The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-11-30
FRANCE STIRRED
BY REVELATIONS
Steinheil Case Still the SEN
SatiOn Of the Hour.
MOST REMARKABLE WOMAN

fairs With Persons of Note in Polt-
ical and Artistic Circles and Is
Called "the Charmer of Men,"
Press Prints Minute Details of Re-
Iations With Late President Faure.
Paris, Nov. 30.-The Steinheil case
continues to be the sensation of the
hour in 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, pres
ident 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 Madame Steinheil
are fiagrantly published by even the
Republican newspapers. Up to the
present time this incident in the
career of Madame Steinheil has only
been referred to covertly. The Roy
alist and anti-Dreyfus organs are de
lmanding an official investigation into
1.-THE death of M. Faure and intimate
openly that NJ Faure, as the insupera-
BILE obstacle to the leaders of the
Dreyfus agitation, was the victim OF a
plot They have put forward the old
allegation that NJ. Faure intended to
yield to the petitions of the Drey-
fusards and sign an order for the re-
vision of the case and that conse-
quently he was poisoned.
The only reason to believe that nj.
Faure did not die a natural death is
found in the 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 he died OF
cerebral hemorrhage.
i The other story, that Madame Stein
he'll was present when he passed
away, seems unfortunately to be true
and great regret is expressed that cir
cumstances have now compelled the
disclosure 70 the wcrld of this ole
scandal which the Faure family and
the friends of the former president
thought was buried with his body.
i Contain No State Secrets.
That letters containing evidence o.
I'M. Faure's relations with Madame
Steinheil were surrendered after his
death probably is true, but the idea
that these communications contained
| compromising state secrets is rejected
by all who were behind the scenes a
the time
With regard to the crimes them
selves-Madame Steinheils HUSBAND
and her mother, Madame Japy, wer'
found murdered in the SteinheiP
home in Paris on May 81 of this yea
and at the same time Madame Stein
he'll was discovered bound and gagge'
THE net is drawing closer and close
around the wife. Stories of her NJ
merous romantic affairs with person
of note in political and artistic circle
| are coming to light daily and the
prove what a remarkable woman sh
| was She is now called "the charme
of men," Her salon was dazzlingi
, brilliant. Her last lover, in who's
| eyes she declared she wanted to ju:
, tify herself, has now been discovere
: and his identity furnished a clue I
, the motive for the crime. He is
: wealthy widower and frankly di
, cusses his intimacy with Madam
! Steinheil. This was broken off shor
! ly before the murders. She had pr,
! | viously told him she would get
, divorce and marry him. When b
learned of the murders he suspecte
the truth and came to Paris. He sa
Madame Steinheil and told her neve
to see him again until she had cleare
herself. The prevailing belief
I Paris is that Madame Steinheil d
8 liberately had her husband an
q mother assassinated.