Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
Mother and Daughter Are
Keeping Themselves Hid
den Fearing kidnapping by
Husband

PARIS, July 3.-The heirs to the
blood-stained Lebaudy millions, Ma
dame Marguerite Lebaudy and her
daughter, Jacqueline, are barricaded
and beleaguered in their luxurious
apartment in Paris. They have made
themselves prisoners, fearing kid
mapping.
They are defending from Henri and
Roger Sudreau, father and son, the
millions they inherited from Jacques
Lebaudy, emperor of the Sahara"
Roger Sudreau is twenty and the
husband in name, if not in fact, of
Seventeen-year-oldJ acqueline.
Jacqueline is suing for an annul-
ment of her marriage. Roger is
suing for divorce. In this litigation
Jacqueline's millions are q stake.
Behind her stands her mother; be-
hind Roger stands his father-who,
the elder Sudreau says, promised to
marry him, but didn't.
CHAPTER I
Twenty years ago Jacques Le-
baudy inherited a fabulous fortune
made out Of sugar mills. He was
an eccentric man, dressed in rusty,
shabby clothes, fond of such amuse-
ments as buying all the seats at a
theater and then attending With one
companion, leaving all the other
seats vacant.
One day he disappeared with a
pretty French actress, Mademoiselle
Marguerite Delliere.
CHAPTER II
World diplomacy received a shock
when news came that an empire"
had been set up in the Sahara desert.
Lebaudy, with his own army of
blacks and regal court, called him.
self emperor of the Sahara, king
of Chutianaya Oasis, prince of Tar
tufaya, duke of Anois."
The actress was Empress Mar
got" The emperor" expecting an
heir, sent her back to Paris. Firmly
believing his child would be a son,
he ordered a cradle outshining the
one Napoleon built for the king of
Rome. It cost 100000.
CHAPTER III
Came two crushing blows. Le-
baudy's empire" interfered with
colonization plans Of England and
France and he had to leave the
desert. And his child was a girl!
Angry and disappointed, Lebaudy
remained away, sulking for two
years. Jewels he had given Margot
supported the wife and baby. But
friends in attending to the birth GER
tificate OF little Jacqueline put her
down as the child of Marguerite
Delliere, instead of Lebaudy's.
CHAPTER w
Longing for wife and child, Le-
baudy was reconciled to them in
1905. The next year found them in
America, at Phoenix Lodge, Long
Island. Lebaudy became familiar
figure on Broadway.
Tragedy ended Lebaudy's career
January II, 1919. He was shot and
killed by Marguerite Dellicre. She
said she shot in defense of her child's
honor. She was acquitted.
CHAPTER V
A long fight began for Lebaudy's
wealth. Finally Madame Lebaudy
and Jacqueline compromised with
his kin, taking half of the $15,000,-
900 estate remaining.
While arranging the settlement,
en- route to America, mother and
daughter met Henri Sudreau, who
under his business name of "Har-
ris" is Frances leading private de-
tective, advertising that he "sees
everything, hears everything, knows
everything"
Sudreau and his son, Roger, helped
Madame Lebaudy and Jacqueline
establish their claim to the Lebaudy
millions. Then came a double-bar-
relied romance. Roger fell in love
with Jacqueline and Papa Sudreau
with Madame Lebaudy.
CHAPTER VI
A civil marriage took place be-
tween Roger and Jacqueline last jan
uary Fl. A religious ceremony was
to have followed, when their elders
likewise were to be married. Then
hitch. Jacqueline and her mother
disappeared. Roger followed, tried
to take his wife away, was frus-
trated, and the women are still in
hiding.
Meantime Jacqueline has sued for
aunulment of her marriage, claim
Ing it was never consummated, and
was a mere form arranged to settle
the Lebaudy will, which provided
she be of age or married.
Roger filed a divorce suit, too,
claiming Jacqueline deserted him,
and, under the French law, demand
ing half the Lebaudy millions.
CHAPTER VII \
Bolts and chains bar the Lebaudy