LESE MAJESTE.
Some extraordinary cases of "lese majeste" are reported, most of them being concerned with ignorant and irresponsible people who have been denounced "by informers. One of these is an artisan's wife in Spandau, who made certain foolish remarks in connection with a picture of the Kaiser hanging on the wall of a friend's room. Some time after she and her friend quarrelled. The friend, recollecting her remark about the Kaiser, gave information to the police, with the result that the offending woman was sent to gaol for four months. Another case is reported from Upper Silesia, where a coafminer has been imprisoned for utterances against the Kaiser in connection with his journey to Palestine. A third case is .repotted from Nuremburg, where the editor of a Socialistic newspaper there has been fined a hundred marks for reproducing an article in a Berlin journal which contained "lese majeste." A fourth case is in Bunzlau, where ft newspaper office was searched for the manuscript of an article which had given offence. As the manuscript was not found, the issue of the paper containing the article was confiscated.
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Evening Star, Issue 10903, 11 April 1899, Page 4
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187LESE MAJESTE. Evening Star, Issue 10903, 11 April 1899, Page 4
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