
1he prospect that she would ever be
Drought before any body OF Jurors grew
DINNER yesterday. A feature of Dis
trict Attorney Charles r. Weeks's plans
which heightened that possibility was
the announcement that Mark Resented
tho messenger boy who accompanied Le-
baudy on the night OF the shooting
would DO summoned as a witness to-
morrow.
No mention. however. was made in this
connection Of Nine. Lebaudy. although
the District Attorney still refused TO
state whether the prosecution would run
its full course. But the case for the
State was looked upon as having grown
weaker when word got around. from a
source close to the District Attorneys
once that no evidence had been dis
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show that Mime. Lebaudy's Staying OF
her husband was deliberate or pre-
msdltated
Evidence Helps Defence.
While the progress Of the prosecution
seemed to be getting no further. new
evidence disclosed yesterday seemed to
turn in favor Of the defence. One o.
the witnesses before the Grand Jury
was Dr. Guy F. Cleghorn. medical ex-
aminer called In by the District Attor-
as TO his testimony before that body. /,
was gathered that his statements were
along lines similar TO subsequent re-
marks in which he called Lebaudy q
paranoiac.
DR.. Cleghorn said after leaving the
Grand Jury room that his acquaintance
with Lebaudy convinced him that the
man who had once called himself En-
peror Of the Sahara" suffered from ilu.
OrQ In Hk,.S
him in the same case with Harry Thaw
LIKE Thaw. DR.. Cleghorn said, Leba udy
was liable to break out under pressure
This analysis Of Lebaudy's mentality
agreed with another made known by
Sheriff Seaman as tho expressed opinion
of Mrs. Mary Bentley. an alienist at the
Kings Park State Asylum. who examined
Lsbaudy when he was sent there several
years ago. Mrs. Bentley according to
sheriff Seaman. declared recently lie.
baudy was suffering from paranoia.
Lebaudy Threatened Wife.
4 further STRENGTHENING OF his case
was touched upon by H. w. Moore
attorney for Nine. Lebaudy, when he
announced he had come across add.
Gonal evidence Lebaudy had threatened
his wife a week before the shooting
This Information came to him, Mr.
Moore said. in the form OF a telephone
call from a person who told him that
at that time I-ebaudy had said he wa:
going to finish" Nine. Lebaudy.
Tho lawyer refused TO reveal IN,
nams of his informant at this time. bu,
said this person was ready to go on the
witness stand in Nine. Lebaudy's be.
half II the case ever came to trial. I,
was understood that the communication
came from a woman.
NeiRhbors. manv OF them wealthy and
socially prominent. came hocking to
tho house to demonstrate their good will
Among them was Mrs. Emily Laden.
burg. who has been untiring in her
friendly offices since the shooting An
other visitor, who shrouded her arrival
with much mystery, was a fashionably
sttired woman who arrived in an auto
mobile As she a,ishted she noticed the
crowd of reporters and idlers gathered
about the Lebaudy home, and turned tc
hor chauffeur with the caution: NUNS
the word"
All that could be learned from the
chauffeur was that she was Mrs. J
Dan, living at the Hotel Savoy.
Household Is Relieved.
Tho influx OF letters and visitors ap
pearod to be a great factor in helping
Nine. Lebaudy regain her spiritA
After sitting at her mothers bedside
for some time Jacqueline went for an au.
unmobile ride with Mrs. Charles Dc
Seulles, the occupant of The Box, next
door. Mrs. De Saulles said she Is pre-
pairing to close her house at Westbury
soon for the rest OF the winter and &c
to Atlantic City, adding that she would
like to take Jacqueline with her II II
could be arranged
Jacqueline 10 a very nice girl" she
said. and she Ia perfectly welcome a,
my home. No arrangements have beer
made for her to stay with mo II her
mother Is taken away from their home "
Others who heartened Nine Lebaudy
were DR.. Kerrlgan and his wife. After
being with her for half an hour in the
afternoon they gave the first intimate
picture OF her present state that has
come out In detail and told how Lebaudy
had been harassing for years a woman
who was universally beloved as the mos,
tenderhearted in the community.
Mme. Lebaudy spoke in French. and
whenever her mind turned back to the
episode Of the shooting she gestured ex'
citedly.
II will never forget IT," she exclaimed
Vehemenuy as the kerrisans talked &c
her. II will never get II from before
my eyes. II will haunt mo as long as
live II had ever done anything like
that except In defence Of my daughter
wouldn't be able 20 live"
Then she lapsed into a mood OF de-
spondency. as she did several times dur
ing the talk. At such moments she would
murmur repeatedly: "C'est terrible
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