Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-28
PARIS SCANDAL
R6yalIst Organs Are Demand. iUg An Official ExamiDa.
 lion of Affairs.
LETTER SURRENDERED

Paris, Nov 2S.--The Steinheil case continues to be the sensation of the hour in all France. No one ven tures to say where the revelations will end. The political side looms l larger and larger every day and the interest harks back always to the tragic death in Paris in 1899 of Felix
 Faure, former president of France.
 NJ. Faure died in the midst of the
 Dreyfus excitement. The most mi-
 mute details of the scene in the room
 where he expired in the company of Madame Steinheil are to .Gay fragrant ! ly published by even the republican
 newspapers. Up to the present time
 this incident in the career of Ma
 dame Steinheil has ouly been refer
 red to coyertly. The royalist and
 anti-Dreyfus organs are demanding
 an official investigation into the
 death of M. Faure acd intimate open
 ly that M. Faure as the inseperable
 obstacle to the leaders of the Dreyfus
 agitation was the victim of a plot.
 They have put forward the old al
 legation that M. Faure intended to
 yield to the petition of the Dreyfus-
 ards and sign an order for the revi-
 sion of the case and that consequent
 ly he was poisoned The only reason
 to believe that his body decomposed
 with unusual rapidity, and to offset
 this there are the statements of five
 of the best known physicians of Paris
 who certified that he died of cerebral
 hemorrhage.
 The other story that Madame Stein hell was present when he passed
 away seems, unfortunately, to De
 true, and great regret was expressed
 that circumstances have now com
 pelled the disclosure to the world Of this old scandal which the Fau,e
 family and the friends of the former president thought was buried with
 his body.
 The letters containing evidence Of NJ. Faures relations with Madame
 Steinheil were surrendered after his , death probably is true, but the idea
 that these communications contained
 compromising state secrets is reject , ed by all who were behind the scenes at the time. .... > With regard to the crimes them- y tsefves---Madanle Steinheils husband
 and her mother, Madame Japy, were
 found murdered in tue. Steinheiis'
 home in Paris on May 31 of this year,
 and at the same time Madame Stein- h1; liconuArnh hnund and ! gagged-the net is drawing closer around the wife. Stories of her nu- merous romantic affairs with persons : of note in political and artistic cir cles are coming to light daily and they prove what a remarkable wo- :. man she was. She Is (now called !, the charmer of men," Her salon / was dazzlingly brilliant. Her last
 lover in whose eyes she declared sh( r wanted to justify herself has now . been discovered, and his identity fur . nishes clue to motive for tht
 crime. He is rich widower and
 resides in a famous chateau neal 6 Meziers in the department of the
 Ardennes. He is not implicated iI
 the crime. When seen by journal f ist this man, who is the father oi , three children protested frantically at the disgrace an exposure would
 bring. He said he was ready to com ! init suicide, but nevertheless he , made a clean breast of his relations a with Madame Steinheil. He de ! scribed how he had met her at re
 cetpion at the Steinheils. He fel
 easily under the spell of Madame
 Steinheils charms. He soor , got into the habit of meeting her at the Green Lodge" villa a :. Bellevue which Madame Steinhei . rented under the name of Madame Provost. Mariette Wolff, the cook a whose son was accused by Madame i, Steinheil of being guilty of the mur d ders lived at the lodge and was he
 mistresses' confidante. This wa g early last year. For month it wa , an exquisite idyl' said this man il = describing the episode. Madam ' Steinheil said she adored me ant at each meeting she made new avow I als and swore I was the only love . she had ever had. She told me 0
 her past, the widower continued t s the newspaperman and denied thi s gossip of her relations with othe f men. She insisted particularly tha the Faure story was legand an said she could porve that she wa
 home i'll at the time of M. Foure' death. She admitted however tha she hated her husband and said tha d he led an infamous existence" Sh d detested her mother also for havin
 forced her to marry Steinheil. Sh ,f assured her lover that she would ge q divorce and marry him.
 n This man related how the scale !. gradually fell from his eyes. Whe e the spell was broken he returne n home.
 If Madame Steinheil however COT s tinued to pursue him and telephone e him every day.
 If On the morning of the crimes h
 called him up by long distance te ,s ephone but the wire was not worl
 ing well and he could barely under
 stand what she said. Finally sh
 exclaimed 'I am satisfied for l hay
 heard your voice, that is enough fe me"
 e The next day when he learned { n the murders he suspected the trut n and came to Paris. He saw Madam d Steinheil and told her never to SC "a him again until she had cleared he m nro,os1fn4 haIiaf it, por