The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
Baked in Finding His Victim. He Ac-
cidentally Came On the Un-
suspectinE Express.
ALL EUROPE IS HoRRIFIED
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH LEAVES
VIENNA FOR SCENE OF TRAGEDY.
Empress Was the Mother of the Late
Crown Prince Rudolph, Who Came
TO a Tragic End in 1850.

GENEVA. Switzerland, Sept. 10-The
Empress of Austria was assassinated near
the Hotel Beaurivage this afternoon by an
Anarchist named Laochini, who was ar
rested. He stabbed her Majesty with a
stiletto made of file. The wound was just
over the left breast There was hardly any
bleeding. priest was secured in time to
administer extreme JUNCTION.
1t appears that her Majesty was walking
from her hotel to the landing place of the
steamer at 12:45 o'clock, when an Italian
Anarchist suddenly approached and stabbed
her in the heart. The Empress fell, got up
again and was carried to the steamer un-
conscious. The boat started, but seeing the
Empress had not recovered consciousness
the captain returned and the Empress was
carried to the Hotel Beaurivage, where she
expired.
Another account of the assassination of
the Empress of Austria says: After hav-
ing been stablAd from behind 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 Empress and her
suite, there being no apprehension that she
was seriously hurt. The steamer was turned
= back before reaching the open lake. and
the Empress. unconscious, was carried back
to the hotel on stretcher.
The stretcher on which the Empress was
carried to the hotel was hastily improvised
with oars and sail cloth. Doctors and priests
were Immediately summoned, and a tele-
gram was sent to Emperor Francis Joseph
All efforts to revive her Majesty were un-
availing, and she expired at 3 o'clock. The
medical examination showed that the as
sassin must have used a small triangular
file.
After striking the blow he ran along the
Rue des Alpes, with the evident intention
of entering the square Des Alpes, but be-
fore reaching it he was seized by two cab
men who had witnessed the crime. They
handed him over to boatman and gen.
darme, who conveyed him to the police sta
tion. The prisoner made no resistance. He
even sang as he walked along. saying: 81
did it, and ''she must be dead
AT the police station he declared that he
was a starving Anarchist, with no hatred
for the Door, but only for the rich.''
Later, when taken to the courthouse and
interrogated by a magistrate in the pres
ence Of three members of the local govern
ment and the police officials. he pretended
Tot to know French, and refused to answer
questions. The police. on searching him,
found a document showing his name to be
Luigi Laochini. born in Paris in 1873, and
an Italian soldier.
The assassin, while being interrogated by
the magistrate. said he came to Geneva with
the intention of killing the Due D'orleans,
but the latter had already left.
Luccesi Cor LacchenD followed the duke
TO Evian, about twenty-five miles northeast
of Geneva on the lake. where he was again
unsuccessful. He then returned to Geneva
and learned from the papers of the presence
of the Austrian Empress. Yesterday he
dogged her footsteps. but found no oppor-
tunity to carry out his purpose, though he
watched the Hotel Beaurivage all day.
This afternoon about half past /. he said.
he saw the valet of the Empress leaving the
hotel and going toward the landing. He in
ferred from this that the Empress was going
to take the steamboat and he hid himself
behind a tree on the quay with the file con-
cealed in his right sleeve.
In a few minutes the Empress. accom-
panied by her lady of honor. appeared and
the assassin struck the file home. Luccesi
confessed that he has been an Anarchist
since he was thirteen years old.
IF all Anarchists did their duty as have
done mine,'' he said, bourgeois society
would soon disappear" He admitted that
he knew the crime was useless, but said he
committed it for "the sake of example,
great crowd quickly assembled around
the Hotel Beaurivage. where the officials
proceeded after interrogating the prisoner.
The police searched the scene of the crime
for the weapon and the accomplices of the
assassin.
1t appears that a boatman noticed three
persons closely following the Empress. who
was making purchases In the shops
The local government Immediately on re-
ceiving the news Of her Majesty's death
half-masted the flag on the Hotel de vile
tthe municipal ofnees) and proceeded in .