Show GERMAN EDITOR SENT S UP FOR FORA A YEAR l fence Vs CJ jo 10 the Fact F the Minister Minis er of o Public W Worship Occasionally I Played Pia y ed Poker oker I f Grand Due Dueby bot of Olden OWen M 0 biffs b rg April S H rr hermann edt eth ethor 1 I ItOI i tor tOI or of the Ro ten i iwa was wa sentenced nten today to a years year j eminent for Cor accusing Franz Ruh 11 j i r of public worship education ed j jand I and justice of Oldenburg of gambling anti ami an alleging thereby that he was not fit tit to tu superintend the clerical schools and j This Is s the third sentence ten e im Jm posed Oed on Herr Biermann for rol 1 t similar offense The whole German press outside of the state of Oldenburg Old has ha been making fun over the way public e affairs affair are art conducted con in this little feudal principality the only one in Germany without a constitution 1011 i I II IJ as he writes his miame tam to distinguish him from his cousin Rubs traIt trail I 1 the Oldenburg minister of or fi fl finance finance nance nanct has been en long regarded as the I I leader of society at this court and amid a is 18 isan an intimate a of ef the reigning rei n grand duke IT II n u never vr vT lie he played pla M poker and jolly seven at the th Oldenburg casino cusino but he affirms the th games S wore were not Dot gambling and that poker pok r especially U being a game of skill in inno inno no wise impaired his fitness to direct the agencies of religion JI on education an an Justice Severn Several gentlemen lIemen and police officers were brought here her from Berlin BerUn to testify as its to the nature of poker p ker They agreed that although judgment va wa was an import important ant element it was a game gamp of hazard and ami quoted d some ome American Amt rian authorities on the subject In America Amer it was raid ald the g game me was one otis very generally engaged in by b persons who were not in con On consequence sequence excluded from official life The court LUt decided ed as already ady set forth that it was wa libelous to attack the time minister on Oft auch grounds |