Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-08
Aftermath of German Court
Scandal.
RESULT OF HARDEN CHARGE
Perjury Immediate Accusation
Against Kaiser's Friend.
BAIL NAY AMOUNT TO $3.50, 900
Seizure Made at Castle-Prisone
Confined in Hospital-Brilliant
Career of Former Ambassador.

BERLIN. May S-Prince Philip zu Eu-
lengurg 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 yes
terday to the effect that Prince zu Eulen-
burg had been guilty Of wrongful actions
with them twenty-five years ago. Prince
zu Eulenburg was involved in the court
scandal that grew out of the charges
brought by Maximilien Harden, editor Of
Die Zukunft, last summer. At the Sec
ond Harden trial the court declared that
all the charges made by Harden were
absolutely without foundation. After the
conclusion Of the Harden case the public
prosecutor started proceedings against zu
Eulenburg, and the arrest of today is the
outcome.
The prince was taken into custody at
his castle at Libenberg and brought in
an automobile ambulance forty miles TO
the Charity Hospital. where he was de-
tanned pending further investigation OF a
charge of perjury made against him. The
princes arrest is taken to mean the ir-
retrievable ruin Of this brilliant man who
was at one time a confidential friend of
Emperor william.
Shadow Of Disgrace.
jesty during the greater part Of his reign
than any other German subject. He
might have been chancellor Of the empire
IL he had not refused the responsibility
incident to this post. This he did prob
ably 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 past ten years.
He voluntarily gave up the position Of
German ambassador at Vienna in 1902.
because. AS was commonly gossiped at
the time. a group of his enemies threat
ened him with exposure.
After resfgning at Vienna the prince
returned to Berlin, where he was often
with the emperor. The statement that
Prince Eulenburg 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
who was responsible to no one but his
maj esty himself.
This constantly repeated statement never
has been confirmed, but everybody in
official life has known that Emperor Will
liam was delighted with the companion
ship of the prince. whose conversation
was always charming. full of wit, anec-
dote and dramatic climaxes. natural and
easy. and touched now and then with
graceful and sentimental expressions. His
epigrams were more feared than those of
any other tongue about the court.
The prince is a gifted writer. and il
the father of no less than eleven volumes
of fairy tales, short stories and poems.
His charm of manner did not desert him
today. He is sick man and the joints
of his legs are swollen from neuritis. but
when a. physician representing the ex-
aiming judge informed him that he was
well enough to be taken a prisoner to
the hospital. he quickly called his valet,
who dressed him with dificulty, the
princes amiable talk the while being
interrupted every now and then by
grimaces Of pain.
Emperor's Letters.
AS the prince in the second Harden trial
at Berlin swore to his complete inno-
cence of the practices insinuated by Har-
den in Die Zukunft, the present action
against him is based upon the charge of
perjury.
Police agents watched the prince
through all last night. standing in a
room adjoining 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
daybreak. One Of his sons. who has been
his constant companion recently. accom-
panied him to the door of the hospital.
1t is possible that the prince will be re-
leased in $3.50 900 bail.
Prince Zu Eulenburg is presumed to
have in his possession a great many let
tevs possibly more than one hundred.
from Emperor william, containing ex-
pressions of the imperial estimate of lead
ing personages in Germany and of some
European sovereigns. The reports con-
corning these letters probably are ex-
aggerated, but even so there would ap-
pear to be enough truth In the rumor to
place it within the princes power to
create much embarrassment by their pub