St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-06-20
The ServIan Tragedy.

The Servian Tragedy.
The following is an account of
the assassination of the King and
Queen of Servia and several of
their Ministers, on the night of
June 10:
A number of officers came to
Belgrade from interior posts on
the night of the tragedy and supped
together at Seribische Kron restau-
rant, where the final details were
arranged.
At midnight they proceeded from
the restaurant to the palace, and
forced the door leading to the
royal apartments, using dynamite.
When the officers entered they
could find nobody, the KING and
Queen. alarmed by the noise ofthe
attack, having concealed them
selves. For two hours the officers
hunted through every nook and
corner of the royal apartments
without success. They then found
the Kings adjutant, Lazar Petro-
yoch, and compelled him TO lead
them to the Kings hiding place.
He took them to thu bathroom and
pointed to a secret door in the wall
opening on staircase leading to
the roof. Behind this door crouched
the King and Queen. When the
conspirators were assured of their
prey they promptly shot and killed
the adjutant.
Mean bile the Klug tell on his
knees and begged for life, offering
to yield to every demand, sign any
document, to agree to leave the
country, or to send Queen Draga
away, anything, everything, if
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 officers, calling her
a degrading name, told her she had
been Queen long enough.
One of the conspirators. after
submitting the Queen to gross in
dignlties, slashed her with his
sword, and the other officers fred
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 on the lawn IN front Of
the street by an open iron fence.
The King and Queen lived for one
and two hours afterwards.
Meanwhile, two OF the officers
summoned the Queens two broth
ers to the house of the com.
mander of the Belgrade division,
where they were offered glass Of
water and told to bid each other
farewell. In the very moment
they embraced each other the Off
GERS shot and killed them.
One hundred soldiers command
ed by two officers, at the same time
surrounded the house of Minister
Of War Palovlcs and summoned
him to open the door. The Minis
ter looked from q window and the
soldiers fired at him, wound.ng
him. The Russian Military attache,
who lived In the same house, heard
the noise, rose and dressed himself
in his Russi an uniform and attempt
ed to remove the Minister to his
apartments. The officers ordered
him to 60 away and he departed,
seeing the hopelessness Of the sltu-
alton. The soldiers then entered
the house and shot and killed the
Minister, whose body was left on
the floor and was not discovered
until 10 o'clock IN the morning,
when II was found by his son-in-
law and his daughter, who had
escaped.
Last Monday Peter Karageorge
witch was formally elected King of
Servia BY the Senate and Skupt
selma, which met at Belgrade. A
resolution was adopted granting
amnesty to the conspirators who
murdered the late King and Queen.
Governor Pennypacker, Of Penn.
sylvania, may get taste Of his
libel law. In his message sign