Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-09-17
ANARCHY's LATEST VICTIM.

ment piercing the breast of the info
tunate victim just above the heart. In
ternal bleeding ensued and after ,
priest, who had been hastily sum
moned, had administered extreme unc
tion to the dying woman she expired
in great agony.
The empress had been for several
days guest at Beaurivage, and was
walking from the hotel when the muir
derer committed his atroeious 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 ape
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 stretcher Doctors and
priests were Immediately summoned,
and telegram was sent to Emperor
Francis Joseph. Efforts to revive her
majesty We're unavaiIing, and she ex-
pired at 8 O'Clock
After striking the blow the assassin
ran along the Rue des Alpes. with the
evident intention of entering the
Square des 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 conveyed him to the police sta
ton. The prisoner made no resistance.
He even sang as he walked along say
ing: II did it," and "She must be
dead" At the police station he de-
clared that he was a 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 / belong to no
committee. acted on my own initia-
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
Milan newspaper expressing 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
misery to kill the empress. as such a
course would have been idiotic, but
he committed the deed lin order that
nj
other, might cause all who impoverish
the populace to tremble and SILVER"
The document concludes: Il am an
anarchist by conviction"
The autopsy on the body of the muir.
dered empress took place yesterday. It
showed that both 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 emperors fortitude is the topic
of universal admiration. He is bearing
up manfully despite the fearful shock.
which. ia view OF his age, had inspired
the gravest apprehension Although at
first stunned and slightly hystericaI.
he soon regained his self control, and
displayed remarkable calmness. Oc-
vasionally, however. completely over
by his grief, ne moaned pit
eously, repeatedly sobDing the name
of the empress.