The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-01-15
A FRENCH MYSTERY


Partisan mystery as to the President Faure OF France
Amid the frenze prompting all the newspapers OF Paris 70
Gil n after column with details the Steinhe mystery last
month ales outside France discern the fact that clerical faction
has not vet connected present OF the third reup0
with what is the celebrated case since the ahaif OF e ~
necklace Should mooked-for occur and Il esponslphV ~
ct;ne murders can be brought home to officials suspected 81
criminal then nfers Berlin Post the Crisis must be-
come acute AS long ago last May Steinhei the artist ana
Madame apy his notllaw were discovered s'ahged y '
onin bedrooms residence in the mpasse kosln III ne ~
arasse eohorood he double was discovered runs
H. account bv Reiny Couiad who lived at the top OF the
boe and had heard nothing during tn night lis rst dScoV
ery was that Senei herse-the central hgWe III INC
present snsatiotied hand and foot and gagged She M
and scratched il her bed otherwise unnJued Inc Dody
az Madame Iapyotle stepmother OF the Stenne Wo@
la The he'd Of the next room She had been strangled IN
third bedroom on the dead body OF the artist oe
he'll huddled up If he had tried to cope with MS as
murderer seems to have got his victim from behind ana 70 nave
he'll udded up as il tried to with his asaaht Inc
m victims Of the crime and Madame Senhel were with Kenny
ad the only occupants the house tine night OF the MURDER
So far all versions facts substantially agreed
r Of the political side Of this double murder
one must 90 the sudden death OF that most
ali the French Presidents Felix Faure The story OF ms
; az ms; ten wears ago was published detail Tor the hrst
time n the press Of last month The versions are many ou
that Of the Paris Journal agrees 50 exactly with tnat OF m wy
accurately posted London Telegraph that the two may be taken 70
er In the course Of military OF inspection IN the APPS
~, h president met the Steinfels He profoundly
IMMERSED by the personality Of Madame whose magnetism IS de
crbed as irresistible When Felix Faure returned 70 rams m
relations with Madame Stenhe assumed character whc u
FIGARO refers to as nspraonal She had persuaded the Presl
dent that his mission divine and that through ue Deus y
their respective souls would be brought to perception OF paths 70
higher and more stable glory than France has yet attained
can be affirmed upon the authority OF the Gazette dc ouose' @
there was "nohng immoral in these exclusively mystical rea
tons Madame used call the President canaese d W
fvsee entering by AT the same time her husband
received orders for pictures and finally the cross OF Knight OF te
eeon Of Honor Of the soul communion between the eN
ece and the painters wife reached his colleagues OF the society
Of French Artists and Stenhei continued to live with his we
after circumstances duly land before nm by some l
painters began fight shy Of him
One night about ten years ago Madame Senhe was having
an nspratoua conference with the ce magistrate OF e ePup
when loud screams became audible the direction OF his apartments
Rushing into the ROOM the servants always numerous in the CORR
doris Of the Eye discovered President Felix Faure in an apopec
fl Madame herself had tainted away upon the floor Something
like controversy been precptated among Paris DANES on the
subject OF the details Madame attire when she was ted IN the
arms of the maitre dote and deposited upon nehDong SOFA
The President himself was carried to ms other apart
- and IN an hour he was dead Madame had by this time to
auo the Repubque Francase descended from the spiritual to the
personal plane hurried in cab The death Oh
Fre was concealed the public until arrangements TO suppress
these essential had been maured ot the subsequent history
OF Madame involving sovereign OF Canbodia the present e
Of the Bepans and others whom her influence was ratona
is difficult speak definitely because the versions OF the cero
Cauos contradict those OF the ancercal Action ana even
they agreed the Laneue says, they would pc irrelevant
various persons accused BY Madame OF the murder OF her husband
and her mother the nquisons her actions the night OF the
double crime and the fury ecrmnaton between organs OF Fa
Gus French derive their Importance says the LONDON run
from the political consequences latent every hour Developments
Whether or not France is on the OF OF those memorable
ars which like that of Deyfus the Panama scandal may
bring the republic within measurable distance OF extinction OF
whether the whole sensation die away through its own sheer
arhca may apparent by the time these lines are IN
the readers hands.