The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-25
MAKES APPEAL ID STOP NAVAL CONTEST Austria-H Hungary Willing to ~. Suspend Work WERE HORSES DOPED? sft
 Man Who Killed Wife in Train Is Acquitted-Trial Marriage Was
 Not Satisfactory-Another
 Camorra Trial
WERE HORSES DOPED?
By EMIL ANpRAssY

Vienna, August 24.-(Specal. .)-Inspired, 1t is generally believed, by the Emperor in person, the semi-official Pester-Lloyd advocates a general appeal to the Euro pean powers to cease the scramble for naval supremacy. Austria-Hungary, 1t is stated. is willing to suspend all fur ther increase of her naval strength if Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy will agree to do likewise.
 If this apepa1 is passed unheeded the dual monarchy will double the naval ap- propriation for next year in order to cope with emergencies. Peace" says the authorized mouthpiece of the Austro- Hungarian. foreign office, is the ones great necessity of the world just now Europe is staggering under a weight of militarism which is too great to be borne without serious detriment to the real in- terest of the masses of each natlon."
 Vienna was startled this week by the exposure of the most disgraceful episode 1hat has ever marked the conduct of Austrian horse racings A number of prominent people are said to be impli- cated.
 The Austrian Jockey club has instituted a. strict examin ation of the horses of a well known member of the turf, as 1t was suspected that they had been drugged. The examination is not yet complete, but the Jockey club intends, should proof of drugging be found, to treat the case with the utmost severity The affair is a very interesting one, as ,the stables in question contain 300 horses. )some of which have been very successful. 5The owner is very much upset. and says that if the case is proved, which he does not believe, he will retire from the turf. A Viennes clerk named Haas who shot his wife in railway carriage while pass ing through a tunnel, and then endeav ored to commit suicide, has been ac- quilted by jury at Leoben. There was no dispute as to the facts, but Herr Haas pleaded that his wife was very i'll with Consumption and he could not bear to | see her suffer Evidence was given that the pair had lived in perfect harmony, | and two doctors deposed that the pepres- l sion caused by the illness of his wife was sufficient to make Haas not responsible | for his action. The jury returned yer l diet. of Not guilty of murder" but found him guilty of using revolver without license.' After paying fine of $2 Herr Haas was released An extraordinary breach of promise case recently came before the Vienna courts, the plaintiff being a servant girl and the defendant railway worker. The latter did not deny promising marriage, but said the promise was made on condi tion that he and his sweetheart live to- gether for six weeks to see if they suited each other. On two occasions during the trial when he returned from work she was not In the house, and he deduced from this that she would not look after his interests. The judge found for the defendant on the ground that he had a n n a after his trial had come to the conclusion that the marriage would not be a happy one.
 The trial at Agram of Jukics, the lad l who planned the establishment of Q | southern Slav republic and who, with | Ii accomplices, ranging from 15 to 22 years, is accused of attempting to assassi- | nate the Croatian commissioner. M. de tCuvaji. and with actually staying a minor | official and a constable. has developed | situations as picturesque as the Camorra | affair at Viterbo. Most of the witnesses | are pupils in the High school, all eager to pose to the gallery, hating in their | hearts the eI3an of Croatia, whose life was threatened, but now avowng the | most loyal sentiments in fiorid language.
 During the last session of the court. | Cvijio. a youth of IS. was questioned. He insisted that nothing had passed between
 
 revolution, and no secret revolutionary organization existed. 'I swear" said the | accused, 'that many untruths are told | of us. We never spoke of the founding | of South Slavonic Republic"
 Counsel for the defense, Dr. Prebeg, | asked the court whether Jukics had been | chained hand and foot during his interro- | gaton by the police, and his head re- peatedly knocked against the wall. He further asked whether Jul<ics had been tortured during the interrogation,
 The president replied that it had been 1 found necessary to keep Jultics in chains | during his examination, as 1t was feared he noght attempt to escape.
 Later Dr. Prebeg suddenly said that he had just heard that Julkics had had se- were attack of delirium in his cell and that he had been chained up by his jailer and placed in a straight jacket. He re- ouested legal examination into the truth of these facts. The president suspended the sitting immediately. and accompanied by the state attorney, the examining judge and two alienists, went to the prison.