The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-10
DUEL
HAS FATAL ISSUE
Survivor Sentenced to Three
Months Imprisonment

Berlin, March s.-tspecial)--A stu
dent duel with fatal issue is reported
from Kiel. where Friedrich Haase. a
medical student, has just been con.
demned to three months Imprisonment
for participating in a duel with deadly
weapons.
His opponent, also medical student,
died from blood poisoning resulting
from the sabre wounds. on the more
serious charge of having caused the
death of his antagonist Haase was ac-
quilted, the testimony showing that the
blood poisoning was due to the dead
mans efforts to keep the wounds open.
and obtain as prominent scars as pos
sible
The duel was one of the so-called un-
provoked ones, in which members of
the student fraternities who have not
been fortunate enough to challenge or
be challenged in regular affairs OF
honor, are drawn by lot to tight the
necessary number of duels to retain
memberships in their fraternities, the
opponents meeting, of course, without
Ill feeling on either side.
The incident strengthens the hands
of the strong party in parliament who
wish to have the penalty removed from
student duelling in the pending reyi-
sion of the criminal code.
A device to enable person on one
side of the world actually to see what
is going on thousands of miles away
has just been invented by Berlin en-
gineer, DR.. j. Michel Schimerer
DIR. Schmierer has long been work.
ing, with many other Investigators, on
the problem of transmitting photo
graphs and pictures by telegraph, but
in his results he has Unexpectedly gone
a stage farther than the other picture
transmitters. At the sending end of
his wire he uses a camera, the lens of
which can be pointed at any desired OBJ
ject or scene The light rays are
thrown on a screen, which divides the
picture up into light points of varying
brightness. These points are in turn
thrown on a sensitive plate treated
with selenium and are converted into
variations of the electric current.
At the receiving end, which may be
half way around the world, this current
becomes light of varying brilliancy,
and by mirror arrangement the pic
ture is reproduced much like the news
paper half tone, in dots of varying size
and freqency. In the shadows of the
picture these dots are crowded closely
together to reproduce the darker areas,
appearing only rarely IL at all, III lllc
high lights of the original scene. The
transmitted picture is therefore far
truer to nature than in the earlier pro-
ecess of transmission, in which the pic
ture was reproduced in lines of varying
thickness.
Prince Frederick Sgismund of Prussia
cousin of the German Emperor, is the
inventor and builder of a successful aero
plane, but he has been forbidden by both
his father and the Emperor from going
aloft in the product of his ingenuity
When his machine flies the Prince stands
ona the ground and watches his paid as
sistant reap the sensations of success
that rightfully should be his.
Pioted by Aeronaut Krieger, the former
chief chauffeur of the Emperor, the
princely flying machine this week was
put through it's PAGES in the air for the
first time Krieger made several rounds
of the Bornstedter flying field and then
proceeded overland to Potsdam and re-
turn.
Police dogs have not justified the ex-
travagant claims that We're made for them
when they were introduced into the Ger
man police service They form a yalu-
able adjunct to the service of detection,
of criminals, but they have distinct limi-
tations and their mute testimony cannot
be implicitly credited