New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-02-01
FORMER CROWN PRINCE
SAYS HE WILL NOT BE
TAKEN ALIVE.

Island of Wlerlngen, Luldef zee
Holland, Dec. 1O.-The German
ex crown prince has made up hi
mind to commit suicide rathe1
than face criminal trial by a jury
composed wholly or in major par
of French and British.
"They will never get NE, h
repeated several times in an in
formal interview today.
| made the wearisome journey
to Wieringen from Amsterdam OF
the chance Of catching his eX
Royal Highness at home, and il
an unburdening mood. AS
drove up to the modest red bricE
two-story house | caught
glimpse of him at his bedroom
window changing his pantaloonS
Though | had come to his dreary
Godforsaken island unannOunced
he received my professional card
and sent word that he would be
pleased to see me. though his time
that day was very limited.
! was shown into the only
sitting room, the billiard room,
containing a shabby, moth-eaten
secondhand billiard table and
two wornout leather arm chairs.
A few minutes later the ex-prince
entered wearing a salt-and-pepper
sporting suit and decidedly self
conscious of his changed position.
After we had chatted few min
utes his manner became natural
and unaffected,; he talked freely
and answered questions readily.
Perched on the edge of the
sorry billiard table, the. former
prince lit a cigarette (of a unique
brand, the tip being thin straw
and faced my informal cross-ex-
animation. | had seen his arrival
on the dull Devils Island of Vie
ringer and l observed that since
then had pulled himself together,
had recovered his nerve and, III
relative solitude, had done some
tall thinking about his situation
and future.
Will Not Be Scapegoat.
sasI asked what he thought about
the much discussed possibility of
being extradited with the
Kaiser and placed on criminal
trial.
II don't give hang about it, "
he said, in the American phrase
with decided English accent. In
his next sentence he explained
this real or pretended Indifference
as to what the Allies might de-
eide to do about his person.
"TheyM never get me-" he
said with a quiet smile. "They'll
never get me-alive," he re-
peated.
/ asked if. in view of his re-
ported statement that he was in
nocent of completely in the out
break Of the world war, he would
not welcome court trial as Of
fering an opportunity of clearing
himself, if he could. But the ex-
crown prince expressed and stub
bornly clung to the opinion that
he would not get a square deal at
! criminal trial, certainly not if
The French and the English had
heir way"
"They want my head" he said.
And / know it. But they won't
get me. Clemenceau and Lloyd /,
George are looking for someone TO '
out the whole blame for the war
N. They're looking for a scape-
,oat. And they've picked myll
ather and myself to be the goats. {
ylemenceau is bloodthirsty old '
man," 1t
In response to a hint that he t
night be willing to face jury &
n which Americans were sitting, h
r high-class neutral jury. he /
yould not commit himself. v
His present plan obviously is tol 8
it tight on Wieringen as long as l
he Dutch will let him. l asked Ii
as an interned German officer
. was not free to 60 back to =
erlnany. :,
Free enough" he answered, u
but it would not do me any v
ood. Germany would give me n
D quick enough to the French. a