The Cairo bulletin., 1908-11-27
SCANDALOUS REVELATIONS
IN The CAPITOL OF FRANCE
STARTLE CIVILIZED WORLD
CHARGE THAT FORMER PRESl.
DENT FAuRE WAS POISONED
BY NINE. STElNHElL.
WOMAN'S CONFESSION
Regarding Murder of Husband and
Stepmother Lead to Arrest
Relations With the Dead,
Pres. dent Notorious.

Paris, Nov. 2G.--The arrest o
Madame Steinhei tonight following
her confession today, that fol
months since the murder of hel
painter husband and Madame Japy
her stepmother, who were found
strangled in the home of the artist
May Il last, her attempt to find the
assassins, and inumerable fantastic
clues furnished the police and news
papers were only desperate farce
to corceal the real author of the
crime, whom she knew affords Paris
the biggest sensation it has had for
years.
The excitement produced from
time to time by the Humbert, Drey.
fuG aud Syvot affairs pale into in.
significance by comparison, and the
revelations which have crowded
thick and fast during the last few
days, pointing to the possible ex-
posure of national scandal promise
to attract world wide attention.
Min ster of Justice BRAND is re.
ported already to have begun an in
quiry into the case to determine the
truth of the allegation that NJ. Lei
tett, examining magistrate. enter
tanned relations with Nine. Steinheil
which induced him to stife the ar
fair.
The political opponents OF the gov.
ernment, like Henri Rochefort, have
beer trying to make political capital
of the affair by seeking to force an
exposure of the scandal connected
with the mysterious death OF Presi-
tleht OF president Faure in 1899. Al
though hushed up at the time, II was
sommon knowledge among those be-
hind the scenes that Nine. Steinheil
was with Faure at Elysee palace
when Faure died Some papers do
not hesitate to print what they term
the story of the liason, According
to those stories Faure had met Nine.
Steiuheil in the Swiss Alps during
the maneuvres the pear previous to
his death, and she was greatly
enDmored of him.
Acted Queer at Funeral.
A person who attended Faure's /
funeral described tn the Associated /
Press today how. after the ceremony |
at the cemetery, Nine. Steinheil fell |
on her knees at the grave and placed |
a bunch of violets on the coffin. |
Then, he said, sobbing she pros.
tratcd herself on the ground, pas.
siCnately kissing Faure's portrait
Immediately after this, according to
the same authority, Steinhill, who /
had be n complacent at the friend.
ship existing between Faure and his
wife and who had accepted the Le.
gion of Honor at the hands of Presi.
dent Faure. began proceedings for a
divorce, but through the intervention
of his family this suit was withdrawn
According to gossip, compromising
papers of some political Importance
were surrendered.
Poisoned Faure is Charge.
The anti-Semite Libre Parole
charges Nine. Steinheil with having
poisoned Faure. The newspaper re.
calls that on the day of the funeral a
writer on the Libre Parole who had
seen the body said: 'Al the skill of
the embalmer was unable to preserve
the corpse from the dissolvent ac-
ton of a subtle poison" The journal
continues by charging that Chief of
Detectives Hamard and Magistratel
Leydett knew the arrest of Nine. I,
Steinheil was inevitable and would
lead to a raking up of the scandalous
mystery of Faure's death. which.
with difficulty had been stifled for
ter years. and accordingly did their
best 10 hush up the present inquiry.
The newspaper concludes by say .
ng that Faure was poisoned because
he avs opposed to revision in the
Dreyfus case