The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-23
MILITARY BULLIEs IN EUROPE.
Cases In Which Army Onicerp Showed
How Uneven Justices Hand Can ne.

Cases In which Army Onicers Showed
How Uneven Justice's Hand Can he.
The peculiar relations between soldier and
civilian In were illustrated last month
by the assassination of the engineer, Lehman,
by the Lieutenant, Baron Bruesewitz, in a Carls-
ruhe beer garden. Bruesewitz killed Lehman
because Lehman was slow to apologize for 40
cidentally rubbing his arm against Bruesewitz's
chair. Persons who may regard Bruesewitz as
an exceptionally arrogant oficer and the atti-
tude he assumed toward Lehman as a rare
thing In Continental life may get light from an
incident OF Vienna life about two weeks ago.
At l0la o'clock in the evening an omnibus full
OF passengers was rolling down the Mariahilfer
strasse, near the Kaiser strasse, when Lieut..
Rudolf Won Hesse of His Imperial Majesty's
Fourteenth Artillery started TO cross the street
with nve young women whom he was taking
home from a music hall. The driver OF the om-
nious shouted n warning to Hesse. but Hesso
Ignored him and walked out directly in tho way
OF the omnibus. The driver bore down on the
brake. pulled In his horses with might and
main. aud brought the omnibus up against tho
curb at the risk of an upset. Meantime Hesse
sauntered sercnely on to the opposite side Of tho
street without Fastening a step. Tho driver
called TO him:
Cant you get out of the way, sir"
The officer at once threw aside his coat, called
to the women to wait on the walk for him, and
unsheathed his sword. He ran at the omnibus.
halted at the forward wheels. and brought
down the sword on the drivers hand. still rest
Ing on tho brake. He cut of two fingers and
stuck the driver in the shoulder. The driver
tunbled down from his box. The passengers
hurried from the omnibus. Among them was .
Captain In uniform. AS soon as no saw the
Captain, Hesse saluted and reported:
" Mr.. Captain. / report most obediently that
this fellow shouted at me and l gave him a little
lesson with my sword"
Exactly" replied the Captain. Your con-
duct was perfectly correct"
The officer told 4 policeman his story. called o
CAP, ana with his young women drove away.
while the omnibus driver was carried TO a hos
pital TO undergo an operation. and the omnibus
ana passengers were left TO be got out OF their
difficulty by Others. Hesse was not arrested by
the Vienna police. and he was not even repri-
msnded by his superior officers, The driver lost
has hahd anu mis- emp!oymsnt.
The BIdschc L1ndesb0'r tells OF an army
paymastcr In Carlsruhe who on one Of tho last
nights In October tried to have fun with q
photographer and an engraver whom he met as
he was going to his quarters. He caught them
gether. and the photographer flung him OF. The
paymnster drew his sword and slashed at him.
The two civilians closed in on the officer. threw
him down, and oisarmed him. They were ar
rested and fined. The paymaster OF course was
the men through before they could ov%erpower
him. AT all events. he was not tried and was
not punished In any military or civil court,
Happenings similar TO these have been re-
ported from GlogRn In and from two
Hungarian towns. They 60 merely to prove. how
ever. what Br~uesewitz and Hesse and the Carls-
ruhe paymastcr proved. that in central Europe
tho civilian has few rights which an army on
Ger may not override with IMMUNITY.