The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-13


Emperor Francis Joseph.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. is.-rhs
post mortem examination of the remains
OF the late empress of Austria, who was
on Saturday last by an
Italian anarchist whose name has been
varlously given as Laccheni, Luchesl
and LulglnI. has revealed that the
weapon completely transfixed the heart
penetrating three and one-thlrd inches
ana making a wound one-sixth of an
Inch wide. The fact that her majesty
walked fifty yards to the steamer Is as
crlbed to her remarkable will power
and natural energy.
The body OF the empress has been en-
closed in a triple coffin and placed in
room transformed into a mortuary
chamber. The walls Of this apartment
are yelled with black drapery covered
with silver stars, and several sisters Of
charity are continually on their knees
beside the bier praying for the soul OF
the departed. Nearby stands the prayer
table of the deceased, bearing her ro-
sary and crucIfx.
The imposing demonstration Of SYM
pathy organized by the federal council
commenced at noon to-day. The ap-
proaches to the Hotel Beaurlvage were
guarded by gendlrmes.
The procession was headed by gen
darmes with arms reversed. Then came
four beadles with four cooked hats and
long clOaks, half yellow and half red.
Their leader bore Grape covered mace.
They were followed by the members Of
the government. the members of parlla-
ment, tine diplomatic corps and the civic
dlgnltarles. Then came a great mass Of
the population of Geneva. In close
ranks the people defiled bareheaded be-
fore 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 were dlrected.t towards the ter
race of the hotei, where stood General
BrzlvIczy, marshal OF the late empress'
household, the Austrian minister and
the members of the sulle of the de-
ceased. The majority of the stores were
closed.
AIraISin's Second Examination.
On the order of a magistrate the as
sassIn was taken this afternoon from
Saint Anthony prison to the Anthropo-
metrlcal Institute. where he was meas
ured and photographed. Photographs
were taken to the press and will be dis
trlbuted to the police In the cities
where he lived.
In the course Of second examination
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, italy, in a charity school.
and at the age OF ten was thrown on
the street without resources. He work.
ed as an unskllled Iaborer until he was
twenty. Then he served in the italian
army three years and half.
on leaving his regiment he was en-
ployed as the valet de chamber of the
prince of Aragon for three months. AT
this time anarchist ideas began to pos
sess his mind and-to use his own
words-"prcvented me from remaining
In sefvItude." In the course of life OF
adventure he happened to be at Buda
Pesth in 1884, There for the first time
he saw the Empress Elizabeth. He
was mIserably weak and applied to the
italian consul to be returned to Italy
The consul sent him to Fiume.
HIS description of his subsequent wan
derings was vague and he said he sell
dom II ever obtained work. While stay
ing at Laussanch he saw fle outside
a shop, purchased 1t with no conceived
purpose and made a clumsy wooden
handle for 1t.
In prison he hns boasted of his crime
and he has addressed letter to a,SNlan
newspaper. expressing fear lest he be
mistaken by Prof. cabor Tromboso for
a degenerate. DilatlRg in this commu-
nIcatlon upon the objects OF militant
anarchlsm, he wrote;
above all It is the great who must
bs struck. Not only soverelgns and
their ministers win be reached by the
comrades, but all who make men mis-
erable on earth"
He says he was not impelled by mis-
cry 70 kill the empress, rs such a course
would have been Idlotic. but he COM
mitted the deed in order that such
crimes. following one upon the other,
might cause all who Impoverlsh the
populace to tremble and shiver. The
document concludes with this declara-
tlon:
'I am an anarchist by conviction"
Francis Jo'sph's TonehIng Reply.
ROME, Sept i2,-Emperor Francis
Joseph telegraphed the following reply
on receipt OF the telegraphlc coincidence
uf the pope: