Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-17
sTETNHEn TRIAL IN PARIS.
Advocate Shows No Pity FOR Accused
i'm Impissionate Plea to Jury.

In Imp1SSiOnate Plea to Jury.
Paris, Nov. 1.-THE entire session
of the Steinheil murder case today wa.
taken up with an impassioned plea b,
Advocate General Trouard Riolle fol
the conviction of the woman who is
charged with having killed her hus-
band and step-mother, and, by reason
of the fact that Nine. Steinheil's coun-
sci, M. Aubin, is yet to be heard, doubt
has arisen whether the fate of the wo-
nan will be given into the hands of
the jury tomorrow.
The prosecutor showed no pity nor
mercy in his address to the jury. He
painted the accused woman in the
blacklist of colors-as the most wick
ed type Of woman, born liar and as
one whose life before and after the
crime, justified the presumption of he.
guilt. He developed the theory that af-
ter the rich and generous lover, Chou
aEard, abandoned her in 1907, Nine
Steinheil realized she was almost at
the end of her tether, and said when
she got Maurice Borderel in her
clutches she, was determined to hold
him even at the price of murder.
Against Nine. Steinheils story that
burglars committed the crime. the
prosecutor insisted that they were
myths and he undertook to reconstruct
the scene that had actually happened,
claiming that while the accused wom-
an and her accomplices were tying
Mae Japy, Nine. Steinheil was aroused
by the noise and jumped out of bed.
Tkereupon they attacked and killed
him and returning to Mime. Japy's
room found her in bad fright.
n. Trouard Riolle even undertook
to account for the stopping of the
clock in the Steinheil home after the
murder, advancing the theory that
ME-e. Steinheil, in her anguish, could
not endure the ticking. An expert tes
tiled during the trial that the clock
Lad been stopped by hand, as it was
wound up,
left the impression that the testimony
upon which it was based was too con-
f1cting and that his fine spun pre-
sumptions were too precise, leaving
him vulnerable to his antagonist, M.
Aubin. The latter scored heavily at
the conclusion of the prosecutors ad-
dress when he challenged M. Trouard
Riolle to name Marietta Walt, the
cook In the Stefnheil home, and her
son, Alexandra, whom throughout the
argument Trouard Riolle had limited at
as being the accomplices of Nine
Steinheil.
Throughout the day Nine Steinheil
seemed terribly depressed. Not once
did she interrupt the proceedings,
though frequently she clenched her
the prosecutor made particular odious
insinuations against her. 1t is under
stood that at the conclusion of NJ
Aubin's address Nine. Steinheil in
tends to take advantage of the privil-
ege accorded an accused person and
discuss the jury in her own behalf.
This would make dramatic climax,
and it is expected, have a powerful in
fuence on the jury which tonight is
reported to be evenly divided as to her
guilt or innocence
Two things must be remembered in
connection with a French verdict
FIRST, the majority vote prevails, the
foreman of the jury receiving two
votes, if there be a tie; second, that
the jurors are not confined, but are
permitted to return to their homes at,
where they are subjected to the pos
ssble influence of their wives. 1t is no.
torious that whereas majority of the
men here favor acquittal of Nine
Steinheil, the women are practically
luminous in the belief that she is
guilty.
Mme Steinheil is being deluged with
letters of every character, many of
them containing offers of marriage if
she is acquitted. Enterprising theatri
cal managers are trying to arrange for
her immediate appearance on the
stage after release, one having offer
ed $4,000 for thirty appearances. Nine.
Steinheil is represented as having
thrown these letters away in rage.