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It is " la charmeuse Steinheil" again.
A. bas la Court des Assizes !
The trial in Paris of Mme. Marguer-
ite Steinheil , charged with the mur-
der of her husband and her mother
Mme. Japy , threw the French capital
into a condition of excitement not
squalled since the historic Dreyfus
case. No other mystery of recent years
has so disturbed the French nation as
his double murder , in which a strange
woman , with a shady past , was coupled
not alone with the victims of the trag-
I sdy , but also with the tragic death of
the President of the French republic.
Political parties were plunged into
me case , the Dreyfus affair was resus-
itated , and the charge was made that
government officials shielded the wom
an , so that the affair was more like a
political campaign than a capital case.
A French trial is a strange sight to
an American or Englishman , familiar
I with the English common law and tak-
ing its principles as a matter of
course. The English law says : "A man
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Is innocent until he Is proven guilty. "
The French law1 says : "A man is guil
, ty until he is proven innocent. " And
this is the distinction that has arous-
I 2d France to a storm of bitter protest.
For years the law has stood unchal-
I Jenged and hundreds ( of supposed crim
inals have been browbeaten by magis-
trates playing the role ; of prosecutors
and sent , under It , to prison or to
3eath. The French people have been
aroused to the need of a change. Now
the conservative press of France is de
manding that the law of decades be
Changed. The criminal code must un
bend. French court procedure is tot-
tering to a fall.
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Dramatic and , to our American
minds , outrageous as were the scenes
attending the trial of Madame Stein
heil , that which accompanied her ac-
luittal was the most dramatic and
t sensational. Few there are who are
f , acquainted with the career of this
woman , who do not believe her capable
J Df the frightful crime of which she
' was charged-the murder of her hus
band and that of her stepmother.
Madame Steinheil was a woman who
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succeeded in numbering among her
admirers men high in social life and
government circles. Even a former
President of the republic was but a fly
in the web she spread and she was
lone with him when hi& heart failed
a . ind he passed from life. It is believe
" " :11 : some quarters that fear of a nation-
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fhip. At Manchester she reduced the
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ftkead on revenue from patents , > nearly
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al scandal alone prevented the produc
tion of proof that the President died
of poison.
Vile , cunning and unscrupulous as
she was , her woman's xharms affected
not only the jury which tried her , but
swayed the emotions of the multitude
so that when acquittal came there was
such mad demonstrations of joy as
would -have been denied the rescue of
a national heroine from a dire fate.
Tears , protestations , appeals , supplica-
tions , somber garments suggestive of
crepe-these and , more than all else ,
the pathetic simulation of an innocent
woman in distress , had their' effect ,
and anything short of an acquittal
would have meant a riot.
To be sure , the prosecution did not
produce absolute evidence of guilt ,
says the Utica Globe , and no jury
could have convicted on the woman's
vile record and the damning circum-
stances alone. An acquittal was com
pelled , but that this meretricious fe
male th6uld have been crowned with
the halo of popular approval is an out-
rage on decent womanhood.
RAILWAY OFFICIAL WHO IS
VICTIM OF MONEY MANIA.
Gambled with Company's Cash and '
with More Stolen Funds Pur- I
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chased Silence of Blackmailers. :
Speculation with other people's
money - a not uncommon phase of. the
modern mania for acquiring wealth
has proved the undoing of another
trusted official. The- victim is Charles
L. . Warriner . , the local 'easurer of the
Big Four Railroad Company at Cin
cinnati , who is held in 20,000 bonds
on the charge of stealing $643,000
The stealing had been going on for
years and might have continued with-
out detection were it not for his fail
ure to pay blackmail any longer to a
woman who possessed knowledge ol
his guilty procedure. In a spirit of
revenge she informed on him to the
railroad company and an investigation
was started.
Warriner accompanied 'Vice Presi-
dent Carstenseri to New York , where
he made a full confession of his crime
in the general office of the Vanderbilt
lines , after which , without being ar
rested , he returned to Cincinnati ,
there later ' Nto be taken into custody
and held in $20,000 bonds for the ac
tion of the grand jury , which later
returned an indictment against him.
The defalcation of Warriner created
a sensation not only in Cincinnati , but
throughout the country. * His habits ,
it has been said , , were correct. He did
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not drink , nor smoke , nor , we are as-
sured , associate with questionable per-
sons of the opposite sex. Yet , on his
' own admission , he was the victim of
a woman blackmailer. He accounts
for the disappearance of the vast
sums he stole in four ways : Through
speculation ; through efforts to recoup
his losses ; through blackmail levied
upon him by a former employe , who I
claimed to know of his irregularities ,
and through blackmail levied upon
him by a woman friend of that em-
ploye.
Warriner , according to his admis- I
sion , began taking money from the
company immediately after he became
treasurer at Cincinnati , with which to
speculate. When he lost , he appro
priated more money in an endeavor to
recoup himself , and thus gradually '
sank deeper into the mire. Then he
paid other large sums to the black-
mailers with which to purchase their
silence.
While a large part of the stolen
money went to. blackmailers and in
speculation on the stock market , yet
Warriner made a number of shrewd
investments. He purchased a chem-
ical factory in Kentucky , ' a pullley
works in Ohiq and land in various
places. The sole object of his life
seemed to be to pay back the money
that was stolen. With that one idea
in mind his speculations became more
desperate as the deficit grew , and dur-
ing the last year he permitted nearly
half of the entire sum of $643,000 to
slip through ' his hands.
The method which he adopted-
stealing was to cover his defalcation
in the item , "cash in transit. At the
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N international racing contest of universal .
interest was the one hundred and thirty-
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first English Derby. Great Britain pinned
its faith to Minoru , the horse of King Ed
ward.- France Louviers
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ridden by the noted French jockey , Stern.
America stood confidently by Sir Martin ,
the best 2-year-old of the American turf last year ,
ridden by the American jockey , Martin. \
Great Britain finished first by a .nose. France was
second. America fell at the historic Tattenham Corner.
When Sir Martin was thrown America lost a chance to
show Great Britain that she could beat her at her
own game of breeding and developing race horses. In-
cidentally , when Sir Martin fell , probable winnings to
the amount of $3,000,000 went glimmering. .
Several leading American owners shipped horses at
the close of thy season , with the idea of having them
thoroughly acclimated by the time the racing of the
year began. The Britishers simply said : "Oh , another
American invasion , don't , you know ! " and ostensibly
took no further notice of the coming of the American
horses. It was soon evident , however , that they had a
wholesome respect for American - horses , for as the
handicaps were announced it was seen that the weights
assigned to them were so heavy that the sporting writ
ers of the United States felt justified in pointing out
that it looked as if the Britishers were trying to keep
the American invaders from starting.
There was great curiosity to see Sir Martin on the
ATCHISON GLOBE : SIGHTS.
Once a candidate . , generally a can-
didate. _
If you have a lot of poetry notions ,
get rid of them.
The trouble is all of us have such a
lot of fool habits.
Every man believes his business is
the most monotonous.
Show less indignation behind the
backs of people , and be bolder to their
faces. .
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part of the public. The race was at a mile. Sir Martin :
carried 136 pounds , a formidable weight for a 3-year-
old , and was conceding as much as thirty-eight pounds
to some of his opponents. "Skeets" Martin : , the noted
American jockey , was up. The bookmakers gave odds
of 7 to 1. There was a loyal American delegation on
hand and they backed the American horse patriotically.
The Britons had plenty of chance to see him run , es-
pecially at the finish , for he came home with lots of
daylight between him and his field , galloping easily in
the fast time of 1:38 : 35. A length and a half back was
a 4-year-old to whom he was giving twenty-nine pounds.
Sir Martin came back to the paddock in no wise dis
tressed , and stood the mobbing to which he was * sub-
jected by a great crowd with superb disdain.
Immediately Sir Martin's odds in the Derby wer/e / cut
squarely in two. Before the race they were 10 to 1 ;
after the race 5 to 1 was the best the bookmakers would
give. All at once Britain buzzed like a beehive over Sir
Martin and his Derby chances. Though the list of prob
able starters in the Derby numbered twenty , the convic-
tion suddenly became all-pervading that the great race
lay between Sir Martin and King Edward's Minoru , the
favorite at 5 to 2.
To appreciate what the prospect of an American horse
winning the Derby means to a Briton it is only neces-
sary to take a glance at the race as a national institu-
tion. For the Derby is a national Institution. Its his- ,
tory for more than a century has been no small part of
the history of England.
You can account for very few mar-
riages.
If you want to take a prize for un
popularity , act superior.
Every time any big bill is presented
to you , it loqks like robbery s
If a woman can get her first man ,
she needn't worry about her second ,
or third.
A man and woman going on a wed
ding trip try hard not to look happy ,
and on their return try just as hard
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end of each month there are consider
able sums of money on their way to
the treasurer at Cincinnati from the
station agents and others. It was by
including in this item the money
which he had in fact stolen that War-
riner was enabled ' to conceal his de
falcation.
With modern antiseptics in surgery
6 per cent of amputations result fa
tally.
An inch of rain is rain falling at
the rate of about 100 toss to the acre.
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If the Congress of the United States
should , by any chance , pass a bill that
has been lying before it for action for
fifty years , and if the Supreme Cot.rt
ofthe United States should declare
such action by : Congress to be legal
and constitutional , there would 'ce two
States on the Pacific coast within an
area where there ' is now but one.
There would be consequent great re
joicing in the southern portion ot that
State and proportionate chagrin in the
northern portion. The area is Cali-
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the action of the equalizers been take
before things began to happen. There ?
was an immediate protest. An organ.
ization of business men was formed !
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and before a meeting of that organiza-
tion , former State' Senator : Robert N .
Bulla advocated in a speech the crea .
tion of a new State to be known as
Southern California. He was greeted r
with cheers. Other prominent south
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kins , assessor of Los Angeles ountyr
rallied to Bulla's standard , and for
several weeks Uhere have been numei > . .
ous organization gatherings and mass
meetings of taxpayers at which State
division 'has ' been warmly advocated :
and ways and means discussed.
To put the agitation on a definite . .
basis a committee or ten was appoint-
ed to take the proper steps for calling
a convention to take the matter prop
erly before Congress. The principal'
arguments set -forth have been based1
on the conflict of interest between thf'
north and south , alleged unfair ex : -
penditure of taxes and partiality in
distributing State improvements.
Can Congress or can't Congress ! . .
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south is struggling right now. Th
question centers around that bill thai
has been before Congress since 1859.
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fornia , a strip of land on the Pacific
ocean , 200 miles wide , covering about
156,000 , square miles.
The existence of that division bill
now lying before Congress , until rec
, ently all but forgotten , has been made
'a ' subject of 'heated discussion from
one end of the State to the , other , as a
result of the eighth outbreak in the
history of California , of bad feeling
between the north and the south. Just
what is at the bottom of the un-
brotherly feeling that .has , for half a
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century , existed ' between the peoples
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north and south of "The Techachapi"
has never been well defined. In the
eight instances in State history there
has always been some specific condi
tion or event that has brought the ill
feeling to a head. Whether it is di-
versity of interests and industry , the
location of the capital , sectional jeal-
ousy , a combination of all , or some
thing entirely different , the fact re
mains that the feeling exists and so
far as the south is concerned , is at the
boiling point right now.
The State Board of sEqualization
started the trouble only a few weeks
ago , a Los Angeles correspondent says ,
by raising assessed valuation in south
ern California cities - notably Los An
geles-increases amounting in some
instances to 100 per cent. Hardly had
BEATS : THE WEST.
Horse Thieves In 2few York Steal
Hundreds of Animals Yearly.
For the last few weeks New York
detectives have been rounding up a
gang of organized horse thieves who ,
according to the authorities , have been
working in that city on a scale un
known even in the days of "horse
lifting" in the west. It is estimated
that as many as 800 horses , worth
$300 each , have been stolen in and
around New York within the last year.
The horse - thieves in the city' .ope-
rate either as "rig-hoppers" . or "stable
breakers. " " The "rig-hoppers" are
those who jump on vehicles left by
drivers before the doors of business
houses and drive off. These men usu ;
ally work in pairs , one man , who does
the "head work , selecting both the
horses to be driven off and the time
to do it. His associate is generally a
tool , with more daring than brains ,
but with cleverness enough to dress
the part of the driver whose team he
is about to take.
Detectives say that a thief never
takes a horse worth less than $300.
The horse thief , after seizing a
team , usually drives about 20 blocks
before daring to unhitch the team.
He is pretty sure by this time to
have eluded the rightful driver , and
the police , , for the time being. From
the start the horse-stealing business
must be conducted , to be safe and
successful , with the help of confed- -
erates at every stage. As soon as the
team is unharnessed it is taken di
rectly to the stable of a confederate
a stable ostensibly kept for -hiring and
boarding horses , but in reality for
receiving' stolen horses. Then they
are shipped to confederates in other
cities.
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HOW THEY AVOUED DIVIDE CALIFOn7 : 1A.-
The bill proposes to divide California -
along the northern line of San Luis
Obispo , Kern and San Bernardino ' .
counties about the line of the present
proposal. /
This bill was passed by the legisla
ture , voted for by more than two-tJhirds--
of the voters of the State , signed by
Governor Milton : S. Latham and pre
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sented to Congress. At that time the ,
Civil War was threatening and the. '
bill was sidetracked as its passage waz
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thought to mean the addition of an--
other southern State.
Bulla and his followers declare that' \
all tihat is necessary is action by Con . .
gress. He is 'opposed in his views by
former Governor Henry T. Gage , who
declares that State division can not be
accomplished without an amendment _ :
to the national constitution. : . -r-
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road switchman , stood with his foot
caught in a guard rail and fought
vainly to free himself until a train _
crushed him to death in Franklin
Park , a Chicago suburb. Skinner
threw his lantern in the air-the death - .
signal ofall switchmen-but it was .
not seen by the engineer and fireman 4
of the train which bore down upon
him around the curve at that point.
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He was switching cars at the curve
when his foot became caught. Ha . . .
wrenched and struggled desperately , ,
and his shouts for help were lost in - ,
the roar of the approaching train. Just. c
as he was thrown down by the train. - '
he tossed his lantern Jiigh : in the air. .
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er members of the crew , and the traim
stopped. His body was found beneath '
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