Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-12

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 dress, stood in the middle of the room, pale and excited. Tn his hand he held a revolver, He demanded furiously the reason of the intrusion.
 Colonel Naumovitch held toward him paper,
 We demand your ma1esty's sigma lure to this paper" he said, Ut con- . tains promise on your part to break with the woman Draga, this woman of Ill repute, who has brought disgrace upon your house and nation. Failing this, you must abdicate."
 The king drew himself up, stepped back toward the bed and, aiming delib- 5 erately, fired the revolver at Naumo- witch, who fell dead, shot through the x head.
 At this moment Queen Draga ap- peared at the door opposite. crying out for help. The king turned to her and { begged her to be calm and not to be frightened, soothing her with tender s words and requesting her to return to her apartment.
 Queen Draga refused to move and, advancing toward Colonel Misehics, begged him piteously not to murder s them.
 Colonel Misehics had in the mean time picked up the paper which his dead eomrade had carried and held it up. shouting:
 "Let him sign this document and free Servia from your miserable presence!'' At this moment Colonel Maschin flushed into the room, fresh from an encounter with Lieutenant Nikodem Lungievitza, the queens brother, who offered the most heroic resistance in another part of the palace and was shot dead. Captain Taungievitza, the younger brother, wounded in a dozen places with bayonet thrusts and bull lets, had torn past his enemies sword in hand, fighting his way to the door, where, coming face to face with Colo lel Maschin, he was shot dead by that determined conspiratof.
 At the sight of Colonel Maschin, in damed with passion, the king turned to the queen and told her to fly for her life. They both ran from the room, followed by the officers Behind the latter came a stream of shouting sol- diery. The king and queen ran through the royal sleeping apartments.
 Followed by shots from the soldiers, they reached the roof in safety, but here they were evertaken. Then on the darkened roof the king turned about, protecting the moaning woman behind him as best he could. With shouts and cries the soldiers rushed forward, the king facing them un- fiinchingly. A storm of bullets swept over them. Under it the king reeled and then sank down beside the queen, whose body had been pierced by a score of bullets.
 The conspirators also killed General Zingar Markovitch, premier; General L. Petrovitch, minister of war; Lieu tenant Colonel M Naumovitch, kings aid de camp. and an officer and twelve soldiers of the kings guard.
 4 new government was formed and Ehe following proclamation issued:
 gro the Servian People-Last night the king and queen were shot. Tn this grave and fateful moment friends of the fatherland have combined to form new government. While the govern ment makes this announcement to the people, 1t is convinced that the Sefyian people will gather round it and lend it their aid to maintain order and se- curity throughout the land.
 The immediate cause of the revolu- @on was the return to Belgrade of Lieutenant Lungievitza, brother of the queen and supposed candidate for the throne.
 The history of the murdered Alex ander was full of stirring incident and adventure and might have been de- scribed as romantic if it had not been so unutterably sordid. But there was nothing in the young mans life which could not be accounted for fully by ms parentage. lie was in every re- spect the son of his father, King Mi Ian, of most unsavoIy memory, exhib- iting all the attributes of the latter ex- cept his surpassing genius for intrigue. From his mother the unfortunate and much maligned Queen Natalie, he in- herited physical courage and an un- governable temper.
 That Alexander was an astute and hold politician nobody ever doubted. His seizure of the throne, his manage ment of his interruptions but able fa- ther, his prompt solution of more than one political crisis and the adroitness with which he overcame the difficulties