Show SYBIL SANDERSON The Newspapers That Libelled Her Offer Apologies Her Innocent Note to the late Prince Baudouin I Bunch Letters that Produced 1 I Crop of Scandal Special to THE HERALD Examiner Cable PARIS March 2All the newspapers here and in Belgium which printed the libel with reference to the relations between Sybil Sanderson the talented American opera singer and the late Prince Baudou in heir to the Belgian throne have published pub-lished retractions and sent apologies to Miss Sandersons attorneys I seems that after the prince died a package of private letters was found which had been addressed to him by aspiring ladies who thoughtmore of royal favor than of womanly honor and modesty They revealed intrigues more or less improper and implicated a number of ladies well known in European society This mass of mischief and nonsense it seems was handed to the King who i his distress refused to read and Sung them into the waste basket The royal lackey jegard ing them as a lawful perquisite looking for money and without regard to the trouble that might be stirred up sold them to a agent who let them into the hands of G Achard who began the publication of bits of gossip regarding them Miss Sanderson had a missive among tho lot it seems a perfectly harmless little note of thanks for some royal favor in the shape of a boquet or acknowledgment of his ability It was just such a note as any prima donna might write to any one who congratulated her upon her Jyric accomplishment accom-plishment Upon this slender evidence her name was used in conjunction with baser people who had been in correspondence correspon-dence with Prince Bandouin Hence the libel suit and retractions Nobody who know Miss Sanderson believed be-lieved for aa instant the miserable inuen does printed but she says she Instituted suits for two reasons She was determined that those really guilty should net escape under cover of her name which might have been the object of the publications She was equally bent on defending herself not on account of the many friends who knew her that was unnecessary but because of the thousands who did not know her except ex-cept as an artist I is understood King Leopold and the Count of Flanders have united in a note expressing their horror of having her name used and assuring her of their knowledge that she is perfectly innocent |