EULENBERG TRIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 170, 9 July 1908, Page 3

EULENBERG TRIAL.

DRAMATIC Kvit/jixNX'E. "THE TRUTH IS OUT!" "NOIULVG (JAN UEt.l' US!' lU'ceived Bth, 10.20 p.m. Berlin, July 8. Ernst, once valet to Prince l'uiiip i Eulenberg, the central figure ui ti ''camarilla" charges made last year I Herr Maximilian Harden in "Dio t*\ kunft," who is standing his trial K perjury, gave dramatic evident against his master. Prince Eulenliur was silent, but was convulsed with ragi Ernst repeatedly said: "The truth i out. You and I, Prince, arc lost so la as this world is concerned. iSotlnn can help us now!" A DRAMATIC SCfiNE. CONFRONTED Willi \\ ITNESSES. Almost a year to a day from ih hour when the Kaiser banished hm irom his entourage, Prince Philip z\ Eulenburg, late leader of the "innc: round table : " of the Court, was brougn under a police guard to the prisoners ward of tile Charite ricapitai in Berlin At 4 o'clock in the afternoon he wai taken from the sick bed at his magnl ficent Castle of Liebeuberg and convey ed under arrest in a motor-ambulanci to Berlin —a distance of 40 miles—tc await his trial for perjury. "The Prince has been under police surveillance at Liebenberg practical'} the whole of the preceding week (says a Home paper) as a result of evidence given against him at Muiiicfl in April 21 in the libel proceedings brought by Herr Harden against a Bavarian editor who alleged that Herr Harden had re- # ceived £50,000 'hush money' iiom Prince liUlenburg. Two witnesses—a milk dealer named Riedel and a fisherman named Ernst—testified during the trial that they had been partners of tile Prince in malpractices wheu the Prince (then a count) was attached to the Prussian Legation in Munish in the early eighties. "Hie evidence of Diedel and Ernst was so circumstantial and produced so profound an impression that the Crown Prosecfftor felt impelled to institute proceedings against Prince Eulenburg for perjury. Durfng the second AloltkeHarden trial in December the Prince declared categorically under oath that He had never in liis life committed malpractices of the kind of which Herr Harden accused him. "Matters came to a Climax at liebenberg Castle when Prince Eulenburg was confronted with the two incriminating witnesses in ttre presence ot Judge Sclaiidt, of the Berlin Court of Inquiry. sl'he confrontation was exciting and dramatic in the extreme. Piinco Eulenburg was suirernig intense from swollen knees, the result nf neuritis, and had been propped up in beu to face the ordeal. "Wlien Riedel and Erust were led into the room the Prince looked them squarely in the face without liinching and declared in calm and positive tones that he had never had anything to do witiii either of them. However, aiter Ernst had reiterated his confession, the Prince exclaimed passionately, Macoo! Jacob! Has anybody given you money? Have you been bribed to say uiesc things about me f Both witnesses stood firmly to their stories, and Judge Schmidt told the Prince that there was no alternative bpt to give them full credence." Prince Philip zu Eulenburg was 61 years old last February, and was a member of the Diplomatic Service until 1002, when he voluntarily resigned the Ambassadorship in Vienna in conse-

quence of the alleged tiircafs of his enemies to public damaging exposures regarding his past lire, lie continued, however, to enjoy the friendship of tho.

(Kaiser, who paid annual visits to his Castle of Liebenberg, staying there several days. It was on the occasion of the Kaiser's last visit in December, IffoG, that the Emperor sent the famous telegram to Prince Bulow ordering the dissolution of the Keichstag. l'nnce £ulenburj> ranked as one of the most powerlul, I not the most powerful, of the Kaiser's subjects, and the Emperor made no secret of his friendship for him. The Prince is a gifted conversationalist, musician, and painter, and a man ot charming poetical ideals. He became involved in the scandals which ended in his arrest, in consequence bt the exposures in the "Zu>knnft," in the- winter of 190TJ-7, when Herr Maximilian Harden accused him of being the head of a 'round-table" ot courtiers, a camarilla, the members 01 which were addicted to certain grave practices. Priflce Eulenburg's arrest ■was regarded in some quarters as a great personal triumph for Herr Harden. It was primarily at the Prince that the young editor's attacks were always aimed!. Princess Eulenburg has taken apartments in a Berlin hotel in oTder to be near her husband. The village of Licbenburg, where the Prince ruled as a sort ot feudal lord, was ablaze with excitement over his Serene Highness s arrest and forcible removal from his castle.