GERMAN COURT SCANDALS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 5

GERMAN COURT SCANDALS.

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TRIAL OF PRINCE EULENBERG. ADJOURNED INDEFINITELY. Received July 18, 4.15 p.m. BERLIN, July 18. Upon the advice of medical experts and at the Public Prosecutor's instance, Prince Eulenherg's trial has been adjourned indefinitely, on the ground that he is physically incapable of following the proceedings and conducting his defence. When this was announced in Court Prince Eulenberg raised himself from his couch and earnestly but vainly implored the Court to proceed with the case. He urged as his reasons the painful suspense and the uncertainty of his recovery, and the prospects of his dying before the charge was cleared up. The general impression is that the trial will not be resumed.

Prince Philip Eulenberg is charged with perjury in connection with the Harden case. This case has become complicated. The following is a brief resume of it: —Herr Harden, editor of the "Zukunft," attacked the "Camarilla," a coterie which he declared surrounded the Emperor, and levelled grave charges of immorality against Cour.t Moltke and Prince Eulenberg. The Emperor ordered the Count to clear himself or retire, and the Count thereupon sued the editor for libel. At the trial evidence was given of scandalous practices at Prince Eulenherg's house. The Count lost his case, but the Public Prosecutor theii took a hand, Harden was sentenced by a higher court to 4 months' imprisonment on the ground of making false statements. At this trial Prince Eulenberg swore that the imputations made against him: were baseless. The next stage was an action for libel by Herr Harden against a Munich paper, which had criticised Herr Harden's failure to follow up his charges, and stated that he had accepted £50,000 as silence *noney from the Prince. In this trial the evidence of tv r o witnesses called to prove that the prosecutor was justified in his as persions on the Prince, completely altered the complexion of the ''ase. Prior to this the Prince had been regarded as fully rehabilitated. Herr Harden won his case, the editor of t.he Munich paper being fined 100 marks. The two witnesses, one of whom has been valet to the Prince, were brought into his presence, and as a result of their statements the Prince was arrested. Since the offences him by these witnesses took place many years before, he could be charged with perjury only.