Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
INNER LIFE OF KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE AS


Yet, even to me, he declared that he
retained absolutely no knowledge Of
what had occurred.
II went out quickly, and well, I
don't know what happened" he told
me soon after dawn, as he lay in bed.
Strangely enough, he made no mention
of the man, Karl Krahl.
Later on he summoned the Countess
Won Kienitz, and for twenty minutes
or so he had an animated discussion
with her. Being outside the room, how
ever, was unable to hear distinctly.
Wei, l succeeded, by brides and
threats, in hushing up the whole affair
and keeping it out of the papers, while
by those who knew of the incident it
was soon forgotten.
Karl KrahI Again.
suppose it must have been fully
three months later when one evening,
having taken some documents over to
the emperor for signature at the Berlin
schloss, returned to the princes pri-
vate room in the palace, when, to my
great surprise, L found the man Karl
Krahl seated there. He looked very
pale and worn, quite unlike the rather
athletic figure he presented at the for
ester's house.
eff you still refuse to tell me the
truth, then 1 shall take my own meas
ures to find out-severe measures So
give you full warming" the crown
prince was declaring angrily, as L en-
tered so unexpectedly.
1 did not withdraw, pretending not
to notice the presence of a visitor,
therefore his highness himself beck
oned the young man, who followed him
down the corridor to another room.
The whole affair was most puzzIing.
What had happened on that afternoon
in the Harz mountains 1 could not at
all imagine. By what means had his
highness been rendered unconscious,
and what part could the little old
countess have played in the curious
affair?
In about half an hour the crown
prince returned in a palpably bad hui
NOR and, flinging himself into his
chair, wrote a long letter, which he
to Countess Won Kienitz.
This he sealed carefully and ordered
me to take it at once to the Stuler-
strasse and deliver it to her person
ally. :
"The countess left for Stockholm
this morning." 1 was informed by the =
bearded manservant. "She left by the
eight o'clock train and has already
left Sassnitz by now"
"When do you expect her to re-
turn?"
The man did not know.
On going back to his highness and
telling him of the countess departure,
he bit his lip and then smiled grimly.
''That internal old woman has left
Germany and will never again put her
loot upon our soil, Heltzendorff," he
said. you may open that letter. II
will explain something which l know
must have mystified you"
did so. And as 1 read what he had
written l held my breath. Truly it
lid explain much.
What the Crown Prince Told Me.
Imposing the strictest silence upon
ne, the crown prince then revealed
low utterly he and the crown princess
ad been misled, and how very narrow
Y he had escaped being the victim of
cunning plot to effect his death.
The little old Countess Won Kienitz
ad, it seemed, sworn to avenge the
egradation and dismissal of her son,
Tho had been in the famous Deaths
lead Hussars. She had secretly
raced the crown prince as author of
Onspiracy against him, the underlying
lotive being jealousy. With that end
l view she had slowly wormed her
'ay into his highness' confidence, and
Introduced to him Karl Krahl. a neu-
)tic young Saxon who lived in Lon
on, and who pretended he had I'M
lrthed plot against the kaiser him
Elf.
ut was to tell me the truth concern
e the conspiracy that Krahl came to
e in secret at Ballenstedt. He re-
aimed with me for half an hour,
hen, to my great surprise, we were
iiiSu ny lliG NOunlcSS. llS SlDEy they
i'd me of the plot against the en-
sror was very alarming one, and 1
tended to return at once to Berlin.
he countess had left to walk back to
e schloss, when presently we heard
woman's scream-her voice-and we
It'll went forth to discover what was
progress. As ran along a little dis
nee behind Krahl, suddenly what
emed like a thin glass globe struck
E in the chest and burst before mS,
ce. 1t had been thrown by an I'M
Iown hand and, on breaking, must
We emitted some poisonous gas
lich was intended to kill me, but
lich happily failed. Until yesterday
e whole affair was a complete mys-
y, but Krahl has now confessed that
e countess conceived the plot, and
Mt the hand that had thrown the
ISIS bomb was that of her son. who
n concealed himSelf in tha huSbaS