The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-05
MIME. STE|NHE|L IS CLEVER WOMAN Is Expected to Be Heard From
 Again GOES INTO RE TREATMENT Supposed Will Is Being Sold on the street--ls Evidence of French Woman's UnpopuIarity at
 Home.
 
By LA VOYAGEUSE.

able in criminal history-well bears out
 this assertion. Although the attractive
 widow was acquitted of complicity in the
 murder of her husband and foster-moth- | CT, Mime. Japy, there are few persons in france who are not confident that the official decision setting the woman free i, Is by no means the last that will be heard
 of "L'affaire Steinheil." as the famous
 case is now termed and ranked with
 ''L affaire Dreyfus.''
 While Cleopatra had her Antony, and
 Mime. Steinheil her Felix Faure, president
 or the French republic, who met death while visiting her apartments, 1t is thor oughiy expected that the woman's re-
 markable influence over men high in finance, diplomacy and business will again be In evidence before long. although she is at present in retirement.
 It is said that she Is to go to England
 to remain until the present talk" about
 her affairs has blown over. to an extent. That her influence over men of brain and strong will Is in part. due to hypnotic power. is generally conceded, but apart 1 from this she is of that peculiar type which attracts men even against their will. The names Of those high in the councils of the nation and in finance, who gave her comfort and aid before and during her trial, are well known through
 out the republic, but for obvious reasons cannot be given here, although 1t Is ex- pected they will be brought into promi-
 hence in due time.
 The general public feeling is hostile to Mime. Steinhill. One evidence of this may be found in the sale on the boulevard of
 printed sheet purporting to be her will The document is surrounded by heavy
 black border, a large black cross occu- pying the middle of the sheet. Tho word ing, which Is in legal form, disposes of her property, and is of interest because l 1t Is entirely satircal, and intended as a
 sharp and pointed criticism of the noto- | rious woman. Several of the proyisos
 are so broad and characterlstically
 French that they are impossible of re- | production here.
 | To Alexander Wolf, who testified | against her, she is supposed to bequeath
 the gag that was in her mouth when she i was found in her room, when the discov- cry of the crime was made.
 l To her former servant, Romy CouilIard 1 who also testified against her on the wit
 ness stand, she leaves a garment she is supposed to have worn at the time the l murders were committed. spotted as il | was with blood, which 1t is hinted was that of her husband.
 To the American journalist Burling- | ham, whom she accused of the murders after the bodies were found. she is sup posed to bequeath a photograph camera a pair of slippers and a pair of skins | used to travel over snow, worn by my 1 poor husband when he accompanied Felix
 Faure in his trip to the Alps"
 To Borderel, the millionaire merchant
 who it is said was attentive to her even | while her husband was alive, and whom
 she was to marry, is given piece of the | cord with which Mime. Japy was stran- gled.
 To Count dc Arlos Is leeft the towels 1 and other linen used in the kitchen of her residence, while to the people of I Paris she bequeaths "my memory" | Needless to say the people of Paris do not 1 attach great value to the gift. Otero. known in the United States as | dancer of more or less merit. but more l familiar to the people of the new and old | world as once particularly admired by l Leopold, king of Belgium, is again in the 1 dimelight," after having been in eclipse
 for some time-some say because of her l health.
 | In raid by the police on tho Sport | Aviation club, in the Rue Taitbout, pat ronized by men about town and hand | some, well dressed women of a certain l class 50 of these women and a dozen men were seated at tho baccarat tables | when M. Souilliere, one of7the sub-chiefs
 
 l policemen, burst into the rooms with the
 usual French police admonition, 'Let no 1 one leave the establishment"
 l His orders were not obeyed however. | On the contrary, there was 8 general
 helter-skelter of the bankers" as the | persons who conduct such games are
 known, croupiers, or dealers, and players. | The Otero found refuge in a large closet, while other women found concealment | as best they could. This did not help | them much, however, for the police, with out regard to the gallantry usually at- l tributed to Frenchmen, dragged them out into tho electric light of the rooms and | formally placed them under arreset. | Tn the possession of some of the women I more than 50,OO0 francs were found, but l Oteros pocketbook was nearly empty, the result of luck having run against her at | play The women were fearful and | pleaded with M. Souilliere to be released, | to which appeals he listened impressively, i but with Otero. she simply laughed at | the police good-naturedly. and offered M. | Souilliere a cigarette from a bejeweled case worth $500, and said to have been a | gift from well-known Russian grand
 duke not unknown in the United States, | and who was on ono occasion a guest of
 Newport society leader. Later Otero discovered she had lost valuable gold l purse during the raid.
 
 With the discovery of tho north pole I by an American (take your choice of 1 the two claimants) the lead in aviation made by the Wright brothers, and other history-making events in which Amer jeans are leading the world. residents of the French republic are asking each other, What next will these wonderful Americans do to surprise and surpass in thes world?''
 Now, to add to their astonishment at the versatility of the Yankees, as they
 generally term all Amricans, comes . 12-year-old girl; this time from the sacred precincts of Boston, to simply 'paralyze' the French musical world by walking away with the first prize Tor the plano | in the world-famed National Conserva- tory, in competition with hundreds of grown-up persons.
 Aline van Barentzen is the name of this female prodigy. At years of age, when she applied for admission to the conser- vatory, she already played like master, and immediately fixed the attention of the committee which passes on applica- lions for admission. The following year she won A first prize. the next year still another, and this year one more-the first for all branches of the plano, and in one year instead of in the nve years term allotted in which to win this prize 80 eagerly sought She made her formal debut to a French audience at the Co., lonne cbncert in Paris, November M. The child is accompanied by her mother who ia herself brilliant pianist. ehe says that one hour before the girI was