Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-12
HAS NOT GONE TO GENEVA
ASSASSIN MAINTAINS HIS CYNICAL
DEMEANOR.
Says He Belongs to No Committee, but
Admits He In an Anarchist-
Geneva Federal Council
Sends n Message to the
Emperor.

terday at Geneva. contemplate bringing the
remains to Vienna next Thursday, laying
in state on Friday, and the obsequies of
| interment on Saturday.
Every flag in the city is at half mast to-
! day, and the theaters, races and other
amusements are suspended indefinitely.
All the archdukes and the Archduchess
Marie Valerie have arrived at Schoen-
| brunn. 1t was reported last evening that
| Emperor Francis Joseph had gone to Cen
eva by a special train, but this was an
| error. AT noon to-day he had not yet left
| Schoenbrunn. Crown Princess Stephanie,
| who has been staying at Darmstadt, has
| been summoned.
| The emperor's fortitude Is the topic of
universal admiration. He is bearing up
| manfully, despite the terrible shock, which,
| in view of his age, had inspired the gravest
| apprehension. Although at first stunned
and then slightly hysterical. he soon re-
| gained his sef-control and displayed re-
markable calmness. Occasionally, however,
| completely overwhelmed by his grief, he
| moaned piteously, repeatedly sobbing the
| name of the empress.
Addressing Prince Won Liechtenstein.
chief marshal of the imperial household,
he exclaimed last evening:
| "It is inconceivable how a man could lift
| his hand against one who never in her life
| injured anybody; one who did nothing but
| good.''
| Then he moaned:
Nothing is spared to me in this world"
He managed to sleep several hours last
night, and said this morning he felt COM
parativey well, discouraging the attempts
of his attendants to display solicitude for
| his health.
| The shock of the news crazed one of the
| court servants who rushed from the palace
| to Buryplatz. shrieking:
| Where is the murderer of our en-
press?"
Dispatches of coincidence are arriving at
| the palace from all parts of the world. tes-
tifying to profound horror and sympathy.
| Among them are messages from President
| Mckinley, from Emperor William and from
nearly every European sovereign.
The court will go into mourning for six
| months.
BUDAPEST. HUNGARY. Sept. n.-Both
| houses of the Hungarian diet met to-day
in extraordinary session. Long before the
| magnates and deputies arrived the iegis-
lative palace was surrounded by an i'm
mense concourse of sorrowing people.
A band of 500 students carrying crapad
trance to the unterhaus. The president Of
the chambers expressed the nations sor-
row and coincidence and in both houses mo-
! tions befitting the occasion were adopted.
| The diet then adjourned.
| A royal decree issued to-day suspends
'hs BERNE. 5fIE a. sWITzERLAND. I Sept. 1.-THE
federal council met this morning and sent
the following telegram to Emperor Francis
| Joseph:
1.-The Swiss federal council has the honor
to express to your majesty its profoundest
grief and deepest Indignation at the hor-
rible crime. to which ner majesty Empress
Elizabeth. has fallen victim. Our pain and
Indignation are all the greater owing to
the foul crime having been committed on
Srr.tor writ done rfn6
she had often done before. was seeking re-
covery from bodily sufferings. which re:
eoyery as on previous Ss occasions she had
to assure your majesty. at the same time.
of its own warmest sympathy. and that
of the whole Swiss people in the irreparable
loss your majesty, the imperial house and
the peoples of Austria and Hungary have
suffered through your exalted lady's
| DEATH.
The flag on the federal building is at halt
mast. The council reassembled this after.
noon to receive reports regarding the crime
is expected that the judicial authorities OF
the canton of Vaud will conduct the in
quiry and the trial.
day and decided to issue a proclamation ex.
pressing the horror of the government and
people of Geneva and decree, directing a
| popular demonstration tomorrow. All the
civil officials will march past the Hotel
Beau-Rivage. followed by the citizens, all
of whom are invited to participate. Durine
the procession. the great bell of the cathed.
raj, associated with all Swiss national dem.
onstrations of grief and joy, will be tolled
mPeror ins ETanGis n Joseph h teegraphed the
consent to post mortem examination. DR.
Reverdin: DR.. Megevaus and NJ. Golday
mayor of Geneva. were intrusted with the
| examination of the wound on behalf of the
judicial authorities. and. accordingly. pro.
ceeded to the Hotel Beau-Rivage. where
| close of the examination they announces
that death was caused by internal hem.
orrhage Thg from a triangular inclsed wound
| ,Ihey decided that the injury was of q
character to leave no grounds for tho
theory, which had been advanced. that the
empress who suffered from weakness OF
neart, might have succumbed simply to the
shock of the blow. ~ LAX
The Geneva council will place upon the
trian. and Genevan colors and bearing the
inscription, "a Token of SorrowfiIl Sv1nna
thT Ebrd From the People of Geneva
the assassin, his demeanor was one of re.
| voting cynicism.
EMPRESS Elizabeth was about returning
HIS suite had preceded her by train. leav.
ing with her only her maid Of honor. Bar.
The officials who visited the hotel to afiS
to the strict law in force. found the h'uTs sute's
| luggage mad accompanied the suite.
The last words of the empress were ad.
dressed to the attendants on the steamer
Recovering consciousness for. the moment
she feebly asked what had happened.
The 1ady-in-waiting who was with the
empress at the moment of attack saws:
| After the empress rose l asked her II
she felt any pain. She replied: I dom,
know: think l feel pain in my chest
said: 1T must be fright: take nv arm
The empress declined Strengthened herseI,
up and walked firmly on board the steamer
Even when she lost consciousness I thought
It only fright or attack of nervousness
l am positive she never knew she had beer
struck by an assassin"
| AS yet the authorities have found nc
confirmation of the report that the nur.
| DER was part of an anarchist conspiracy
| but dozen persons with whom the assas
sin associated have been arrested for ex.
animation.
GENEVA, Sept. 11.-No strangers are
, allowed to approach tie coffin of tbs
, | murdered Empress Elizabeth. The bod,
has been embalmed and is dressed III
The. doctors photographed the wound, bu
the plate will be destroyed.
1t is understood that Emperor Franci.
Joseph will not leave Austria, but will sent
high court officials to take the body Il
Vienna. Flowers are arriving in profusion
The assassin maintains his cynical de
self upon the success of his crime. H,
[ says:
Il am an anarchist. but I belong to nc
committee. I acted my own initiative
, Let them do as. they like with me. THAI
is my strength
, ASSASSIN'S FRIENDS ARRESTED