"SUGAR KING'S" FORTUNE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 10

"SUGAR KING'S" FORTUNE

A STRANGE SEQUEL.

A young American and his bride- were the principal characters in a story which, ikisely resembles a popular type of film scenario, says a Paris report. Xke brides is tho 17-year-old daughter of Jacques Lebaudy, tha late "Sugar King," ones mown as "Emperor of tho Sahara." In, 1919 M. Lebaudy was shot deadi by. his wife, who, with tho aid of Henry Sudreau, better known as Harris, a. private inquiry agent, was able to prove that ebe had killed M. Lebaudy in da-f-enco of heT daughter's honour, and was therefore acquitted. Tho "Sugar King's" fortune, estimated at 600,000,000 franca (nominally £24,000,000) was left to his daughter, but she could not enjoy fche inheritance until she either marriedl or attained har majority. She was married; last year to Reger Sudreau, son of tho ■detective, and subsequently the young .couple and Madame Lebattdy lived in Paris. At the end of last month tho ■bridio and her mother disappeared from ; their apartment, and hid themselves '.under the assumed name ,of Howe/ in a clinical establishment at Saint Cloud. .'Regan Sndreau discovered their hiding-. j>!sce a few days ago, and., with, two friends, went to Saint Cloud, and tricdi forcibly to regain possession of his wife. Owing to the intervention of thei staff at the clinic to was unsuccessful, and tho brida and her mother left next day for an unknown destination on. tha Pvtviera. Sudreau attributes his wife's flight to the advice of an Egyptian for-tune-teller, but Madame Lebaudy gives a less romantic reason. The maxrisge, ulie says, was contracted solely in order to allow her daughter to inherit her fortune, and was merely a matter of (form. Tharc was1 no religious ceremony, ;.;nd Madame Jjobaiidy therefore holds that her daughter is ncrt bound by it, and is free to dispose of her*-1'" <">* her fortune as she^ pj£ages v