Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
NAME TERRIFIED HIM
Native Police Called 1t Kor-
perverletzung-
WITH AN AWFUL ADJECTIVE
Canadian Student Plucked Bunch of
Cherries at Roadside.
IT HAPPENED IN GERMANY
Owner Saw Him, Court Did the Rest.
Fined and Chased Out
of Country.
WITH AN AWFUL ADJECTIVE
IT HAPPENED IN GERMANY

NEW YORK. December pa young
Canadian student of mining who thinks
he has suffered good deal at the hands
of German police authorities arrived yes
terday on the Lusitania. He is George
Stewart Scott, a graduate of the school
of mines at the University of Toronto, a
former assistant there to one of the pro-
fessors, and due to go back to his old de-
partment next year. Scott was locked
up in Saxony on the charge that he stole
cherries and maltreated the owner Of the
trees-was guilty of schwere Korperver-
letzung. to be exact. Ten days ago, a
good month after the imposition of SEN
tence, he was told that he would have to
leave Saxony forthwith under pain of
more days in jail.
When he talked with men from the
newspapers yesterday, Scott wanted 1t
made plain that he hadn't been playing
student pranks. IT didn't go to Germany
to have a good time" said he. Il went
there to work. 1 don't want anybody to
think that l was expelled from Saxony
because I wouldn't conform to discipline
Is of Serious Mind.
Scott appears like a serous-minded
young man. He wears gold-bowed spec
tacles which rest rather far down on his
nose and he looks at you through them
as though he meant what he says. He
isn't bit the young Canadian off to Ger
many for few riotous wanderjahre.
Last August Scott left the academy at
Freiberg, where he was studlng, for the
open country Whereabouts. He was out
in search of some geological specimens.
so he took a walking stick and biologists
hammer. In the neighborhood of Tharandt
no ri cherries
hanging so near the road that he could
reach tor them without committing tres
pass. He was thirsty and he made
grab for branch and pulled down fist
full of the fruit.
Owner Was Looking.
But the owner happened to be looking.
He came on the jump and began to say
harsh things to Scott in German. Scott
doesn't know much German beyond what
he heard in the classroom and the vocab-
ulary Of the owner of the cherries was
quite over his head. More than that,
he is a bit deaf. and it wouldn't have
helped him much II he had known the
whole German profane dictionary
He answered as best he could. But his
words, too, were quite beyond the COM
prehension of the German. for that per-
son was deaf also. All of sudden the
ground and grabbed for his throat.
He got just one good feel of the Cana
dams larynx. Scott came back with q
left and right which dropped the Ger
up and held him down while Scott pick
ed up his property and made for the
railroad station to get train back to
Freiberg.
Collared by Police. -
Scott hadn't more than got off the train
before the police collared him. They
took him to jail and fed him on black
bread and water. They wouldn't let
him call q doctor. and they wouldn't al
low him the common privilege Of a pen
and paper wherewith to write TO his
friends. They just kept him there be-
hind the bars.
In two or three days some Of his
friends. who. Hike him. CHANGED to be
staying in Freiberg through the vacation. !
got permission to speak with him. A
good twelve days had slipped away be-
fore they managed to raise 5000 marks |
with which to bail him out. During |
that time he ate his black bread and
exercised for an hour a day In the prison
yard. That was as much as the guards |
would let him do or enjoy.
Il might have been there for the full
said Scott. III those friends of mine
hadn't happened to find me. And then
think I'd have been ready for the |
lunatic asylum Scott was pretty seri- |
Gus when he said this.
The trial he doesn't take much excep- |
ton to. He says that he was treated as |
fairly as he could have expected-mOre !
fairly. he adds. than most foreigners are |
treated in the their own country. The court
fined him 300 marks. a little more than |
$50. Fifty marks OF It was RENTED, on |
the ground that he had worked it off in |
prison. /
His Exit fastened.
He thought that the whole episode |
wound up with the sentence and the |,
payment of his fine. 1t looked that way |
for about a month. But ten days or so |
ago the Saxony police authorities served |
notice on him that he would have to get |
out of the country within seventy-two |
hours. No reason was given: simply |
the order of expulsion came. from which, |
so far as he could learn, there was no |
appeal.
consul, who was by birth a German |
folded his hands and said that he couldn't |
do anything. He was sorry. but really |
there was nothing to do. The order had |
come, and that was all there was to 1t.
Scott packed up in a hustle. He looked |
up the steamships which would get him |
here by Christmas. and he figured that |
the Lusitania would just do 1t. There |
were German uneFSs TOO, out some way |
he didn't take to German liners He |
wanted to sail under st. Georges cross. |
he didn't have time to get money from |
home. so he came as modestly as he |
could.
Yesterday Scott reached New York. |
He got to his fathers house, at ID ave- |
nue. and saith street. in the Bay Ridge !
region Of Brooklyn just in time for tea |
His father Is an agent in New York |
for the Canadian customs service.