The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-13
SERVIAN POPULACE
 APPROVES THE MURDERS

l but was spared until he showed the of. fcers where King Alexander and Queen Drega had secreted themselves. When | he had told this, he was shot, Colonel Maschin now joined the revolu- tionists, and led them back to the sleep ing apartment. where the Kings ad- 3utant tried to hinder the search, He
 shot Lieutenant Naumovics dead. The l others killed the adjutant King and Queen Slain. After search a small door leading into | an alcove was discovered, but it was | locked. It was broken in wit han axe | and here the royal couple were found in undress. The other officers, first intended | forcing the King to abdicate, but the young officers were in no mood to be held back, and shot at the royal couple Mo- body knows in the excitement who shot nrst, but is generally said that Lieuten- ant Kistics fired first,
 After the murder, King Alexander 2 body was found covered with blood That Of Queen Draga was badly torn by bull, lets The report that the bodies were thrown out of the window into the gar den Is untrue. The young officers in- tended to do so. but Colonel Maschin prevented 1t, exclaiming. That would be barbarous"
 All the servants of the royal couple ned when the first shots were heard, with the exception of Queen Draga' s servant, who was found dead. Shortly after o'clock all was over.
 Colonel Maschin Issued from the rate Of the Konak. around which great crowds had collected, and made a speech, say ing:
 We have now destroyed the dynasty o. the Obrenovics. and have gotten rid Of the d}Shnnnrah Kings evil spirit. Long live seryia.
 The people responded Long live the army" 'iie
 Almost simultaneously with the butch cry In the palace the troops endeayored to arrest all the relatives of the Queen and those ministers whom the conspir- ators disllked.
 Colonel Nikola and Nikoderm Lunievics. were seized and escorted by a detach- ment of troops from their dwelling to the guard room of the divisional com mander. They evidently did not expect their doom, and were lighting cigarettes when they were shot dead by eight sol diers.
 Murder of Ministers.
 Gen. Zinzar Marcovic, Premier. General Pavlovics, Minister of War, and M, To- dorovics. Minister of the Interior, were shot by the troops as they attempted to defend themselves from arrest. The Premier and the Minister of War were killed, while Mister Todorovics Is just alive late tonight.
 Shortly after midnight the bodies of the dead King and Queen were carried to their last resting place. All day long the victims lay in rough cofins exposed to the gaze of those who had killed them and to the privileged curious.
 There have been unpleasant evidences of the public resentment against the late royal pair. Some persons even spat on the remains.
 Outside the palace vast crowd await ed the removal, not only of the corpses of the King and the Queen, but of the bodies of all the other victims, which were simultaneously buried, being con- veyed in hearses to the Belgrade Gene tery In the streets there was a dread silence and the onlookers were kept back by the troops.
 The burial service was brief Two priests were present but no high ecclesi- astical dignitaries Inside the cemetery none was allowed except a strong force of gendarmes and a few officers Not A single friend or relative of the deceased was present The bodies of the royal pair were inferred in a vault in the ceme- tery chapel. Two wooden crosses alone denote the spot. marked Alexander Ob- renovics" and "Draganja Obrenovics. |" The other bodies lies outside the ceme- tery in rough graves.