The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-12

federal council met TINS morning anu
sent the following telegram to Emperor
Francis Joseph:
THE Swiss federal council has the
honor to express to your majesty its
profoundest grief and deepest indigna-
ton at the horrible crime TO which her
majesty, EMPRESS Elizabeth, has fall
len victim. our pain and indignation
are all the greater owing to the foul
crime having been committed on Swiss
territory, where the departed, as she
had often done before, was seeking re-
cOvery from bodily sufferings, which
recovery, as on previous occasions, she
had every hope of finding.
The council hastenS to assure your
majesty at the same time of its own
warmest sympathy, and that of the
whole Swiss people in the irreparable
loss your majesty, the imperial house
and peoples Of Austria and Hungary
have suffered through your exalted
lady's DEATH"
The flag on the federal building is at
half mast. The town council reassem-
bied this afternoon to receive reports
regarding the crime, and to consider
the steps to be taken. 1t is expected
that the judicial authorities of the cam
ton of Vaud will conduct the inquiry
and the trial.
The government canton met today
and decided to issue a proclamation, eX-
pressing the horror of the government
and the people of Geneva, and a de-
cree directing a popular demonstration
tomorrow. All the civil officials will
march past the Hotel Beaurivage, fol-
lowed by the citizens, all of whom are
invited to participate. During the pro-
eession the great bell of the cathedral,
associated with all Swiss national dem
onstrations of grief or joy, will be
tolled.
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the Austrian minister, Count Won Kuef--
stein, to consent to a post mortem eX--
animation. DR.. Reveirin, DR.. Genevaus
and DIR. Goldav were entrusted
with the eX%lination of the
wound on behalf OF the judicial author
tiles, and accordingly proceeded to the
Hotel Beaurivage, where they carried
out their instructions. At the close of
the examination they announced that
death was caused by internal hem
orrhage from a triangular incised
wound
The autopsy showed that the lung.
as we'll as the heart, was pierced. They
decided that the injury was of char
acter to leave no grounds for the the
DRY which had been advanced that the
empress, who suffered from weakness
of the heart, might have succumbed
simply to the shock of the blow.
The Geneva council will put on the
Austrian and Genevan colors, and
bearing the inscription: "a token of
sorrowful sympathy from the people
of Geneva
Throughout yesterdays examination
OF the assassin his demeanor was one
of revolving cynicism.
The empress was about returning
to Cauc, France, when she was muir
dered. Her suite had preceded her by
train, leaving with her only her maid
of honor, Baroness Won Rothschild, and
a man servant. The officials who Wis
tied the hotel to afIix the seals upon
the baggage, according TO the strict
law in force, found that the suites bag
gage had accompanied the suite.
The last words of the empress We're
addressed to the attendant. Recovering
consciousness for a moment she feebly
asked what had happened.
AS yet the authorities have found no
confirmation of the report that the
murder was part of an anarchist con-
spiracy, but dozen persons with /
whom the assassin associated have [
been arrested for examination.
BODY OF THE EMPRESS.
Geneva, Sept. 11.-No strangers are
allowed to approach the coffin of the !
murdered Empress Elizabeth. The body /
has been embalmed and is dressed in /
white.
L
but the solate will be destroyed. 1t is (
understood Emperor Francis Joseph |
viii not leave Austria. but viii send a /
high court officer 10 bring the body to |
Austria
The assassin maintains his cynical /
demeanor. and frankly congratulates /
himself on the success of his crime. be |
says: Il am an anarchist, but l belong !
to no committee. 1 work on my own |
initiative. Let them Go as they please /
with me. That is my stroke"
THE WEAPON FOUND.
Midnight-A file found late this even
ing in the passage of a house on the /
Tue des Aloes has been identified by
the assassin as the weapon used.
His name. though heretofore var
ioGsly given and published here as Luc-
cksni. Luccesi and LuccheSl, is now
said to be LUigini.
The Italian records show that Luigini
MAS an legitimate child, and took his
mothers n me. He has been twice as
rested as a defaulter of the military
service.
ASSASSIN'S FRIENDS ARRESTED.
Lausanne. Switzerland Sept. 11-Ten
friends and acquaintances of the as
sassin of the Empress Elizabeth We're
aIrestei here today He has been work
ing as q stonemason in this vicinity.
and last month he took the preliminary
Steps to become a naturalized Swiss,
His application papers, however, he
WITHDREW last Monday.
The lady in waiting, who was with
the empress at the moment of attack,
says: After the empress rose asked
her if she felt any pain. She replied:
I don't know. I think / feel pain in
my chest 1 said: 1t must be fright.
Take my arm
THE empress declined, Strengthened
herself up and walked calmly on board
the steamer. Even when she lost con-
seriousness I thought it only fright or
an attack of nervousness. L am posi-
tive she never knew She had been
struck by an assassin"
THE STRICKEN EMPEROR.