The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-11-10
"CONFESSES' TO
SAvESTE|NHEk
CHIVALROUS ACTOR PROCLAIMS
HIMSELF SLAYER, THEN
RETRACTS.
CROWDS THRONG THE ASSIZES
JUDGE Fails to Shake Accused WON.
ems Version of Crime.-She Ora.
maticaIIy Appeals to Jury to
Pardon Fault Of Her Lite.

Paris, Nov 5.-Dramatic situations
followed fast, one upon another, in the
assize court, where the trial of Nine.
Marguerite Steinheil, was continued.
AS on the opening day of this sensa-
tional case, all Paris was wrought to
high tension over the promised dis
closures and, although it was known
that but few persons could pass within
the precinst of the court, hundreds
remained outside to watch and to dis
cuss in excited tones the progress of
the case as it came to them through
the newspaper extras that flooded the
streets.
Nine. Steinheil was again on the
stand, dressed in mourning gown, a
dramatic, though pathetic, figure, fight
ing hard for her life. And in the
midst of her inquisition by the presid-
ing judge, her attorney, NJ. Aubin,
with dramatic effect, suddenly pushed
to the forefront man who, he said,
wished to confess that he had taken
part in the murders of which Nine.
Steinheil was charged.
M. Aubin read letter signed
"Jean lie Fevre," asking that he be
permitted to confess, and then he
pointed at the man and said:
'"This is Jean LIE Fevre."
Nine. Steinheil gazed at him weari.
ly and after he had made rambling
statement, in which he said that, dis
guised as woman and wearing wig
of red hair, he had helped to commit
the murders, she declared that she
could not identify him as one of the
another attemtp to battle justice. A
described.
The presiding Judge promptly order
ed LIE Fevre's arrest and an investi-
cation of his statement and warned
the jury that this might prove to be
another attemtp to battle justice. A
search of the man disclosed two photo.
graphs, one of Nine. Steinheil and the
other of the house where the crime
was committed. LIE Fevre was locked
up as vagahond.
The police thus far are inclined to
OC11CVC IAdI CAO uIdA SClA-dCCuSoClOu
belongs in the category of incidents
we'll known to criminologists, where
an individual, half demented by the
reading of the case and possible fancy
ing himself in love with the prisoner,
has resolved to sacrifice himself for
a fascinating woman. LIE Fevre's des.
cription of the crime conceded with
the original version upon which Nine.
Steinheil now insists.
On further examination before the
magistrate, LIE Fevre said that his
name is Rene Collard and that he is
an actor. He admitted that he had
not the slightest connection with the
crime, and had merely acted on a
chicalrous impulse to save Nine. Stein.
he'll, of whose innocence he was con.
WINGED. He was ordered detained
pending verifcation of his identity.
Just before the close of the day
came the first direct mention of the
late Felix Faure, former president OF
France.
Several times the prisoner made
vague references to important politi.
cal personages who had formerly been
her friends.
Responding to question as to
whether it was at the home of Nine.
Hazeline, at Havre, she met President
Felix Faure, the prisoner replied:
"No it was during trip in the Alps
The Judge did not pursue this line
of inquiry further. Owing to the
many trying ordeals of the day and
the fatigue which the prisoner showed,
her lawyer asked for an early adjourn.
ment and the hearing was brought to
IL close by the Judge making refer.
ence to the accusation against Freder.
lick Harrison Birmingham, an Amer.
lean newspaper man, but the prisoner
persisted that she had never definitely
accused him, but had only said that
he resembled one of the assassins.
A summary of the days evidence
shows that the judge failed to shake
Nine. Steinheils original version OF
the crime. She admitted intrigue, but
heatedly denied that she sent her
mother to solicit money from her low
ers and she insisted that her husband
had never profited by her own immor.
al life. Admitting that she had done
wrong, in fearful voice, she be-
seeched the jury to pardon her faults.
She defended herself by saying that
since she did not live with her hus-
band as his wife she longed for SYM
pathy and love-