| I HAVE A GREAT TALENT FOR DEALING WITH THE COURTS. ONCE I | | START TALKING, THE JUDGES ARE ALL ON MY SIDE! | | WHEN A PERSON IN A TRIAL WRITES SUCH A PAMPHLET, THIS MAKES | | AN ENORMOUS IMPRESSION ON THE JUDGES! | | Mrs. May has begged me with tears in her eyes to have mercy | | on her husband. | | May has to be destroyed by this pamphlet. All the rest is | | unessential, ONLY THERE TO CONCEAL THE TRUE PURPOSE! | The consequence of these and similarly peculiar verbal expectorations was that Kahl decided, to distance himself from this matter. He prohibited Lebius to print anything he had written or even to abuse his name for this pamphlet. He directed the very same ban also against the publisher. He thought that by such means he had ascended quite definitely back out of this morass. But he did not know Lebius and his audacity yet. The pamphlet was published, and even precisely on April the 1st. Its title was: | KARL MAY, | | one who corrupts the German youth | by | F.W. Kahl - Basel. | Kahl only found out from a Swiss newspaper that the pamphlet had nevertheless been published, and even under his name. He instantly took the appropriate steps. The appointed hearing, when I was to be questioned as a witness, which Lebius had been so afraid of, had not taken place. Whether he had nevertheless presented the pamphlet to the judges or not, I do not know. But he has, without delay, sent them to the newspapers, and even with summaries and commentaries etc., the slanderous nature of which you can get an idea of by just reading the following lines, which he has sent to the "Neue Züricher Zeitung" <New Newspaper of Zürich>: "Mr. May has waged his revenge against me by undermining my financial position by means of slander and driving my into bankruptcy. As soon as I had established myself in another town, he again appeared on the scene, the repeat the same manoeuvre. In doing so, before striking another blow against me, he loves to visit me at my apartment and to beg, with tears in his eyes, for peace."