Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
SENSATION STIRS ALL PARIS
Madame Steinheil Arrested in Con-
neotion with Murder of Husband.
REVELATIONS STIR THE CITY
Humbert, Dreyfus and syveton AZ
fairs Eclipsed-HiRh Person
ages Are said to Ne
Involved.

PARIS, Nov. 2T.--The arrest Of Madame
Stelnheil last night following her confession
today that for months since the murder
Of her PAINTER husband and Madame Japp,
who were found strangled In the home OF
the artist on the morning OF May II, her
attempt to find the assassins and q number
Of fantastic clues furnished the police and
newspapers was only a desperate farce to
conceal the real author of the crime, whom
she knew, affords Paris the biggest sem
sation 1t has had for years.
The excitement produced from time to
time by the Humbert. Dreyfus and Syve-
ton affairs pales into insignificance by
comparison to the revelations which
crowded thick and fast during the day
pointing to the possible exposure of the
national scandal, promise to attract world
wide attention. Unprecedented scenes were
witnessed at the palace Of justice today
while the woman Was under cross-exami-
nation. guards being required to restrain
the crowds entering. on the boulevards
men fought for special editions of news
papers containing accounts of the case,
while in the Hobbies of Parliament the ma
tionalists created a hubbub by threatening
to call the government to account unless
orders were given to probe the scandal to
the bottom.
Minister of Justice BRAND, who is as
tonished by the seriousness of the charges,
is reported already TO have begun a secret
inquiry to determine the truth of the al
legation printed here today, that M.
Leydett, the examining magistrate enter
tanned relations with Nine. Steipheil which
induced him to stifle the Investigation.
The ~insinuation behind this charge which
involves the remarkable life history Of
1T - H.
lips for months and explain the immense
popular curiosity with regard to the crime.
Political opponents Of the government,
like Henri Rochefort, have been trying to
make political capital of the affair by SEEK
ing to force an exposure of the scandal
connected with the mysterious death Of
Felix Faure, president of the republic in
1899. Although hushed up at the time 1t
was made common knowledge among those
behind the scenes that Nine. Steinheil was
with NJ. Faure at the Elysee palace when
he died. Some of the Partisan afternoon
papers do not hesitate TO print what they
term the story of the liason. According
to these stories NJ. Faure had met Nine.
Steinheil in the Swiss Alps during the man
euvers Of the year previous TO his death,
and she was greatly enamored Of him.
Relations with Faure.
A person who attended the funeral Of
NJ. Faure described to the Associated Press
today how after the ceremony 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,
he said, she Frustrated herself, sobbing, on
the ground. passionately kissing NJ. Faure's
portrait. Immediately after this, according
to the same authority, Nj. Steinheil, who
had been complacent at the friendship
existing between NJ. Faure and his wife,
and who had accepted the Legion of Honor
at the hands of President Faure. began
proceedings for divorce, but through the
Intervention of his family this suit was
withdrawn a fortnight afterwards. Ac-
cording to gossip, compromising papers OF
some political importance were surrendered,
but NJ. Rochefort has repeatedly charged
that others remained in the possession of
steinheil at the time Of his murder.
After Faure's death Nine. Steinhel. who
admitted last night that she detested her
husband, formed other alliances, some of
them with men of political influence. She
confessed last night and again today be-
fore the authorities that at the time of
the murder of her husband and Nine.
Japy she had a lover. This man is be.
lieved to be a rich nobleman who now
is absent from Paris.
La Liberte quotes Nine. stelnhell as
saying:
"I had a lover, the police knew of II
and treated me with such brutality that
our affair was broker off. My heart is
crushed and my daughter alone will hold
me to life"
Real story Yet TO Come,
NIL Vo,,.,aI lasY NIGHT an Al. o4h.. -,