New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-20
Joachim Ended Life
In Grief Over the
Fate of Parents
" onnd Suffered in War, Re-
cent Divorce and Revolt in
Germany Depressed Mind
OF Ex-kaiser's Young Son

ops lisn'' 1910, New York Tribune rnc
LONDON, July 19-Prince Joachim
Youngest son Of the Kaiser. who con,
1Mitted suicide Saturday. is renor+ad ~
nave been mentally depressed nartIU % ao
me result of the wound he receiveJ 10
re war, partl over the revolutions in
aby and partly by his wife's
dJn;anuonment; He feared he would he
III yen from his home in Potsdam
w. - also said that he grieved over
no oo posati S,I OF ms father and over the
EEG ;ta, n n of his mother. Prince
LlVel friedrich, his brother. took lin
to hospital, where he regained o .1iai'
sclousness, but though he talked trooI,.
tor some time he gave no real reason
lor shooting himself. He died in two
hours, after having again lapsad into
Inconsistencies ''''
Hurt in Fall From Horse
frlncess Marie, his wife. disap-
pe@aeI year ago, leaving her four
year-old son with his father.
Joachim recently was injured in .
fall from horse and also had suf-
Tered from stomach trouble. but il vas
IIInought the allment had been cured
re was devoted to athletics and before
inc war started training for the Olvm-
pic games scheduled in Berlin for 191e
Berlin, July 10 (By The Associated
press 1.-The mental condition ~
fFlnce Joachim, who committed suicide
had lately caused his family grave can
Germ. His adjutant, the elderly Colonel
Won Steuoen, with whom he conversed
iate Friday evening without indicating
d ueslgh 10 take his own life, was so
alarmed by the princes depression the
same evening that he told Prince Ejtel
Oh the younger brothers condition.
, Joachim, according to the National
leltung," after taking leave of his
four-year-old son, shot himself
through the chest about Friday mid
night. The sound Of the firing was not
heard, and servants found him in the
early hours of Saturday lying in front
OF has bed unconscious. He was re-
moved to hospital, and regained con-
seriousness and was able to talk to
Eitel. The doctors saw, however, that
there was no hope. He rapidly grew
worse, and died at l o'clock Sunday
morning.
The ''Zeitung am Mttag" says Prince
Joachim left no letters.
Body Lies in State
Prince Eitel Frederick, who is in
charge of the body of his brother. was
visit his mother. the former Empress
Augusta Victoria, whose health is re-
ported to be worse. Eitel Frederick.
however, postponed his departure.
The body of Joachim lay in state
to-day in the Freidenskirche. Pots
dam, where it will be buried Tuesday
in the strictest privacy.
Friends of Prince Joachim deny
stories current in Berlin that his sui
eide was brought about by scandal
Ex-Kaiser Deeply Affected
DOORN, Holland, July 10 BY The
Associated Press).-The announcement
of Prince Joachim's death came to
Doom Castle like thunde rbolt.
The former German Empress, who
during the past week has again been
seriously troubled by her heart all
ment, is believed not to have been in
formed of the tragedy. The ex-Em-
peror, however, has been told of it and
has been greatly affected by the I'M
timely end of his favorite son.
Prince Joachim saw his parents quite
recently, it having been only the mid
die of June when he paid them a visit
at Doom Castle.
WIERINGEN, Holland, July 19.-The
tidings of the sudden death of Prince
Joachim came as great blow to his
brother, the former German Crown
Prince, who only this morning learned
the news from Adjutant Won Mulheim.
The relations between Joachim and
Frederick William were always of the
most friendly nature, the former being
the favorite of the family. The ex-
Crown Prince conferred this morning
with Burgomaster Pereboom and will
probably go to Doom, the refuge of the