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LE DUC, MICHIGAN BLVD. SHOPKEEPER, FOR
GIVES WIFE SHOT WITH MAN INHOTEL ROOM
The fair name of "sassiety," that
branch of mankind which covers its
morals with clothes and jewels and
conventions, was dragged in the mire
of scandal once more today. The
gossips are talking about a pair who
took a chance and lost He was a
New York white slave investigator;
rich, without work, he spent his time
uncovering the vices of the poor; he
was an aide to the Rockefeller vice
grand jury. She has been identified
as the wife of a wealthy Chicago
clubman, in the east on a visit
Philadelphia, Sept 28. "She's the
squarest little girl in the world," was
statement in broken tones today of
Jos. C. Le Due, proprietor of fashion
able Chicago clothing store and ex
pert golfer, as he sat at bedside of
his wife, finally clearing up identity
of last principal in Philadelphia's
triple hotel tragedy of yesterday.
Le Due is manager of Kaskel'fe
Kaskel, swell haberdashers at 40 S.
Michigan av., Chicago. He golfs
with the highbrows.- ,
"Yes, it's my Lilia," said Le Due, as
he told detectives that woman who
was. shot with J. C. Graveur at Hotel
Waiton by Mrs. Harry Belzar, is his
wife. She is daughter, Le Due said,
of Phillip Kappes, prominent socially
in Cincinnati.
Le Due made It' clear that he does
not regard his wife as guilty of any
wrong, though she was registered at
Walton as wife of Graveur. He de
clared man, whom he had regarded
as his friend, must have had Mrs. Le
Due under influence of some drug
or held her in his room.
"Will I forgive her? There is noth
ing to forgive. She has been a true,
loyal little woman and I will take her
back home as soon as it is safe for
her to travel. I love herJove her
even more than before. She swas
lured. It was not her -fault,
"I can't understand how she came
to be in the room at the Walton with
"Graveur. I shall never forgive him,
and I knew he must have 'put one
over on tier.' I wish I knew how he
came to register her as his wife. She
must have been in a stupor from
somedrug. his rascal evidently held
her in that room."
There is now little for police to do.
Graveur and woman whose love he
had cast aside are dead. Mrs. Le
Due has a' chance for life. Not until
Le Due arrived today were authori
ties positive of third woman's iden
tity. To very last she, sought to con
ceal her name.
-Graveur is well-to-do and is well
known in New York as a white slave
investigator. He founded the prison
school and had gained considerable
publicity as a court probation officer,
through his attempts to aid convicts.
BITSS?NEWS
Logan Square garage, 2548 Linden
pi. ancVautos in it damaged $10,000
by fire. Gasolien tank exploded in
car.
Arthur Scully, former police lieut,
electrocuted while acquainting self
with new. job in sanitary district pow
er house, Lockport
D. H. Henderson, 6054 Harper 'av.,
private in Canadian militia, killed in -action
in France.
Lester Stubenraueh, 1520 58th av.,
Cicero, dropped dead at 58th av.- and
the "L." ,
Sen. John Sharp Williams, in town
en route to campaign speech at
South Bend, says southerners do not
control congress.
Eleanor Haddie, 4, central figure
yesterday in alleged attempt of her
mother's friends to kidnap her, sur
rendered to mother's custody by
father, Jas. Haddie,. corset man,
pending outcome of divorce proceed
ing Mrs. Haddie started ifl Boston,
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