The record-union., 1898-09-13
LATE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.
An Imposing Demonstration of
Sympathy at Geneva.

GENEVA (SwitZerland) Sept p
The poSt-mortem examination of the
remains of the late Empress of Aus
tria, who was assassinated on Satur-
day last by an Italian anarchist, whose
name has been variously given as Lac
cheni, Lucheni and Luigini, has re-
yealed that the weapon completely
transfixed the heart, penetrating three
and one-third inches, and making a.
wound one-siXth of an inch wide The
fact that her majesty walked fifty
yards to the steamer is ascribed to her
remarkable will power and natural en-
ergy.
The body of the Empress has been
lnclosed in triple coffin and placed in
q room transformed into a mortuary
chamber. The walls of this apartment
are Velled 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. Near by stands
the prayer table of the deceased, bear
ing her rosary and crucifix.
The Imposing demonstration of sy,n-
pathy organized by the Federal Coun-
Gil commenced at noon to-day. The
approaches to the Hotel Beaurivage
We're guarded by gendarmes. The pro-
cession was headed by gendarmes with
arms reversed. Then came four
beadles with cooked hats and long
cloaks, half yellow and half red. Their
leader bore a crepe-covered mace. They
were followed by the members of the
Government, the members of Parlia-
ment, the diplomatic corps and the
a rio
mass of the population of Geneva. In
close ranks the people defled bare
headed before 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 directed toward the ter
race OF the hotel where stood General
Berzivicszy, Marshal of the late En-
press households; the Austrian Minis
ters and the members of the suite of
the deceased. The majority of the
stores We're closed.
On the order of a ma gistrate the as
sasSin was taken this afternoon from,
Saint Anthony Prison to the Anthrono-
metrical Institute, where he was meas.
ured and photographed. Photographs
were given to the press, and will be dis
tributed to the police in the cities where
he lived.
In the course of a second examination
as to his history and the motives for
the crime, he said he had never known
his father or mother. In the course of
life of adventure he happened to ba
at Budapest in 1894. There for the
first time he saw Empress Elizabeth.
While staying at Lawssaneh he saw a
file outside shop, purchased 1t with no
conceived purpose and made a clumsy
wooden handle for it,
In prison he has boasted of his crime
and he has addressed letter to a Milan
newspaper, expressing fear lest he be
mistaken by Professor Cabar Tombroso
for degenerate. Dilating on this COM
munication upon the objects of Milan
anarchism he wrote: above all. it is
the great who must be struck. Not
only sovereigns and their Ministers will
be reached by the comrades, but all
who made men miserab BILE on earth"
He says he was not impelled by mis-
cry to kill the Empress, as such a
course would have been idiotic, but he
committed the deed in order that such
crimes, following one upon the other,
might cause all who impoverish the
populace to tremble and shiver. The
document concludes with this decIara-
ton: II am an anarchist by conyic-
tion"