The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-09
RUIN OvERTAKES
GERMAN PRINCE
Phillip Zu Eulenburg Under Ar
rest and Prisoner in
Hospital.
HARDEN'S STORY WAS TRUE
DlsGRACED MAN CLOSE FRIEND
OF THE KAISER.
HARDEN'S STORY WAS TRUE

Berlin, May S.-Prince Phillip Zu Eulen-
burg was today placed under actual ar
rest. The crown prosecutor took this step
as result of the testimony given by two
men at the princes bedside yesterday
TO the effect that Prince Zu Eulenburg
had beer guilty of wrongful 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 Maxmilien -Har-
den, editor of Die Zukunft, last summer.
AT the second Harden trial the court de-
clared that all the charges made by HaT-
den were absolutely without foundation.
After the termination of the Harden case
the public prosecutor started proceedings
against Eulenburg and the arrest OF to-
day is the outcome. The prince was taken
into custody at his castle at LiebenberS
and brought in an ambulance automobile
forty miles to the charity hospital, where
he was detained pending a further inves-
ugation of charge OF perjury made
against him.
Ruin for the Prince.
The princes arrest is taken to mean
the irretrievable ruin of this brilliant
man. who was at one time a confidential
friend 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 empire if he had
not refused the responsibility incident to
stories of secret misconduct have long
been circulating against him, so much so
that he has lived on the brink of disclos-
ure for the past ten years. He voluntar-
lily gave up the position of German am
bassador at Vienna in 1902 because, as
was commonly gossped at the time, a
group Of his enemies threatened him with
exposure.
After resigning at Vienna the prince
returned to Berlin, where he was often
with the emperor.
Delighted the Emperor.
The statement that Prince Zu Eulen-
burg advised the emperor in political mat
ters has been made by men who sought
TO displace the prince in the imperial con-
fidence by lnumatng that there was dan
ger to the state in the alleged fact that
the emperor turned from his COnsttu-
ttonal advisers TO a friend behind a screen
who was responsible to no one but his
majesty 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 con-
versation was always charmful. full of
wit, anecdote and dramatic climaXes, nat
ural and easy, and touched. now and
then, with graceful and sentimental eX-
pressions. His epigrams were more feared
than those of any other tongue about
the court. The prince is a gifted writer
and is the author of no less than eleven
volumes of fairy tales, short stories and
poems and several plays which he pub
Eshed was under the name SvensOn.
Nerve Did Not Desert Him.
The princes charm of manner did not
desert him today. He is a sick man and
the joints of his legs are swollen from
neuritis, but when a physician represent
ing the examining judge informed him
that he was well enough to be taken a
prisoner to the hospital he quickly called
his valet and dressed with difficulty, the
princes amiable talk the while being in
terrupted every now and then by grim
aces of pain.
AS the prince in the second Harden trial
at Berlin swore to his innocence of the
practices insinuated by Harden in Die
Zukunft the presentation against him is
based upon the charge of perjury. Police
agents watched him through all last night
Standing in a room adjoining his sleeping
department. and keeping him under obser-
walton through an open door The prince
was restless until about midnight. from
which hour he slept quietly until long
after daybreak. One of his sons, who
has been his constant companion recently.
accompanied him to the door of the hos
pital.
1t is possible that the prince will he
released in $4,000 bail The prince is pre-
sumed to have in his possession a great
many letters. possibly more than 100,
from Emperor William, containing eX-
pressions of the imperial estimate of lead
ing personages in German and of some