Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
NARDIN'S HONOR
IS INDICATED
FAv0RlTE OF KAISER IS DE-
THR0NED
PRINCE DIseRAcED BY COURTS
ORDER
Charges Made by German Editor Are
Proved by Arrest of Gutenberg.
Taken from Sick Bed in
Hospital
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BERLIN, May S.--Prince Philip Zu
Gutenberg was today placed under ac-
tual arrest. The crown princes tutor
took this step as a result of the testl-
mony given by two men at the princes
bedside yesterday to the effect that
Prince Zu Gutenberg had been guilty
of wrongful actions with them twenty
five years ago.
Prince Zu Gutenberg was involved in
the court scandal in Berlin that grew
out of the charges brought by Maxi
milan Harden, editor of Die Zukuntt,
last summer.
At the second Harden trial the court
declared that all the charges made by
Harden were without foundation.
After the termination of the Harden
case the public prosecutor started pro-
ceedings against Gutenberg and the
arrest Of today is the outcome. The
prince was taken into custody at his
castle at I.lebenberg and brought in an
ambulance automobile forty miles to
the charity hospital, where he was de-
tanned pending a further investigation
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 conhden-
tial friend of Emperor william. Inc
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 en-
pire If he had not refused the re-
sponsibility incident to this post.
This he did possibly because stories
OF secret misconduct have long been
circulating against him; so much so,
that he has lived on the brink of dis
closure for the past ten years. He
rr11t a
German ambassador at Vienna in 1902
be cause, as was commonly gossiped at
the time, a group of his enemies threat
ened him with exposure.
After resignins at Vienna the prince
returned to Berlin, where he was often
with the emperor.
The statement that Prince Zu Eulen-
berg advised the emperor in political
matters has been made by men who
sought to displace the prince in the
imperial confidence by intimating that
there was danger to the state in the
alleged. fact that the emperor turned
from his constitutional advisers to
friend behind a screen, who was re-
sponsible to no one but his majesty
himself.
This constantly repeated statement
never has been confirmed, but every
body in official life has known that
Emperor William was delighted with
conversation was always charmful, full
of wit, anecdote and dramatic climaXes,
natural and easy, and touched now and
then with graceful and sentimental eX-
pressons. His epigrams were moro
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 published under the name of
Svenson.
The princes charm of manner did
not desert him today
Prince Is Ill
He. is a sick man, and the joints OF
his legs are swollen from neutritis, but
when a physician representing the eX-
amining judge informed him that he
was well enough to be taken pris-
oner to the hospital, he quickly called
his valet and dressed with difficulty,
the princes amiable talk the while be-
ing interrupted every now and then by
grimaces 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 per-
jury.
Police agents watched him through
all last night. standing in a room ad-
joining his sleeping apartment and
keeping him under observation through
an open door. The prince was restless
until about midnight, from which hour
he slept quietly until long after day.
break. One of his sons, who had been
his constant companion recently, ac-
companed him to the door of the hos
pitai It is possible that the prince
will be released in $250,000 bail. The
prince is presumed to have in his pos
session a great many letters, possibly
more than one hundred, from Emperor
William, containing expressions of the
imperial estimate OF leading person.
ages In Germany and of some European
sovereigns.
The reports concerning these letters
probably are exaggerated, but even SO,
there would appear to be enough truth
in the runlor to place II within the
princes power to create much embar-
rassment by their publication.
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