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Show PIIEJH1 ! jElFIIEIl! GRMIUL GOUni i Prussian Royalty Is Convicted of Attack on French Commission 1 BERLIN, April 17. Potsdam society socie-ty attended tho criminal court today, attracted by the fact that for the first time in Prussian history a prince of the house of Hohenzollern occupied tho defendant's bench. Prince Joachim Joa-chim Albrecht, Baron von Platen and Prince liohcnlohc Langenburg, who attacked members of the French commission com-mission at the Hotel Aldon recently, were given a quick trail, and were I fined 500. 200 and 1,000 marks, re-j spectively. Notwithstanding the social so-cial status of the audience, a patrol' of security police carefully searched the spectators for concealed weapons. I Prince Joachim was decidedly nor-1 vous and admitted he had been drink-: ing "a little" on the night of the disturbance. dis-turbance. Me claimed, however, there had been provocation from the French party. j In summing up the case the judge1 said it had been established by tcsti-; mony that Prince Joachim and Baron; Platen htd thrown glasses and candle-j sticks at the Frenchmen, and that) Prince Hohenlohe had hurled a boot at them. j "The court," he added, "refuses to1 pass judgment against its conscience! to pleose anybody, regardless of who' ho is." I nn ! |