The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-26

death of his son that Russia might not go back into savagery with him as a ruler.
 On the other hand Fat William would slaughter his own son lest Pru-s sia progress under his rule. He wish ed to keep Prussia the veritable gar rison town that he made of the king dom. He feared his successors ideas of culture and innovation, looking up- on science, learning and literature as a pestilence as he did.
 1 The day after Frederick was shut up in his dismal cell in the Citadel of Kustrin, Fat William called a Council of War to try his son. The ministers of state set forth that 1t was impossible to convict an heir to the throne which he was to assume by Divine Right. Fat William, however, found a way to overcome this objection. It was to try Frederick as two distinct per sons. No charge would be brought against him as the Hereditary Prince, exempt by right of birth. But as a Colonel of his regiment he could do wrong and 1t was as a colonel that his father charged him with desertion. | More spacious reasoning than this has been exercised by Withered Will liam to justify certain deeds that the world has condemned.
 The Council of War began their Icourt but before vote could be ta- ken the President of the Council, the old Prince of Anhalt, flung down his sword and vowed that anyone who condemned the Prince would have to answer to him. Would that I had such a champion in my trying days in the Saxon court?'
 As a result of tho eloquence of the old Prince, the Council of War voted unanimously to acquIt Frederick. Fat William, however, repudiated their verdict and immediately brought Frederick before another court-one composed of the most strict martinets of the Army, Singing psalms and quoting Holy Scripture according to the behest of Fat William, this re- markable jury voted for the death of the Prince. We'll I remember my utter amazement on reading the words of General Denhoff of the death jury who, as he voted, uttered David's lamentations: 70 my son Ab- salon! my son Absalom!"
 I sianism was not to have his own way about the execution. He had imag- ined that he would be able to carry it out in old Prussia where he had the right of seignorial justice.
 Only the intervention of the Great Powers saved Frederick from becom- tnng the victim of a Roman tragedy.
 The King of Poland protested. Like wise the King of Sweden. From the Netherlands came another firm pro- test. The German Emperor joined the protestants and followed up his lntercession with a threat. He or dered his Ambassador to Berlin tc represent to Fat William that the Prince, under the protection of the Germanic Constitution and belonging to the Empire, could only be Judged by the Imperial Diet.
 Fat William stubbornly refused tc pay heed to the protests at first. Not until it was made unmistakably blair to him that even though the Kingdom of Old Prussia was sovereign and in. dependent, his act would call for out. side interference of military charac. ter, did he give in.
 Most unwillingly did he pardon Frederick, whereupon he turned around to seek revenge on someone Naturally, he thought of his sons ac
 complices, the aide-camp Keitt and Lieutenant Katt.
 The aide-de-camp was beyond hi'
 reach in Holland. Katt was warnet
 that Fat William was after him bu failed to get away in time.
 He was brought before Fat Will liam, who stripped the young man O his cross of St. John, struck him witl cane until the blood flowed anC kicked him as he lay on the ground The same hymn-canttng Council 0 War that had sentenced Freder1cl
 tried Katt. He was condemned t, hard labor and the written sentenc
 carried to Fat William.
 The brutal King was enraged at tn , lightness of the sentence. He seize, |, the document and angrily wrote upo1
 the margin:
 '"rhe Council of War named by tn
 King has tried Meiutenant Katt ant
 condemned him to hard labor, al !, though he was confessus and convic , tus of 1ese-majeste. His majesty can not understand how such an extreme ly mild sentence could have beer passed on such a terrible crime Ina
 shows him that he must not coun
 upon the fidelity of his officers. Hi D Majesty has attended college and ha n learned Latin and knows the proverb :. Fiat justitia ct pereat mundus.' But in order that in future, should some - one be guilty of like crime, the will not be able to say: Since thI n one has been let off so lightly, tn a same thing must be done for them
 His Majesty finds himself obliged t pronounce the sentence, and to mak = an example of just justice, and al : though this criminal of His Majesty e Lieutenant Katt (particularly becaus . he is among the officers of the arm II who ought to be faithful to His Ma
 jesty, and in particular to the bod of gendarmes that has the special car e of the life of His Majesty and tn a Royal Family, would only hay ' what he deserves if
 One had him tortured with red hc pincers and then hung; His Majes !. II to mitigate his punishment, sentence him only to execution"
 I found this revelation in the libra ~ ry of the Saxon court. withere ', William never would permit it to | = contained in the German histor
 books. But I have many still mor IA amazing revelations to tell about th "a original beast of Berlin.
 d (Third Installment.) l. Fat William had been denied tt
 pleasure of nnurdering his eldest SC ct and heir to the throne of Prussia b, 1. he WAS not denied the keen enfo,