The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-11
Lives But a Few Moments After the
Wound Was Inflicted.
The Assassin Landed in Jail Soon After
the Tragedy-NeWs of the Murder
of the Empress Creates Inde-
SCrihahe Grief at Vienna.

Austria was assassinated at the Hotel
Beaurivage this afternoon by an Ital-
ian anarchist named Lucchoni, who
plunged a knife into her breast. The
Empress fell, but arose and was car
ried aboard the steamer unconscious.
subsequently. the Empress not recov-
ering consciousness, the steamer put
about, the Empress was carried to her
hotel and there expired. The wound
was just over the left breast. There
was hardly any bleeding.
The Empress of Austria was born
December p, 1887. She was the
daughter of Duke MAMMALIAN of Ba-
varia, and was married to Francis Jo-
seph, Emperor of Austria and King of
Hungary, April a, 1854. They had
three children, the Archduchess Cisola,
who is married to Prince Luitpold of
Bavaria: the Archduke Rudolph, who
married Princess Stephanie of Belgium
and who was (seemingly) assassinated
in 1889, and the Archduchess Maria
Valeria, Who married the Archduke
Franz Salvador Of Austria Tuscany.
The late Empress was an enthusiastic
hrrx~tT-rzlsan @s
The Empress of Austria had been
stopping at the Hotel Beaurivage for
several days. 1t was at first thought
the wound was not serious, but she
died in a few minutes
The stretcher upon which the EN-
press was carried to the hotel was
hastily improvised with oars and sail
cloth. Doctors and priests were i'm
meddately summoned, and a telegram
was sent to Emperor Francis Joseph.
All efforts TO revive her majesty were
unavailing and she expired at 3 O'Clock
The medical examination shows that
the assassin 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 Los
Alpes. but before reaching it he was
seized by two cabmen who had wit
messed the crime. They handed him
over to a boatman and a gendarme
who conveyed him to the police sta
tion. The prisoner made no resistance.
He even sang as he walked along say
ing: Il did it," and she must be
dead"
AT the police station he declared that
he was a starving anarchist, with no
hatred for the poor. but only for the
rich"
Later when taken to the Courthouse
and interrogated by a magistrate in
the presence of three members of the
local Government and the police Off
Gals. he pretended not to know French
and refused to answer questions. The
solice, on searching him, found a doc
unent showing his name to be Luigi
Laochini. born in Paris in 1874, and an
italian soldier.
A great crowd quickly assembled
around the Hotel Beaurivage, where
the officials proceeded after interro-
eating the prisoner. The police
searched the scene of the crime for the
weapon and the accomplices of the
assassin.
The local Government, Immediately
on receiving the news of her majesty's
death, half -masted the flags on the
Hotel de Vile. the municipal Office, and
proceeded in a body to the Hotel
Beauriage as a token of respect. The
shops on the Kursaal were closed.
The assassin told the magistrate that
he came TO Geneva in order to assassi-
nate 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 pres
ence of the Austrian Empress in Ge-
neva.
other members of the Government were
stunned with horror and grief when
the news reached the palace that the
Empress, so beloved by all Europeans,
had fallen victim to an assassin with
ir~the borders of their country. They
Immediately arranged to hold an extra
ordinary federal council on Sunday
morning. in order to consider the meas
7res to take against the assassin. The
latter must be tried according to the
statutes of the Canton. The crime
which was committed forbids capital