The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-09
PRINCE HELD
 FOR PERJURY Friend of Kaiser is
 Arrested. ZU EULENBURG IS ACCUSED Charged With Swearing Falsely at
 Harden Trial. Former German Ambassador at viennn Detained at a Hospital sna His Brilliant Career H.s
 Ended.

Berlin. May s-Prince Philip zu Flu. lenburg was today placed under actual arrest. The crown prosecutor took this step as a result of the testimony given by two men at the Princes bedside yesterday to the effect that Prince zu Eulenburg had been guilty of wrong- full actions with them twenty-five years ago.
 Prince zu Eulenburg was involved in the court scandal in Berlin that grew out of the charges brought by Maximilien Harden. editor of Die Zu- kunft last summer. At the second Har- den trial the court declared that all the charges brought against Harden were absolutely without foundation. Aftar the conclusion of the Harden case the public prosecutor started proceedings against Zu Eulenburg and the arrest of today Is outcome.
 The Prince was taken into eustodv at his castle at Liebenberg and brought in an automobile forty miles to the Charity Hospital. where he was de- tained pending a further investigations of a charge of perjury made against him.
 The Princes arrest is taken to mean the irretrievable ruin of this brilliant man, who was at one time a confident. ial friends of Emperor William The prince had been nearer to His Majesty during the greater part of his reign than any other German subject He might have been Chancellor of the Em@ pire if he had not refused the respon- ability Incident to this post
 This he did positively because sto- ries of secret misconduct have 1ong been circulating against him, SO much so that he has lived on the brink or disclosure for the past ten years. He voluntarily gave up the position ek German Ambassador at Vienia in f90z .aa..e a..ss4N s& the time, a group of hts enemies threatened him with exposure.
 Alter resigning at Vienna the Prince returned to Berlin, where ne was o1tQn with the Emperor.
 The statement that Prince zu Eu- l lenburg advised the xcrnperor in polit- | teal matters has been made by men who Il sought to dlspiaee the Prince In ths l Imperial confidence by intimatinG that there was danger to the State in the l alleged fact that the Emperor turned 1 from ilis constitutional advisors to .
 friend behind a screen, who was re- l sponsibie to no one but Ills Majesty l himself This constantly repeated statement never has been confirmed.
 but everybody In official life has known | that Emperor William was delighted with the companionship of the Prince. ! whose conversation was always charm- 1 ing, full of wit, anecdote and dramatic
  now and then with graceful and sem timental expressions
 His epigrams were more feared than | those of any other tongue about the court The Prince is 8 gifted writer. | and is the author of no less than eleven volumes of fairy tales, short stories | and poems and several plays which he | published under the name of svenssn
 The Princes charm of manner did not desert him today. He Is sick man | and the joints of his iegs are swollen | from nauritis. but when physician representing the examining judge tn- | formed him that he was well enough fe
 be taken a prisoner to the hospital. he | quickly called his valet, who dressed | him with difficulty, the Princes afnia- | ble talk being interrupted ever now | and then by grips of pain.
 l As the Prince, in the second Harasn
 trial at Berlin. swore to his complete l innocence of the practices insinuated by Harden in Die Zukunft. the present l action against him is based upon the charge of perjury.
 l Police agents watched the Prince | through all last night. standing n
 room adjoining his sleeping aparsmenh and Keeping him under Observation through an open door. The Prince was | rastleas until about midnight. from
 which hour he slept quietly until long after daybreak.
 One of his sons. who has been his constant companion recently. aceompss | nted him to the door of the hospital : It Is possible that the Prince will pc released in s250,o00 bond.
 | Prince Zu Gutenberg is presumed to | have in his possession gerat many letters, possibly more than one hum dred, from Emperor William contain ing oppression of the imperial estin- ate of leading personages in Germany and of some European sovereigns. The
 -enarts concerning these letters prob
 shIv are exaggerated. but even 90 1 there would appear to be snougn
 trtth in the rumor to place 1t within inc princess power to create much em- harrassment by their publication.