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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 76, 23 August 1912, Page 5

fcssiou out of Mme. Steinheil. . . 'I fell on the floor, I besought them to go; they seized mo by the wrists and shouted Confess, Confess.' It was splendidly lurid copy the Yellow Journalists obtained,- hut it proved fatal to Mme. Steinheil, whom the intruders had promised to assist and protect. She was arrested. She was taken to the damp and" fetid St. Lazare prison for women. She was placed in a vcrnvinou and villainous cell. 'The Queen of Paris'—the late President Felix Fnure's mistress, confidante end counsellor — became Number 13,170." The writer also exposes the nature of the ordeal of the "instruction" of the examining magistrate: "He was coarse, offensive, brutal; as most osamining-maffistratcs axe. Their avowed ; official methods resemble those of the 'Third Degree' system in America. They accuse, they bully, they storm, they put their victims on the rack." In the newspapers Madame is now "the 'Tragic' and thp 'Red Widow.' now also (in the words of white-headed, hoarse-voiced, savage eld Henri Kochefort) the 'Black Panther.' " After all—a rear in prison and 11 days in the dock included—-Mme. Steinheil is triumphantly acquitted, later on to have her daughter restored to her. And to-day mother. daurthW ard F.en-i'i-law "live together in a houfe that overlooks an English meadow, 'so fresh and re creen.' And the daughter knows everything. And the daughter has pardoned—-all."