Evening star., 1898-09-13
THE ASSASSIN'S CAREER
Anarchistic Ideas Kept Him From Work
ing for His Living.
He First Saw the Empress of Austri,
ut Budapest i'll 1S3t-A Life
of Adventure.

A Geneva, Switzerland, dispatch dated
yesterday evening states that, on the order
OF magistrate, the assassin Lugini was
taken yesterday afternoon from st. An
thony prison to the Anthropometrical In
stitute, where he was measured and pho
tographed. Portraits were given to the
press and will be distributed to police in
the cities where he has 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. He was brought up at
Parma, Italy, in charity school, and at
the age Of ten was thrown on the streets
without resources. He worked as an un
skilled laborer until he was twenty. Then
he served in the Italian army three years
and q half.
On leaving his regiment he was employed
the valet de chambre of the Prince of
Aragon for three months. At this time an
archist Ideas began to possess his mind,
and, tC use his own words, prevented me
from remaining in servitude."
First View of the Empress.
In the course of life of adventure he
happened to be at Budapest in 1894. There
for the first time he saw Empress Eliza
beth. He was miserable and weak, and
e.pPiiesi ~ lIie lldIidu cOllSul 10 De
to Italy. The consul sent him to Fiume.
His description of his subsequent wan
derings was vague, and he said he seldom,
If ever, obtained work. While staying at
Laussanen he saw a file outside a shop,
purchased it with no conceived purpose
and made a clumsy wooden handle for it.
In prison he has boasted of his crime,
and he has addressed a letter to q Milan
newspaper, expressing a fear lest he be
n,
crate. Dilating in this communication
upon the objects of a militant 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 make men miserable on earth"
He says he was not impelled by misery
to Kill the empress, as such a course would
have been idiotc, but he committed the
deed in order that such crimes. following
one upon the other, might cause all who
impoverfsh the populace to tremble and
shiver. The document concludes with this
declarations:
Il am an anarchist by conviction"
The Emperor's Grief.
The Emperor of Austria and his daugh-
ter attended mass yesterday morning in
the private chapel of the Schoenbrunner
palace, Vienna. His majesty showed evil
dences of intense grief, but he said he did
for confession and communion.
During the day the emperor reread with
much emotion passage in the last letter
he received from the empress, in which
she expressed herself as being pleased
with the prospect of returning to Vienna
in few days to witness'the jubilee festivf-
ties. His majesty attended the usual state
duties.
The emperor has telegraphed the follow
ing reply on receipt of the telegraphic con-
dolences Of the pope:
In the frightful misfortune that has
struck me and my house the words of your
holiness, full of holy Indignation and af-
lection, and inspired by that faith which
henceforth is my only refuge have con-
veyed sweet consolation to my broken
heart.
Holy rather accept my most profound
ana most devoted thanks for your words
and your fraternal benediction. Pray re-
member with pity in your holy prayers
henceforward the sanity SOUL my blessed.
well-beloved companion, myself and INV
family. FRANCIS JOSEPH"