The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29
Political Side of Notorious
Scandal and Murder Grows
With Every Hour.
LATEST LOVER OF WOMAN
IN CASE MAKES STATEMENT
Paris Generally Believes Mime.
Steinheil Responsible for
the Awful Crime.

PARIS, Nov. 2S.-The Steinheil case
continues, to be the sensation of the
hour IL all France. No one ventures TO
say where the revelations will end. The
political side looms larger and larger
every day and the interest harks back
always to the tragic death in Paris in
1899 of Felix Faure, president Of
France. NJ. Faure died in the midst Of
the Dreyfus excitement.
The most minute details of the scene
In the room where he expired in the
company of Nine. Steinheil are today
flagrantly published by even the Re-
publican newspapers. Up TO the pres
ent time this incident in the career of
Madame Steinheil has only been re-
ferred to covertly. The Royalist and
antl-Dreyfus organs are demanding an
official investigation into the death of
NJ. Faure, and intimate openly that NJ.
Faure, as the insuperable obstacle to
the leaders Of the Dreyfus agitation,
was murdered as the outcome of a plot.
They have put forward the old allega-
tion that NJ. Faure intended to yield TO
the petitions of the Dreyfusards. and
sign an order for the revision Of the
case, and that consequently he was pois-
oned.
Basis of Suspicion.
The only reason to believe that NJ,
Faure did not die 4 natural death is
found in that fact that his body de-
composed with unusual rapidity. and to
offset this there are the statements OF
five Of the best known physicians Of
Paris. who certified that be died Of
cerebral hemorrhage.
The other story, that Nine. Steinheil
was present when he passed away,
seems unfortunately TO be true, and
great regret is expressed that circum.
stances have now compelled the dis.
closure TO the world of this old scandal
which the Faure family and the friends
Of the former president thought was
buried with his body
That letters containing evidence of
NJ. Faure S relations with Nine, Stein
he'll were surrendered after his death
probably is true. but the idea that these
communications contained compromising
statements was rejected by ali who were
behind the scenes at the time.
Drawing Net Around Widow.
With regard 10 the crimes themselves
Mime. Steinheil's husband and her
mother, Nine. Japy. were found muir
dered in the Steinheil home in Paris on
May 81 OF this year, and at the same
bound and gagged-the net is drawing
closer and closer around the widow,
Scores of her numerous romantic af
fairs with men of note in political and
artistic circles are coming to light, and
they prove what remarkable woman
she was. She is now called "The
Charmer of Men" Her salon was daz-
zlingly brilliant.
Her last lover, in whose eyes she de-
clared she wanted to Justify herself,
has now been discovered and his
identity furnishes a clue TO motive
for the crime. He is a rich widower
and resides in a famous chateau near
Mesiers in the department of Ardennes.
He is not implicated in the crime. When
Inc father OF three children, protested
frantically at the disgrace an exposure
would bring. He said he was ready to
commit suicide, but nevertheless he
made clean breast Of his relations with
Nine. Steinheil,
Caught in the Tolls.
He described how he had met her at
a reception at the Steinheil house. The
gathering was distinguished one. he
soon got into the habit of meeting her
at the Green Lodge" a villa at Belle
der the name OF Nine. Provost Mariette
Wolff, the cook, whose son was accused
by Nine. Steinheil of being guilty of
the murders, lived at the lodge and was
her mistress confdante.
This was early last year.
''For q month it was an exquisite
idyl, said this man in describing the
episode. 'FNme, Steinhen said she
aaored me, aud st each meeting she
made new svowals and swore was the
only lover she had ever had.
''Sbe told me OF her past, the wild
over continued TO the newspaper man,
"and denied this gossip of her relations
with other men. She insisted partic-
ularly that the Faure story was
legend, and said she could prove that
she was home i'll ct the time OF N.
Faure' s death. She admitted, bowever,
that she hated her husband and said he
led an infamous existence. She de-
tested her mother also for having forced
her TO marry Steirheil, She assured
me that she would get a divorce and
marry me. i"
Spell Finally Broken.
Continuing his explanation, this man
related how the scales gradually fell |
from his eyes, When the spell was
broken he returned home. Nine Stein |
and telephoned him every day. On the |!
morning Of the crime she called him
up by longdistance telephone, but the |
wire was not working well and he could !
barely understand what she said. |
Finally she exclaimed:
81 am satisfied. for ] have hoard !
your voice; that is enough for me-" /
The next day, when he learned OF
the murders, be suspected the truth
aud came to Paris, He saw Nine.
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