New-York tribune., 1919-01-14
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Sten0grapher Tells
OfThreatenisag Notes
Dictated by Lebaudy

Jacques Lebaudy, sometime emperor
of the Sahara wrote threatening let
tsrs to Madame Lebaudy, BY whom he
vas shot and killed last Saturday night,
according to the public stenographer Of
the Hotel Wallick, who handled much
o. Lebaudy's correspondence. These
threats were somewhat vague and were
expressed in indefinite phrases, but
their purpose was unmistakable, the
stenographer said, asserting they ap
piled ais2 to Jacqueline. the little
daughter of Nine. Lcbaudy
These letters were not addressed to
Nine. Lebaudy under that name, but
"Comptesse de Loches," Nine. Le-
bsudy's former name. Each began
Dear Madam" and while none con-
tanned a single word Of love or affec-
ton the stenographer declared she had
gained the impression that he was ex-
tremely fond. i'll way, of Nine. Le
baudy and her daughter and very jeal-
Gus of them.
On the other hand. she said, he had
repeatedly expressed desire to get
v
saying over and over tNat they did
not belong there" and that everything
there was the property OF the London
and LIVERPOOL Bank
kun Out Of Hotc!
Lcbaudy spent much time around the
writing room of the Hotel Wallick,
according to hotel employees, and fire.
quertly made himself obnoxious to na-
! 4 IL
by MS rough language and eccentric
actions.
He was a steady patron OF the
stcnographer and the impression he
created is indicated by the entries in
her cash book reading "Thc Nut" with
thc amounts he paid for work. ranging
from so cents to $40, entered opposite
that name. His actions several times
caused her to run him OUT as she
expressed it, and she tool; such action
Saturday afternoon, shortly before Lc
baudy left for Long Island.
Lebaudy who had been in the Wal
lick on Thursday and Friday, came into
the writing room Saturday afternoon,
accompanied by Mark Rosenfcld, a fiji
teen -year-old Western Union messcn-
ger and dictated two letters. One was
addressed to "Robert Mantcll's Leading
WOman.'
Wrote to Mrs. Mantell
In it he asked if the person addressed
would consider an offer to become
reader to private family of three.
He gave assurance that the work would
not occupy more than three hours Il
day and that she would receive 70 pei
cent more salary than she was receiv-
ing at present. He inclosed an envel-
opc addressed in care Of the Hotel
Wallick stenographcr for a reply.
Lcbaudy. according to the stenog-
rapher, Vas passionatelv fond OF
Shakespeare and frequently paid her
to read to him. becoming wildly eX-
cited if her reading Of the lines did
not express the fire and passion he
thought they required. Mantcll's lead
ing woman is Geneveve Hamper who
in private life is Mrs. Mantel. She is
now playing with her husband in Roch-
ester. N. y.
After writing this letter. Lebaudy
said he was going to the Manhattan
Storage Warehouse at Seventh Avenue
and Fifty-seventh Street to get a bun
die of furs. He asked the stenographer
to accompany him as witness and
when she declined, persuaded a young
stationery salesman. who was in the
hotel, to go. They drove to the ware
house, but found it closed.
Criticized Warehouse Employees
Lebaudy then returned to the Wal
lick and dictated a letter to the ware
house company complaining of the dis
courtesy OF it employees and stating he
would come to get what belonged to
him January 49, He also made an ap-
pointmont with the salesman to accom-
pany him at that time.
a The warehouse yesterday it was
said Lebaudy had come to the place
carly in the afternoon and taken out
q fur coat. At first, employees said, he
had declined TO sign a receipt, but
finally had done so. He returned later
in the afternoon but found only the
Waterman on duty.
While debating his letter 20 the
warehouse company, Lebaudy began
tearing up sheets of paper and throw
raphcr demanded that he stop this
When she had finished the letter and
leaned over to pick up the litter. he
thrust dollarbill in payment for her
work down the back of her waist She
Indignantly resented this, she said, and
ordered him out.
Dictated in Early Morn
Lebaudy evidently expected to stay
some days at WeStbury, she said, as he
had given her his home telephone mum
Der. Many Of the replies to his letters
cane in her care. Once he had called
her up at home at 2:3O in the morning
to dictate letter and another time at
6 Il. m.
She has no copies of Lebaudy's let.
ters, as he watched carefully the num-
Der of copies she made and made sure
nothing was left in her hands. She hat
seen, she said, bills in his possession
for groceries and provisions furnished
the Westbury household and assumed
that he had paid those. yet he hac
requested her to 60 TO Westbury anC
watch the inmates of his house, which
she had declined to do.
Lebaudy's business CORES spondence
she said was so diversified that fol
long time after he began coming tc
the Wallick, she was unable to de
termine who or what he was. Fol
time. she said, she thought him (
German spy, because once when she
was reading to him something about
the Kaiser, ho leaped to his feet anc
saluted
Wore MufIlcr, Not Collar
He was extremely careless of his
personal appearance, she said. otter
wearing a mufIier wrapped about his
neck in place of a collar and his hand;
being usually unwashed.