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Show CALlS DEATH Passes Suddenly Away in Prcs-i ence of His Bride, Who W'as Miss Theodora Shouts. TRAGIC ENDING OF DRIUF HONEYMOON Young Widow Keeps Yigil All Night by Body of Her Stricken Husband. PARIS. April 24. In the presence of his bride of less than thrco mouths, Emanuel Theodore Bernard d 'Albert dc Limics d 'A1II3-, ninth duke of Chaulncs and of Picquigny and marquis of Dan-gcau. Dan-gcau. died suddenly from heart failure at tl o'clock Thursda.v- night in his apartments in tho Hotel Ijanghnm. in the Rue Bocsador. The physicians summoned sum-moned to attend the duke in hip sudden sud-den seizure officially gave the cause of death as embolism "of the heart. The Duke dc Chaulnes and the duchess, who was Aliss Theodora Shouts, youngest, daughter of Theodore J. Shouts of New York, were married in New York on February HJ of this year. 'Phe wedding was a brilliant social function, func-tion, and the end of Ihe brief honey-.moon honey-.moon was sudden aud tragic. Since the arrival of the couple here a month ago tho.v had lived comparatively quielly at the Hotel Langham. taking an occasional oc-casional automobile ride in the afternoon after-noon and in the evening driving with intimate friends or going to tho theater. the-ater. Long Had Weak Hoart. The duke for years. has suffered from a. weak heart 'and for some time had been the subject of fainting spells. Several Sev-eral times since .his arrival here ho consulted con-sulted T)r. Henri Tscovesco in an effort, to obtain relief from his ailment. Yesterdn.y evening the dnko and the duchess, both in tho best of spirits, returned from a drive in the Bois do Boulogne. Thor dined in their private apartments, and an hour after dinner the duke complained of foeling ill, and retired. About 11 o'clock he was suddcnly st.ricken, gasped for breath and imme-diatel.v imme-diatel.v lost consciousness. The duchess was seized with panic and screamed for aid. A maid who responded to her cry-was cry-was hurriedly dispatched for Dr. Isco-vesco. Isco-vesco. while Ihe. hotel management summoned sum-moned another physician. The two doctors doc-tors arrived simultaneously at Ihe bedside bed-side of the sufferer and administered the most powerful of heart stimulants, but their olforts wore in vain. Kopt Vigil With Dead. The duchess was holding the duke in her arms, when he expired. She was overcome b.v grief and could not. lie persuaded b.v some of her America 11 friends, who visited (he n pari men I, to leave the bedside of her dead husband, and kept vigil there throughout the night. Theodore Shonls was notified by cable of his daughter's be reave in en' 1. and a message was received from him loday saying that he would take the first steamer leaving New York and come to Paris. The duke's i'amilv was notified this morning, and his sister, the Duchess d 'lT7.es, who was at. Biarritz., slartod immediately for Paris. "Today Airs. II. Atillington Drake and other friends did what they eould'to comfort' Continued on Pago Two.. I ll; f, 3)UKB -DE CHA1MES , CALLED BY DEATH i n, ' Continued from Page One. "r .he distracted widow, whose grief : t. nalraed somewhat duriug the afternoon. L.B WHiou the death of tho Duke de tl' - Ghaulnes became generall knofrn to- i fti. Hay a sieady stream -of tho duke's ' f ,fa, friends, including a. number of members ( . .of the French nobilitv, called at the; j ft1 9tutel and left cards of condolence, i! ,i 3 IvTo Autopsy HekU 4 !' ;J The refusal of the hotel authorities j. if Huring the afternoon to give particu- i jl Qars concerning the death of the duke jj, led to reports that there was some 'f'H mystery surrounding it, but these wore i i 8 completely dissipated by M. Jcanton, ' -5 H a police physician, who made an ex- I nmmation of the body in the presence ic of other physicians, and officially ccr- f, lined that death was duo to'-a natural i l cause, and that there was no. necessity A iV f,or an autopsy. .Tonight the borb" of the duke vas i JM placed in a double oak coflin, and to- , 1 M anorrow it will bo transferred to a r crypt in the Church of St. Philippe de j !,' Boule, where it will remain ponding h! i v arrangements for the funeral, which, it !i expected, will not take place until 7' t after tho arrival of Mr. Shonts from it), i 2s ow York. JJ W In accordance with traditions of the V I French nobility, the funeral will be a . I, pretentious function, and will attract t: J II Ho Paris the representatives of the most (lj 1' Ancient families in France, with which fj; Jl Xho duke's famih' is allied. |