The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-12-02
GREAT SCANDAL IN PARIS.
MADAME STEINHEIL CONFESSES
TO KNOWLEDGE OF DOUBLE
MURDER.
She is Now Charged With Poisoning
Faure-Humbert, Dreyfus and Sy-
veton Affairs Pale Into Insignif-
canoe I'm Comparison With the
Present Revelations.

confession today that for months since
the murder Of her husband and Mad
anne Japy, who were found strangled
In the home OF the artist on the morn
ing Of May 81, her attempt to find
the assasins and the innumerable fan
tastic clues furnished the police and |
the newspapers were only a desperate
| farce to conceal the real author Of the |
crime, whom she knew. affords Paris |
the biggest sensation il has had for |
years.
The excitement produced from time |
to time by the Humbert, Dreyfus and
Syveton affairs pale into insignificance
by comparison and the revelations
which crowded thick and fast during
the day, pointing to the possible ex-
posure OF national scandal, promise
to attract worldwide attention.
| Unprecedented scenes were witness
ed at the palace of justice today white
the woman was under examination,
guards being required to restrain the
crowds from entering. On the bolue-
Yards men fought for newspapers,
containing accounts Of the case, while
in the lobbies Of parliament, the Ma
tionalists created hubbub by threat
ening to call the government into ac-
count unless orders were given i'm
mediately to probe the scandal to the
bottom.
Minister of Justice Bryand is re-
ported already to have begun secret
inquiry into the case to determine the
truth of the allegation printed here
this afternoon that M. Leydett, the ex.
amining magistrate, entertained rela-
tions with Nine. Steinheil which in
duced him to stifie the affair.
Political opponents Of the govern
ment, like Henri Rochefort, have been
; trying to make political capital of the
affair by seeking to force an exposure
: Of the scandal connected with the
mysterious death Of Felix Faure,
president Of the republic, in 1899. AL
though hushed up at the time, it was
5 common knowledge Of those behind
the scenes that Nine. Steinheil was
with M. Faure at the Elysee palace
when Faure died.
After M. Faures death, Nine Stein
he'll. who admitted last night that she
: hated her husband, formed other alli.
y ances. some of them with men Of po
o litical importance. She confessed las
night and again today before the au
thorities that at the time of the muir
~ der Of her husband and M. Japy sh,
- had a lover. He Is believed to be
u rich nobleman who Is now absen'
/ from Paris. The police, convined tina
IT Alexandra Wolf was not connected
a with the tragedy, released him to-
II night.
% 1t is stated tonight that Mme tSein
IL he'll is definitely charged with com
3 plicity in the murder OF her husbans
and Nine. Japy.
u In later examination before Mag
le istrate Leydett, there was a dramati
II scene when after Nine. Steinheil, hav
l. Ing insisted again and again tina
'r Wolff was the real assassin, he
daughter threw herself on her knee
!! before Nine. Steinheil, crying out
'r Mama, mama, confess all, implor
e you." The mother in burst Of tear
10 responded: Before my daughter,
= swear I am innoncent."
'e The anti-Semitic Libre Parole open
e ly charges Nine. Steinheil with ha-
Is ing poisoned President Faure becaus
:" he was opposed to revisision in tn
IN Dreyfus case.
u The crime in question was commit
ted the night Of May 81. Nine. Jap
C. was murdered at the same time a
VI Steinheil. Steinheil was a portrai
painter and a granddaughter of Meis
10 sonier. The assassination Of the VIC
man, however, is supposed to hav
been incidental to the killing Of Stein
Ze he'll. He was the man it was desire
+ to get out of the way Steinheil, hi
ao wife and Nine. Japy lived togethe
D. The wife was found bound and gas
ci ged in bed, and at iIse she declare
at that she had been thus treated b
ne three men and a woman, all unknow
er to her.
n Alexandra Wolff, the man accuse
a' today by Nine. Steinheil, is the son
ap a woman who was formerly emplo,
,rs ad IN tho Steinbe;, family &c oo,.