AN AMERICAN CITIZEN SENTENCED.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 36

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN SENTENCED.

Beelin, May 20

Mr Stern, an American citizen, who was arrested at Kissengen last year in connection with a charge brought against him of insulting an official, and admitted to bail m the sum of 80,000 marks while the case was under appeal, failed to appear and the bail was estreated and sentence of imprisonment passed in his absence. Washington, May 20. Mr Olney, Secretary of State, has sharply protested against the proceedings under which Mr Stern was arrested. Bar.m Marsehall von liieborslein, the Herman Foreign Secretary, in reply, refuses to make any concession in the matter, and letorts that the sentences passed on Germans for violating tho Sunday liijuor laws in New York are unfair, although Germany has nut protested.

Mr Louis Stern is senior partner in Stern Bros., proprietors of one of tho finest dry goods store* in New York on Twenty-third street. While at Kissengen last year Mr Stern took his son with him toakursaal, or public garden, and represented that tho youth was under 1G years of age, so that ho might be admitted five. Shortly afterwards the young follow accompanied his father to a ball in the city, and Mv Stern then stated that his son was over 17 years of age, the rule being that no one under that age is admitted. Tho result was that Stern had an altercation with one of the officials, and some high words ensued, tho consequence beingStern's arrest, as stated ill the cable message. With reference to Baron Von Bioberstein's reply toMrOnley, concerning tho liquor law in New York, ho refers to the drastic excise regulations dealt with in the columns of the New Zealand .Mail a few days age