The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-10
WOMAN CRIES FOR PITY Steinhel Trial Drags Along .REPORTERs TORTURED HER Lively Tits Between Defendant and
 the Judge. PAstosrspher swears sAe wished te conmat Suicide when Convinced
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Paris. Nov. ,s.--"fEave pity on mel l am an unhappy woman who should not be tortured" cried out Madame steinheii on the resumption of her trial here today for the murder of her husband and stepmother.
 The appeal came during the testi- mony of the jewellers with reference to the changes of jeweiry confided to them by the prisoner. but which she originally claimed had been stolen by the assassins.
 The prosecuting judge responded that accused persons always repeated that cry when embarrassed for an am swer.
 Madame steinheii admitted anew that she had had certain jewels, the gifts of her admirers. melted. but she maintained that this was done to keep the facts of her life from the know ledge of her daughter.
 From this point Madame Steinheii assumed an aggressive attitude, which continued during the examination of series of lively tiits between her and Judge Deyalies When approached for having concealed so long from the au- thorities the fact that she possessed imitation duplicates of her jewels the woman defended her secrecy on the ground that she wished to hide from her friends the real financial condi- ton of the family.
 When the journaiists testified that Madame Steinheil was in state of great depression when she confessed to them that she had placed the pearl in Couillard's pocket and then accused Wolf; the prisoner interrupted to de- clare that the newspaper men had tortured her Into speaking. one even having twisted her wrists to make her talk.
 The reporters. continuing their tss- Etsznony.t denied that they, had pesd s69xs buf admftfSd< Sti1Et they had ssxsssed the Ruspacfed w0man to con Efess Thesr teetimony was in sharp contrast with fizn4t nf that infrndkead yesterday tn that < WAS most 15anaag- ing to the defendant.
 M Barby. photographer, testified that when Madame Steinheii was con vinced that she would be arrested she wished to commit suicfde. The wit ness said also that at critical mo- fnent of the interview between Mad ame Steinheii and the newspaper men. Marietta Wolf the cook. entered the
 
 each others arms. After a momen- tary display of emotion the two with drew to q corner of the room. where they cohversed in whispers After the cook had left the room, Madame Steinheii told the reporters that the Wolf woman said she would deny everything if her mistress was arrest ed.
 Turning to the reporter who had made this last statement. Judge De- ya1les asked:
 Do you understand the full gravity of your testimony against Madame Steinheil?"
 To this the witness replied:
 T accept full responsibility"
 The judge then cross examined the defendant concerning the photo9ra- pher's, testimony but the onlo renIv elfcited was T don't remember" The sixth day of the trial no furth. CT advanced the solution of the my. stery underlying the murder of the wo. mans husband, AdoIphe Steinbiii painter and her step-mother. Mime Japy. While the testimony given to. day was Indirectly more damaging tc the defendant the whole case still rests upon purely .circumstantial evi. dence. The judges attitude toward the ac. cused woman is becoming distinctly more lenient and at the same time tl,s defendants powers of resistance seem already exhausted under the ordeal to which she has been subjected