New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-27
HOLD NINE. STEINHEIL
PARIS IN FERMENT OYER
MURDER ARREST.
Efforts of Woman to Impfcate
Others EntangIe Her Felir
Faure's Death Recalled.

Paris, Nov 26.-The arrest Of Nine Stein
he'll tonight following her confession to-day
that for months since The murder of her hus
band, who a portrait painter and Nine
Japy, who were found strangled in the home Of
the artist the morning of May 81. her ap-
parent attempt to find the assassns and the
innumerable fantastic clews furnished the po-
lice and the newspapers. were only desperate
farce to conceal the real author of the crime,
whom she knew, affords Paris the greatest SEN
sation it has had for years The excitement
produced by the Humbert, Dreyfus and Syveton
affairs pales into insignifcance by comparison,
and the revelations which crowded thick and
fast during the day. pointing to the possible
exposure of a national scandal promise to at
tract worldwide attention.
Unprecedented scenes were witnessed at the
Palace of Justice to-day while the woman was
under examination, guards being required TO
restrain the crowds from entering. on the
Doulevards men fought for special editions of
newspapers having in them accounts of the case.
while in the lobbies of parliament the Nation
asts created hubbub by threatening to call
the government to account unless orders We're
given Immediately t. probe the scandal TO the
bottom
Minister of Justice BRAND. who is astonished
by the seriousness of the charges. is reported
TO have already begun a secret inquiry into the
printed here this afternoon that NJ. Ley1ett the
examining magistrate, entertained relations
with Nine stetnheil which induced him TO stihc
the affair The insinuations behind this charge
which involve the remarkable life history of
Nine. Steinhe. have been almost every lip
for months and largely explain the immense
popular curiosity with regard to the crime
Political opponents of the government like
Henri Rochefort, have been trying to make
political capital of the affair by seeking force
an exposure of the scandal connected with the
mysterious death of Felix Faure President of
the republic, in 1899 Although hushed up at
the time. it common knowedg- of those
behind the scenes that Nine. Stejnhei was with
NJ. Faure at the Elysee Palace when Faure died
Some of the Partisan afternoon newspapers do
not hesitate TO print what they term the story
of the affair, According to these stories. NJ
Faure had met Nine Steinheil in the Swiss Alps
during the mancnuvres in 1898. and she was
greatly enamored of him.
A person who attended the funeral of VI.
Faure described to-day how after the ceremony
at the cemetery. Nine Steinheil fell on her knees
before the grave and took from her bosom a
bunch of vioiets and threw it the coffin.
Then. he said, sobbing, she prostrated herself
on the ground, passionately kissing NJ Faures
portrait. Immediately after this. according to
the same authority NJ Steinhei who had acqui-
esced in the friendship existing between Faure
and his wife. and who had accepted the Legion
of Honor at the hands of President Faure began
proceedings for divorce, but through the inter
yention of his family this suit was Withdrawn
A fortnight later. Compromising papers of some
political importance are said to have been sur
rendered but M Rochefort has repeatedly
charged that others remained in the possession
of Steinheil at The time of his murder.
HAD FRIENDS AMONG POLITICIANS.
After Faure's death Nine. Steinheil who adj
mtted last night that she detested her husband,
is said to have formed other alliances, some of
them with men OF political influence. She con-
authorities that at the time OF the murder Of
her husband and Nine Japy she had such
friendship with a man believed to he a rich
nobleman now absent from Paris
La I.iberte" quotes Nine. Steinheil as saying:
THE police knew of it 1.-THE friendship referred
tol. and treated me with such brutality that our
affair was broken off. Ny heart is crushed and
nv daughter alone win hold me to life"
To newspaper men last night, the other
hand Nine Steinhel declared that the sole pur-
nose of her attempts TO fasten the crime on |
va rjous persons like Birmingham Couillaud who |
was arrested several days ago suspicion and /
released tonight. to clear herself in the !
ewes of the man mentioned The police do not |
p,ace much reliance the details o. her con- |
fession after the wild charges she had pre-
nued