Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
LIEUTENANT HAS FACE SLAPPED
Tries to Kill Man Who Hit Him, But
Is Restrained.
POLICE CHIEF JAGON HAS GRIEl
Husband of Actress Alleges Chief Was
Indiscreet.
WROTE LETTER TO THE WOMAN
Practice Firing at Dead Bodies by
Soldiers Gives Rise to Socialist
Protest, Loudly voiced in
the Retchstag.
~ MAIrnLM cIARkE-

BY MALCOLM CLARKE
BERLIN, March ESPECIAL to The
PeeD-Heretofore an army or navy officer
might insult or assault a civilian with
impunity. Such is no longer the case.
Recently a naval lieutenant at Wilhelms-
haven had words with a commercial trav-
4 eler in bar and was struck in the face
/ by him. The officer endeavored to re-
| turn the blow. but was restrained by an
other civilian. He thereupon procured a
/ pistol with which he fired several shots
/ at the traveller none OF which struck him,
though the barmaid was slightly wounded.
He threatened to prosecute the civilian,
who declared he wouldn't let the emperor
himself hurl an insult at him.
Herr JugOw In LImeIIEht.
few months ago two petty naval Of
ficers were sent to prison for fiendish
I treatment of an enlisted man and now
! Herr Jagow. our unique and eccentric po-
lice chief has been at it again. He is the
man who caused the slashing Of American
newspaper men who were sent to cover the
now historic Moabit labor troubles and
thought this akin to a joke.
Max Reinhardts latest play, which turns
on the accidental dropping Of a lady's
garment, was censored by the police Az
ter alterations, the play was allowed The
police president attended the dress re-
hearsal. and there made the acquaintance
Of Tilla Durieux. a star at the Deutsches
theater. Next day he wrote to her that
as he performed the functions OF dramatic
censor he wished to get in touch with
stage circles, and. therefore, begged per
mission to call on her. Frau Durieux
handed the epistle to her husband. Paul
Cassierer. art dealer. who wrote an in
fn
a friend to give explanations which would
prevent the husband from jumping to a
false conclusion.
Cassierer declared himself satisfied. There
is now another development 70 the incident.
Cassierer is publisher of a weekly paper
called Pan" and Jagow. literary CEN
sor. recently ordered the impounding of an
issue of this periodical on the ground that
{ extracts which It printed from the diary OF
Gustave Flaubert were indecorous.
Now the conductors Of Pan" have OBJ
tanned possession Of the correspondence be-
tween Jagow and Herr Cassierer and de-
clare their intention OF publishing II.
Practieed Firing at COrpses.
In the course OF debate on the army
estimates in the Reichstag, Major General
wandel. director Of the War department.
declared. in reply to question whether it
was true that corpses had been shot at by
soldiers at spandu. that some years ago
firing experiments were carried out on
corpses with the object of ascertaining the
penetrating power OF modern rifles.
These experiments. which, moreover
were made on anatomical exhibits, not on
naked corpses, were. said WandeI. essential
, In the interests of army surgery. None OF
the soldiers who were shooting saw any
: thing of the exhibits, which were wrapped
? in linen or hidden behind linen. The social
| lists severely criticised the experiments
E saying II was dastardiy TO inflict wound,
p on a dead body unless it was on a dissect
. ing table.
ROEeI spoke Too BIuntIy.
A curious incident is reported from Wurz
burg, Bavaria, in connection with the cele
bration of the SOth birthday Of the prince
regent. Prof Rogel OF the local geOgraphi
cal institute was assigned the role of call
ing for three cheers for the kaiser.
His speech, however, contained sucl
; references TO his majesty that many arm,
officers and officials gave vent TO thei
. disapproval. The professor declared tina
il was an obnoxious necessity" to hav
TO call for three cheers for such people a
the kaiser, about whom there were s
many Objectionable things"
e Legacy an AfnictiOn.
= Much amusement has been caused amonl
Is members OF the Reichstag, by the his
h tory Of a legacy left TO a socialist mem
p Der by an admiring fellow socialist. Thi
" man. a humble tailor. left all TO the poll
'e tcian having no relatives except hi
r widow. and desiring 70 mark his esteeT
De for the principles OF socialism. The tots
z value OF the estate was proven TO be aboJ
o. $50. which was duly handed over TO N
c. legatee. Then his troubles began. In
b. widow. who had been separated from he
OF husband claimed half OF the estate; an
r though her legal rights were nil the 81
he cislist gave her E75 for which she aske'
n Shortly afterward the authorities can
or forward ana informed the legatee that 4
I'd the tailor had received poor relief {,
re some time past there was an amount
500 due from the estate. This was Their,
al upon handed over. leaving the social
ms member with only SIS.
sc His troubles, however. were not 81
be ended. one day there arrived al h
u house a large case, for which he had
dy pay the sum Of y725O Refusal TO accel
81 the case was impossible as il was e.
I'm planned that It contained an urn IN viii,
e1 were the ashes Of the deceased tafo
eo who in accordance with his expressed d
Ia sire, had been cremated, with The resi-
- that his estate was liable for the crem
forum fees and the legatee was proper
the owner Of the ashes The socialist mel
lS Der has thus found his legacy reduced
800 and as there Is sun some stamp du
. 10 be paid he VIII probably find hims'
out OF pocket before the matter is snds
while there appears always 20 be the ri
OF fresh claims being put in
ne A novel method OF cutting down ire
r. has been patented here II consists
-er the use Of a fine steel wire. which
ar looped around the tree and sawed ba
and forth by an electric motor.