MME. STEINHEIL IN LONDON

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7027, 15 January 1910, Page 8

MME. STEINHEIL IN LONDON

FEOM OUB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. , .LONDON, December 3. Mini?. Steinheil, "the tragic widow," central figm-a in one of the most exciting murder trials of recent times, i 8 now in England. She wished for a place of refuge, beyond the reach of curious eyes, and so she came.on Sunday to—London! The news of her approaching departure from Paris leaked but, and journalists lay in wait at the station. Mine. Steinheil, concealed in an . obscure cape, put off her journey tilL night-time, : and only one or two..newspaper representatives saw her depart. , "I hope wo shall soon be in England!", she exclaimed on the journey across. '.'How I long to be there!" andher spirits rose, and her eyes danced with excitement. She talked in the gravest way with.her escort, and sang chansons in a subdued but thrilling voice. "At last!" she said, with a sigh of thankfulness, as" she set her foot on English ground.But in London Madame had to play another game of hide and seek with the pressmen. No sooner had. she alighted at Charing Cro3B in the early hours of Sunday morning,. than a flashlight for a photograph startled and amazed her. Entering a cab, she drove to a hotel, but the journalists followed, and such a crowd collected that the manager of the hotel was obliged to ask Mme. Steinheil to seek quarters elsewhere. It was not till late in the afternoon that she was able to elude her pursuers and find. refuge in a private hotel near Victoria. Mme. Steinheil desires to contradict the statement that she intends to go on the London niusio-hall stage. . She has written a series of articles for a Paris npwspaper, but that is the only form of publicity sli3 desires. She will' go to a country retreat, where she hopes to be allowed to forget that the Impassa Ronsiu ever existed.