The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-09-11

tent myself to relate them IN brief
chronological sequence.
In my early youth I was very
weak, slowly developing child, which
fact seems to make it more than clear
that there did not exist any clandes-
tine relations between my progenitors
before their marriage, but that I was
a premature child and this fact might
have been one of the main reasons
for the substitution, as fearing that
might probably be a weakling dur
ing my entire life. In this assumption
those responsible for the act were mis-
taken as from my twelfth year | be-
gan rapidly to develop.
It is well known fact that the
crown princess, my mother, five months
before the birth Of the present en-
peror, was constantly travelling, not in
railroad coaches, but by equipage. For
what reason9 A crown princess sew
eral months before the expected birth
of the first child, is not permitted to
travel, but is kept in the palace with
all possible care. 1t is therefore rea-
sonable to assume that the premature
event had preyed upon mind and that
the fact that she was forcibly depriv-
ed of her child caused hysterical con-
dition with outbreaks Of more or less
violent emotions and that for this rea-
son she could not be safely left in the
palace or in public conveyances where
the public would necessarily notice
her condition.
1 The late Doctor Brown Sequard,
who according to his own story, at
tended the present emperor, explains
the existence of the present crippled
left arm of the emperor in the fol-
lowing manner.
He (the present emperor), hated his
mother bitterly because she went trav-
cling before he was born and was TAX
en- with the pains of child birth,
travelling in diligence through a
country village and trusted his advent
into the world to an ignorant and
frightened country doctor. The coun-
try doctor, thinking only Of the i'm
portance of the royal mother, ignored
the future of the little Hollenzollern
babe, and in haste and fear, pulled vio-
lenty at the arm of the little half born
creature, afterward to be known as
Emperor William, torn all the muscles
of the shoulder and gave to the EN-
peror of Germany the deformed and
useless arm which now fills him With
bitterness.
The story and explanation is ridicu-
lous, nay preposterous. Why did not
DR.. Brown Sequard not stay in Europeg
Having attended the birth of an en-
peror should have made it highly re-
munerative. He certainly had his rea-
sons to leave and come to this country.
1t is more reasonable to believe that
when child was presented to the
then crown princess, which her mother
instinct told her was not her own, she
was seized with a hysterical fit and
in frenzy pushed the child from her,
thus causing the injury. It is a
historical fact that both Frederick and
Victoria hated the emperor and that
this hatred was heartily returned
! by him.
was brought up under the given
name of Henry and it is most likely
that the second prince and son of
Frederick was for this reason called
Henry in memory of the absent first
born prince. All the motherly and
| fatherly love was bestowed on Henry
as is well known. / was brought up
surrounded by an atmosphere of high
police officials and one of my suppos-
ed uncles was the chief of police in a
town which Empress Augusta, after
her enstrangement from her consort,
Emperor William the First, had Sc
lected as her favorite town. Every
now and then I was brought to the
town and paraded up and down before
the castle, which the Empress Augusta,
the supposed grandmother of the pres
ent emperor, occupied. The police Of
fcials was frequentl--- called to dinner
with the empress and these meetings
were undoubtedly for the purpose Of
Ireceiving reports on my progress.
Empress Victoria came during the
Franco Prussion war for a visit to the
semi-military school, where I received
my training. On this occasion / was
placed next to an English boy by the
name of Smith and she engaged in con-
versation with the latter. On that oc-
casion was seized with an indescrib-
able feeling as while she was speak
ing to Smith her gaze was riveted up.
on me and this feeling | have not for