The record-union., 1896-12-13
Who is Now in Jail on Charges Of
Perjury and Forgery.
To be fastened, the Government
Taking the View That the Longer
the Affair is Kept Before the Public
the Worse the Scandals Attached
Thereto Will Become, and the
Revelations Already Made Increase.

BERLIN, Dec 12.-Since the En-
peror gave Freiherr Marschall Won
Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign Al
fairs, an audience at PotSdam on
Thursday, it has transpired that 1t is
the intention Of the Government to has
ten the tria! of Major Won Tausch, the
Chief of the Political Police, who is now
in Jail under charges of perjury ana
forgery, taking the view that the longer
the affair is kept before the pubnc the
worse. The scandals. attached thereto
will become public, and the excitement
over the revelations already made Will
increase.
Major Won Tausch has employed the
eminent advocate, DR.. Schwindt, to de-
fend him, and has also made an appli-
cation for his release on bail pending
his trial, but this request has been re-
fused, and he will have to remain IN
Jail until he is arraigned in court.
Failing to obtain his clients liberty on
bail, DR.. SchWindt asked the pubic
prosecutor not to call the case for
month, as the defense would require
that length of time at least to prepare
for trial, and the postponement OF the
case until the end of January is prob
able, despite the desire of the prosecu-
ton to expedite matters.
Besides frequently alluding to in
stances Of Tausch's alleged crimes of
forgery or his Indictment thereto, the
newspapers are filled with incidents of
his life. His father, now dead, was for
a long time Minister to the Prussian
lav ,h11r Cn1
mother. who is still living, resides in
Schwerin with married daughter, and
another of her daughters, who is lady
in waiting to the Grand Duchess OF
Mecklenburg- -Schwerin, was married to
the late Russian General Won Peters.
Baron Won Tausch has numerous
aristocratic connections, and still mas
powerful friends. 1t is recalled that it
is only six weeks since he received the
decoration of the Red Eagle, with the
Order of the Crown, which is always
bestowed as a special mark Of imperial
favor.
In the search for the men who are be-
hind Tausch, the inspirer of his attacks
upon ex-Chancellor Caprivi, General
Bronsart Won Schillendorf, Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein and others, the
question arises, who recommended to
the Emperor the conferrlng OF such
distinction upon the chief of the secret
police. Count Philip Won Eulenburg,
the German ambassador to Austria,
frankly admits having procured him
the Austrian decoration, which was
conferred upon him by Emperor Fran
els Joseph for the sole reason OF his
valuable services on the occasion or
the Kaiser's visit to Abizzia, but sur
misses based upon good grounds traces
the recommendation to the Kaiser that
Tausch be decorated with the Red Eagle
and the Grown to somebody comprised
in the immediate encourage of the En-
peror.
Naturally the anti Bismarckian press
suggests the probability that Prince
Bismarck's Vaccinations influenced
Tausch's attacks upon Count Caprivi.
Baron Marschall Won Beiberstein and
General Bronsart Won Schillendorf, but
the best Informed opinion wholly abb
solves both the old Chancellor and his
SON. Count Herbert Bismarck, from
any conenction with the affair.
Major Won Tausch had numerous
agents throughout Germany who We're
employed in reporting to their CHIEF
what they could learn, and often what
they did not learn, about the private life
of prominent personages, and the news
papers now recall Prince Bismarcks
saying: "These scoundrels have to lie
in order to live"
Although Tausch is supposed to have
DESTROYED a large number of his docu-
ments before he was arrested, grea-
number of others are still in existence,
and these have been seized. From the
character of these papers it is safe TO
assume that several high officers may be
required to clear themselves of serious
accusations.
Among the obnoxious stories of the
political police has been the concoction
of plots of an alarmist character. An
instance of this is recalled in the
kaiser's going to Thorin some time ago,
where his majesty used menaoing lam
guage to the Poles. Major Won Tausck
had preceded the Kaiser to ThOrin by
several days, and upon its arrival there
guarded the Emperors train with his
suite of escort police. When the train
was on it's way back to Berlin Tausch
caused it to take unexpected detours
from the main line, declaring that he
lad discovered a conspiracy against the
Emperor's life, though nobody now be-
lieves that any such plot ever existed
or that Tausch thought it did.
Regarding Baron Won Bieberstein. it
now seems as though he had secured a
lasting vindication, yet the Berlin
Post" in its issue to-day. criticizes the
trial of Baron Won Luetzow and his fell
low defendants, and asserts that the
question viii be raised in the Landtag
why the Minister of Justice allowed
Marschall to play the trick role of wit
ness, counsel and virtual conductor OF
the prosecution.
At a meeting of the Berlin Municipal
Council yesterday Herr Stadthagen, So
cialist, protested against a portion of
the taxes imposed upon the taxpayers of
Berlin going to the support of persons
like Tausch and Luetzow.
The Emperor and the imperial fam
lily will leave Potsdam December 2Sth
and reside in the Schloss liberty for two
months. At the close of the Berlin sea-
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