The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-13
Advocate General Declared
Nine. Steinheil Was a Born
Liar, Whose Whole Life JUS
titled Presumption of Guilt.
DEFENSE SCORED POINT
WHEN M. AUBIN SPOKE
Rumor That the Prisoner In
tends to Address Jury in Her
Own Behalf and a Dramatic
Climax to the Trial Expected
MAJORITY VOTE PREVAILS

Paris, Nov. 12.-The entire session
of the Steinheil murder trial today
was taken up with an imprisoned
plea by Advocate General Trouard
Riolle for the conviction of the wom-
an who is charged with having killed
her husband and her stepmother. As
Madame Steinheils counsel, NJ. Au-
bin, is yet to be heard, doubt has
arisen whether the case will go to the
jury tomorrow.
The prosecutor showed neither pity
nor mercy in his address to the jury.
He painted the accused woman in the
blacklist of colors-as a born liar and
as one whose whole life, before and
after the crime, justified the presump-
ton of guilt. He developed the theory
that after the rich and generous lover,
Chouanards abandoned her in 1907,
Madame Steinheil realized she was al
most at the end of her tether and that
when she got Maurice BOrdereI in her
clutches she was determined to hold
MIN even at the price of murder.
Burglar Story a Myth.
The prosecutor insisted that Madame
Steinheil's story that burglars COM
united the crime was myth; and he
undertook to reconstruct the scenes
that actually happened, claiming that
While the accused woman and her ac-
plices were tying Madame Japy NJ
Steinheil was aroused by the noise and
Jumped out of bed. Thereupon they.
attacked and killed him, and return
ing to Madame Japy's room, found her
in bad fright
NJ Trourard Riolle undertook to ac-
count for the stopping of the clock in
the Stetnheil home after the murder
advancing the theory that Madame
Steinheil in her anguish could not en-
duTe the ticking. An expert testified
during the trial that the clock had
been stopped by hand as It was being
wound up.
Defense Makes a Point.
The argument of Mr.. Trourard Riolle
left the impression that the testimony
upon which it was based was too con-
flicting, and that his fine-spun pre-
symptoms were too precise, leaving
him vulnerable to his antagonist. NJ.
Aubin. The latter scored heavily at
the conclusion of the prosecutors adj
dress, when he challenged NJ. Trourard
Riolle to name Marietta Wolf, the cook
in the Steinheil home, and her son,
Alexander, whom throughout the ar
gument NJ. Trourard RiolIe had limited
at as being accomplices of Madame
StelnhetL Throughout the day Madame
Steinheil seemed terribly depressed.
Not once did She interrupt the proceed
lngs, though frequently she clenched
her fists and showed signs of anger
when the prosecutor made particularly
odlous insinuatiOns against her. 1t is
understood that at the conclusion of
NJ Aubin's address Madame Steinheil
intends to address the jury in her own
behalf. This would make a dramatic
climax, and it is expected would have
a powerful influence on the jury, which
is reported to be evenly divided.
French Court Procedure.
Two things must be remembered in
connection with a French verdict.
First, the majority vote prevails, the
foreman of the jury having two votes
if there be tie; second, the jurors are
not confined, but are permitted to re-
turn to their homes at night, where
they are subjected to the possible in
fluence of their wives. 1t is notorious
that, whereas a majority of the men
here favor the acquittal of Madame
Steinheil, the women almost unani-
mously believe she is guilty.
Madame Steinheil is being deluged
with letters of every character, many
of them containing offers of marriage
if she is acquitted. Enterprising theat-
ricsl managers are trying to arrange
for her immediate appearance on the
stage after release, one having offered
$4,000 for thirty appearances. Madame
Steinheil is represented as having
thrown these letters away in a rage.