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Show Punished for Libel. Some weeks ago "Simplicissimus," a comic paper of the stamp of the Roman Ro-man "Asino," published a grossly , insulting in-sulting caricature of the Bishop of Rottenburj. The editor was arraigned before the criminal court of Stuttgart and sentenced to two month's imprisonment, impris-onment, .without the usual alternative of a fine. The public prosecutor affirmed af-firmed the insult to be the gravest that could be hurled at one commissioned commis-sioned to watch over the purity of morals. Protestants, he added, had been the first to report the matter to him and to demand prosecution. |