The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-07-03
HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE
MEETS DEATH WITH WIFE
Shot Dead in Street at Saraieyo-
Second Attempt in Short Time
Archduke Wards off Death
Dealing Bomb Before
Shots are Fired.

Sarajevo, June 2S-Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-
Hungarian throne, and his morgana-
tic, wife, the Duchess of Hohenberp.
were assassinated today while driving
through the streets of Sarajevo, the
Bosnian capital. A youthful Servian
student fired the shots which added
another to the long list of tragedies
that has darkened the reign of En-
perior Francis Joseph
The archduke and his wife were
victims OF the second attempt in the
same day against their lives. First a
bomb was thrown at the automobile
In which they were driving to the
town hall. Forewarned, however. of a
possible attempt against his life, the
archduke was watchful and struck the
missile aside with his arm. 1t fell
under an automobile following which
carried members of the archduke's
suite, wounding Count Won Boos- Wal
deck and Col. Merizzo
On their return from the town hall
the archduke and the dutchess were
driving to the hospital when iGaviro
Prinzip darted at the car and fired
volley at the occupants. His aim
was true and the archduke and his
wife were mortally wounded. With
them at the time was the governor
OF the city, who escaped injury. The
bodies of his murdered companions
collapsed across him and protected
him from stray bullets.
The governor shouted to the chauf-
feur to rush to the palace. Physicians
were in prompt attendance, but their
services were useless as the archduke
and his wife were dead before the
palace was reached.
Until the emperor's wishes are
known the bodies will lie in state at
the palace here. They will doubt
less be inferred in the Hapsburg
vaults in the Capuchin church in
Vienna.
In Sarajevo there is mourning ev-
erywhere with black draped flags and
Throughout the day weeping women
were to be seen in groups while great
crowds surrounded the spots where
the bomb exploded and where the fa-
tai shots were fired.
elimination of Sorrows.
This final tragedy which has come
to the house of Hapsburg is the cul-
mination of the personal sorrows that
have overshadowed the life of the en-
peror. The reign began with sinister
omens for the emperor faced inter-
MAJ ulSSenSlOnS ana external aggreS-
sions from the moment he came to
the throne. In 1853 the list of tragic
incidents began with an attempt on
his life when Hungarian named Ie-
benye wounded him with a knife.
Fourteen years later his brother,
Archduke Maximilian, emperor of
Mexico, was executed. Then followed
the burning to death of a niece in
Vienna, sister in Paris, and the
death by suicide in Stahrenberg lake
of cousin.
In 1898 the emperor's wife, who
was the daughter of Macmillan Jo-
seph, duke of Bavaria, was stabbed
to death at Geneva by a mad Italian
anarchist. They had been estranged
for many years but the emperor had
never ceased to show deep affection
for her.
Less than 10 years before the en-
peror's only son, the Crown Prince
Rudolph, a man of ability and prom
lse, met death in a mystery which to
this date has not been cleared. On
January 30, 1889, his body was found
in hunting lodge at Meyerling, not
far from Vienna, Beside his body lay
that of the Baroness Marie Vetzera.