Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1914 — DAMAGED STATUES IN BERLIN [ARTICLE]

DAMAGED STATUES IN BERLIN

Retired French Army Officer Broke Marble From “Sieges Allee" Monuments.

Berlin. —Serious acts of vandalism have been perpetrated in the famous "Sieges Allee” here. Four statues were badly damaged and the beaks of several of the marble eagles which form the arms of the benches tn the “Allee” were found to have been broken off. ** A man who, at about the time of the outrage, was seen to step over tbs chain surrounding one of the statues, was arrested in connection with the affair, and in his pockets were found* a stone of considerable size and a strong knife. 1 The prisoner gave his name as Antoine Astier, a pensioned staff surgeon of the French marine. His age is given as forty-one. The statues which Astier damaged were those of Frederick the Great, the Elector Joachim Friedrich, the Elector Joachim II and Margrave Heinrich ll.' Astier claims to possess a Raphael "1* Belle Jardiniere,” which he desires to sell to the city of Berlin foi £I,S(N,CDO. ““ ,