When the honest, young man heard this, his scruples became even greater than they had been before. When he said so and expressed his worries of being punished in court, Lebius suggested the following to him:
As authors, we are anyhow and always with one foot in prison.
To have been sentenced in court, is good advertising for us. I also have already been convicted many times.
You have no reason at all to be afraid of the courts. You have no prior convictions, you may testify under oath. But May may not testify under oath.
May is under police supervision. He has been forbidden to live in a city. Therefore, he lives in Radebeul.
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: