Arizona republican., 1900-12-03
PRINCE kRENBERG
 BEHIRD THE BARS

Yielding to pressure eXerci-ed by the Bavarian royal family and by other nCn-PruSsian courts, the kaiser has authorized a relaxation in the severity of the penitentiary regulations in the case of Prince Prosper Arenberg, who was Condemn ned to fifteen years penal servitude for a particularly atrccious murder perpetrate6 whi,e serving as an officer of the colonial forces in Ger man West Africa. The prince, ins cad of being conveyed in handcuffs and in the ordinary prison car from Berlin to the military prison at Hanover, ma 1e the journey by means of special train in the private car belonging to his old CT brother, the duke, and while he has been incarcerated in an ordinary prs on cell yet he is permitted his mea $ served by a special caterer in the town. He is to be allowed to seect any form of labor congenial to him self, and he is not only permitted 10 hold himself aloof from all other pris oners, taking his exercise by himself but Is likewise exempt from the super vision and authority of al. the minor prison officials. Only the highest off,
  trol, and by a special order received from the minister of war at Berlin. they are to be careful to invariably ad- dress him as your highness."
 Of course. these exceptional favors granted in his case have excited no end of criticism in the press, which not un- naturally sees therein an indication of his speedy release by virtue of an inn perial pardon. It is difficult, however to blame the emperor or the Berlin authorities unduly in the matter. If they have accorded exceptional favors, 1t must be borne in mind that this is an altogether exceptional case-the first instance of prince belonging to one O. the sovereign houses of Europe being sentenced to penal servitude for mur der. and that the strongest kind of pressure has been brought to bear up- on the kaiser in the mans behalf, not only by all the royal personages of the German empire, but likewise by the entire conservative element of the higher grades of the German aristoc- racy.
 The letter addressed by the soi- disant duke of Warren to the Paris Temps, published in that paper recent ly, and cabled over to this country, merely serves still further to convince all sensible people of the futility of tha nobiliary pretensions of this eXtraOrdi- nary youth, which excited such ridi- cu'e when he was in this country a few weeks ago. After asserting in this let ter that he is of royal origin" and . s0enGed on his fathers side from William the Conqueror and Warren I-antagenet, he concludes by declar- ing: "On the maternal side I descend from Saint Peter Fourier and from the venerable Jeanne d'Arc." Now, the latter. who figures in history as the Maid Of Orleans, lived and died, as her title implies a vesta!, and indeed, one of the principal arguments brought forward in favor of her canonization now in progress was her life Of celib- acy, which was likewise instrumental in securing her Justification. By de- claring that he is descended from the Maid of Orleans, the soi-disant duke of Warren, therefore, places himself in antagonism with the Vatican, from which he professes to have received his title of duke, in return for a sum of money paid partly in cash and partly in notes.
 The 'duke,' may add, belongs to no Partisan or French provincial! club, is, like his mother, utterly unknown in Parisian or French society, and has the appearance, the manners, and the ac- cent not of a man Of birth CT breeding. but quite the reverse.
 Under any circumstance NJ. War rcn has no right whats oever to make use of the title of duke in France for the French law particularly eXacts that when a Frenchman receives title from a foreign sovereign he should not assume it until he has had it registered by the grand chancellor of the Order of the Legion of Honor, at Paris. and received the latter's sane zion to usa it. The grand chancellor has, within the last few weeks. denisd all knowledge of any such person as the duke Of Warren, whose home in Paris is in a dingy apartment, in a cheap quarter of the French metropo- lis.
 So much curiosity has been aroused