The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-11-07
ALL PARIS WoFEED UP TO 4
FEVER HEAT.
BRIEF RESUME Of The CASE
Valet TestlGes He Discovered 1Irnc.
steinBon Bound and Almost Nude
Story Does Not Tauy With Deposl-
tion Taken at Coroner's Inquest.


ESPECIAL TO The MORNING TinEs)
Paris, Nov. 6-Grc8tly exceeding n
public interest the Drcyfus case, the
trial now in progress Of Nine. MAJ
guorite SteiHheil for the murder OF her
husband, Adolphe Stenheli: and OF her
mother-ln-!aw, Nine, Japy, with IT.
promise of revelations concerning the
sudden demise of the late President
Faure of France, is the topic Of the hour
In Paris.
The indictment upon which Nine.
Stoiahel IS being tried reeaPitnlatos
the activities of the Paris police for a
year and half. and in its details 1T
rivals any French detective story ever
penned
Ii suggests a motive for the crime in
the intense animosity borne her mother
in-law, Nine. Japy, by Nine Steinheit,
and the lattcr's evident wish to be freed
from her husband that she might we'd
Maurice BordereI. wealthy French
man who had become infatuated with
her.
Persouages high in French political,
diplomatic, judicial and social life have
been dragged into the ease, ana start
ling disclosures are brought forth at
every stage of the trial
1t is hardly likely that the Drevfus
case, the Humbert case and the Syve-
ton mystery together caused 50 pro-
found q sensation throughout France
In the prominence OF the persons in
volved, the strange atmosphere of mys
tcrv that envetop7 its every angle, the
appalling revelations it already ha
caused. and the still more appalling rev
elations it necessarily threatens, tins
murder mystery never has been eqnaled
since newspapers were published for the
first time
1t reveals the fact, hushed up through
nine years, that President Felix faure
Of France was poisoned to ieath at the
home Of Nine. Adolphe Steinheil, Il
beaui1tHi Parlslcnne. feb. 10, 1o99' IN
stead Il dying of apopiexy in his own
mansion, the Elysee palace, as Oft
ciaIlv given out at the time.
1t explains, at least, in part, the
strangling of NJ. Adolphe Steinhell, the
woman husband, and his mother-in-
law, Nine. Japy, by the alleged tact
that Steinheil held documents proving
the murder Of the president.
1t involves Magistrate Leydette, one
of the most honored judges IN
France. Open charges were made that
he had prevented the invest Ip3tion OF
the ease through Illicit use Of his great
judicial influence.
II involves the honesty ana integrity
of the famous secret police of France.
Nine Steinheil was woman spy OF
this bureau, and it has even been limited
that secret police aided i'll the murder
of her husband and Nine. Japv.
1t threatens the gravest of official
scandals and involves the regulations
of one can only guess how many off
eials of the highest rank in the govern
ment
The arrest of Nine. Steinhen came
as dramatic climax to a series of sen
sational events. After she had unsuc-
cessfully tried to throw suspicion apoa
one man, an American journalist,
named Frederick H. Burlingham. shc
dramatically charged another. Alexap-
Dire Wolff, son of a former servant in
the Steinheil household, with the muir
ders.
When Remy Couillard, former valet