Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-10
Mariette Wolf, Cook, Forgets
All Damaging Facts.
SON NOT MISTRESS LOVER
Domestic Denies All That She Might
Tell Against Prisoner.
WITNESSES ARE CONFRONTED
Conflicting Testimony Asserted to Be
True by Those Who
Gave It.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, November 1O-With Marriott,
Wolf, former cook in the Steinheil house
hold. as a witness today it is generally
believed that the pivotal point has been
reached in the famous murder case 1t
was whispered around the courtroom that
she might be arrested at any moment.
when she entered the room there were
audible murmurs of what a face And
truly she presented a repellant look.
Although her age is given as fifty. she
looks at least sixty. She has beady. cum
ming eyes. which gave evidence of her
perfect confidence in herself. When she
speaks 1t is in decisive tones.
Mime. Steinheil shows the results of the
weeks strain. The skin under her chin Is
loose, the curve of her nostrls is deeply
lined and her nose seems sharper.
The embargo against women being al
lowed in the courtroom has apparently
been raised. There were nearly as many
women as men in the room when the
trial was resumed this morning.
Favorable to Prisoner.
Mariette's evidence at the start was
most favorable to the prisoner. She said
Nine. Steinheil knew her (Mariettes 81
children well, but her son Alexander
least of all, although she used thee"
and "thou'-the French form of intimacy
in speaking to him.
Marietta said she received sixty francs
per month as wages. Her work was not
hard ecause Nine. Steinheil did much
of it, Marietta seemed inclined to tone
to- tno
Steinheil was as strong as herself.
She said only three men came to Vert
logis while they were there-Chouanard
and Belincourt once. and Borderel.
Ju~ ge Wales pointedlyg asked: Didn't
Alexander Wolf Gomez"
Mariette replied: Yes. like he did to
the Impasse ROnsin.
Hadn't Nine. Steinheil a special liking
for him." asked the court.
mo more than for my other children"
"She ssed him often. didn't she?''
Like she did the others. and NEON
New. Year day.
Marietta gave new explanation here
of Nine. Steinheils words to her not long
after the crime. Those words were:
AT last / am free"
Marietta explained that they referred to
Nine Steinheirs being now free from the
nurse who had been attending her.
But, interrupted Judge Wales. these
words were not SO interpreted at the pre-
liminary inqMIies."
Nine. Steinheil Protests.
This gave Nine. Steinheil another OPP
portunity for protest. She inveighed
against the methods of Magistrate Andre,
ard asked:
Why should words be Interpreted? Why
not solely try to seek the TRUTH
Marietta was aphoristic when question
ed about her employers habits She said
"A domestic should see everything. but
say nothing"
Vertlogis for a little closed box. Judge
Wales asked her what this box con-
tanned. To this Mariette replied that
servants should never know what is in
closed parcels.
Marietta testified that NJ Steinheil
aGored his wife. When asked IL the
prisoner loved her mother, Marietta re-
piled:
Mime. Japy was always well received"
Then Queried Judge Wales. why
this remark which is attributed to Nine.
Steinheil, Here's mother again.
That is to say, like anything else
might be-" replied Marietta vaguely.
Marietta was frequently unable to re-
member points on which she had been
questioned. She had evidently made up
her mind to deny everything that did not
suit her and she did it in categorical
fashion.
She said to Judge Wales: Il will deny
everything" And she proceeded to do So.
Denies Intent Of Suicide.
She denied the intention of committing
suicide, attributed to her by the habriers.
who testified yesterday.
She declared at that time she was ig
norant that Nine. Steinheil had accused
her son Alexander OF having committed
the murders. She learned that later on
at detective headquarters. and called
Nine. Stenheil a liar Nevertheless she
kissed her the same day, because Nine.
Steinheil had then recovered her normal
state.
Marietta denied statements that have
been made that she was in the habit of
presenting bills to Nine. Steinheil's lovers
at Vertlogis.
Marietta. Barby. the journalist. NJ. Cha
brier and Nine. Chabrier were then
brought face to face. The newspaper
men and the Chabriers testified yesterday
and told stories differing from Varieties
They maintained the truth Of their
statements. The former cook III the
Steinheil house also insisted she was tell
ing the truth.
Before this conformation of witnesses
low voice. asked her pardon for the accu-
sations she had made against Varieties
son, saying they had been made under
suggestions from the police.
A sensation was caused by the judge
asking Marietta IL she had not noticed
how the corpses had been strangled, for
it had been proved that the knot was
such as a sailor or a horse groom uses.
you" said Judge Wales. ARE a cab
drivers widow; your son is a groom
Marietta said she was SO agitated at
the time she could not look at the
corpses.
Cooks Accused Son Called.
Alexander Wolf was then called. He
testified that Nine. Steinheil used thee"
and thou to him occasionally. and
kissed him once year.
The Judge then recalled the confronta-
ton of Nine. Steinheil and Alexander
Wolf after she had accused him of the
crime. Wolf said:
81 laughed at her and said insulting
things which l now regret"
Judge Wales then carefully recalled all
Nine. Steinheil's accusations: how Wolf
tried to possess her; how she resisted ;
how he murdered the victims and simu-
lated the burglary and how Nine. Stein
suggested all this.
Wolf replied:
II would like to know who said I had
money the day after the crime"
Madam Provost, who lent Madam Stein
he'll her name when the latter hired Vert
logfs cottage. testified that she believed
in the existence of Aunt Lily" NJ
Steinheil passed as Madam Steinheirs
brother at Vertlogi's. while the daughter