Legal Proceedings against the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (5)

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Cologne, September 5. Yesterday one of our editors, Friedrich Engels, was again summoned to appear before the examining magistrate in the investigation against Marx and consorts[1], but this time not as a witness but as co-accused. The preliminary investigation has ended, and if the Public Prosecutor’s office does not make any further proposals, the Council Chamber will shortly have to decide whether Marx, Engels and Korff will have to appear before the Assize Court on the charge of insulting or libelling Chief Public Prosecutor Zweiffel and the six policemen