New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-12
HERR IN HIS HOTEL-PRISON.
THE EFFORTS OF THE FRENCH TO SECURE
HIS PAPERS PREVENTED BY THE BRIT
ISL AUTHORITIES.
Bournemouth, January %.

Bournemouth, January -.
DR. Cornelius Herr, who is now both sick AID
In prison-in n hotel here-has come in II startling
manner before the public since the suicide Of laroT
Rcinach Ii has dawned on those who were in
the inner circles of French, and indeed, European
politics, that he was man who held some very
strong cards and knew how to play them. But
few who knew the wircpulling world OF Paris
had any idea that he played so great an under
hand part in public affairs lie Is, or WAS, An
ambitious man. for his health is now 50 broken
down that the world has suddenly rcccdcd from
him.
The name of DR. Herr is associated everywhere
with the last days that Baron Rclnach passed on
earth II has been thrown in his face that lac
ran away from Paris ny the midnight club train
on the night on which the Baron committed
suicide That was November 10. The truth is
chat DR.. Herr left November %, accord
ing to his custom of spending the Christmas sea-
son in London with his children, three of whom
are at school in England Two of these young
folks are nearly grown-up girls and one is lad
of fifteen. who is at Elton, where he boards with
the Rev. Mr.. Benson, son OF the Archbishop or
Canterbury The DOCTOR hearing that there would
be amusing Christmas entertainments at the Lon
don theatres. was about 10 recrOss the Channel
to fetch younger children whom he had left in
Paris to give them a treat, when the storm. whose
prelnonitory growls he had not noticed, burst
ever him. 1t brought on by NJ. MilleVoyc
and NJ Deroulede dcnouncing NJ. Clcmcnccau IN
the tribune as the conscious tool OF Her, the spy
and agent of the Triple Alliance against France
and Russia. Dr. Herr given credit. or dis
credit by both speakers for having urged on Glenn
enceau to overthrow Ministry after Ministry in
rapid succession. This attack should he taken In
connection with that made by Baron Mohrenhem
on NJ. Cemcnceau in communication between
himself and NJ. Deroule1e some five or six months
ago.
NJ Clemenccau defended himself strongly when
denounced by the two Boulangist deputies from
the tribune of the French Chamber of Deputies
But he would have improved his position had he
simply stood by DIR. Herr and owned the diplo-
matic services which Dr. Herr rendered TO France
both at Rome and Vienna. NJ. Clemcnceaus posi-
ton is now weaker than l ever knew it to he
since he set up to be the rival Of Gambetta. NJ
Clemenceau, NJ. Rouvier, NJ. Spul!er and some
others were well aware for several years before
the fall of Signor Crispi what were Dr. lierzS
efforts, with their own cooperation, TO detach
Italy from the Triple Alliance and thus be able
70 do without large military force in the Mari
time Alps Savoy and Dauphine, to say nothing
of the forts that are TO be built and the slX
Alpine regiments that were then being formed TO
serve as mountaineering corps. But moral
courage is not a common virtue OF French poN-
ticians, and though the politicians named looked
forward to reaping glory and wealth from the
execution of the Herr scheme, in which they all
actively co-operated, not one of them has now the
courage TO stand by him and own themselves his
felbw workers On the contrary, they are glad
that he was being hunted down because it turned
attention from themselves, or from men of their
several parties in Parliament He was to be the
red herring Of the English huntsmen. You per-
haps know how that fish is used to turn off the
hounds from the trail of the fox which is not
% be run 70 earth just yet but reserved for sport
Besides q lot of fellows who owe money to DIR.
Herz had little game of their own in view
A woman friend of his wife. his letters being
opened in the French postoffice whenever they
pass that way, flew across the Channel when he
was threatened with extradition to implore the
friends whom he had obliged to save him because
he was determined to commit suicide rather than
pass an hour in prison. His suicide was just
What they wanted, and instead of staying pro-
ceedings for DR.. Herz's eXtradition they urged
on NJ Bourgeois, the Minister of Justice, to be
quick, and to follow quite exceptional course
of procedure which does not admit of Herr
being tailcd out should he go before Bow Street
magistrate and an adjournment of the case be
demanded by the lawyer of the French Embassy
or of the incriminated party The article of the
treaty of extradition was negotiated when the
late Due Decazes was Foreign Minister of Marshal
MacMahon, and at time when political refugees
were running in hundreds to England to escape
from being judged before courts-martial for COM
mon law offences. In return concessions were to
be made to Great Britain relative to the capt.
ulstions in Egypt. The article in question deals
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to escape unless they are given up. Should an
adjournment on a first, second OF a third APP
pearance be asked by either party to the case the
magistate has no choice between dsmissing the
case and sending back the inculpated party to o
cell Now Herr never once showed desire to
fee from British justice The fact Of his going
from London, the easiest place in the world to
yet away from, to Bournemouth shows this.
There are crowded trains leaving London every
hour of the day and night, to say nothing Of
steamers and all kinds of craft Bournemouth
Is small place, the resort of idle invalids who
like TO gossip about each other. There is only |
one railway station, and the Tankervic Hotel |
the whole Of which the doctor has hired for him |
self and his family, is almost glass house.
Bournemouth is a new place The late Duchess |
Of Westminster and the Queen Of Sweden have |
made it the fashion a winter health resort. 1t |
Il near Poole and the southwestern coast of the |
New Forest-now the only forest that is old in |
England. 1t stands above land-locked bay on |
high sandhills planted with pines and evergreen |
trees The air is balmy and fresh, and one can in |
Ill weather walk about without ones boots being |
,oiled with mud. The season is not yet in full |
wing. The guests at the hotels are mostly re-
,crters, British, American and French, who have
ZONE in vain to Interview DR.. Herr, or to see him
removed TO London as a step to hearing at the
Bow Street Police Court, the only one in which,
inder the treaty, his case can he heard But
hey will have to wait long time. and il may
very well happen that the Doctor will only leave
rankervle Hotel borne on mems shoulders, with
lis feet foremost. He is dangerously ill and the