Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-30
STE|NHE|L DEATH PLOT
Prominent Men implicated by
Paris Newspapers.
WIDOW ONLY THEIR TOOL
Letters Held by Husband Object Of
Conspirators.
BLACKMAIL PRICE TOO HIGH
Papers Removed to Switzerland and
Escape Assassins, Says the
Libre Parole.

PARIS. November 3O.-The Libre Pa
role, an anti-Semitic journal is still keep
ing up the cry that President Felix Faure.
who died in this city in 1899. was the
victim of political murder. because he
intended to refuse the request for re-
trial of the Dreyfus case.
1t claims now that Adolphe Steinheil,
who was found dead in his residence in
Paris last May. was murdered with the
connivance of his wife and the political
police. The object Of the crime was to
obtain possession of certain letters writ
ten by NJ. Faure, which. the paper al
leges, compromise men now active in pub
lie life.
Continuing. the Libre Parole says that
Steinheil was fully conversant with his
wife's manner of life and that he had
possession Of papers for which he de-
manded 100000. This sum was. by those
| implicated, considered eXorbtant. Con-
sequently an arrangement was perfected
with Nine. Steinheil to burglarize the
house, she to take advantage of the occa-
sion to rid herself of her husband.
The paper gives the name of the de-
| tective who. it is alleged directed the
| operation. 1t declares that the name Of
| the actual assassin has been disclosed by
Marietta Wolff, who was a cook in the
! service or Nine. Stelnhell.
| No documents, however, were found.
Steinheil had confided them to the keep
| ing of a friend. The whole house was
ransacked, only to find that the papers
had been removed to Switzerland.
Steinheil's Body Exhumed.
At the little suburban cemetery where
| it had been inferred Steinheil's body was
exhumed yesterday and taken to the
morgue for an autopsy. for the police
now profess the belief that the victims
We're drugged before being strangled.
| The body of Steinheil was found to be
in such state Of decomposition as to
make complete autopsy impossible The
surgeons removed the vital organs for
chemical analysis. The glasses found at
the time of the murder will also be ex-
| amned.
Even M. Dupuy. premier under Faure.
does not deny that Nine. Steinheil was
with the president shortly before he ex-
PRED.
| She adopted a clever r,Ise to divert sus-
picion from her at the time. Before 60
ing to the Elysee Palace she visited a
distinguished painter, to whom she con-
fded that she was on her way to see the
President. The following day the painter
received a letter from her, filled with ex-
pressions of grief at the death of Presi-
dent Faure, but adding that unfortunate
ly she was taken Ill and was unable to
see him.
The physician she said attended her at
| the time declares he never saw her until
long afterward.
Faure's Body Beyond Inquiry.
| No autopsy was made upon the body of
| Faure His corpse was still warm when
/ it was filled with powerful embaIming
fluids, hastily confined and put beyond
| inspection
In the Liberte this evening. Henri De-
schamps says:
"A resident of the Impasse Rensin,
from his window. saw the body of Felix
by men holding his head and feet, and
lifted into carriage which had waited
an hour in front of the illuminated house.
! "Others relate that Faure was not dead
until he was laid out on the table in his
secretary's room in the Elysee Palace,
tremis and doctors were summoned to
draw up an ambiguous certificate of
DEATH
The political nature of the crime which
removed Faure is no longer questioned.
| The Eclair states that a month before
his death the German embassy predict
ed the demise of this man. who stood in
the way of revision of the DreyfuS
case, and named Loubet as his successor
The very poison given is no longer 4
secret
Immunity Spoiled by Her Own
Folly.
| Contharad. in the Paris Journal, ex-
plains that Nine. Steinheils services in
this crime insured her long immunity
for the assassination Of her husband and
his mother.
1t was only in spite of the police au-