The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-01
TWO ARE MURDERED
SENSATION IN THE ART WORLD or.
 PARIS.
Distinguished Painter And Hts AEother- in-Law Are Found stranwied-- Crime CoEAxnitted By Two
 Men ana We.-an.

Paris. May s1--A sensation has been caused in the art world here by. the brutal murder Of the distinsuished painter. Adolphe steinheii. and his
 nother-in-Iaw. who were found stran- Ried this morning in the formers resi- dence in the Rue de vaifgirard which adjourns the studio of Seymour Thomas. the American portrait painter. s
 The house was rsnsaclsed of every thing of value. s sf 2,
 MT, stsinhelFs wife, Mhe was fonua gagged and bound to A bed. aeeiarAd that the crime was eogsaniits a by tsgo lieves she rsc6gnized as a model who was employed by her husband.
 .r Crime Most Brutal, .rs,
 Aside from the brutality of the crime. a feature of the affair Is the iaI- most inconceiyabIe audaeify with which it was perpetrated. The artists house Is situated close to a large printing works where work is proceeding 8ll night. A night watchn1ar. and efinne Keeper are employed there and ean &l< most constant stream of worknaen are coming and going all the ttn1e.s.s - = The discovery was made by stem heils servant who arose. at 6. ann to prepare breakfast Hearing groans coming from Afme. StSinheiisssroorn, he 
 hand and foot on the bed. A gag of cotton wool which she had succeeded by. superhuman efforts in ejecting from her mouth, lay on the floor. A thin cord was around her throat. tts s
 In the passage he found9 the painter dead. He was resting T'his knees and the body was bent backwards He had been strangled by a whip cord similar to that around his wife's neck. Ills features were blackened and his limbs l were already stiff. S @
 Tn another bedroom was the dead body of Mme, Steinheifs mother. Mnie 1apy. She also had been strangIed and the bcdy was fastened 10 the bed. Every room in the house had been ransacked and a large number of val- uabies stolen ea s3
 The servant at once gave the alarm and Chief Detective Hamard and other police officials were soon on the spot. To them the wife. who had so miracu- lously escaped death. related in broken accents what she recollected of the tragedy. -.---.s
 She declared that at about o'clock in the morning she had been awakened by the entrance of three men and a woman who sprang upon her llkc wild
 beasts and tied her to the bed. Evi+ dently they had mistaken her for her f6-year-old daughter, who was absent m the as one or the men Sdlus Your father had an exhibition sale of pictures; tell us where the money is"
 She pointed to a drawer in the bu- reau and meanwhile the woman nut tered: ! "Kin her quick. Why are you spar ing herr" - -'
 Mime. steinheil. struck by the voice looked at the woman and seemed to recognize her as one of her husbands
 Beyond this statement. the police have no clue to the murderers and no arrests have been made up to midnight, They believe that the mnrderers en- l tered the house by means of false keys May Make Arrests.
 IL was rumored very late tonight that the police had made an arrest of an Italian tn the Pere Lachaise quar- ter as one of the assassins. The murderers evidently were we'll acquainted with the affairs of the Steinhell family, who had planned to leave for the country. but changed on- ly at the last moment.
 Mne. Steinheil's injuries are slight, but she is suffering from very severe | nervous shocks. She distinctly heard the cries and struggles of her mother while lying bound and helpless. She states that the assassins got $l 500 in money ana 9eWSls NaAuSu ab aDout No,- 500. ..t'
 The man servant. who slept in room at the top of the house. declares that he heard nothing during the night.
 Adolph Stenheil was the son of the celebrated Genre and portrait painter, Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil. who died in Paris in 1885. The younger stelnhen was about 50 years of age and was born in Paris. He was a grand nephew of Meisonier. He had painted the portraits of an host of dis- tinguished men, including Francois Fre- lix Faure. President of France who was his intimate frien1.