Show fRENCH CAPITAL STIRRED Hi HiM TO I CENTER BY 1 0 M MURDER PARIS eARlS Xo- Xo 27 Paris j.-Paris Pans was in a state of intense excitement ment yesterday over developments that have havo have come thick and fast since sinco last night in in the murder case and tho sensa ensa- sensation tion has made it itself elf felt foil oven even in in the tho chamber of deputies where man many memo mem members bars bers declared they would raise the question ques tion lion unless uness the government undertook to probo tho the scandal to the bottom Mme Ime made a confession to two newspapermen last night She Sho de declared do- do Alexander Glared that a man named lS Wolff was tho the murderer of her ber bu hus band Wolff was arrested and examined by the authorities He denied all guilt Built and said ho lie was ready to provo prove an alibi Madame then weakened and said that if it was not Wolff theman theman the theman man who committed tho crime crimo les resembled w bled him strongly Then suspicion turned upon Mme herself and at G 6 o 0 clock o'clock it bo bo- was fas announced that she would looked up in tho prison at Lazaro under under un der a L warrant of arrest Xo No charge charco also al also al al- however was specified Wolff WoUl was so 0 held hold but not on a warrant One ODe of the surprises of oi the da day was the revelation re o of the fact that Mme who was murdered at the sa same 6 time timo as as was as not Mme Ime Stem Stein heil's mother as 35 hut had been 8 supposed d I but hut her stepmother step r. r Sensational Stories I The end of the day dar brou brought ht a crop I of sensational rumors It was said that Minister of Justice Briand had ordered an nD investigation in of the open charges es that Mme bad had been the mistress mistress mis mis- I Itress tress of- of M. M the thc examining magistrate in the case and that M. M L had hail been instrumental l in in stifling stifling ing the investigation n Chief of Dulcet Dulcet- ives heg Hamard was as cre credited with the tho statement that Wolff had practically established his his' alibi and that open suspicion had been cast upon Mme the tho man arrested several ec days a ago o on suspicion was waa re roo rooI leased I Tho The local 11 newspapers published extras ex- ex tras throughout the lay day C giving Cin in under flaring flaring hea headlines liu the details of the I woman woman's womans s 8 statement and her hol subsequent examination Behind the interest Inthe in inthe inthe I the crimp crime itself lies lits tho the more or less veiled thinly-veiled int intimations ons that France is ison ison ison on the tho verge of a scandal involving olvin high persona personages es and the failure of the police t to clear up the mystery had led to the open assertion that their lack of energy y ia is dictated by hv powerful representations representations rep rep- datin dating ba back k to the death I in Paris in 1599 of Felix Feh Faure at atI atone atone I one time president of tho the republic The public appetite appetito for fora a n sensation was whetted further b bv by M. M Hamard I who announced at 1 0 o'clock clock that tho the mystery was not yet cleared up and that a n great reat surprise might be expected I at any moment I Crimes Crime's History The crime in question on was committed the ni night ht of May 31 Mme Jany was murdered at the same mO time as The latter wa was a portrait painter and a grand nephew grand nephew of I 1 The Thc assassination of the woman however is suppo supposed cd to have ha been incidental to the killing of Stein Stein- heil Ho He was the man it was desired to put out of tho the way h his s wife and Mme me Jap lived together Tim Tho wife ife was found bound and sa gagged cea in bed and at first she declared that she had been thus treated by three men and find a woman I all an unknown to her Alexander Wolff I the man accused toda today by bv Imo Stein Stein- heil is the son of a woman who was wa formerly employed in the tho I family as a cook He Re and his mother whose name is Marietta Mariette were at once arrested It transpired however that Mme Mine was not tho the first person person per per- I son on to accuse Wolff A A. mechanic Wagner told the police a few days davs ago after the tho crime crime that Wolff h had d suddenly come come around with a 3 pocket pocketful ful of gold old The night of tho crime he was not present in in his usual haunts but tue thO morning mornin after when he na road read an account of the tragedy traced in a newspaper newspaper news new paper he appeared to be greatly excited excited ex ex- cited and swore that he hc would have ha vengeance on ou tho the assassins Her Contradictions Mine Ime repeated her statement statement state state- 1 ment to the news newspapermen and ItO tto M. M chief of detectives this morn jug ing 1 She was hysterical antI and and sobbed out ant her bel story In fn many respects h IKI kr i statements w were rc conflicting She said aill that Wolff committed the murder from motive of robbery but that he spared pared her on account of her dau daughter Sh She said paid she ha had kept l silent up to the pros pre eat cut time because of Wolff's Wolff s 's threats to charge her with having ban incited him to Lo tho murders if she denounced him She declared emphatically and repeat repeat- that Wolff was as nothing to her herand herand herl and l J that she was not in iu any way a party to the tho crime She did lid say however how bow ever that she hu had hated bated her husband and aud that she ha had bad a lover in whose oyes eyes she bhe h wanted to justify herself I hoped to justify myself before a man ho whose e love luve I havo now lost forever forever for for- ever c sho cried Tl This s man is said aid to bo be a French I nobleman au and in in his his identity is believed I to lie the key to this romantic tra tragedy ed Th There lo was a series senes of dramatic confer conferences at tho the palace of justice throughout hout t the e morning The parties to the interview were Mme lime and her daughter Marthe Alexander I Wolff and his mother and the ho man Each was subjected separately separ to a n close examination by M. M I Hamard and M. M I. I Mine Mario Iario l has been devoted devoted de de- I voted to her mother from the beginning begin bogin- ning but today sho was In a pit pitiful ful condition of distress After the ordeal I at the palace of justice sho was corn corn- t lv prostrated I I |