Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-17
ANARCHY,S LATEST VICTIM.

derer committed his atroclous crime
After having been stabbed the empress
arose and walked on board the steamer,
where she fell. fainting. The captain
did not wish to put off from the quay
but did so at the request of the en-
press and her suite. there being no APP
prehension that she was seriously hurt
The steamer was turned back before
reaching the open lake. and the en-
press, unconscious. was carried to the
hotel on a stretcher. Doctors, and
priests were Immediately summoned
and telegram was sent to Emperor
Francis Joseph. Efforts to revive her
majesty were unavailing, and she eX-
pired at o'clock.
After striking the blow the assassin
ran along the Rue des Alpes. 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 boa man and a gendarme.
who conveyed him to the police sta
ton The prisoner made no resistance.
He even sang as he walked along. say
ing: Il did it," and She must be
dead" AT the police station he de-
clared that he was Starving an
archist. with no hatred for the poor,
but only for the rich" Throughout
the examination of the assassin his de-
meanor was one of revolving cynicism.
He frankly congratulated himself upon
the success of his crime. He said: II
am an anarchist, but I belong to no
committee I acted on my own lnItia-
tive. Let them do as they like with
me. That is my strength" He added
that he regretted that the death pen
atty does not exist in the canton where
the tragedy occurred.
In prison he has boosted of his crime.
and he has addressed a letter to a
Milan newspaper expressing a fear lest
he be mistaken by Professor Caesar
Lombroso for a degenerate. Dilating
in this communication upon the OBJ
jects of militant anarchism he wrote:
Above all it is the great who must
be struck Not only sovereigns and
their ministers will be reached by the
comrades, but all who make men mis-
cradle on earth"
He says he was not impelled by
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course would have been idiotic but
he committed the deed lin order that
such crimes. following one upon an
other, might cause all who impoverish
the populace to trcrnbie and SILVER"
The document concludes: II am an
anarchist by conviction
The autopsy on the body of the mur-
dered empress took place yesterday. 1t
showed that Doth the lung and heart
were pierced by the assassin's dagger.
| The examination showed an almost
imperceptible wound. the file having
penetrated the heart and not causing
exterior bleeding.
AS yet the authorities have found no
confirmation that the murder was part
of an anarchist conspiracy. but a dozen
persons with whom the assassin as
ISOLATED have been arrested for ex-
animation.
Empress Elizabeth was about return
ing to Caux. France, when she was
murdered Her suite had proceeded
her by train, leaving with her only her
maid of honor, Countess Szapary, and
a man servant.
The emperor's fortitude is the topic
of uiTsversal admiration. He is bearing
up manfully despite the fearful shock
which, in view Of his age, had inspired
the gravest apprehension. Although al
first stunned and slightly hysterical
! he soon regained his self control. and
displayed remarkable calmness. Oc-
casionally. however. completely over
powered by his grief. he moaned pit
eous1v repeatedly sobbing the name
of the empress.