Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-27
Death Of Late President
Faure May Have Been
Homicide.
WOMAN IN CONFESSION
Nine. Steinheifs Admissions
Involve Her in Series
of Grimes.

Paris, Nov 27.-All Paris is stirred
by the developments in the notorious
Steinheil murder case that have come
thick and fast since Wednesday night
when the widow of the murdered
artist confessed that her husband and
step-mother, Nine. Japy, were slain
last May by "a young man named Alex
andre Wolff, son of one of her former
servants.
: Behind the interest in the crime
itself lie the more or less thinly veiled
intimations that France is on the
verge Of scandal involving high per-
sonages, and the failure of the police
to clear the mystery has led to the
open assertion that their lack of en-
ergy is dictated by powerful political
reasons dating back to the death in
of the republic.
Woman is Arrested.
Nine. Sheinheil declared in state.
ment made to two newspaper men that
she had been terrorized into keeping
secret her knowledge of the crime by
Wolff's threat to accuse her of having
melted him to the deed. When ar
rested the man stoutly denied his
guilt and declared that he could prove
an alibi. Nine Steinheil then weaken,
| ed and said if it was not Wolff the
| man who committed the crime strong
| ly resenbled him.
, Suspicion then turned upon Nine.
Steinheil herself and at o'clock she
was locked up in the prison of St. La
zare charged with the murder of her
| husband. Wolff was also held for
time, but was released late last night.
Says She Killed Faure.
The anti-Semite Libre Parole
charges Nine Steinheil with having
poisoned President Faure The news
paper recalls that on the day of the
funeral writer on the Libre Parole.
who had seen the body. said: "All the
skill of the embalmers was unable to
preserve the corpse from the dissolv-
ent action of the subtle poison"
The journal continues by charging
that Chief of Detectives Hamard and
Magistrate Leydett knew that the ar
rest of Nine. Steinheil inevitably would
lead to the raking up of the scandal
Gus mystery of Faure's death, which
with difficulty had been stified for 10
years. and, accordingly, did their best
to hush up the present inquiry. The
newspaper concludes by saying that
Faure was poisoned because he was
lopposed to revision in the Dreyfus
case.
| Ou.dOcs Dreyfus Affair.
The arrest of Nine. Steinheil, fol-
flowing her confession yesterday that
for months since the murder of her
lattempt to find the assassins and the
! iinnumerable fantastic clews furnished
the police and the newspapers were
lonly desperate farce to conceal the
real author of the crime, whom she
knew, affords Paris the biggest sensa-
ton it has had for years.
The excitement produced from time
Ito time by the Humbert, Dreyfus and
ISyveten affairs pales into insignifi-
icance by comparison, and the revela-
tions which crowded thick and fast
! during the day, pointing to the possi-
bic exposure of national scandal,
promise to attract worldwide atten-
tisn.
Unprecedented scenes were wit
messed at the palace of justice yester-
day while the woman was under exam
ination, guards being required to re-
strain the crowds from entering. In
the bou1evards men fought for special
editions of newspapers having in them
accounts of the case, while in the lob