The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1917, Page 5

| Mme. Marguerite Steinheil fn the history of the French courts, England to-day when she is married Reserve. his closest friend with the French mother, Madame Japy. Barly on the morning of May 31 { cotton wool, but alive and unharmed. } To the persons summoned by the valet, and later on to the police and newspaper men, Mme. Steinhell told ‘ory from which she has never deviated, She said that toward dawn three masked men and a woman with } red hair entered her apartment in the Impasse Ronsin, One of the men, Pwith wild eyes and a long black beard, held a pistol to her head and asked her where her parents kept their money. He demanded also the documents and the pearls. Meantime the others went about their sinister (business with her mother and her husband. She heard her mother cry | out once. Then the red-headed woman came and covered her with a revolver, seeking to kill her. But the man with the black tbeard interceded for her, nd the murderers filed out. The three men, Mme. Steinhell said, wore long blaek cloaks and at the trial for murder which she herself demanded Decause of secret insinuations against her it was proved that on the night before the crime three black gaber- dines had been stolen from a Jewish theatre next door to the Steinhell @partment. ‘Hysterically, Mme. Steinhe!l accused first one person and then another of the murder of her mother and hus- band. Several journalists of Paris as- | gerted that sho confessed the crime to them. The police closed the case | without identifying the-murderer or murderers, but insinuations and accu- eations against the “red wid " as Paris now characterized the lovely Gteinheil, grew so persistent that she demanded and obtained a trial, at| which she was triumphantly acquit- ted. Since her vindication by @ jury Mme, Steinhell has lived in England. Two years after her acquittal she published a book of memotrs, in which she discussed with the great- est frankness her friendship with Felix Faure, and asserted that the theft of the pearls which he had given her as a token of his affection, and of valuable documents, had prompted the murder of her husband | and her mother. She explained that ——————_—E~w~waeaaes JAMES McGREERY & CO. 6th Avenue Sth Street Special VICTROLA OUTFIT 1] @, 8 10-inch Double-Face Records (75c each)... 112-inch Double-Face Record Sy Dust-off.. 2.25) Wataloacisees May Be Purchased $5 "ar $5 \MES McCREERY & 60. igh Avenue Mth Street Per Month Down and | — Was for Years the Closest Friend and Political Confidante of Felix Faure, Presi- dent of France—$100,000 Pearl Necklace and State Documents Figure in Mysterious Assassination. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Marguerite Seinheil, acquitted in 1909 of the most horrible murder | will become the wife of a peer of to Lord Abinger, who succeeded to and political confidante, She was President in the Blysee Palace at the hour of his death and a $100,000 pearl necklace i which he had given her with some documents of high Rock ieee political import were believed to constitute the mo- tive of the mysterious murder of Madame Steinhell’s husband and her 4 , 1908, the valet of Adolph Steinheil found the body of his master, who had been strangled in his bed, Rush- ing from the room to give the alarm the man came upon the lifeless form of Madame Japy, Madame Steinhell’s mother, and in another room he found the beautiful Madame Steinhell bound with cords and gagged with her life was spared because the masked men had mistaken her for her little daughter, Marthe, Mme. Steinhel's Memoirs described in detail the powerful political salon which she built up in her little apart- ment with no other tools than her own beauty, Intelligence and charm. Adolphe Steinheil, the husband, was a nephew of the great painter, Met- sonnier, but was himself an artist of mediocre ability. Through his his title last month and ts now a Lieutenant of Naval | } Madame Stefnhell is now forty-eight years old. At! twenty#ix she met and captivated Felix Faure, Prest- dent of the French Republic, and till his death under mysterious circumstances in February, 1899, remained Woman Acquitted in Famous Murder Case Is To-Day Bride of a Peer. of England i Mme. Steinheil, dames McGreery & Go. 5th Avenue June Clearance Sale Store Opens 9 A. M.—Closes 5 P. M. Purchases on Wednesday and Thursday will appear on bills rendered August Ist SERRE ETT TERE TO IIT Cn THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917. wife's meeting with Felix Faure he was enabled to paint the portrait of the French \President, and this, of course, brought him many other com- missions, Zola, Massenet, Francois Coppee, the painter Henner—tin fact, the most distinguished men In all the seven arts met about the tea table of tho fair Steinheil. Bhe was accustomed to visit Felix Faure through a eecret doorway in the Elysee Palace, and she has ex- plained her presence with him on the day he died by saying that she was helping him to write his memoirs, that he had felt himself suddenly ill and sent for her to come to him, It must not be thought, however, that this most celebrated siren of modern times paints herself with angel's wings. She shas admitted warm friendships with several men, She says that Felix Faure gave her the magnificent necklace of pearls and then begged her never to wear it, pleading that if any one knew he h@ ever possessed it or given it to her he would bo disgraced forever, and that he besought her never under any cir- cumstances to sell it except one pear! ata time. Later Mme, Steinheil de- clared that a ‘erious Jewish visi- tor got the n away from her husband one at a time by blackmailing threats, All in all, hers is a mysterious and sombre tale in which only two things appear to be certain—her acquittal by a jury of the murder of her husband and her mother and her extraordinary and time-defying charm for men, What is this charm? ‘That It sur- vives to-day is established by her ‘triumphant emergence from the fiery furnace of scandal, out of the shadow of the guillotine, to a marriage with a peer of England, hour in Paris were more beautiful, many more brilliant, What did she have that these other women did not possess? What has she now? Lure perhaps—a temperament warm enough to interest men and_ cold enough to exploit them. Brains enough to understand them, but not enough to disconcert them. For those who say that brains do not attract |men are wrong—as wrong as those | who consider intellect all attractive. W. L. 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