Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-08-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1865  KILLING NO MURDER.  JUSTICE is no respecter of persons, and that is only a well-regulated state of society in which the rich man obeys the law equally with the poor. Wealth, to a certain extent, will always secure to its possessor certain privileges which are denied to the humbler classes. It can go through every process of the law, refine and soften down with every successive stage, and ultimately carry its cause triumphantly through some legal quibble. We have many instances of this, and some of them of not very ancient date; but though an officer, after committing a series of offences against the rights of his men, may escape the punishment he richly merits, and be restored to his former position, he would be a bold man who should come forward to save a rich man's neck from the gallows who had committed murder. Earl Ferrars, though treated with a silken robe as a peer, could not escape the hands of Jack Ketch; and Tawell, with an eminent counsel weeping on the strength of his innocence, and an emblazoned carriage in readiness to conduct him home, could not hoodwink a jury to spare him from the scaffold. In small misdeeds, we may often blind justice, and drop the weight in the wrong scale; but in crimes of magnitude like murder, however elevated the position of a man, or lowly his rank, in England we always mete out the full penalty which the law commands. In France it is said they do things differently, or they did so in the reign of Louis Philippe, when a certain Due de Praslin was allowed to take poison in prison, and thus cheat the guillotine of its legitimate victim. But in constitutional Germany, where men refine philosophy to its subtlest depths, human life, if in the lower ranks, is not treated with the slightest consideration. Murder there is no murder at all, if it be only committed by those who belong to the privileged ranks—in other words, by those who belong to the army of Prussia. These men have not the chivalry which distinguished French officers in former days when duelling was. in vogue-410y do not  cross swords with antagonists worthy of their -iteel, but they assume lofty and imperious airs, and look upon civilians as dirt beneath their feet. Count Enlenburg is a representative of this class, and in his contempt for those beneath him, has thought proper to draw his sabre and kill a poor defenceless man. We have not the full particulars of this unmanly affair, but it appears that poor Olt, the murdered man, was returning home in company with a few friends, when they4ell in with a party of students who without anAprovocation laid about the defenceless travellers with loaded sticks; while Count Enlenburg, being a soldier, struck Olt with his sword, and wounded him so severely that lockjaw set in and the poor fellow died in intense agony. Had such an occurrence taken place in England, the officer, gallant and titled as he was, would have been handed over to the civil power, and have had to pay the penalty of his crime. But will our readers believe, that being in Prussia, instead of England, the Count is only commanded to confine himself to his room. Fortunately, the murdered man is not a German subject, but a native of Alsace; and being in the service of our Prince Alfred as a cook, is under the protecting flag of two of the most powerful nations in Europe. England is bound to see that the humblest menial in the royal service is treated with proper respect; and the Emperor Napoleon is not a man to allow a French subject to be slain with impunity. Prussian soldiers have of late been so accustomed to oppress the unarmed Danes that now they have returned home, they forget what is due to their own citizens and foreign visitors, and carry on thc zisinc brutal course of cOnduot. In this case, however, Count Enlenburg has mistaken his customer, and we doubt whether Count Bismarck, with all his skill of diplomacy, will be able to shield the offender. "Murder most foul" has been committed, and that too upon a French subject and an inoffensive servant of an English Prince, and justice must be dealt out to the evil-doer.