Milford chronicle., 1912-05-31
DENMARK'S NEW
KING PROCLAIMED
Frederick VIII Drops Dead on
Street in Hamburg.
STRICKEN WITH APOPLESY
Rulers Body Was Taken to Hospital
Morgue, Where Attendants, Alarmed
at His Absence, Found Him.

Christian X, eldest son of the dead
King Frederick VIII, was proclaimed
king Of Denmark from the balcony Of
the palace in Copenhagen in the
presence of a huge concourse of peo
pie who had assembled in the square
in front of the royal residence.
The prince will be forty-two years
old on Sept. 26 next. He was married
in 1898 to Princess Alexandria OF
Neutrality-suspicious.. He has two
sons.
King Frederick VII. of Denmark
died alone and unrecognized on the
sidewalk Of one of the principal streets
Of Hamburg, Germany.
The body was removed by the po-
lice to public hospital, where it was
identified later by members of the
kings suite who had accompanied him
to Hamburg.
King Frederick was in his sixty
ninth year and was a brother of
Queen Mother Alexandra of England,
the dowager empress of Russia and
the king OF Greece.
The king, travelling 'incognito, had
arrived in Hamburg Monday on his
return from a long trip to the south,
where he had been convalescing from
a serious attack of Inflammation of
the lungs. With the queen and the
royal suite, he took quarters at the
Hamburger Hof.
At 10 o'clock Tuesday night the king
left the hotel unaccompanied for his
usual stroll before retiring. He had
gone only a short distance when he
was overcome on the street by sud
den attack of apoplexy.
When members of the kings suite
became alarmed over his failure to
return to the hotel after a reasonable
time, they called in the proprietor, and
a search was begun. The searchers
found his majesty dead at the hos
pital and brought his body back to
the hotel with them.
King Frederick and Queen Louisa,
who had Travelled to Hamburg from
Nice under the incognito of the Count
and Countess of KrOnberg, had their
three youngest children, Princess
Thyra, Prince Gustav and Princess
Dagmar, with them.
King Frederick had been undergo
ing a course of treatment for arterio-
sclerosis, with which he had been
troubled for a considerable time. He
had also suffered from an attack Of in
fiammation Of the lungs, but this had
been completely overcome.
When he left the Hamburger Hot
after a hearty dinner, the king strolled
toward the Goose market" one OF the
principal squares in the business sec
tion of the city and just around the
corner from the hotel. A few minutes
later some pedestrians noticed an
elderly gentleman fall to the sidewalk.
He was dressed in an ordinary busi-
ness suit and appeared to be a we'll
to-do tradesman. The passersby ran to
the spot to assist him, but he was al
ready dead.
A policeman was called and he had
the body conveyed in an automobile to
the Sailors hospital The physicians
on duty there on examination found |
that death had been instantaneous.
There was nothing on the body |
which alorded a clew to its identif- |
cation, and it was placed in the NOR
tuary of the hospital
It was much later in the evening
that the royal suite, which had be
come anxious owing to the kings alb
sence, heard of the incident that had
on the Goose market" AS
their inquiries in regard to the kings
HAD up to then proved
fir oless they, together with the pro
prietor of the hotel, proceeded to the
hospital to look at the body there, al
though they did not suspect that it
was that of his majesty.
On arrival at the hospital they were
confronted by the fact that the dead
man was the king Arrangements
were Immediately made for the body
to be conveyed to the hotel. where it
was laid out amid masses of flowers.