Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
NINE. STE|NHE|L HELD
Put in Jail on Suspicion of
Staying Husband.
MAY HAVE KILLED FAURE
Press Accuses Her of Having Poison.
ed Late President.
FRANCE IN THRoEs OF SCANDAL
With Nations Executive When He
Died-Government May Have
to Probe Charge.

to Probe Charge.
PARIS. November 21.-The case OF
Nine Steinheil. who was arrested in this
city yesterday, after "A DAY Of sensational
developments in the matter of the muir.
der of her husband and her stepmother.
Nine. Japy, in this city last May. was
this morning taken out OF the hands of
NJ. Leydett, the examining magistrate,
who has been in charge up to the pres
ent. and turned over to Magistrate Andre.
Barring this change of magistrates there
have been no developments since last
night. Nine. Steinheil is still under arrest
on the charge of aiding and abetting in
the murder of her husband and step
mother.
Expert physicians have declared that
Nine. Steinheil undoubtedly is suffering
from kind of hysteria peculiar to a GER
tain class of Inconsistencies. which mani
tests itself in the invention of the widest
accusations.
There is in full blast To-Day a campaign
by the nationalists and anti-Semitic press
in an effort to prove that the authorities
have had an interest in smothering the
truth concerning these murders.
Nine. Steinheil In Prison.
Nine Steinheil was locked in prison
yesterday evening.
Her arrest was the climax of d day of
surprises in the unraveling of the mys-
terry. Another surprise was the revela-
ton that Mrs. Japy was not Mrs. Stein
heiIs own mother as had been supposed
but her stepmother.
Sensation after sensation followed in
quick succession until Paris was wrought
up as it seldom had been before. If
France were at with Germany eX-
element could scarcely run higher
Special editions of the newspapers were
frequent. AS fast as presses could turn
out copies they were snapped up by
eager buyers. People stopped in the
streets to read Nothing else has been
talked of all day
National Scandal Feared.
Nine Steinheirs confession Wednesday
night that she knew the murderer was
but the introduction to series of rapid
developments which threaten ere long to
involve some important government Off
Gals. Many members OF the chamber of
deputies gave warning yesterday that
| they will call the matter up in the cham
Der unless the government undertakes to
probe the scandal to the bottom
The failure of the police to clear up
| the mystery has led to the public aSser-
ton that their lack of energy is dictated
| by powerful political reasons dating back
| to the death in Paris in 1899 of Felix
Faure, once president of the republic.
Friend of Felix Faure
| Although hushed up at the time, it
was common knowledge of those behind
the scenes that Nine Steinheil was with
NJ. Faure at the Elysee Palace when he
papers do not hesitate TO print what they
term the story of the liaison.
According to these stories. NJ. Faure
met Mime. Steinheil in the Swiss Alps dur
ing the maneuvers the year before his
death, and she was greatly enamored of
him.
A person who attended NJ. Faure's flu
neral said that after the service at the
cemetery Nine. Steinheil fell on her
knees at the grave, took from her bosom
| a bunch of violets and threw it on the
coffin Then, sobbing. she Frustrated her
self on the ground passionately kissing
NJ Faure's portrait.
According to the same authority, VI.
Steinhei, who had been complacent at
the friendship existing between Faure and
his wife and who had accepted the Le-
gion of Honor at the hands of President
Faure, began proceedings for divorce, but
through the Intervention of his family this
suit was withdrawn fortnight after
ward.
According to gossip compromising pa
pers of some political Importance were
! surrendered but NJ. Rochefort has re-
peatedly charged that others remained in
the possession of Steinheil at the time of
his murder.
After Faure's death Nine. Steinheil
formed other alliances, some of them with
men of political influence.
Magistrate Under Suspicion.
One of the stories current is that Min
lister of Justice BRAND had ordered an
investigation of the accusation that Nine
Stenheil had been The companion of NJ,
Leydett. the examining magistrate in the
case. but that Laydet: had been instru-
mental in sitting the Investigation.
Nine. Steinheil made her confession to
two newspaper men, She said that
man named Alexander Wolff murdered
her husband.
Wolff was arrested. He denied guilt
and said he was ready to prove an alibl.
Nine Steinheil weakened and said ii
it was not Wolff the man who did COM
nit tie crime resembled him strangely.
Then suspicion turned upon Mime. Sem
he'll herself, and she was put in prison
on the strength of warrant which
makes no specific charge
Wolff also was held. but not on
warrant of arrest.
Chief of Detectives Hamard is credited
with the statement that Wolff has prac-
tically proved an alibi and that suspicion
has been cast upon Mime. Stelnhell.
Couillaud, the man arrested several
days ago on suspicion. was released last
evening.
Nine Steinheil seemed to realize that
the net in which she has entangled her
self in trying to divert suspicion was fast
closing about her, and after she had been
examined by Chief of Detectives Hamard
he announced she had been caught in her
own trap.
She repeated to NJ Hanard yesterday
morning the statement she made Wednes
day night to the newspaper men. She
was hySterical and Sobbed out her story
between walls of anguish.
In many respects her statements were
conflicting She said Wolff committed the
murder for robbery. but spared her on
account of her daughter. She had kept
silent until now because of VOLTS
threats to charge her with having in
cited him to the murders.
She declared emphatically and repeat
edly that Wolff was nothing to her and
that she was not in any way a party to
the crime. But she admitted that she
hated her husband and had lover.
Il hoped to justify myself before man
whose love have now lost forever" she
cried.
This man is said to be a French noble
man. and in his identity is believed to lie
the key to this romantic tragedy.
There was Il series of dramatic con-
formations at the palace of Justice
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