Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-09-16
THE EMPR ESS Oh
AUSTRIA KILLED.
STABBED BY AN ASSASSIN
AT GENEVA.

1 GeneNi, oWltLStltilN, RSPN' ~
THE Empress of Austria was assass
mated ut the Hotel Beauriyage TIN
afternoon by an anarchist, who wa
arrested. He stabbed Her Majest
with stiletto.
1t appears that her Majesty wa
waking from her hotel to the landin.
place of the steamer at about
O'Clock when an Italian Anarchist
named Laochiani, who was born i
Paris of Italian parents, suddenly az
preached and stabbed her to tn
heart.
The Empress fell, got up again an'
was carried to the steamer uncon
scious. The boat started; but, seeing
the Empress had not recovered con
sciousness, the Captain returned anC
the Empress was carried to the ho'el
where she expired.
The At, fletcher upon which the En-
nress was carried to the hotel wa
hastily improvised with oars and sail
cloth. Doctors and priests were I'M
medistely summoned, and telegram
was sent to Emperor Francis Joseph.
All efforts to revive Her Majesty
were mavailing and she expired at
3 O'Clock.
THE WEAPON.
The medical examination showed
that the assassin must have used 4
small triangular file. After striking
the blow he ran along the Rue DIES
Alpss, with the evident intention OF
entering the Square DIES Alpes, but
before reaching it he was seized by
two cabmen who had witnessed the
crime. They handed him over to a
boatman and \ gendarme, who con-
veyed him to the police station. The
prisoner made no resistance. lie
even sang as he walked along, saying:
81 did it." and "She must be dead"
AT the police station he declared
that he was a Starving Anarchist,
with no hatred for the poor, but ONLY
for the rich"
Later, when taken to the court
house and interrogatsd by = magis-
trate in the presence of three mem
bers of the local government and the
police officials he pretended not to
know French and refused to answer
questions.
HIS lDENIIl1.
The police on searching him found
a document showing his name to be
Luigi Laochini, born in Paris in 1878,
and an Italian soldier
A great crowd quickly assembled
around the Hotel Beaurivage, where
the officials proceeded after interro-
eating the prisoner.
The police searched the scene of
the crime for the weapon and accom-
plices ofths assassin. 1t appears
that q boatmsn noticed three persons
closely following the Empress who
was making purchases in the shops.
The local government immediate
ly on receiving the news of Her
Maiesty's death, halfmasted the flag
OIL the Hotel De Vile (the munich
pal Offices and proceeded in a body
to the Hotel Beaurivage as a token
of respect.
MUCH Excl TEblENT.
The excitement is increasing and
many of the shops of the Kurasal are
closed.
The assassin told the magistrate
that he came to Geneva to assassinate
another impOrtent person." but had
been unable to execute the project.
The reason of his failure he did not
give, but he declared that it was only
10y accident he Lad learned Of the
Austrian Empress in Geneva.
The wound isjust over the left
reast. b There was hardly any bleed
ing.
A priest was secured in time to ad-
minister extreme JUNCTION.
THE DEAD EMPRESS.
The Empress Of Austria was born
December "a, 1881. She was a
daughter of Duke Macmillan, OF
Bavaria, and was married to Francis
Joseph, Emperor of Austria, and
King of Hungary, April "a, 1854.
They had three children, the Arch
duchess Gisols, who is married to
Prince LuitpOld, Of Bavaria, the
Archduke Rudolph who married
Princess Stephenie, of Belgium, and
who was seemingly assassinated in
1890 and the Archduchess Maria
Veleria, who married the Archduke
Franz Salvador, of Austria-Tuscany.
The late Empress was an enthuGas-
tic horse-woman.
EFFECT OK THE EMPEROR.