The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-16

ranks the people filed bareheaded
before the hotel, in spite OF the very
hot sun In the meanwhile, the historic
bell of the cathedral Of st. Clemence
changed heavily.
The procession lasted over an hour.
All eyes We're directed toward the ter
race of the hotel, where stood General
BerZivicZy, marshal of the late en-
press household, the Austrian minis
ter and the members of the suite OF
the deceased. The majority OF the
stores were closed.
Vienna, September 1.-THE en-
peror Of Austria and his daughter at
tended mass his morning in the pri-
vate chapel of the Schoentrunner pal
ace. His majesty showed evidences OF
intense grief. but he said he did. not
lose faith in God. He expressed a wish
for confession and communion.
During the day the emperor re-read
with much emotion a passage IN the
| last letter he received from the en-
| press, in which she expressed herself
| with being pleased with the prospect of
returning to Vienna in a few days to
witness the jubilee festivities. His ma
jesty attended the usual state duties
today and insisted Dor attending per-
sonally to the numerous messages of
sympathy he has received since the
death of the empress.
~ EJcplSIIbCI I--oI IL VI
der of a magistrate, the assassin was
taken his afternoon from st. Anthony
prison to the anthropOmetrical insti-
tute, where he was measured and pho
~tographed. Portraits were given to the
press and will be distributed 20 the pO-
lice in the cities where he has lived.
In the course of a second eXamina-
ton as to his history and the motives
for the crime, he said he had never
known his father or mother. He was
brought UP at Parma, tally, in a har-
ity school, and at the age of 10 years
was thrown on the streets without re-
sources. He worked as al unskilled
laborer until he was 20 years old. Then
he served in the Italian army three
years and a half. On leaving his regi-
ment he was employed as the valet de
chambre of the prince of AragOn for
three months. At this time anarchist
deaS began to possess his mind and
to use his own words-"prevented me
from remaining in servitude." In the
course of a life of adventure he hap
pened to be at Buda Pest in 1894. There
for the first time he saw Empress EliZ-
abeth. He was miserable and weak
and applied to the Italian consul to be
returned to Italy. The consul sent hin
to Fiume.
His description of his subsequent
Wanderings was vague, and he said he
seldom, if ever, obtained work. While
staying at Lausaneh he saw a file out.
side of a shop, purchased it with nc
conceived purpose and made a clumsy
wooden handle for it.
In prison he has boosted of his crime
and he has addressed a letter to a Mi
Ian newspaper, expressing a fear les
he be mistaken by Professor Cabal
TOmbrOsO for a degenerate. Dilatins
in this communication upon the object:
of militant anarchism, he wrote
above all, it is the great who mus
be struck. Not only sovereigns anC
their ministers will be reached by tn
comrades, but all who make men mis-
cradle On earth" He says he was no
impelled by misery to kill the empress
as such a course would have been i'd
otto, but he committed the deed in or
der that such crimes, following on
upon another, might cause all wh'
impoverish the %populace to trembl,
n Shiver. The document conclude
with this declarations: Il am an an
archist by conviction"