The sun., 1919-01-13
Husband Threatened My
Life for Is Years." She
Tells Weeks.
MURDER CHARGE IS MADE
Doctors Oppose Her Removal
to MineOla to Face Grand
Jury Sitting There.

Emperor of the Sahara" during
scuffe in Nine. Lebaudy's splendid couh-
try home, Phoenix Lodge, on Hampstead
Plains, early Saturday night.
Nine. Lebaudy still remained In her
bed on the second floor of the Lodge, at
tended by DR.. Howard NJ Phipps of
Hampstead, Or. G. r Cleghorn or
Mineola and the trained nurse. Miss
Minnie Weiders who was in the house
at the time of the murder.
Despite the statements OF the physi-
clans that Nine. Lebaudy's physical con-
dition-owing to an attack or bronchltis
and the shock resulting from her eXpe-
riences of Saturday nights such that
II would not be wise to move her. District
Attorney Weeks intends to try to have
her taken to Mineola either to-day or to-
morrow to be questioned before the jan
uary Grand Jury. which Is now IN ses-
sion at the county seat.
Formal Charge Made.
A formal charge of murder was made
against Nine. Lebaudy yesterday morn
ing by Constable Leonard Thorn Coroner
walter r. Jones said last night that re-
CARELESS OF Nine. Lebaudy's condition he
intends 20 hold an Inquest on Wedges
day. Drs Phipps and Cleghorn per-
formed an autopsy on the body or Lee
baudy yesterday morning. They were
unable to locate all five bullets which
Nma Lebaudy fired into her husbands
body. An X-ray will be made before the
inquest.
Lebaudy's body Is at Cornelfs under
taking rooms at Hampstead No funeral
arrangements have yet been made by
friends of the dead man. who are look
ing after his affairs. Edwin 7. Muir
doch, a Manhattan attorney. who said
ne had been Lebaudy's lawyer. said at
Hampstead yesterday that no permanent
intsrment would take place until an
answer was received to a cablegram
which Mr.. Murdoch said he had sent to
Lebaudy's brothers and sisters in
france.
Nine. Lebaudy's maiden name. ac-
oording to the lawyer. was Marie Au-
gustine Da Loeb Delliere- She was
sometimes enormously known. Murdoch
said further as 1.-The Countess Da Loch.
She speaks little English-the argument
which Immediately preceded the shoot
Ing was entirely in French-and seem
ingly even her small stock Of English
has been forgotten since the murder at
any rate Nine. Lebaudy, when ques-
toned by the officers yesterday, as a
rule either silently shook her head or
remained motionless, her eyes closed.
when the officers tried to make her
speak.
Admitted Shooting, Says Weeks.
She was quoted as having said once
- yesterday to District Attorney Weeks.
however, that she had shot her husband.
Yes l shot him." was her reply. said
Mr.. Weeks to one of his questions He
was threatening my life for fifteen years
and / couldn't stand II any longer"
Mime. Lebaudy's ffteen-year-old
daughter. Jacquellne, who inherits much
of her mothers striking beauty. re-
NAMED with Nine. Lebaudy throughout
the day. 1t is the intention OF District
Attorney Weeks to have Jacqueline, who
first gave the alarm after the shooting
tell her story before the Grand Jury to-
day or tomorrow. AT the same time the
county authorities will endeavor to pry
Information from servants and other en-
ployees at the Lodge. some of whom, II
is thought. can tell much more than so
far they have been willing to tell.
One of Nine. Lebaudy's servants who
probably will be quizzed extensively to-
day Is a French girl named Alice Rag
neut, who has been a cook for the Lee
baudys for fourteen years. Another is
an old Frenchman who worked about the
grounds The nurse, Miss Minnie Weld
ers. also will be questioned to-day or to-
morrow at Mineola. 1t Is thought that
an indictment for murder will be re-
turned against Nine. Lebaudy within the
next twenty-four hours, whereupon she
will be removed as soon as possible 10
the cell occupied at various times by the
women who In recent years have stirred
Nassau county when accused of two no.
torious killingS-Mrs. John Longer De
Saules and Mrs. Carman.
While throngs of curiosity seekers
lined the roadway In front OF the Lodge
yesterday they saw woman who was
said to be Mrs. Charles De Saulles, wife
Of a brother OF the late John l.. DE
Saulles. enter Nine. Lebaudy's house
The Box, where John De Saulles was
murdered, is close to the Lodge. II was
said later by guards about Nine lie.
baudys house that the visitor was Mrs
Charles De Saulles. and that Mrs. De
Saulles had visited Nine. Lebaudy and
had talked with her for some time.
She Is Constantly Guarded.
Nine. Lebaudy Is constantly guarded
by detectives and other county Off
GERS. County Detective Carman Plant
and Deputy Sheriff Thomas Barbutl re-
main inside the house throughout the
day and are relieved at night by Deputy
Sheriff Charles O'Connor and Constable
Thorn.
Despite the emphatic statements of
Lebaudy's lawyer Murdoch, yesterday
that Lebaudy WAS clear minded man,
capable OF conducting important finan-
cial transactions in sensible fashion,
many stories some of them from au-
thoritative sources that could not be
questioned. were told yesterday of his
eccentricities in Manhattan hotels and
at various points on Long Island.
On Saturday Lebaudy breakfasted In
the mems cafe on the Broadway side OF
the Hotel McAlpin, and later in the day
or about six houns before he was shot
entered the same Broadway hotel fol
luncheon. As usual he insisted upor
wearing his heavy brown ulster while al
tho table, the high collar OF the ulster
turned up well around his neck and chin
For years he had been a familiar fig
ure at the McAlpin, and he also wa
known to House Detective Jacobs OF tn,
Astor. None OF the hotel detectives
seemed 10 know where he lived. but they
had come to know him because of hi.
various eccentrclties whenever he en-
tered one of the big hotels here for hi!