The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
KING VICTIM OF SlEINHEIL WILES His Majesty One of the Many Prominent Men Paying
 Court to Paris
 Siren.
!0M iRERS GAIN NOTORIETY
! Count and Many Others Not Un- willing to Confess Love for thc Woman Accused of killing
 Artist Husband.

Paris, Dee, 5.--Deyclopments in the Steinhei affair this week have been sufficient to maintain tac case az the topic of prime interest for Parisians. The newspapers are full of it; comic songs and ballads are sung about it, and t has given rise to new diseases described as "Slsrlochltis" and "Stoln- heilomania," respectively. The anna eur detective is the victim of one, the gentleman who kisses and tells is the proud sufferer from the other
 Amateur detectives nave unearthcd a professional strong man who Is | said 10 be the object of Mme. Stein- hel's most passionate affections, anu ! who is declared to know something about the murder of M Steinheil Count Emmanuel de Bolneourt is d | conspicuous example of the men who are not unwilling to relate their ad- I ventures with Mme. Steinheil. He first | met her on the underground railway. There was crash He gallantly wcnt | to her rescue and she invited him to \ call to sec her husbands pictures. | The count called and commissioned ' M Stoinncil to paint his portrait, and ! eventually dined with the painters | wife in the solitude of two" at the Bellevue villa, where she was won't to receive her most favored admirers. { Among these fl appears was not J only a president, but a king. his ma iestN oc Cambodla who caught a glimpse of the siren al the Longchamp military review and nad her presented to him. The acquaintance 30 rlpened that jh, king prolonged his soiourn 10 rar's.
 ! Meanwhile the police inquiry is now being conducted with some secrecy but every detail of tho prisoners days Is recorded for the edlncation or the pub lie what she cats. wears and says all Is set down. She rises carly in tho 1 morning and hegs in blthe tone to bc taken before the judge She ,ls quite anxious to get the matter done with. and seems willing ato he qucs- toned al any hour of the day
 Hypnotien has been discussed as a means Cor getting her to confess ihe whole truth about tho night of the murder but as no one could hypnotize tor according to tho French law with ont her consent it is not likely that his method wil ho rcsortcd to
 She receives huge budget of letters daily at her prison. tho St. r.azarc. Among them has been at least one offer of marriage, and the others are very curious one woman wrote saving that the initials of her husband were the same as those given in the news papers of one of Mmc. Stcaheirs ad- mirers She begged her to toll her If he really was one of thom, as she was aocFing q divorce "I boar no grudgo against you, Madame but I implorc you to toll me the truth" she wrote.
 A woman, who signed herself "A Martyr for Fifteen Years Past" wrote that after seeing Mme. Stoinhoirs de- scription of her dead husband she quite approved of her action, saying, You lid right to kill him"
 \ humane Enelishman writing from Jersey has offered to take charge of The two watchdoes which have been abandoned in consequence of Mime. iteinhci's arrest; but perhaps the strangest opistlc of all came from a ycung man who apparently believed himself to he Mmc. Steinheil's son; "The more 1 read" ran this letter, "the more do l become convinced that you are my lost mother whom have sought In vain, Write and tell me this IS no dream, Tell me that you are my lclovcd mother, and, were you q hun dcd times guilty, l would love you and defend you against traducers,"
 shc however, seems quite able to de- rnnd herself Al the examination yes to-day she cried out to NJ Andre, tho Judge lInstructon "I see what yor are aiming at. You want to send me tc death: but ] shall defend myself as
 have Il daughter whom love