Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1910 — TRIED TO ARREST THE KAISER. [ARTICLE]

TRIED TO ARREST THE KAISER.

Ihought Somethin? Waa Wron* When Emperor Cam* Home. Only quite recently the Kaiser left the Imperial residence at Potsdam clad In an ordinary suit of brown tweeds. The guard, however, seeing him go out, did not know who he was, and questioned an official of the palace shortly afterward concerning the stranger. This aroused some suspicion and the Emperor was followed, still unrecognized. He went to Berlin, where a regular detective was set to watch him, for any stranger at Potsdam is always well -looked after. The Kaiser went to a restaurant, and dined as an ordinary iportal might, for he Is given to these little Incognito excursions, says Cassell's Saturday Journal. He did nothing particular beyond buying some cigarettes at a tobacconist’s, and the detective, joined by another plain-clothes man, dogged the unsuspecting monarch back to the palace, which he entered unconcernedly. The guard saluted, but' the innocent detectives, now convinced that something was wrong, dashed forward and laid their hands on the Kaiser’s shoulders and demanded to know who he was. It took twenty minutes and the corroboration of half the palace to satisfy them that they had "pinched” the Kaiser, who enjoyed the joke hugely. He ordered the crestfallen men to be given a sumptuous dinner and a hundred marks (equal to $25) apiece as an appreciation of their zeal.