The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-27
Sensation Follows Arrest Of
Madame SteinheiI
ALL FRANCE is IMAM UPROAR
Newspapers Accuse Authorities Of At
tempting to Hush Up Crime for
Political Reasons.

round Slrangled in the home OF the |
artist on the morning Of May 81 her
ettempt TO find the assassins and the
iunumeahle fantastic clues furnished
the police and the newspapers were
only q desperate farce to conceal the
real author Of the crime, whom she
knew affords Paris another big sen
iation. II was stated last night that
Nine Steinheil is definitely charged
with completely i'm the murder OF her
husband and Nine Japy.
Minister of Justice BRAND who is
astonished by the seriousness of the
charges. is reported already to have
begun secret inquiry into the case
10 determine the truth of the allega-
tion printed here that NJ. Iseydett, the
examining magistrate, entertained re
latious with Nine Steinheil which
induced him to stitle the affair
The iusinuations behind the charge,
which involve the remarkable life his
tory of Nine Stemheil have been on
eyerybody's lips for months and ex-
plain the immense popular curiosity
with regard to me crime.
Political opponents of the govern
ment. like Henri ROchefort, have
been trying TO make political capital
of the affair by seeking to force an eX-
posture of the scandal connected with
the mysterious death of Felix Faure,
president of the Reptile in 1899. Al
though hushed up at the time il was
common knowledge of those behind
The scenes that Nine. Steinheil was
with NJ. Faure when Faure died.
Some of the Partisan afternoon
newspapers do not hesitate TO print
! what they term the story Of this af-
fair According 10 these stories NJ.
! Faure had met Nine Steinheil in the
] Swiss Alps during the manoeuyres the
/ year previous TO his death
A person who attended the funeral
of N Faure described how. after the
/ ceremony at the cemetery, Nine Stein
he'll fell on her knees before the grave
and took from her bosom a bunch OF
violets and threw q on the coffin.
| Then he said sobbiug she Frustrated
/ herself on the ground. passionately
kissing NJ. Faure's portrait.
Immediately after this. according 20
the same authority, Mr.. Steinheil. who
had been complacent al the friendship
/ existing between Faure and his wife
nd who had accepted the Legion OF
! Honor at the hands OF President Faure
began proceedings for divorce but
through the Intervention of his family
his suit was withdrawn fortnight
lafterWard
After Faurcs death Nine Steinhei
who has admitted that she detesied
] 81 oil nsas.
some OF them with men Of political
influence
The police do not place TOO much re
lance iu the details OF her confessinf
after the wild charges she previously
had made. and believe that the rea
story OF the crime remains to be told
The one definite fact up TO the pres
emit time is that she has pushed bel
mdacity I'm trying to eXculpate hersel
10 the point where she has beer
caught in her own trap.
The antisemiuc Libre Parole open
Iy charges Nine Stcinheil with hayinl
poisoned President Faure. The news
| paper recalls that ON the day OF The
funeral a writer on the Librc Parole
who had seen the body said "All thu
skill OF lhe cmbalmers was unable 4
preserve the corpse from the dissoI
vent action of The subtle poison
The journal continues by charging
that Chief OF Detectives Hamard AM
Magistrate Lcydott knew that the al
rest OF Nine Steinheil would lead IN
eyitahly 10 the raklng up OF the scar
dalous mystery of Faures death whic
had been sti0ed with difficulty for te
'ycars aud accordingly did their hes
io hush up the present inquiry. TIL
newspaper concludes by saying tina
Faurc was poisoned because he wa
opposed to revision In the Dreyfu
case.
Ever since the night Of the erin
Mime. Stclnhcil has been suspected {
knowing who did the deed. Her fir
breakdown IN the presence OF the tw
newspaper men was exceedingly drau
latic. She had been confronted Wit
the damnmg evidence OF the iowele
who. after the crime had been orde
od tu dismuunt the stones In the ie'
plry alleged Co have been stolen fro
the Stouhcil residence and melt dow
1.-The gold mountings and she lost h
nerve.
She first admitted that she had pla
ed 90 pearl in the poCkctbook OF u
man named Couillaud with the idea
diycrting suspicion 20 him, ait
which she broke down completely Al
between cries OF anguish sohbed o
her confession. IN this confession 81
J declared that man named AleXand
Wolf was the murderer of her h,
band
J Accompanied by her daughter. =
/. drove to police headquarters at dg
] irht Wednesday. awakened Chief |
J tectivc Mamard aud repeated to h
/. the statement made previously to {
4 two newspaper men. She was hyst
\ ical aud sohbUd out her story hetwo
wallis OF anguish In many rcspc'
4 liner statements we're conflicting
: The police convinced that We
. had mo- part In the crime, have relc
4 ga him.
! I'M the examination before MAJ
trntc Leydett there was a drama
scene. when after Nine sstenheu I
insisted again and again that VIZ
WAS the real assassin. her duugh
threw herself on her knees het