The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-13


degenerate Thus Robbing His
Crime of the Lesson He Sought To
Convey to the Observation-Disclosures
Photographed and Measured
The EmperOr's FortItude.
GENEVA, Sept. 12.-On the order OF
magistrate, the assassin Of the en-
press or Austria was taken this after
noon from st. Anthony prison to the
anthropometrical institute, where he
was measured and photographed. Pho
togrdphs We're given to the press and
will be distributed to the police in the
cities where he lived
In the course Of O. second exanoina-
ZION as to his history and motive for
the crime, he said he had never known
MS rather or mother. He was brought
up at Parma, Italy, in a charity school.
and at the age Of ten was thrown on
the streets without resources. He
worked as an unskilled laborer until
ne was twenty. Then he served in the
Italian army three years and a half.
On leaving his regiment, he was en-
Ployed as the valet de chambre OF the
Frlnce or Aragon for three months.
AT this time anarchist ideas began to
impress his mind, and-to use his own
words" prevented me from remaining
in servitude." In the course Of a life
or adventure, he happened to be at
Budapest in 1894. There for the first
time he saw Empress Elizabeth He
was miserable and weak, and applied
to the Italian consul to be returned to
Italy. The consul sent him to Fiume.
His description Of his subsequent
Wanderings was vague, and he said he
seldom, If ever, obtained work. While
hn IL
side a shop, purchased it, with no con-
celVed purpose, and made a clumsy
wooden handle for It.
In prison he has bOasted of his crime,
and he has addressed q letter to q
Milan newspaper, expressing a fear
lest he be mistaken by Prof Lombroso
for degenerate. Dilating in this COM
munication upon the objects Of mill
tant 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 impelIed by mis-
cry to Kill the empress, as such a course
would have been idiotic, but he COM
mitted the deed in order that such
crimes, following one upon the other
might cause all who impOverish the
Populace to tremble and SILVER. The
document concludes with this declara-
ton:
Il am an anarchist by conviction"
SHOW OF SYMPATHY.
The imposing demonstration Of SYM
pathy organized by the federal council
commenced at noon today. The ap-
proaches to the hotel were guarded by
gendarmes. The procession was head
ed by gendarmes, with arms reversed.
Then came four beadles, with four
cooked hats and long cloaks, half yell
low and half red. Their leader bore a
crape-cOVered mace. They were follow
ed by the members of the government,
the members Of parliament, the diplo-
matte corps and the civic dignitaries
Then came a great mass Of the popu-
lation of Geneva. In close ranks the
people filed bareheaded before the hotel,
in spite Of the very hot sun.
In the meanwhile the historic old
cathedral bell Of st. Clements changed
heavily. The procession lasted over an
hour. All eyes were directed towards
the terrace of the hotel, where stood
Gen. BerZiviciZy, marshal of the late
empress household, the Austrian min
lister and the members of the suite Of
the deceased. The majority of the
stores were closed.
The body of the empress has been
enclosed in a triple coffin and placed
in a room transformed into a mortuary
chamber. The walls of this apart
ment are yelled with pack drapery,
covered with silver stars, and several
sisters of charity are continually on
their knees beside the bier, praying
for the soul of the departed. Near by
stands the prayer table of the deceased,
bearing her rosary and crucifiX.