The San Francisco call., 1908-05-09
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kAISER'S FAvORlTF
is UNDER ARREST
Prince Philip zu Eulenburg
Taken Into Custody on
Charge of Perjury
IrretrievabIe Ruin Threatens
NobIeman as Result of
Harden Trial

BERLIN. May S.-Prince Philip zu
Eulenburg was today placed under
actual arrest The crown prosecutor
took this step as a result of the testi-
mony given by two men at the princes
bedside yesterday to the effect that
Prince zu EuIenburg had been guilty OF
wrongful actions with them 20 years
ago.
Prince gu Eulenburg was Anvolved in
the court scandal in Berlin that grew
out of the charges brought by. Maxi
milan Harden, editor of Die Zukunft t.
last summer. At the second Harden
trial the court declared that all the
charges made by Harden were abso-
lutely without foundation. After the
termination of the Harden cases the
public prosecutor started proceedings
against Eulenburg and the arrestSof to-
day is the outcome. The prince was
taken into custody at his castle atIieb-
enberg and brought in an ambulance
automobile 40 miles to the Charity hos
pital, where he. was detained pending
further investigation of a charge of
perjury made against him.
MEANS IRRETRIEvABLE RUIN
The princes arrest is taken to mean
the .irretrievable ruin of this brilliant
man, who was at one time a conf
dental 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 en-
pire if he had not refused the respon-
sibility 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 disclosure for the
last 10 years. He voluntarily gave up
the position Of German ambassador at
Vienna in 1902 because, as was COM
monty gossiped at the time, a group of
his enemies threatened him with ex-
posure. After resigning at Vienna the
prince returned to Berlin, where he was
often with the emperor.
He is a sick man and the joints of
his legs are swollen from neuritis, but
when a, physician representing the ex-
amining judge informed him that he
was we'll 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.
PERJURY Is CHARGED
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 adjoining his sleeping apart
ment and keeping him under observa-
ton 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 re-
Gently, accompanied him to the door of
the hospital. 1t is possible that the
prince win be released in $250.000 bail
The prince is presumed to have I'm his
possession great many letters, pos
sibly more than 100, from Emperor
William containing expressions of the
imperial estimate of leading personages
in Germany and of some European SOW
ereigns. The reports concerning these
letters probably are exaggerated. but
even so there would appear. TO be
enough truth in the rumor to place 1t