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Show COUNT BEAUFORT GOESJO JAIL CHICAGO, Nov. 10 Count Jacques von de Beaufort, son-in-law of M. If. Kilgallen, steel magnate, was hustled Into a patrol wagon and locked up in the Harrison street police station tonight to-night when he created a scene at St. I.ukes hospital, where his wife Is 111 After half an hour at the station Count de Beaufort was released on $100 ball. A charge of disorderly conduct was made agaiust him by M. McDonnell, assistant superintendent of the hospital. hospi-tal. The disturbance occurred when De Beaufort insisted on entering tho room In which his wife la confined. In spite of an order given by her father fa-ther that he should be debarred. The count refused to heed the order, and tonight fought to force hl6 way into the room. When attendants prevent-e.i prevent-e.i him the count la alleged to have threatened them. The Countess de Beaufort has been in the hospital for several weeks. Her arrival there wats accompanied by some mystery, and lor days hospital uttendants and Count de Beaufort denied de-nied that 'she was at tho Institution. Finally a statement was made that the countess had been seriously In-Jored In-Jored by a fall down a stairway at their home in Michigan avenue. The same day Count de Beaufort made a statement that he had been attacked by a negro near the Kllgal-len Kllgal-len home and beaten about the face. Mr. Kllgallen followed this with n statement that Count de Beaufort lad hurt his face while shaving An extended newspaper Investigation only deepened the mystery of the countess' stay In the hospital. Almost the same day a letter to a Chicago newspaper from tho publishers publish-ers of the Almanach de Gotha brought n.'ws that the European list contained contain-ed no name of Count de Beuufort- |