ECHO OF FAMOUS CASE.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15939, 28 June 1917, Page 8

ECHO OF FAMOUS CASE.

MARRIAGE OF MADAME

STEINHEIL

(By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (United Sen-ice.) (Itoceivcd June 27th, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 26. Madame Steinheil has married Lord Abinger.

M. Steinheil, a painter, and Madame Japy, his mother-in-law, were found strangled in their adjoining bedrooms of tho former's house in tliq Impasse lionsin, in the -Mont Parnasse neighbourhood of Paris, on May 31st, 1908. Cotiillard, a valet, made the discovery. He first found Madame Steinheil bound and partly gagged in her .bed, bruised and scratched, but otherwise unhurt. In another room Madame' Japy, stepmother of Madame Steinheil, lay dead on her bed, having been throttled. In a third bedroom on the floor was tho dead body of M. Steinheil, huddled up as if ho iiad tried his best to cope with his assailant or assailants. . Madame Stcinheil's first story was that the crime was committed bv three men and a woman; her second that two Americans, a journalist and an artist, were the criminals. These men were arrested, but ultimately released: Then Madame accused the valet of tho crime, on the strength of a pearl found in his pocketbook. Then came the greatest sensation. A jeweller swore he had sold the pearl to Madame somo timo after the murder, and Madamo could onlj- reply to his evidence by going t into hysterics. Her next story was that the murderer was a son of a trusted servant. He was arrested, but soon released, and then Madame herself was arrested, and charged with the murder of her husband and stepmother. After a lengthy trial she was acquitted.

Lord Abinger, her husband, was born in 1872, and is a son of the late Lieu-tenant-Colonel Scarlett, grandson of the first Baron Abinger. Lord Abinger succeeded to the Barony in T904. He was formerly Hon. Attache to the British Legation at Berne, and was subsequently transferred to Stockholm. Lord Abinger's first wifo was the widow of tho late Kammerherr C. E. do Gcijcr, of the Swedish Diplomatic Service.