The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-17

Behind this door crouched the king
and queen.
When the conspirators were as.
sured of their pray they shot and
killed the adJutant Meanwhile
the king fell upon his knees and
begged for life, offering to yield to
every demand, to sign any docu-
ment, to agree to leave the country
or torsend Quen Draga away; any
thing, everything, if only they
would not kill him. The officers
answered roughly, "It is too late,"
and fred at him. The queen also
fell on her knees and asked pardon
for her conduct, but one Of the Off
GERS, calling her degrading epi-
thet, told her she had been queen
long enough. One Of the conspira-
tors, after submitting the queen to
gross indignities, slashed her with
his sword and the other officers fired
at her. The king was also slashed
with sabres. The conspirators then
dragged the king and queen into
the front apartments and threw
them over the balcony upon the
lawn in front of the palace, which
is separated from the street by an
iron fence. The king and queen
lived for one or two hours after
ward.
Meanwhile two of the officers
summoned the queens two brothers
from their home to the house of the
commander of the Belgrade divi-
sion, where they were offered
glass of water and told to bid each
other farewell. In the very mo-
ment they embraced each other, the
officers shot and killed them. One
hundred soldiers, commanded by
two officers, at the sane time sur
rounded the house of Minister of
War Pavlovics and summoned him
to open the door. The minister
looked from window, and the SOL
diers fired at him, wounding him.
The Russian military attache, who
lived in the same house, hearing the
noise, rose and dressed himself in
his Russian uniform, and attempted
to remove the minister to his
apartment. The officers ordered
him to 60 away, and he. seeing the
hopelessness of the situation, de.
parted. The soldiers then entered
the house and shot and killed the
minister. whose body was left on
the floor, and was not discovered
until ten o'clock in the morning,
when it was found by his son.in-
law and daughter, who had escaped.
Since the tragedy occurred, the
real facts of an attempt upon the
persons of the king and queen a
month ago have become known.
The conspirators at that time en-
gagged the services Of a young Bo-
hemian, the son of a tailor living
in Belgrade. He obtained a posi-
ton in the kitchen ofs the Grand
Hotel Of Belgrade to learn cookery.
He proved SO intelligent that lit
tie later he was given employment
in the royal kitchen. Here he
again proved very efficient and was
entrusted the duty of preparing the
food for the royal table, taking it
from the cooking utensils, and plac-
ing it in dishes which he handed to
1ackeys.
He now began to appear very
prosperous and took French lessons.
He came one day to his teacher, a
widow living in Belgrade, in jubi-
liant state, wearing new suit of
clothes, and saying that he was
earning 100 cinars (about $32) per
month. The same evening, while
preparing a dish for the king, he
mixed poison with the food. The
head cook detected him in the act
and promptly informed the king,
and the youth was shot immediate
ly. His parents were brought to
the palace and told the facts of the
case, and were compelled, under
threats of death, to tell everybody
that their son had killed himself. |
Since the tragedy the youths par
ents have revealed the plot.
Vienna, June 12.-Neue Press in
an article this morning states that
neither the sisters nor nephews of
Queen Draga were killed in Bel
grade yesterday. Besides the queen
the only members of her family
were her two brothers.
London, June 1.-THE Rueter
Agency's Belgrade correspondent
asserts that Alexander and Drapa |