The San Francisco call., 1896-12-13
MAJOR TAUSCH'S
BLACK RECORD
Dark Scheme Cooked Up
by the Secret Service
Chief.
Constantly Frightened the Kaiser
by His Faxed Reports of
Impending Danger.
But as Prince smarck Expressed It:
"These Scoundrels Have to Lie
in Order to Live"

BERLIN, GERMANY, Dec. 12-Since the
Emperor gave Freiherr Marschall Won
Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
an audience at Potsdam on Thursday i.
has transpired it Is the intention of the
Government to hasten the trial of Major
Won Tausch, the chief of the political
police, who is now in Jail under charges of
perjury and forgery. taking the view that
the longer the affair is kept:.before the pub
lie the worse. The scandals attached
thereto will become public and the excite
ment over the revelations already made
will increase.
Major Won Tausch has employed the
eminent advocate, DR.. Schwindt, to de-
fend him and also made an application for
his release on bail pending his trial, but
this request has been refused and he
will have to remain in Jail until he Is
arraigned in court. Failing to obtain his
clients liberty on bail, DR.. Schwindt then
asked the pnbl1c prosecutor not to call the
case for a month as the defense would re-
quire that length of time at least to pre-
pare for trial and the postponement of the
case until the end of January is probable
despite the desire of the prosecution to
expedite matters.
Besides frequently alluding to instances
OF Tausch's alleged crimes of forgery and
perjury or his indictment thereto the
newspapers are filled with incidents of his
life. His father, now dead. was for long
time Minister to the Prussian court for
Mecklenburg-S -Schwerin. His mother, who
is still living, resides IN Schwerin with a
married daughter, and another of her
daughters, who is a lady in waiting to the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-S -Schwerin,
was married to the late Russian General
Won Peters. Baron von Tausch has numer-
Gus aristocratic connections and still has
powerful friends. 1t Is recalled that it is
only six weeks since he received the dec
Grafton of the Red Eagle with the order of
the crown, which is always bestowed as a
special mark of i'm perial favor.
In the search for the men who are be-
hind Tausch, the inspirer of his attacks
upon ex- Chancellor Capriyi, General Bron-
sart Won SchelIendori, Baron Marschall Won
Bieberstein and others, the question arises,
Who recommended to the Emperor the
comforting of such distinction upon the
chief of the secret police?
Count Philip Won Eulenb burg, the Ger
man EN- bassador to Austria, frankly
admits having procured HIM the Austrian
decoration which was conferred upon him
by Emperor Francis Joseph for the sole
reason of the valuable services on the
occasion of the Kaiser's visit to Abazzia
but surmises based upon good grounds
trace the recommendation to the Kaiser
that Tausch be decorated with the Red
Eagle and the crown to some body COM
prised in the immediate encourage of the
Emperor.
Naturally the anti Bismarckian press
suggests the probability that Prince Bis
marck and Vaccinations informed
Tausch's attacks upon Count Caprlvi,
6 eneral Bronsart Won Schellendorf, but
the best-informed opinion wholly absolves
both the old Chancellor and his son, Count
Herbert Bismarck, from any connection
with the matter.
Major Won Tausch had numerous agents
throughout Germany, who were 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 newspapers now re-
call Prince Bismarck's saying, "These
scoundrels have to lie in order to live.'
Although Tausch is supposed to have
destroyed large number of his docu-
ments before he was arrested a great
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 officials 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 in
stance of this is recalled in the Kaiser's
going to THORN some time ago, where his
Majesty used menacing language to the
Poles. Major Won Tausch had preceded
the Kaiser to Thorin by several days, and
upon its arrival there guarded the EN-
peror's train with his suite of escort police.
When the train was on its way back to
Berlin Tausch caused It to take mex
pected dctours from the main line, de-
claring that he had discovered conspir-
acy against the Emperor's life, though
nobody now believes that any such plot
ever existed or that Tausch thought it did.
Regarding Baron Won Bieberstein, it
now seems as though he had secured q
lasting vindication, yet the Berlin Post in
its issue of to-day criticlzes the trial of
Baron von Luetzow and his fellow-de-
PENDANTS, and asserts that the question
will be raised i'm the Landtag why the
Minister of Justice allowed the Marschall
to play the triple role of witness, counsel
and virtual conductor of the prosecution.
At meeting of the Berlin Municipal
Council yesterday Herr Stadthagen, So
cialist, protested against portion of the
taxes imposed upon the taxpayers of Ber-
lin going to support such persons like
Tausch and LuetZow.
The Emperor and the imperial family
will leave Potsdam on December % and
reside in the Schloss in Berlin for two
months. After the close OF the Berlin
season the Emperor and Empress will 60
on a six weeks yachting cruise in the
Mediterranean and other waters, visiting
Athens and Constantinople in March.
The Krupp syndicate is arranging to
purchase the Brazilian system OF RAILWAYS
and will pay therefor 3O0, 100000 marks.
The American Ladies' Club of Berlin
will hold fair on December IL in the
Palace Hotel