The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-16
STABBED BY
AN ANARCHIST.
The Empress of Austria
ASsasSinated
ON PUBLIC STREET OF GENEVA.
The Assassin, An Italian Partisan, Ac-
complished His Deed with Small File
The CuIp it Cannot Be Executed for
the Crime.

Geneva, Sept. l0.-The Empress of
was assassinated about 2 o.
clock this afternoon as she was walk
ing from the Hotel Beaurivage,
where she had been lunching, to the
steamboat dock, where she Intended
taking small steamer to go to Cas-
tie ChillOn, at Territet.
She was accompanied by only two
ladies of her suite, as she delights to
go about incOgnito.
AS the Empress was passing the
Brunswick monument man rushed
at her and struck her violent blow
in the chest, which knocked her TO
the ground. The ladies of her suite
picked the Empress up and with the
aid of some passers by carried her to
the steamboat, while her assailant
ran swiftly away, chased by two
cOachmen.
The Empress was unconscious,
and the captain of the steamer did
not wish to start his vessel, but the
ladies in-waiting insisted not know
ing or thinking that her Majesty was
stabbed, but supposing she had only
been rudely knocked down, and the
steamer got under way.
After endeavoring for some time to
bring the Empress back to conscious
ness, the ladies in attendance were
Mortified to discover little stain of
blood on her under garments.
The boat was hurriedly put about
and returned to the dock, and her
Majesty was carried on an imprOv-
ised litter to the hotel.
DR.. Golay and the Mayor of Gene
va were quickly summoned, and
everything possible was done to save
Franz JOsef's wife, but she expired
at o'clock without regaining con-
sciOusnesS.
An examination showed that she
had been stabbed to the heart with
a three cornered file.
After dealing his death blow the
murderer ran along the Rue Alps
but his two pursuers never lost sigh
of him, and finally closed in on hin
and handed him over to gendarme
He proved to be an Italian anar
chist named Lucchani, from Paris
and when taken into custody eX
claimed:
Il have struck well; she must b'
dead. purposely came to Genevi
to assassinate ner, and [ am glad"
The Empress has been staying a
MontcauX, near Geneva, and haC
just finished dining at the Hote
Beaurivage when the villainous an
arcbist attacked her.
The Brunswick Monument is stu
ated on broad plaza, and very few
, people were near when the Grim
was committed. The men who cap
tured the Empress assailant wer
waiting on their master at distanc
of 300 feet when they saw the Em
press struck down.
They knew not who she was, bu
= lost no time in giving chase to tn
cowardly scoundrel. They will b
rewarded by the Government fo
their capture. The greatest grie
and sympathy exists here for the be
reaved Emperor.
The stretcher upon which the En-
) press was carried to the hotel wa
, hastily imprOvised with oars an
sail cloth. Doctors and priests wer
Immediately summoned, and tele
gram was sent to Emperor Franci
Joseph.
} At the police station the assassi
q declared that he was starving An
!, archist with no hatred for the poor
but only for the rich" The polio
9 on searching him found documer
S showing he was born in Paris in lSI
and was an Italian soldier.
1.-The assassin, while being intel
rogated by the magistrate, said h
came to Genevt with the intentiO
: of killing the Due d'Orleans, but til
S latter had already left. He declare
that it was only by accident he ha
learned of the presence of the Au
trian Empress In Geneva.
RTnGRA RApHTCAT