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the palace. and there the kings adjutant
who was in the plot, turned over the keys.
In a tiny alcove adjoining their chamber
the king and queen were found The
young officers leaped upon them The
king was shot through the neck and the
queen was cut to pieces by the swords Of
the regicdes King Peter, who succeeded
to the throne and who was privy TO the
plot is now being pressed to abdicate
by the Russian emperor, together with
the rewarded assassins.
The political assassnations in Russia
of Count Bobrlkoff and Minister Plehve,
in 1904; Grand Duke Sergius, in 1906,
and General Pavloff, the military pro-
curator, in 1907, were followed on Feb
ruary !, 1903, by the dual murder of King
Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz Philippe
of Portugal.
/ Prologue to an AssnsslnatiOn.
King Carlos had been quarreling with
the Parliament, and his autocratic pre-
mier, Joao Franco, was unpopular. The
king came in for severe tongue lashings
from the republicans, who called him
everything from a bowl of jelly to high
wayman In mantle and crown, but no one
thought that deed of violence was con-
templated. But on that fatal Saturday
morning in February anarchy had its
golden opportunity. The king, the be-
loved and beautiful Queen Amele, the
crown prince and the young Prince
Manuel, who is now the king, were re-
turning to the palace at Lisbon from their
4 pleasure dome at the villa Vicosa in the
royal carriage Their route had been pub
Ilished In advance by the authorities, but
II was closely guarded all the way
Nevertheless, a group of men with car
bines rushed out upon the carriage at 9
street intersection and shot the king anC
the crown prince each three times
Queen Amelie made a heroic effort e
kinterpose her own body between the as
sassins and her son, but her INTENDED
sacrifice was unavailing. The six shot
were well aimed The king grasped hi
throat, where an artery had been severed
sank back on the cushions and Baspe'
out his life. The crown prince topple
and fell against the arm OF the seat eve
as his mother strove 20 save him froT
the wounds in head and chest and I
avert the shots that struck Prince ManuC
in the lower jaw and in the arm
Marquis ItO's Death.
The assassination og Marquis Ito, OC
tober 26, 1909, by a Korean, was an In
, ternational misfortune. The marquis wa
just stepping from a railway train q
Hardin, in Manchuria. He was bowin
and smiling affably in response to Officii
greetings when six shots were fired. Tw
struck Prince Ito in the abdomen. II
died twenty minutes later without II
. covering consciousness. The assassin IN
smoking revolver still In his hand, erie
out as he was apprehended: II came
y Hardin for the sole purpose OF assa
. slnating Prince Ito, to avenge m
country. 1t was not the first attempt
e Kill the fsr-sighted Japanese Statesmen
J. Years before, when an armed bar
d sought 10 kill him, the young girl WI
= afterward became his wife had hide
y him away and bsffled their malevoieI
70 search.
The attempt OF anarchists on the liv'
+ Of King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
n Spain on their wedding day, May 81, lst
It though II miscarried in so far as Il
4. s0veTeiEus were concerned, resulted
II the death Of sixteen persons. A bon