The Washington times., 1920-07-19
SUICIDE PRINCE HAD
DEbAUCH OF DEATH
Kaiserin's Life Despaired Of
Following Shock From
Joachim's Act.
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ventlow. Joachim was optimistic over
the possibility OF a monarchist coup.
but lately this hope had died out.
The only member of the former i'm
perial family now in Potsdam Is Eitel
Frederick, the former emperor's sec
ond son.
Prince EiteI, questioned as to the
motive of his brothers suicide, de-
clined to make any statement, re-
ferring the correspondent. at the
same time to the official announced
ment that Joachim was suffering
from "a At of excessive dementia."
The body was transferred to Potsdam
chapel yesterday. Prince Joachim
leaves one son.
The whereabouts of Prince Adal-
bert, Prince August William and
Prince Oscar Is unknown. The former
crown princess is reported to be stay
ing on Rugen island.
Early In 1918 a tall. slender young
man, who would have been good
looking but for a pronuoncedly re-
ceding chin, entered the office OF DR..
Arthur Davis, Emperor William's
American dentist, at Berlin. He walk
ed with a limp, and to the doctors
greetings replied: "See what one of
your damned American bullets did
to met
"How do you know IT was an
American bullet?" asked the dentist.
THE Russians have nothing else"
he said. .. ..
ONLY SON TO BE WOUNDED.
The visitor was Prince Joachim,
the only one of the Kaiser's sons to
sustain a wound during the war. He
would have been thirty next Decem-
ber. For ten years he has lived in
the limelight as persistently as his
oldest brother, the Crown Prince, and
with the same unslakable thirst for
public notice.
DR.. Davis, in his "reminiscences of
the German ruling family printed in
the World, found more than a facial
resemblance between the youngest
and oldest sons OF the Kaiser. He
said: y
"He had as little respect for public
opinion as the Crown Prince, and
while the U-boat Deutschland was on
its way to America principally to
bring back a cargo of rubber, the
supply of which was exhausted in
Germany. this sixth son Of the Kaiser
was driving around the country In a
big car and using up enormous rub
ber tires, while rubber was worth its
weight in gold and many cars for the
army were supplied with plain iron
wheels. '"
The prince was the only member OF
the royal family to get near enough
to the firing line to get shot. The
injury, which he received while at
the eastern front, was only a slight
flesh wound OF the thigh, but II was
enough to start him limping through
history. 1t was such superficial
wound that It couldn't have caused
him .one-half as much pain as II gave
the whole royal family pleasure.
by just what accident the prince
happened to come within range OF
the bullet has never been disclosed.
Nevertheless, he received the Iron
Cross of the first class, or, as some
one who has realized the Significance
of the Incident remarked: a first
class Iron Cross for a second class
wound"
Prince Joachims was record was
made wholly on the eastern front.
To give him his deserts. no stories
70 his discredit are related OF his
military career, while there are one
or two that showed he was not fright
encd under fre.
He was twenty-four when the war
started. For several years before that
he had been running up cable charges
for American newspapers by adven-
lures OF various kinds, principally of
n sort which revealed his susceptible
ity to feminine charms. One young
woman who made a dent In his SEN
sitive affections was a New England
schoolgirl. Miss Olive Huntington, OF
Norwich, Conn.
The prince Ind been exiled to Egypt
by his fathers orders as punishment
for indorsing a chums note for $4,000
which the chum was not able to meet
when II fell due. Joachim was loaf
ing around Cairo when Miss Hunting
ton, then seventeen, and a party of
other schoolgirls fitted across his
vision. Their acquaintance ripened
to the point where II got into the
newspapers and resulted In Joschim's
recall Miss HuntinGton's mother was
authority lstgt for the statement that
no hearts wefe broken.