Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-15
THE QUEEN SLAIN.
EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA ASSASSI-
MATED AT GENEVA. swift
ERLAND. SATURDAY.
Stabbed to the Heart With a Small
File and Lived But q Short
Time The Assassin
Was Captured.

GENENA, SWITZERLAND, Sept. TO-
The Empress of Austria was assassin
ated at the Hotel Beaurivage this
afternoon by an anarchist, who was
arrested. He stabbed her Majesty
with a small triangular file.
Her Majesty was walking from her
hotel to the landing place of the
steamer at about one O'Clock, when
an Italian anarchist suddenly ap-
preached, and stabbed her to the
heart. The Empress fell, got up and
was carried to the steamer uncon-
scious. The boat started, but seeing
the Empress had not recovered con-
seriousness, the captain returned, and
the Empress was carried to the Hotel
Beaurivage, where she expired.
The stretchor upon which the En-
press was carried to the hotel was
hastily improvised with oars and sail
cloth. Doctors and priests we're i'm
mediately summoned, and a telegram
was sent to Emperor Francis Joseph.
All efforts to revive Her Majesty were
unavailing, and she expired at three
O'Clock. The medical examination
showed that the assassin must have
used a small triangular file.
ASSASSIN CAPTURED.
After striking the blow he ran
along the Rue DIES Alhes, with the
evident intention of entering the
Square des Alpes, but before reaching
it he was seized by two cabmen, who
had witnessed the crime. They hand
ed him over to a boatman and a gen.
darme, who conveyed him to the
police station.
The prisoner made no resistance.
He even sang as he walked aloug,say-
ing, "I did it," and "she must be
dead" At the police station he de-
clared that he was a 'starving an
archist, with no hatred for the poor,
but for the rich." Later, when taken
to the Court House and Intercepted
by a magistrate in the presence of
three members of the local govern
ment police officials, he pretended
not to know French and refused to
answer questions. The police on
searching him found a document
showing his name to be Luigi Laochi-
nj, born in Paris in 1878 and an Italian
soldier.
A great crowd quickly assembled
around the Hotel Beaurivage, where
the officials proceeded after interro-
eating the prisoner.
1t appears that a boatman noticed
three persons closely following the
Empress, who was making purchases
in the shops.
The local government on receiving
the news of Her Majesty's death, half
masted the flag on the Hotel de Vile
(the municipal o%f1ices) and proceeded
in a body to the Hotel Beaurivage as
a token of respect.
The assassin told the magistrate
that he came to Geneva to assassinate
"another important person." but had
been unable to execute the project.
The reason of his failure he did not
give; but he declared that it was only
by accident he had learned of the
presence of the Austrian Empress in
Geneva.
STABBED FROM BEHIND.
Another report of the assassination
says: "After having been stabbed
from behind, the Empress rose and
walked on board the steamer, where
she fell, faintlng. The captain did
not wish to put of from the quay, but
did so at the request of the Empress
and her suite, there being no appre-
hension that che was seriously hurt.
The steamer was turned back before
reaching the open lake, and the EN-
press, unconscious, was carried to the
hotel on a stretcher."
SKETCH OF THE EMPRESS.
VIENNA, Sept. 10.-The late EN-
press of Austria was born on Decem-
Der "a, 1887, the year that Queen Vic
toria assembled the throne. On the
fathers side she came OF the junior
branch of the house of Bavaria, styled
Dukes of Bavaria. Her mothers
father was Macmillan Joseph H.,
elector of Bavaria, whom Napoleon
made into a king and took pleasure in
ordering about like an equerry.
Her parents we're poor. Her eldest
brother married an actress. Hel
mother formed ambitious projects fol-
her eldest daughter, Helena, and i,
was soon arranged that the Empero,