"EMPEROR OF SAHARA" DEAD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 170, 12 April 1919, Page 10

"EMPEROR OF SAHARA" DEAD

9 SHOT BY HIS WIFE. Mme. LebaUdy, tlie wife of Jacques Lebaudy, the so-called "Emperor of tho Sahara," shot and killed lier husband recently at Westbury, Long Island. Jacques Lebaudy. tho eccentric imllionairo who styled himself Emperor 01 tho Sahara" in 1903, was the elder son of the great French sugar merchant, iho younger son filled Paris with tales of his wildness and ' extravagance beioro h» death soon after he became of ago, but i tho elder was of si more serious turn of mind, ivith a bent towards scientific investigation. He founded an establishment at Mantes for inquiry into the problem of aerial nnvisation, and at one timo tlio Lebaudv flying machine was the strongest rival of that of M. Santos Dumont. In the winter of 1902-3, however ho abandoned his home schemes for tho cxDe.lition to the North-West Coast of Africa, , which made him notorious. While perfectinsr his plans for the establishment of his "empire, Lobaudy had his headquarters i" T;M Palm.is, where he had his "navy." consisting of a sailing schooner, the Frasquita., and a ' small yacht, the Dahlia, both oi which involved him in difficulties. The crew of tho Dahlia mutinied at sea, and when at last he made his landing on the Afn- ; can coast several of the crew of the Fras- ' quita were captured by natives, and were not released until tho French Government had been forced to send the cruiser Galilee, which bombarded the coast, Mm ' l>v the terror and confusion thus causei. enabled the prisoners to escape. , J.nbaudv in the meantime made a ( trip r to The Hague, in order to net his "em- , nire" approved bv the Internaaminl 1 Board of Arbitration The "empire 5 scheme, of course, mado littlo headway, s • but tho "emperor" was always a source s of amusement. His exnloils wought him i frequently hefore tho French Courts m i case= that had always their ridiculous cle- ' n'lent. I'erhiins his best effort was a bom- , bastic and threatening "ultimatum to It the lienublio of France.

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