Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — Upholding Kaiser’s Dignity. [ARTICLE]

Upholding Kaiser’s Dignity.

A trail of leze majesty convictions has followed Emperor William’s recent trips through Germany. A Berlin dispatch says that the Dusseldorf visit cost an aggregate of nineteen years of imprisonment for insult to his majesty. During 1902 643 prosecutions for leze majesty were tried in Berlin, of which 186 were thrown out of court as false. The sentence varied between five years and twelve months.