Paris, April 13.
A half crazy millionaire, a revolver drama, a private detective and a mock marriage are among the features of an extraordinary story of modern life, which has just come to light here. It first attracted attention by an announcement that a young Frenchman, Roger Sudreau, aged 19, had tried to get his wife Jacqueline, aged 16, away from a private hospital at which she was staying with her mother. The latter turned out to be the widow of Jacques Lebaudy, the crazy Frenchman who proclaimed himself Emperor of the Sahara some 15 or 20 years ago and actually tried to set up a capital in the sandy wastes of north-west Africa. He afterwards lived in the United States, with a Mile. Dellitre, by whom he had a child, Jacqueline. There is some doubt, from the French point of view, whether they were legally married, but at any rate the American authorities were satisfied of the existence of a marriage and gave Mme, Dellitre, or Mme. Lebaudy, probate, thus allowing her to inherit the estate of Jacques Lebaudy, whom, by the by, she had killed in self-defence. Last year she made the acquaintance of M. Sudreau, sen., who carries on business as a private detective in Paris under the name of Harris. He conceived the idea of marrying the mother and causing the daughter to marry his son. For this. purpose the mother and daughter returned France and the young people were married at the registry office at La Palud in January, it being agreed that the parties should not cohabit. Mme. Lebaudy, as she may be called for convenience, apparently thought that a civil marriage contracted under these conditions would not be binding, but, discovering her mistake, she carried off her daughter, and the result was the attempt by Roger Sudreau to abduct his bride. As Jacqueline's birth certificate describes her as the illegimate daughter of Marguerite Delliére, and as she is put down in the marriage register as "Jacqueline Lebaudy,'' there would appear to be sufficient ground of action for annulling the marriage and extricating Mme. Dellitre-Lebaudy and her daughter from an awkward predicament. They will probably have a wholesome dread of private detectives for the rest of their lives.
France AND THE OLympic Games.
French sportsmen are making a praiseworthy effort to solve the Olympic Games problem without official support. The site has been a subject of wrangling for months. As the Games would bring a large amount of foreign money into
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