Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-19
IN THE DEATH CHAMBER
OF ROOMS WHERE
ALEXANDER AND DRAGA DIED.
Royal Apartments Torn by Bullets and
Soaked in Blood Of
Victims.

dispatch from Belgrade, Servia, says:
The correspondent of the Associated Press
was allowed to inspect the palace in which
King Alexander and Queen Draga were
murdered.
The bed room, which is furnished in en-
pire STYLE remains in the same condition
as when the king and queen fed from 1t
on the approach Of the assassins. French
novels lie on the kings table and the
queens toilet articles, perfumes and cos
metcs cover her dressing table. The costly
silk bed coverings are full of bullet holes,
the conspirators having shot wildly in all
directions. through and under the bed.
chairs and tables, in the efforts to find
their victims.
Scene of Final Act.
simple wardrobe room, leading directly
from the bedroom, was the scene of the
final act in the drama. The apartment is
lofty, but scarcely seven feet wide and
fifteen feet long, and is furnished only
with three great wardrobes. The officers
who attended the correspondent showed
the latter the blood-Stained floor at one
end of the room, where the king and queen
fell and the broken venetian shutter at the
window through which their bodies were
thrown to the ground below.
Escape Impossible.
A secret stairway leads through the floor
to the southern end of the palace. By this
stairway the hapless couple might have at
tempted to escape. but they were unable to
do so because the opening of this stairway
was covered by a heavy chest Escape, in
any event, would have been impossible, as
the soldiers who had surrounded the palace
were so determined to kill the king and
queen that they had even placed cannons
in front of the palace and were prepared
to destroy the building In the event OF fall
ing to find their prey
Marks of the Tragedy.
Each of the three rooms between the
vestibule and the bed chamber showed
marks of the tragedy. Mirrors were shat
tered. pictures were shot through, the
furniture was broken. there were bullet
holes in the doors and in the oil portraits
of the king, which were In every room,
and most of the latter were otherwise
nutilated.
Contrary to the general understanding
but little effort had been made to renovate
the apartments except where carpenters
were making two new doors to replace
those which had been blown to H;eces at
the time the conspirators forced their way
into the rooms occupied by the king AMI
queen.
The Royal Apartments.
The royal apartments were simply and
tastefully furnished, chiefly in oriental
style. and presented a homeike' appear
ance. The interior of the palace might
have been that of country house belong
ing to prosperous American.
The house of the kings adjutant, Lasar
Petrovic. which was the first attacked,
is even a greater wreck than the royal
apartments in the palace. The entrance
was completely destroyed by dynamite.
The adjutant then escaped unhurt, but he
was killed later in the veStibule of the
palace. A large bloodstain MARKS the spot
where the officer died
1t was in a bare white washed room of
the commandments quarters, adjoining the
palace, that Queen Draga's two brothers
We're shot, while sitting on wooden chairs,
which bear marks of the bullets.
The proceedings in the palace today
showed the same absolute callousness which
has characterized the actions and demeanor
of everybody in Belgrade since the tragedy.