The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-27
PARIS REvELS 80
: :. IN SENSATION
Steinheil Murder Recalled by
Many Rumors.
ARREST ARTISTS WIDOW

Man She Accuses of Crime Proves
Aiibi and Suspicion Is Directed
Against HerseIf-PubIic Appetite
For Scandal Whetted by Report
That Persons High In Official Cir
cIes Are to Be Brought into Affair.
Newspapers In Great Demand.
Paris, Nov. 27.-Paris is in a state
Of intense excitement over the devel-
opments that have come thick and
fast in the Steinheil murder case,
and the sensations of the day have
made themselves felt even in the
chamber of deputies. where many
members declared they would raise
the question in the chamber unless
the government undertook to probe
the scandal to the bottom.
Madam Steinheil made a confes-
sion to two newspaper men in which
she declared that a man named AL
exandre Wolff was the murderer of
her husband. Wolff was arrested and
examined by the authorities. He de-
MED all guilt and said he was ready
to prove an alibi Madam Steinheil
then weakened and said if it was not
Wolff the man who did commit the
crime resembled him strangely
Then suspicion turned upon Mad
am Steinheil herself, and it was an
nounced that she had been locked up
in the prison of st. Lazare under a
warrant of arrest. No charge, how
ever, was specified. Wolff also was
held, but not on a warrant.
One of the surprises of the day was
the revelation of the fact that Madam
Japy, who was murdered at the same
time as was Steinheil, was not Mad
anne Steinheips mother, as had been
supposed, but her stepmother.
Among the sensational rumors
afloat is one to the effect that Min
lister Of Justice BRAND had ordered
an investigation of the open charges
that Madam Steinheil had been the
mistress of M. Leydett, the exam
lining magistrate in the case, and that
NJ Leydett had been instrumental in
sitting the investigation. Chief of
Detectives Hamard was credited
with the statement that Wolff had
practically established his alibi and
that open suspicion had been cast
upon Madam Steinheil. Couillaud, the
man arrested several days ago OF
suspicion, was released.
The local newspapers published ex-
ira editions throughout the day CIV
ing, under fiaring headlines, the de-
tails Of the woman's statement and
her subsequent examination by M.
Hamard, and the crowds on the bou-
levards fairly mobbed the newsboys
in their eagerness to read the latest
developments.
Behind the interest in the crime
itself lie the more or less thinly
yelled intimations that France is on
the verge of scandal among high
personages, and the failure of the
police to clear up the mystery has
led to the open assertion that their
lack of energy is dictated by the pow.
erful political reasons dating back tc
the death in Paris in 1899 of, Felix
Faure, who was at one time presi-
dent of the republic.
The public appetite for sensation
was whetted further by NJ Hamar0
who announced that the mystery was
not yet cleared up and that a great
many surprises might be expected at
any time.
The crime in question was COM
mitted on the night of May 81. Mad
anne Japy was murdered at the sam
time as Steinheil. Steinheil was a
portrait painter and a grand nephew
of Meissonier. The assassination of
the woman, however, is supposed to
have been incidental to the killing of
Steinheil He was the man it was de-
sired to get out of the way. Stein
he'll his wife and Madam Jepy lived
together. The wife was found bound
and gagged in bed and at first she
declared that she had been thus
treated by three men and a woman,
all unknown to her.