The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-11-18
NINE. STEINHEIL
FREED BY JURY
PARIS REJOICES WHEN WOMAN is
ACQUITTED OF NUMBERING
HUSBAND.
SCENE IN COURT DRAMATIC.
Defendant Sinks to Floor and Family
Murmurs Thanks to the Red
ROBBED Judges.
CROWD CHEERS THE VERDICT

PARIS, Nov. 15.-Mme. Margherita
Steinheil is a free woman. Acquitted
at an early hour Sunday morning of the
crime of the murder of her husband,
Adolphe Steinheil, and of her mother
in-law, Nine. Japy, she was received
into the arms of her friends with demon
STATIONS peculiarly Partisan.
Even the men in the courtroom wept
with JOY when the jury's finding was an
uounced.
The conduct of the jury during its
deliberations was such as to warrant the
conclusion that its original vote was
guilty" Three times i'll its session OF
two and one-half hours it called for eX-
plantations from the president Of the
court. At each one of these manlfes-
tatons of uncertainty i'll the minds of
the jury the Steiuhei sympathizers were
carried up or down in the scale of feel
ing.
Crowd Shows Anxiety.
They will acqut her. said some.
Then why 50 much TALK querled
Others
But if there was one person in the
crowd that would have been pleased with
Il verdict of guilty no voice was gwen
TO the sentiment. Popular feeling was
with the defendant all the way through.
To some degree sentiment and a stuffy,
crowded courtroom favored the prisoner
and the delay caused much apprehension.
With the final appearance OF the jury,
however. several of whom were smiling,
an instructive feeling of acquittal flashed
through the courtroom.
A dramatic scene followed. The red
robed judges and counsel filed in and
took their places. Every eye was riveted
on the door through which the prisoner
should enter, but she did not appear. Nj.
de Wales the presiding Judge, turned to
the jury and said: Have you reached
a verdict!
The foreman arose and replied: "On
our conscience we answer No to every
! question:
Crowd Cheers Justify.
! A salyo of "bravos" followed this an
nouncement and a perfect bedlam broke
/ loose. NJ. Aubin, counsel for Nine. Stem
/ he'll. embraced his colleagues. Men and
/ women in the rear of the hall jumped
and screamed for joy. The judge threat
ened to clear the courtroom, and when
semblance of order was restored he
! called:
| Bring in the accused
Fully two minutes passed before the
| blaCkrobed figure, with white face
/ dropping on her breast, appeared III the
I doorway, supported on either side by Il
/ Eenuarnle. Inc woman SWuSeu anu
| seemed to be fainting, but in response
! to Il wild outburst of cheers she lifted
/ her head and looked about, smiling faint
/ ly in acknowledgement. Then she tot
tered forward and sank on the floor be-
side the rail.
When the judge pronounced the YER
dict her faint murmur of thanks was
! hardly heard. An instant after Nj. Au-
bin was over the rail, lifting her in his
arms. The crowds surged forward in a
solid wall. making the rafters ring with
cheers Outside the gloomy court tens
of thousands who had been waiting for
hours took up the cry. Special editions
of the papers spread the news like wild
fire through the boulevards, where thou
/ sands more We're waiting in front of
the cafes. and the same scenes Of re-
ioicing were witnessed there.
The ceremony of liheratinG Mime.
Steinheil occurred soon after her acquit-
tai. and the woman, heavily yelled, ac-
companied by n relative and one Of her
lawyers. entered high-powered auto
mobile and dashed away to an unknown
I destinations