Authors, German -- 19th century -- Biography; May, Karl Friedrich, 1842-1912
This is not the place for me to talk about the contents of this
pamphlet. It goes entirely without saying that my prior
convictions had been listed, and even more than these. He
distributed this all over the place, to "destroy" me according to
the Münchmeyers' method. I obtained an injunction against it. It
was no longer allowed to be printed and to be distributed. And I
filed a private complaint for gross insult against him. This
complaint could not be trailed in court, because my lawyer had
lost all of my evidence, and these were far more than a hundred
items. They were only found again with him, after it had already
been too late. So, I was forced to agree with the suggestions for
a settlement, which the presiding judge had made. Lebius took
back all of his accusations against me, the material as well as
the formal ones, stated that he regretted his attacks against me,
and promised to leave me alone from now on. He did so with his
signature. It was impossible for me not to believe in such a
promise, given in court. And yet, it was a betrayal and an
unconscientious act beyond comparison of his, to make this promise
to me, for he could only make it _with_the_intention_of_breaking_
_it._ This was because he had contacted with my ex-wife. She
felt, as all ex-wives do most of the time, unreasonably resentful
against her ex-husband; he was planning on using this for his
purposes. He came to see her in Weimar, where she lived. There,
she lived calmly and contently of her alimony of 3000 marks, which
I payed her, though I did not have to give her anything, because
she had been the only guilty party. I had also amply supplied her
with all conceivable things. Then, this man came to her and got
all the bitterness, she had worked herself into, out of her, to
fabricate out of this, supplemented with his own additions and
distortions, a rope to hang me with. He promised her just as
sacredly and solemnly as he once promise it to me, that nothing,
nothing at all would be published, but straight away, he went to
write for the edition of his "Bund" from March the 28th, 1909, an
article under the headline: "A spiritistic writing medium as the
main witness of the editors of the `Vorwärts'". With this alleged
writing medium he was referring to my current wife.
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