The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-11
STABBED HER TO THE HEART.
ENlPREsS OF AUSTRIA VICTIM OF
AN ANARCHISTS sTILLETO.

An ItaIinn Deals the Deadly Thrust
While the Empress Was on the
streets of Geneva-She Was Travel
ing IncOEnitO and No Precautions
Had Been Taken to Protect Her.
The Assassin An Italian Named
Iaochini - He Was Arrested - The
Empress was Stabbed From BE-
hind, But Regained Her Feet and
walked to Steamer.
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 1O-The En-
press of Austria was assassinated at Hotel
Beaurivage this afternoon by an anar-
chist. who was arrested.
He stabbed her majesty with stletto.
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 10.-It ap-
pears that her majesty was walking from
her hotel to the landing place of the
steamer about / o'clock p. m, when an
anarchist named Laochini, who was born
in Paris of Italian parents, suddenly ap-
preached and stabbed her to the heart.
The Empress fell, got up again, and
was carried to the steamer unconscious.
The boat started, but, seeing the En-
press had not recovered consciousness,
the captain returned and the Empress was
carried to the Hotel Beaurivage, where
she expired.
The Empress of Austria was born Dec.
q. 1887. She was a daughter of Duke
Naximilian of Bavaria, and was married
to Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria
and King of Hungary, April "a, 1854.
They had three children, the Archduch-
ess Gisola, who is married to Prince Luit-
pold of Bavaria, the Archduke Rudolph,
who married Princess Stephanie of Bel
gium, and who was (seemingly) assas-
sinated in 1889, and the Archduchess Maria
Valera, who married the Arcnduke
Franz Salvador of Austria Tuscany.
The late Empress was an enthusiastic
horsewoman.
The stretcher upon which the Empress
was carried to the hotel was hastily i'm
provised with oars and some clothes. Doc
tors and priests were Immediately sum-
moned and a telegram was sent toEm-
peror Francis Joseph.
All efforts to revive her majesty we're
unavaiing and she expired at o'clock
The medical examination showed that
the assassin must have used small tri-
angular file
After striking the blow he ran along
the Rue des Alpes, with the evident In
tention of entering the Square des Alpes.
but before reaching 1t he was seized by
two cabmen who had witnessed the crime
They handed him over TO boatman and
a gendarme, who conveyed him to the
police station.
The prisoDer made no resistance. He
even sang as he walked along saying
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 court house
and interrogated by a magistrate in the
presence of three members of the local
government and the police ofi1clals, ne
pretended not to know French and retus-
ed to answer questions The police, on
searching him, found a document showing
his name to be Luigi Laochini born in
Paris in 1873, and an italian soldier.
A great crowd quickly assembled around
the Hotel Beaurivage, where the officials
proceeded after interrogating the prisoner
The police searched the scene of the
crime for the weapon and the accom-
piices of the assassin.
1t appears that a boatman noticed three
persons closely following the Empress,
who was making purchases in the shops.
The local government Immediately on
receiving the news of her majestys death,
44tll -lHd6lNQ the nag Ou tllS I1OtSi NC V AliC
Qhe municipal offices) and proceeded in
q body TO the Hotel BeauriYage as a token
of respect
The excitement is increasing and many
Of the shops on the Kursaal are closed.
The assassin told the magistrate that
he came to Geneva in order to assassinate
another important parsonage" 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 Aus
trian Empress in Geneva.
The wound was just over the left breast
There was hardly any bleeding.
a priest was secured in time to admins
ter extreme JUNCTION.
Berne, Switzerland, Sept. 1O-After hay-
ing been stabbed from behind the En-
press rose and walked on board the steam
er, where she fell, fainting.
The captain did not wish to put off from
the quay, but did so at the request of the
Empress and her suite, there being no ap-
prehension that she was seriously hurt.
The steamer was turned back before
reaching the open lake and the Empress,
Unconscious, was carried to the hotel on
stretcher
The President of Switzerland and other
members of the government were stunned
with horror and grief when news reach
ed the palace that the Empress so be-
loved by all Europeans, had fallen a vic
tim to an assassin within the borders of
tIer country.
They Immediately arranged to hold an
extraordinary federal council on Sunday
morning in order to consider the meas
u.es to take against the assassin.
Inc latter must be tried according to
tne statutes of the canton in which the
crime was committed, which forbids cap
tal punishment and makes life imprison-
nlent the most severe penalty that can
ba imposed
" nen the Austrian minister, Count
huelstein was informed of the tragedy
't hurried to the palace and was met with
'Apfessions Of the deepest sympathy. So
ION as a special train could be arranged
the minister started for Geuavo oooo,,