Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-20
Constantine Will Take Oath
Tomorrow, Perhaps as :
Emperor.
BODY OF SLAIN RULER
BORNE TO HIS PALACE
Assassin Reveals Nature of One
Grievance Against the Mon
arch He Murdered.


today. He travelled to this city by au-
tomobile from the port of Phaleron.
where he landed.
The new monarch will take the oath
tomorrow as King of the Hellenes. The
hope is expressed that the king will be
proclaimed as Emperor Constantine XII,
the last Byzantine emperor having been
Constantine NJ.
The chamber of deputies was summoned
today TO take the oath of fealty to the
new king. After this ceremony the min
istry will resign
Messages of coincidence and sympathy
for the royal family, the Greek govern
ment and the Greek nation continue to
pour into the capital The first message
from the head of a nation received by
Queen Olga came from President Wilson.
All Greece in Mourning.
All Greece mourns the death of a SOW
ereign who had done much, psrticu-
larly during the past year, to advance the
prestige of the nation. Emblems of sor-
row are displayed on all sides, and mani
festations of grief are even more marked
among the poor and lowly than among
those of the higher classes
The chamber of deputies decided to go
posal TO erect a national monument in
nonor of the dead king was voted by
acclamation.
Gives Pledge to Army.
In his first message to the Greek army
King Constantine, from the fortress of
Janina, promised that he would ever con-
centrate all his efforts to his land and
sea forces. to which war had indissolubly
bound him. The king said:
The impious outrage on the sacred per-
son OF King George deprives US of our
leader at q moment very critical for the
Hellenic nation. l am called by Provi-
dence to succeed my observation-disclosures
ten rather on the throne, over which he
so long shed luster and honor.
Il bring this news to the knowledge
OF my army, to which I have devoted
my whole life, and to which unsuccess-
ful and successful wars have indis-
solubly bound me- / declare to it that
marching always at it's head, / will
tude on my land and sea forces. whose
glorious exploits have brought re-
nown to our fatherland."
Body Borne to Palace.
sALONIKI, March c0-The body of the
late King George of Greece has been en-
balmed and was removed from the hospi-
tai to the palace on a stretcher boxne by
his son Prince Nicholas, and several Nsa,
perior officers of the Greek army The
stretcher was followed by a strangely di-
versified procession, consisting of regu-
lar troops in their campaign outfit Off
GERS in brilliant uniforms. clergy, civil
ians Cretans, Greeks, MussulmanS and
peoples of the various Balkan races, in
a Kaleidoscope variety of costumes.
Soldiers of the Greek light infantry in
cd he hmm %
military stretcner as a guard of honor.
A guard of honor consisting of Greek
captains and priests. the latter continu-
ally chanting prayers. will be stationed
around the body until 1t is removed for
burial.
Grievance Of Assassin.
Aleho Schinas. the assassin of King
George, is still held in close confinement.
AT various periods throughout the night
he was forced to undergo an examination.
but without eliciting any facts to show
that other persons were implicated in the
crime.
Schinas is not nsadman, but ap-
parently is weak-minded. He lived by
begging, and three weeks ago came to
Saloniki by way of Athens
He stopped for few days at Volo
Thessaly, where he delivered harangues.
in which he declared that IN short
time ne would succeed in establishing
equality: that there would be no longer
either rich or poor, and that work which
was now accomplished in one hour
would be spread out over two.
Driven From the Palace.
Interrogated as to why he assassinated
the king, Schinas replied:
Il had to die somehow. as / suffer
from neurasthenia. and therefore wished
10 redeem my life
He appears to have led wretched ex-
istence. subsisting almost entirely on
milk. His family has long ceased to
acknowledge him.
Schinas for a time was an instructor In
the medical department OF the University
OF Athens. He refuses to give any ex-
planation for the crime beyond the fac,
that two years ago he applied for as
sistance at the palace and was driven
away by an aid de camp.
Says He Knew Slayer.
BALTIMORE. Nd. March 90 = e
Charms, a waiter in hotel here claim.
TO have worked in the pantry of a New
York hotel for more than "a year will
Aleko Schinas. the assassin of Kins
George.
'Schinas told me many of his conf
dences," said Charms. II frequentl,
ouarreled with him because OF his atheis
tic and socialistic ideas. One of his IA
vorite expressions. which caused severa
scraps in the pantry. was TO h Will
King George
Schinas could speak Greek, English
italian and French f1uently.
He spent his leisure nights on tho
east side. making friends with radica
and fervid thinkers. He was never sc
happy as when seated I'm one of the cof
fee houses among a number OF his asso-
ciates and denouneing kings and gov
ernments
He stated a number of times that Il
was shame that 100000 of his en-
Hghtened countrymen in Greece with tn.
noble and glorious history that she pos
sessed. should permit themselves TO b,
ruled by a king. He also said that som,
day he would return TO his native coun
try and convert the people to his Ideas.
In Business in Iowa.
CHICAGO. March 2O-Aleko Selma.
slayer of King George of Greece is be
lieved by his countrymen here to hav
left Chicago at about the time OF the be
ginning of the Balkan war, with a mum
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