Salt Lake Herald | 1896-01-18 | Page 1 | Foreign Offenders

FOREIGN OFFENDERS LONDON Jan 17The Chronicle I has a Berlin dispatch which says the decree of amnesty as published In the Vorwaerts applies to offenders whose sentences do not exceed six weeks In prison or 150 marks fine those only being excepted who were guilty of insulting in-sulting their superiors of illtreating their inferiors or of desertion The rescript begins with the remark The emperor intends also to pardon military mili-tary offenders The Vorwaerts says of this Presumably Pre-sumably therefore pardon will be extended ex-tended for civil offences and the cases of conviction of lese majeste The Daily News has a Berlin dispatch dis-patch which says The public will be excluded from all share in the court fetes and even the reports of the press will not be admitted ad-mitted The people must be satisfied with the stiff official accounts to be given in the official gazette At the review in front of the opera house even the usual stand for spectators spec-tators is prohibited