Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-25 | Page 14 | German Court Awards Trophy

I GERMAN G COURT UATi AWARDS Englishman Wins Carriage Used by Napoleon p leon LEIPZIG Feb 24 When When Napoleon turned away from the battlefield of ot Leipzig in 1813 he left behind a traveling traveling trav tray eling carriage wl which since has become famous Field Marshal Bluecher got possession possession posses posses- sion aba of the conveyance on the he battlefield battlefield battlefield battle battle- field and carried it off There are ace to today today to- to day two day two branches of the Bluecher family one German and one English and each has been claiming the tro- tro phy The contest has been long and bitter and has divided the Bluecher family tor br many years Now the German supreme court here has decided the vehicle belongs to the English family that It rightfully inherits from the field marshal The claims advanced by the French government government government gov- gov gov gov- under the Versailles treaty are ignored But the English owner has decided that the carriage be taken to Breslau where the field field- marshal marshat lived and turned over to the custody of the municipality The ownership p however Is to remain In his name German newspapers are jubil Jubilant nt that Trance France did not get the carriage which is described as an old four wheeled four led affair