The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-30
SHOUTS HIS ABUSE
Of WILLIAM OF
GERMANY
EACH TIME AFTER HE is FREED
FROM PRISON FOR LESE
MAJESTE.
is GERMAN SHOEMAKER
Soon Have Served Fifteen Years
Reform Of the Law Is
Suggested.

Berlin, April 90. 9.-Strange methods
of earning a living are frequently EN-
ployed in this strenuous age o. fierce
competition, but the mott remarkable
way OF procuring food and lodg ng al
other people. expense has been in
vented bv German shoemaker named
George Schoane, formerly a resident
Of Goeritz. He makes business OF
insulting the German EmpTor and he
has pursued this occupation with IN
varying success fer the last 10 years
Schoene received a good education
in the Prussian state chOols up 10 t1e
age of IA, and afteIward at various
supplementary night ana technical in
sttutions. At the age Of 10 he was ap-
prenticcd to a shoemak : and piled
this humble calling for tx years, dur
ing which, like many other young Ger
man workmen. he became imbued with
more or less sooialistic ideas.
He came to The conclusion that it
was unjust for him to be Obliged TO
work hard for f3 hours a day in order
tc earn a weekly salary of ST. while
other people are enjoying a superduity
Of wealth, ana re combined with tn ase
theorio a rooted dislike for any kind
Of labor
One day be stood in the street in
front of the principal police station
IN Goolitz and shouted at the Top of
his voice a long ana vehement de.
nunciat'on of the German Emperor.
Iasulting the Kaiecr.
A crowd gathered and' fistened ID
astonishment to this torrent ~ nhryn
One terrified citizen da,hel into The
pol,ce station to fetch the police.
Schoene was arrested aud indicted on
a cnaree Of lese majestic AT tie tri7l
he offered no explanation of his con
duct whatever. and the court in view
of his previou. good record passed the
minimum sentence for this offense--
that of two months Imprisonment
This was p eci:ely what Scoene de-
sired. He had come to the conclusion
in the course of his meditations that
it would be an extremely clever thing
to live at the expense Of The commun-
~ n one of the state prisons. He was
not quito sure whether the pleasure
of a life without care would sufii-
cienQy compensate -or the loss Of
liberty. but his two months expert
euce in prison allayed his doubts on
this point
II thought prison was great i'm
provemcn, on the hard life he had
lived as a swcated shoemaker. and ne
made mp his mind that his inca5cera,
ton would not terminate at the end OF
the TWO months.
When he wa released from the
prison at Goerltz Schoene walked
straight through the town TO the exact
spot in froat Of the pIincipal uoli-e
station where he had comGitted the
first offen e, and proceeded ence more
10 bawl on at the top Of his voice In
suits aimed at the Kaiser Again 3
crowd assembled, and again the police
swcoped down and arrested the cul-
prit. This being the .econi offense he
was sentenced to six months imp-is.
onment. which he enjoyed az much
as the first
Did II Anain.
When he was released for the sec
oni tine he again walked 70 tse sam7
spot. shouted his familiar abuse If the
Emperor, and submitted With feelings
Of the keenest pleasure to arrest Tbs
time he was sentenced to one years
Imprisonment This proce was re.
peated time after time until ScAo ane
The authorities have made various
those brief intervals required 10 walk
IRON the prison gates to the SPOT
where he perpetratel the crime Of le e
maiests
had pent 10 years In rf; on eyce2i Tor
attempts ~ evade the nCce SHY Of
sending Sehoeno TO pr'son for the
onense. They have caused hin TO be
medically examined with a view 10 OBJ
tanning a declaration that ~ . lnnaii"
he is not responsible fer his action.
The physicians however. declare that
he IL perfectly sane German law In
rega1d u insults or even d.srespeciful
remarks about the Kaiser IS triagent
and once the omeuse of less maies'e
mas been committed The pe1petratoT
must be sent TO prison The only way
70 prevent Schoene from living the
life be has chosen would BE - reto-n
the law relating 70 lese majeste ana
this cannot be done because the
powers that be in Germany believe
that the foundations OF the empire
would thereby be impsrilsd.
Recently schoene was released f-om
prison after serving a sentence Of two
years. and n Immediately repeated
the ohense in the Oh familiar way.
He has nov been ssutencsi TO four