The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-01
BRUTAL AND
MYSTERIOUS
PARIS MURDER
Celebrated Painter, AdoIphe
SteinheiI, and His Mother
in-LaW StrangIed.
WIFE FOUND GAGGED
AND BOUND TO A BED
HOUSE RANsAcKED AND MANY
VALUABLEs TAKEN-PoLIcE
HAVE SLIGHT CLUE.


Paris, May 31.-A sensation has been
caused in the art world here by the bru-
tai murder of the distinguished painter.
Adolphe steinheH and his mother-in-law,
who were found strangled this morning
in the formers residence in the Rue de
Vaugirard, which joins the studio of Sew
mour Thomas. the American portrait
painter
The house was ransacked OF everything
or value. Nj. Steinheil's wife. who was
found gagged and bound TO a bed. declares
that the crime was committed by two men
and woman. The latter she believes she
recognized as a model who was employed
by her husband.
5oIdness Of Murderers.
Aside from the brutality of the crime
a feature of the affair is the almost in
conceivable audaCity with which il was
perpetfated. The artist 5 house Is situated
close TO a large printing works where
work IS proceeding all night. An almost
constant stream of Workmen are coming
and going all the time
The discovery was made by a man ser
want, who arose at o'clock in the morn
ing TO prepare breakfast Hearing groaus
coming from Nine. Steinheil's sleeping
apartment, he entered. and found her ly-
ing bound hand and foot on the bed A
gag Of cotton wool, which she had sue
ceeded in eJecting from her mouth. lay on
the floor A thin cord was around her
throat.
strangIed to Death.
In the passage he found the painter
dead. He was resting on his knees and
the body bent backward He had been
strangled by "A whip cord similar TO that
around his wifes neck his features We're
blackened and his limbs We're already
stiff
In another bedroom was the dead body
of Nine Steinheils mother, Mime. Japin.
She also had been strangled. and the body
was fastened to the bed.
Every room in the house had been ram
sacked, and large number of valuables
stolen.
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 miTaCuiUusly es-
capped death related in broken accents
what she recollected of the tragedy.
Sprang Upon Her Like Wild Beasts.
She declared that at about O'Clock 30
the morning she had been awakened ~
the entrance of two men and a woman.
who sprang upon her like wild beasts ana
tied her 10 the bed. Evidently they nau
mistaken her for her siXteen-yea
daughter. who was absent ia the c0un-
try. as one Of the men said:
your father had an exhibition sale Of
pictures; tell us where the money Is
She pointed to drawer i'm the bureau,
and meanwhile the woman muttered;
XIII her quick. Why are you sparins
her?''
Mime. Steinheil. struck by the voice.
looked at the woman and seemed 10 rec
ognize her as one of her husband mod
els
Beyond this statement the police have
no clue TO the murdeTeTs and no arrests
had been made up TO midnight They be
lieve that the murdeTers entered the house
by means of false keys.
italian Under Arrest.
1t was rumored late tonight that the
police had made an arrest or an Italian
i'm the Pere Ia Chaise quarter as one o.
the assasslns.
The murderers evidently were well ac-
duainted with the affairs Of the Steinhell
family which had planned TO leave for
the country, but changed only at the last
moment.
Mime. Steinheirs injuries are slight. but
Nous shock. She distinctly Heard the
cries and struggles of her mother while
living bound and helpless
She states that the aSSassins got 81
GOO in money and jewels Valued at about
50 500. The man servant who slept IN
a room at the top of the house de-
clares that he heard nothing during the
night.
Came of Noted Family.
Adolphe Steinheil was the son of the
celebrated genre and portrait painter
Louis Charles Auguste Steinhei, who
died in Paris in 1885. The younger Stein
born in Paris. He was a grand nephew
of MeissOnier. He had painted portraits
of host of distinguished men, includ-
ing Francois Felix Faure, president or
France, who has his intimate friend.
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