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Her “Emperor” Father, Still Hover~ Over ‘
”His Youthful Daughter, Who, SomeSay.
Already Is the Prey bf “Sorcerers’ake’P-InEven‘
there are many—none‘just now is
of more general interest than young
Jacqueline Lebandy, daughter of the
late Jacques Lebaudy, self-styled “Emperor
of the Sahara." whose life was a rapid mov-
ing chapter bf adventure and romance and
turmoil;
His young daughter's affairs are at the
moment taking that part of the public eye
which he once had to himself. Not only
because of a somewhat unusual and un-
fathomable romance with the son of a
Parisian detective, but also because of her
OF all the heiresses of the worldnand
position. of the circumstances about Mlle. '
Lebaudy's life. of her great wealth and of
her strange heritage other than her ma.-
terial fortune she has excited the interest
of Europe and America. _
Indeed, there are other heiresses whose
fortunes are greater than the Lebaudy for-
tune, whose places in the sun will be far
more desirable than hers promises to be
and whose family names are in themselvea
qualifications of high society and great
wealth, but at this time a more avid inter-
est attaches itself to the affairs of Jacque-
line Lehaudy. Some may think that this
young Woman is the most unfortunate of
girls: others may consider her fortunate—
for is she not wealthy, and does she not
get her name in the newspapers?——but the
fact is that her future alone will decide
that figmentary controversy. And it is
upon the future that there is speculation.
Jacqueline recently married Roger Su-
dreau. son of Henry Suxlreau, a detective
who has been a friend of Mme. Lebaudy.
her mother: since before her husband's
death. Two months after the marriage
the bride and Mme. Lehaudy disapreared
strangely. There was talk of a slit by
the youthful deserted husband, threatening
to claim half the fortune; and from some
elusive source Mme. Lebaudy herself was
.quoted as making a frank admission that
the marriage of her daughter to the son of
the detective was purely a marriage .of
convenience—pronrranged on a basis of -,
‘1
general understanding so that Jacqueline
might take over her fortune £30m the
hands of her trustees-upon her marriage,
in accordance with the provisions of
the designation of the trusfieshlp.
Jacqueline's husband. the younger
Sudreau. and his detective father have
made the charge that she was influ.
enced away from Roger by a 'sorcer-
cos," a fortune teller, one of the thou-
sands with which Paris is swarming.
But this one is said to have drawn
Jacqueline into her power'and to have
influenced her against her will and
against the dictates of her heart to
leave her husband. They attribute her
change of heart—ailirminglhat it was
a change of heart if it is true that
Jacqueline does not love Roger Su-
dreau now—to "the evil eye."
Because of that imputation. steps are
being taken now to investigate the busi-
ness of sorcery «in Paris, looking to driv- ‘
ing out the “witches."
It is entirely possible that a crystal
gazer or a medium might have persuaded
Jacqueline that many things would happen
unless she fled from her husband. But it
was hardly the "evil eye." That is an old
superstition, no longer accredited except
by the most primitive of races. Once, long
ago, our own ancestors believed that there
was such a supernatural and invariably
destructive power as the "evil eye." and
then they sought out and tortured and
burned to death those unfortunate persons
inspected of being endowed with it.
But now, if there be actually an ”evil
eye." it is not in the body of earthly men
or women. If this supernatural feature
works as it once was thought to do, spoil-
ing a life wherever its baleful glance might
fall, it works by different methods. If
Jacqueline Lebaudy be a victim of the
“evil eye.” then it is her heritage. Cir-
umetances that whirled about her life
fore she came into being, that continued
their inexplicable designings until her ma-
turity—that must be the “evil eye" which
has been the blasting influence of her days:
and maybe, too, of the career and happi-
ness of Roger Sudreau. who perhaps has
likewise fallen under the malevolent glare.
Her background is a setting for a dra-
matic life. In addition to the millions of
dollars which came to her from her father,
the has a heritage founded upon adventure
gnd romance and intrigue. .
" The world now is interested passively in
inch figures as Lady Mary Cambridge and
Lady Rachel Cavendish, one of whom is
thought almost certain to be the bride of
the Pfln f Wales—the future Queen of .
”England—- t this interest is not an eager
interest. It is rather a sort of guessing
game. Moreover it will be mildly sustained
until at last the Prince does choose his
funnels.
The interest in the affairs of Jac-
queline ubaudy. on the other hand, is an
intense interest which will rise and flag
. and die and rise again in keeping with the
chart of her life” it makes itself. Just
gown. interest is high.
No one knows Just how great a fortune
also in heir to. Certainly it is $10,000,000,“
for the administrators of her father’s es-
mi and her trustees have that amount as
hotel! lusts. But the principal efforts of
_ the administrators now are directed to
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While World Wide Search.
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Still Hidden
Wealth
seeking for lost assets—money and prop-
erty left by her strange father in scattered
quarters of the globe. These “lost assets"
are interwoven into the background against
which this girl must not her life.
Attorneys say that these missing assets
might quite possibly amount in all to as
much as $100,000,000.
What are they? That is the question.
There is unquestionably much evidence
that Jacques Lebaudy of Paris, son and
heir of the French "Sugar King," left
propertyvand money in various quarters of
the globe to which all trace was lost after
his killing by his wife in 1919. A great
search is on now for this wealth. '
One of his keys—a key to which there
was no lock apparent—was followed back
to a safe deposit vault in a bank of Milan.
Italy. When this vault was opened it was
found practically empty, but it still was
registered under the name of Jacques Le- ,
handy; and it was learned that at one
time it was filled with money and Villa.
ables.
Irresponsible, unmethodical. without any
aim to system or regularity, Lebaudy kept
no record of deposits or business trans-
actions or land‘purchasea. Still, in spite
of this lack of balance, he had a gift for
making money, surpassing even is gift
for spending it, and it is believed t be
increased fivefold or more the original
$20,000,000 inheritance from his father.
About ten years ago. or less than that,
when he had become so irrepressible that
he was accounted a menace to the safety
of society and particularly to the safety
of Mme. Lebaudy and Mlle. Jacqueline.
who were living at the time in the palatial
lodge at Hempstead Plains. Long Island;
which he had bought I little while before.
"The Emperor of the Sahara" was placed
in a sanitarium. While in the institution
he carried on speculation! in Wall Street
and made two million. . .
Another incident in his life, chh the
searchers for lost assets consider as ctr-
cumstantinlcvidenco. is that of the great
‘ .
Forriu'n famous
“Amulet Sellér."
attention by
tract of land he purchased in Bolivia and
which'none knew he owned until a friend
mentioned having heard him speak of it.
It seems that one of his wild Schemes
was to set up a kingdom in the South
American continent, so he bought thon-
sands of acres of land in a tract from the
Bolivian Government—that was long af-
ter his conquest of the Sahara. where two
attempts to create an empire of his own
failed because of Arab attacks upon his sub-
jects. His plan was to establish a state in
a part of Bolivia, of which he was to be
ruler; the Bolivian Government agreed
that it would allow his potential kingdom
to secede after its organization was per-.
fected. But this plan never came to
consummation. And after his death noth-
ing was known of Lebaudy's land in Bolivia
until one of his friends recalled his men-
.here pictured an incident of
Sorcery-d mother, in the back-
ground, has brought a hypnotic! to
practice his “black magic" upon
her daughter while holding her
painting of tho
The artist has
his emulate.
Above at
left is
Jacqueline
with her
leather.
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tion of it. An investigation followed; in
which it was shown that he had millions of
dollars’ worth of propel-6 in that far—off .
land.
Now searches are being made in all parts
of the earth. Banks in Berlin and Vienna,
in Rome and Madrid and Lisbon and ,
smaller cities are being sought and queried
as to whether Jacques Lebaurly left any do-
posits or anyrecords of deposits with them.
But to get back to the analrs of Jac-
queline Lebaudy.
Mme. Leheudy said also from her ob-
\
“Strange Plant Growth
HERE are few. plants in the vegeta-
ble kingdom so curious in their
growth as the parasite plants, with
one of which, at least, you are all familiar
—the mistletoe. These vegetable parasites
are plants that derive their sustenance
from other plants and have. up ropts of
their own. /
The mistletoe, whose waxen berries ex-
cite our admiration. clings by means of a
visCid fluid that exudes. from the berries
to any tree upon which they happen to he
dropped by the mistletoe thrush... "bird
peculiarly'fond of them. The mistletoe is.
found most abundantly upon the oak, from
.whlch it was cut in ancient times by the
Druids. to banned in their religious wor-
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Another peculiar parasitic. common. in
low, wet places in the South. 11 familiarly
known a ”love vine." It has no foliage.
but consists of slender threadllke stems of
a deep cram color. It- ~._.pdeng¥rgf it is
thrown upon a tree or a bush it. will im-
mediately begin to grow. In time the tree
will be covered with a network of threads.
and when it is seen it may be taken as a
warning that malaria is lurking in the
vicinity. because the vine flourishes in
marshy ground. 8 e to say, the vine
in no way interferes with the growth of
the plant which it covers.
Inthe Indian Territory is a remarkable
parasite called the air plant. You will fre
quently find the ground covered with what
seems luxuriant vegetation. for thisfplant
has a rich foliage of deep and abundant
green. However. if you lift one of these
little twigs yon‘will find it attached to a
strong. woody stem. Continuing to lift it
and following infer. yards. you will and‘
that thei’vlne‘is nof'cnnging to anything.
but is simply lying upon other plants. and
it [you follow it its whole length you will
come to the other end of the stem. without
root and attached to mining. ' '
Under the plant will be only dead twigs
and stem. of
an the under this life upping vine.
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' during
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scurity that the mar-
riage would he an-
nulled.
c The bridegroom re-
plies that it was a
marriage of love. and
that Mme. Lebaudy
has taken his (bride
from him without
justice. Meanwhile
she and the former
Mlle. Lebaudy—now
Mme. Roger Sudreau,
legal owner and ad-
ministrator of all the
Lebaudy estate—are
hiding in an apart-
.-ment in a fashion-
' able part of Paris.
And again, mean-
while. the Sudreans.
father and son. are
'making threats and
promises and ar-
rangements for ac—
tions and cancella-
tions of such an
rangements. while
Paris and the rest of
the world looks on
and wonders what it
all means. It is a
«recurrence of such
turbulence as once Jacques Lebaudy in-
splred.
Is it Jacqueline’e heritage? Was it a
life of turmoil that her father left her!
Perhaps her marriage was a marriage
of convenience. The younger Sudreau has
hinted that it was just that, but has gone
on to say in effect that it turned out as a
bet‘ seller novel or two has turned out:
That association —- proplnnnir y— nurtured
love. and \that he cannot d on with this
life apart from Japanelino. It is believed
in Paris that he really loves her. Mme.
Windy likewise is taking Roger Sudrean
‘aerioualy, for she has made preparations
to thwart. any attempt that might be made
to abduct her heiress daughter.
There is Jan gainnayln” 3 that marriage:
of convenience have been often perpe-
trated. and it in as true that now and again
they have turned into genuine love
matches. .But, if Mme. Lebandy is to have
her way, seemingly. this one will have no
chance to develop into that.
It is really most reasonable and quite
may to understand that Mme. ubaudy
Would have been eager to transfer the for-
tune to which her daughter, was heir to the
hands of Jacqueline herself: for. although
the trustees of the estate are irreproaclh
able and aboue the least tinge of suspicion,
the peculiar experiences of Mine. Lebaudy
more than twenty years have
brought her to a state of mind 'whlch would
make her distrustful of all men.
Her husband‘was" legitimate prey for ad-
venturers. as she has been since his death.
He attracted attention, and'the attention
he attracted has been reflected teller. Ad~
venturers of all the world “ have enought
them; out and have ataken’from ~~tliem all
they could manage to get. -« She has no
other vegetation, for nothing ‘longer any faith in anemones” of men.
The peculiar situation which has built
Miss Jacqueline Lebaudy. daughter of the ill-
omened Jacques Lebaudy.
in A photograph of her father, taken It the
time of his attempt to start an empire in the
Sahara Desert.
Below. at the left,
itself about the life of the daualxtz. of
Jacques Lebaudy, forming a setting frzul
which she can scarcely ever escape. Elsi itsi
inception. of course. in the life of her
father. Lebaudy made himself notorious
as a scatter-brained, unbalanced and irre-l
sponsible adventurer-by turns lsucltei all
and pitied—who was not respected in anyt
quarter of the world, although he was
known and talked of in every city of awry,»
nation. The calling of the name " dues,
Lebaudy." with or without the chimerical:
title "Emperor of the Sahara," was enough
to bring a smile of amusement or a laugh
in any land where a language is pristel. g
It follows, then, that Jacqueline Lcl‘au‘ly;
Was without any chance to ever get away;
from the memory of her father. That was,
the first material in the background which
was building itself about her without giro?
ing her any right to aid in its making. {
Then, in 1919, at Phoenix Lodge, in
Hempstead Plains, Long Island, another
wing was spread in the predestined back-
ground of her days when Mme. Lebandy,
shot and killed her husband—Jvaueiine's
father. A new inevitability was launched:
That circumstance was woven into the
setting of Jacqueline’e life. .;
Now this little storm has arisen in Paris .
and the world wonders about the future of .
the peculiarly fated heiress of the Le-'
handy fortune. There is no other girl in
all the world bound by so strange a chain
of circumstances. She is a'etudy in many.
things—sociology. psychology and drama
—she is a drama, a series of dramas. and
only the beginning of it has been written.
But'that is in itself—the mere beginning
-—-a tremendous story. Doubtlees a greater
and more deeply tragic story is to come
with the remainder of her days.
It is possible that all this speculation is
unduly pessimistic. It is not beyond the
bounds of belief thate'this pretty young
heiress, in the grip of persistent succes-
sions of unusual circumstances and
strange, unfortunate situations, will Yet
straighten her tangled affairs and will be
eyentually as happy as any heroine of I
best seller which treats of a somewhat
similar but much less snarled motif has
ever, beyond the climax. been discovered
to be.
Speculation on the future of an heireu‘
has ever been interesting. Moreover. it
is always done. .. Her place in the world,
her power to do good, her flan of life and
how it. will be carried out! '
Miss Muriel Vanderbut is one of the
most interesting of American heiresseS.
Her future is already established; but
still interest may be found in speculating
upon what her hearing will be toward tho.
leadership into which she will come in«
evitably. Her background, woven in cir-
cumstance. has assured her a sustained:
high place. But it is a far different weav-
ing from that of the background of Jean
queline Lebandy. Her “magic cloak” hat
assured her of only uncertainty. ‘
Most interesting of all helreeaea. noni,
has a future so inscrutable. _
' What will the future'havo for Jacque-
line Lebaudy—Mme. Roger Badman-4.
young and pretty; heiress to many mil-9
lions of/doliare? Only the Future know r
MWWM no. a seam.
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Norwalk Chronicler