The official account at last and apparently reluctantly given out
by the Prussian authorities concerning the murder of M. Ott, is that Count Ealenburg and other students met a noisy party, that one of the students was attacked, and a scuffle ensued, when Count Eulenburg felt for his sword, found it gone, and then laid about him with the scabbard. It is also stated that the medical evi- dence is to the effect that the wound on M. Ott's head was inflicted by a blunt instrument. This is the first official version of the affair that has been vouchsafed us. The Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung prefaces this version with the remark, " Prussia must really stand high ! When we find the chorus of the Prussia-hating foreign press reduced so low as to obtain the material for its attack out of the 4 miscellaneous- intelligence,' we are well entitled to exclaim, 4 Prussia must really stand high !' " This is quite in the spirit of the M'mister. The common outrages on the liberties and lives of common men go, we presume, in Prussian official journals, into the "miscellaneous intelligence," and are not worth aristocratic notice. if the account given be really the true one, why was not Count Eulenburg charged, and the evidence produced immediately, in some Prussian court of justice? We had no "miscellaneous intelligence" of any attempt whatever to find and punish the murderer. We do not hold that a country " stands high " because it is above caring for the injuries of the lowly.
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