The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-06
Won A r N IN.
The Concluding Act of an
Eventful Drama.
TIL E LA ST TRIAL.
An Interesting Resume Of the
Legal Quibbles.
THE MAGNANIMOUs VICTOR

BERLIN, Oct. 20, 1875.
Scarcely more than year has elapsed since all Bcr-
lin was startled its propriety by tho news that
Count Harry Arnim late diplomatic representative OF
the German Empire in Paris had been arrested upon
his own estate of Nassenhede near Stcttn conveyed
under strong escort of police to Berlin and placed
der lock and key in the city Jail Tho telegraph
flashed the wonderful to all OF the Garth
Speculation rife to the possible motive for the
unprecedented proceeding. and for weeks and weeks
Arnm's arrest his demeanor in captivity his state of
health and the opinions of the doctors with reference
thereto were the almost exclusive topics OF
tor not in Berlin alone but in every German city,
and not in Germany alone but in Vienna,
in Paris and in Rome as we'll Tho miuutest details
connected with this all engrossing welcome
to the world at large and enterprisng reporters who,
with all their daring and ingenuity failed TO obtain
nearer view OF the secrets of the prison house the
Stadtvogte or in the Charlie Hospital to which tho
illustrous captive had been anerward transferred,
were detected in the of scrambng up lampposts
cnsconsed among the boughs of trees from which
view might be got OF the windows of the building in
the hope of being able least asonish the universe
with an account of texture OF the curtains and OF
The pattern of the carpets. Everybody had Arnm on
the BRAIN and everybody who claimed TO be somebody
bound to be also a stanch Arnimitc when he was
not an un1inching Bsmarcktc
COUNT ARRESTED
the 4th of October On the 18th of the same month
ne was, in virtue OF certificate from the physicians
who found him suffering from an aggravated form OF
diabetes, removed to the Charlie Hospital whence he
released the 2sth, only TO be arrested again
few days later. He not, however, taken back to
one OF his former prisons, but simply confined to his
own house. He was subsequently set free again. an
enormous sum being required surety for his
ill.,
Court began 9th of December and lasted for seven
days, the public excitement being wrought up TO the
highest pitch the whole time until the evening OF the
10Th, when the delivered On that occasion
The too roomy Court House was crowded to suno-
cation, while those who could not find admittance within
formed a compact mass upon the staircase from the
audience room down to the doors, ana thence in
broken line to the open space below Scarcely were
the decisive words out Of tho Judges mouth when
they shouted from sentorian lungs from the win
dows, eagerly taken up by the expectant throng and
conveyed in hot haste to every part of the city
thence to all Europe and America, although far
you concerned, the cable fees might have been
spared for It afterwards appeared little bird
had let you into the secret many hours before
SENTENCE
need scarcely remind you that Count Arnim was
found guilty Of having appropriated and put OF tho
way but without clonous INTENT thirteen important
state papers, not documents, thereby committing an
offence against public order and mourning the penalty
of three months imprisonment, calculating the time
already passed in confinement He also mucted
in the costs Of the trial
Half year later, namely, on the 18th OF June last,
the question brought before higher tri-
bunal, the Kammcrgercht, Court of Second Resort
TO which both the State Attorney Tesscndorn and the
accused Count Harry Arnim, had appealed against the
sentence delivered by the first The proceedings
stad and decorous not TO say somnolent in character
Enety-nine Berliners out of a hundred had not the
slightest suspicion that anything unusual was going
on and the twelve fourteen individuals composing
Inc auditory besides the reporters for the newspapers
a few personal friends OF the Count himself and
bevy OF workwomcn who had just been condemned
Tor belonging to INTERCHANGEABLE association which
had been put down by the strong OF the law and
who when their turn over, stayed behind to see
how their fellow sufferer "a real excellency," got
through his own muddle With the result of the trial
you acquainted. Count Arnm found guilty OF
the graver charge Of having embezzlcd 'papers'
alone but documents tUriHmden) intrusted to him
IN his official capacity II added that he had evi-
IDENTIFY intention of returning them, and in con-
formty with this severer view of tho case the penalty
raised from three 10 nine months Imprisonment,
with the deduction OF the month already passed
in DURANGO vile.
When the sentence was made known people simply
shrugged their shoulders and said, "Ah! he should
have let we'll alonen And this about all the CON-
mcnt that made. The interest dead and gone.
Hdbent mofdtd-cousdei To-day the
CONCLUDING ACT OF THIS EvEsTFUL DRAMA
played and the curtain has fallen upon it forever
The theatre a small and somewhat dngy room, re-
joicing in tho name OF "ober.Tribuna," or Supreme
Court and situate story above the Court of Second
Resort The actors were Vice President Won Ingcrs-
cben and six assistant judges; Herr Generalstaatsan
walt Viewer, representing tho prosecution. and Herr
Gcheimjustzrath Dorm. who appeared for Count Arnm
The last named in opposition it is said the advice
OF many Of his friends had insisted upon going through
with the matter TO the very end. The spectators
were, in addition to two relatives OF Count Arnim his
con and his brother in-law handful of the usual
porcrs for whom no special provision had been made,
but who accommodated with chairs in front OF the
judges table.
At this table, OF horseshoe FORM covered with faded
green cloth and raised upon dais sat- behind row OF
law books ianked by few wooden inkstands the pre-
siding judge, with his colleagues Messrs Hahn Kdhnc
Edng, Wcyors, Thcwalt and Delins At one OF the two
cxtremties was seated the prosecutor DR. Viewer and
al the other the Secretary Of the Court
whose name, though doubt respectable is scarcely
germanc the matter In front or tho President and
below tho dais two desks, OF which was occu
pied by DR.. Dorm, the counsel for the defence For
the benefit Of those who curious such details il
may be added that the walls Of the are hung with
a crimson flock paper, and that small thermometer in
a niche behind the Judges back constituted the only
article OF furniture not already mentioned
PROCEEDINGS
began with question addressed by the judge to tho
counsel for the defence. "Dd he intend TO dwell
upon the OF the papers or documents which,
on account OF their peculiar character, bad hitherto
been withheld from publicityS Did he propose to
read extracts from themy In such case tho public
would have be excluded from that part Of tho pro-
ecrdngs.n
Dr. Dorm had no intention Of doing So an exchange
Of bows followed, and the judge then requested the
reporting Judge, DR.. Hahn, to open the case
Tins oLonnr cnnssled ~ gcneral statement Of the