| Show WILLIAM 11 AND LIEU T HAHN HAHNKE KE the story of 0 the officer who resent regent ed the tha emperors insult for some same time there have been rumors of it a occurrence on oil board bo ard the german emperors yacht the ila ho and various extraordinary stories have been aar A frenchi c e ell paper the petite bresse la Is responsible the following 1 w hach w 1 ill not appear at all extraordinary or improbable to those who are acquainted with the pecullar peculiar clea character ratter of 0 the german sovereign eig the emperor of germany as most persons pe r sons know Is subject to attacks 0 of nervous nervo u a excitability which recur pretty I 1 frequently fre quent ly and during these altac attacks its he seems to lose all control over ILI himself in some years ago while ho he was aas only prince william lie insulted w without till any reason whatever the lic lieutenant luten of a regiment regime n t in ili garrison parr laon at potsdam As the officer lerna ined perfectly silent the prince te doubled his insults I 1 and d onda d by striking ilia ila subordinate the officer re algred ills his commission and then sent lils ills seconds to the aho n ho lia hort ever refused to meet him A aa S flat an officer la Is dishonored if lie cannot obtain galls satisfaction laWon for an all insult the poor young lieutenant shot himbe hl hambe mael this affair became gen Benei 0 1 1 ally y known gnaim re it was bad enough but OIL I 1 1 lately 1 y another incident more still liar has occurred on board the I 1 lvery fifolt t jim been made to keep JL it secret secre t and it Is first made public by the french iro ir o lei in the columns 0 of tile delite presse whan the arlous german papers t oil that the 11 1111 pero lil william lilliam ih while e 1 walking aking on I 1 the lie limit ot of lilt his yacht had been ly fly the end of oc a cable which had cut 0 dpn n his fits ey eyebrow ezebro ebro and ami caused A 1 carp I 1 kestion of t tile the eye many FOlls baked asked what vhal li irule dutli there was nil in tile the report and if 1 it were vere not intended to some borne ito re radd of 0 iho 11 monar arcag clis alice acl too doubts wro were well founded u ke this a la what vi I 1 I 1 e I 1 tile imperial yacht JILIA just lic maters of lahe landeen it was vas early in III tile the morning tile weather WAS magnificent anil and all 1111 the were ivere on deck one of tile the lieutenants yan wits its himself on hla his bicycle on an forbidden n by the rules rulen rf of the hie service out but which toi it IL few days before lead bien bi en permitted to the officers ollic iTS by th tha ralli ercer him william IL coming up sud suddenly dellY recite hla his cabin in a tery ery neitous ne nei ivous excited found himself in front of tilt rider who vello I 1 to 0 acom coming col lillig in into t 0 celle collision with vl ith him jumped orr need saluted i trully kully tied had the emperor icalla been startled h or afraid of belfe beans knocked don who can on OILY he if gave a budden at art and tried tenant lake abair that anti and then no go and toll tell tile the captain camille to put you cunati anest fo 10 it a bleach of d isel PI lilt ill AH lilt iho drivers wire were at your 3 replied vou voll ila it TOM tile the mounted to the bridge w lie here r U the captain was as ili ul von if hahnke ill like walking behind him suddenly william villiam 11 II turned in a fury do not to mount these re teis tells re reserved tor for I 1 the lie I 1 eror lie exclaimed ill n it a tone lone then th en after a raw abue c lilt hn aim expended lei in an attitude 1 0 la 14 sully ht he added you art are no not worthy or by ti tey place your foot I 1 in 1 I tho he trucks tracks at of mine n at these words van became ci 1 alm amson str with 1 1 rage race sire he I am an officer to er and quite as bobb BS as your majesty I 1 I 1 allow no meta man to in J sult me william Willi ant was raging 1 I will have your epaulets to torn lorn olt off I 1 will break lic Y your ur sw sword or d you uni unworthy orthy ni lie or cried el S t demanded 1 an ea tho indignant arv adv told aho Inell Tant 0 2 r advancing m 1 rg toward rd the to emperor M who mno no upon the bridge lie II 11 w was followed I 1 by the lieutenant who struck uc k him a violent bon blow in the left eye and following fol loIng up ili he attack threw hi himself upon tho the emperor and would havo have ati him if the officers had not r rushed u shed up and dragged him into his cabin cr lb in blood wets was flowing freely over the emperors Empero rii face and clothes but lie ho had wn gratin suddenly oua denly quite calm let it a court martial be summoned immediately I 1 was his order to the captain who however replied vory very thic by the tha rules or of till service be hemore f ore a court marteal cou could ild be call called od same form of accusation must be formally drawn up however summary it maht be lct him be put in ili irons meanwhile replied william Will lun thu the court martial was commanded for the ahe next day what happe rede the next morning the lh isar the 1110 dock deck with a black silk bilk bandage over the injured eye but von malinke hahnke was wa f no longer on board the during the night he had been helped to a boat and had d pone gone off in the direction of the shore of lake landeen on the following tol lowing day the berlin papers announced thu the accident that had happened to the emperor I 1 pe r or the table fable of 0 the cable hitting hla his cy eye e three days after they published tho the suicide er it I abc of von il ll ahnke who held incurred they said gald the of ills his imperial Imp impel elial lal plaster in truth tile tho poor fellow after wandering for two days in the lh forest on the shore share of the lake had thrown himself into faloa a t torrenc orren t which had dashed hla bad body to bece alecea i against the rocks the off officers leers of the th received strict ardeis never to reveal ili ahat at hall had happened but such a secret Is hard to keep when they landed lan ted they of course told some of their frienda in confidence and from one of these the do Ifor montreal etreal received the above account which will not be reported by the german papers tor for on an imprisonment of fourteen years in a fortress Js Is the hie punishment meted out to him who he Is during enough i to utter the least insinuation against that most excitable and nervous ot of monarchs william II 11 ait emperor of germany translated by J S louis for the springfield republican |
