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Show ' BERLIN, May "4. Trtcurlng food and lodging at the expense of the State by insulting the Kaiser is the method invented and practiced by George Schoeno of Goerllts. , Schoene has up to now. spent -ten years tt his life in prison, and has just been sentenced to four yeara more.; -He Is a shoemaker, but the hard work and .small earnings disgusted him. He determined de-termined upon an easier way of getting hla board, so he took up the trade of lese majeste. One' day he stood in the street In front of the police station of - GoerllU and shouted at the top of his voice av vehement denunciation of the EmDerof. of his extraordinary conduct, he replied: re-plied: . "I am perfectly happy in my chosen career. Te idea that the loss of liberty liber-ty has rendered me unhappy is entirely false In prison I enjoy as a matter of fact more liberty than I possessed as a victim of the sweating system. I endure no hardships. I have no cares, and I know that provision will be made for me, not only during my youth and manhood, but also In my old age. .There is nothing dishonorable in my offense, so that I have tio feelings of having disgraced my name. Why should I, in these circumstances, hesitate to. seek the hospitality of his Majesty's prisons?" Schoene was arrested,' tried and sentenced sen-tenced to two months' Imprisonment, it being his first offense. He was bo pleased with his treatment in prison that on the day he was released re-leased he walked to the same spot In Goerllts and proceeded once more to bawl insults against his lies: lord. Again a crowd assembled and again Schoene was arrested and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, which he enjoyed quite as much as his first incarceration, in-carceration, v Released the second time, he walked to the same spot.: repeated his offense and received a year's imprisonment This process was repeated until Schoene had spent ten years in prison, except for those brief periods required to walk from the prison gates to the favorite spot in front of the police station. ' The authorities became weary of sentencing sen-tencing Schoene and made various attempts, at-tempts, to evade sentencing him for this offense.' They had him examined as to his sanity, but the physicians declared him mentally sound. Questioned at hla trial on the motives |