Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-12
GENEVA'S HORROR
Details Of the Murder Of
AuStria'S Empress.
STABBED WITH A FILE.
Her Assailant May Cheat Gal.
lows Despite His Crime.
STABBED WITH A FILE.

Her Assailant May Cheat Gal
lows Despite His Crime.
switxerlnnd's Laws Do Not Admit
the Death Penalty-The Crime Conn
mitted Only Because the Murderer
Hated the Great Ones of Earth.
Fortitude Shown by the Royal Vic
tim-Emperor Frans Josef Over
come by the Nevs-Searching For
the Assnssin's ACCOMPLISHMENTS
dent Mckinley Cables Sympathy Of
the United States.
Geneva, Switzerland Sept. 12.-The
details of Saturdays tragedy whereby
the empress of Austria lost her life have
now been learned. The news Of the
murder Of the empress spread rapidly
through the city, almost stupefyine
the people with horror. One account OF
the murder is as follows:
The empress had been for some days
stopping In Switzerland with her suit
She was staying at the Hotel Caux,
near Montreux. On Friday her majesty
came to Geneva, staying at the Hotel
Beau-Rivages, situated upon the quay
near the lake. She was there under the
name of Hohenembs. After visiting the
Baroness Rothschild at Pregny she In
tended to return to Montreux by boat.
She sent her suit with their baggage
by train at 1890, retaining one lady in
waiting and one valet de chambre.
About 1870 p. m. she left the hotel with
the lady to take the boat named Geneva.
AS she reached a spot between the
Brunswick monument and the Hotel
Paix young man who had been hiding
behind tree along the edge of the side
walk dashed upon her and dealt her
blow which was so violent that the en-
press fell. The bystanders thought that
she had received a blow from the mans
fist.
The empress rose to her feet with the
assistance of the lady in waiting and
was able to reach the boat. Shortly aft.
err embarking she lost consciousness
The boat, however, started, but all
crowded around the empress. The lady
in waiting unlaced her dress and found
beneath the left breast a tiny wound
from which oozed two or three drops OF
blood.
Beat Puts Back.
AS the empress did not recover con
seriousness, the boat which had gone as
far as the Park Plantamour, put back
to Geneva. The crew and the captain,
with oars and cushions, improvised
litter, upon which the empress was
placed, and she was carried to the hotel
and into the apartment she had just left
and laid on the bed. DR.. Golay, who
lived near the hotel, was summoned and
tried by artificial respiration and vigor-
GUS friction to restore her to conscious
ness, but in vain. In the meantime
priest was called and administered ex-
IRENE JUNCTION. A second doctor was
called, who made an incision with
lancet No blood issued from the cut,
and he pronounced the empress dead.
Meanwhile the assassin. who had TAX.
en- flight, was pursued by two coach
men who were standing on the quay
and arrested just at the moment he was
disappearing in the neighboring square.
With the aid of the gendarmes the man
was taken to the police station. He
made no resistance, but boasted Of his
deed, expressing the hope that his vic.
tim was dead. He proclaimed himself
an anarchist and said that he had acted
through hatred OF the great ones Of this
world.
From the police tation he was taken
to the palace of justice and arraigned
before the procureur general and sew.
eral members of the Geneva govern
ment. He declared that he knew French.
and refused to answer questions. Upon
searching him notebook was found
containing entries establishing him as
Luigi Luccheni, born in Paris of Italian
parents April 21, 1878. He had done mill.
tary service at Parma, Italy.
Meant to Stay Prince.
In the course OF his previous examina
ton at the police station he declared
that he came from Lausanne, where he
had been working some months. He had
intended to assassinate the Prince OF
Orleans, whom he knew was gong
through Geneva, but the prince had
gone He followed him vainly to Evian
and then returned to Geneva Learn ne
that the empress was there, he r --ed
her over the town on Friday. II lew
her by sight. having formerly lived in
Budapest Not having chance to ap.
proach her on Friday, he posted himself
near the hotel on Saturday and waited.
The public prosecutor charged Drs.
Reverdin. Magevin and Golay to make
medical examination Of the body OF
the empress. At the conclusion Of the
examination they reported that the
wound was made with triangular file
acutely shapenad. The searchers in the
police station found no weapon upon the
assassin.
AS soon as the news became known in
the town crowd rushed to the hotel.
holly manifesting their indignation and
grief The council of state held an ex-
traordinary meeting and sent delega-
ton to the hotel with the condolences of
the government and people of Geneva.
The news was telegraphed to the palace
at Berne.
Switzerland's Sympathy.
The president of the confederation
was present at the military maneuvers
but returned in the evening and sum
moned a meeting of all the available
members Of the federal council. He also
sent a message to the Swiss charge
d'affaires at Vienna instructing him to
inform the Austrian government of the
news and to express to the emperor the
profound grief and sympathy Of the en-
tire Swiss people.
The body of the empress now lies in
the bed In her apartment at the Hotel
Beau-Riva GEES. which has been trans
formed into chapelle ardente. The bed
is surrounded with wreaths sent by Iii
vate persons and the officials of Ge-
neva. A superb wreath tied with rib
bons Of the Austrian colors was sent in
the name Of the gnvernment and paor1o