Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-09-13
HE STILL HAS FAITH.
Afflicted Emperor Says He Yet
Believes In Providence.
SOUGHT RELIGIOUS CONSOLATION.
The Brutal Murderer Examined Again.
Has Worked Little LateIy-Boasted of
His Crime Message of Emperor to the
Pope-vaporings of the Assassin.

VIENNA, Sept. 13.-The emperor of
Austria and his daughter attended mass
yesterday morning in the private chapel
of the Schoenbrunner palace. Hi
majesty showed evidences of intense
grief, but he said he did not lose faith
in God He expressed wish for con-
fession and communion.
During the day the emperor re-read
with much emotion d passage in the last
letter he received from the empress, in
which she expressed herself with being
pleased with the prospect of returning
to Vienna in few days TO witness the
Jubilee festivities. His majesty at
tended the usual state duties yesterday
and insisted upon attending personally
to the numerous messages of sympathy
he has received since the death of the
empress.
ROME, Sept. 13.-Emperer Francis
Joseph telegraphed the following reply
on receipt of the Geographic con
dolences of the pope:
Gin the frightful misfortune that has
struck me and my house the words of
your holiness, full of holy Indignation
and affection and inspired by that faith
which henceforth is my only refuge,
have conveyed sweet consolation to my
broken heart.
''Holy father, accept my most pro-
found and most devoted thanks for your
words and fraternal benediction. Pray
remember with pity in your holy
prayers henceforward the sanity soul,
my blessed well beloved companion,
myself and my family.
(Signed) "FRANCIs JOSEF"
GENEVA, Sept. 13.-In the course of q
second examination yesterday as TO his
history and the motive for the crime,
the assassin of the empress of Austria
said he had never known his father or
mother. He was brought up at Parma,
Italy, in CHARITY school and, at the
age OF 10, was thrown upon the streets
without resources. He worked as an
unskilled iaborer until he was 20. Then
he served Ia the Italian army three
years and half.
On leaving his regiment he was en-
ployed as the valet de ehambre of the
Prince of Aragan for three months. At
this time anarchist ideas began to pos
sess his mind, and, to use his own
words, prevented me from remaining
in servitude." He had wandered a
good deal since, doing little work.
While staying at Laussanch he saw q
file outside shop, purchased it with no
conceived purpose, and made clumsy
wooden handle for it.
In prison. he has boosted of his crime
and has addressed letter to Milan
newspaper, expressing fear lest he be
mistaken by Prof. Cabar Tombroso for
a degenerate. Dilating in this COM
munication upon the objects of militant
anarchlsm, he wrote:
"Above all it is the great who must
be struck. Not only sovereigns and
their ministers will be reached by the
comrrdes, but all who make men mis-
cradle ON EARTH
He says he was not impelled by mis-
cry to kill the empress, as such course
would have been idiotic, bnt 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 shiver. The
document concludes with this declara-
ton:
II am an anarchist by conviction