Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-30
Archduke Ferdinand and
Morganatic Wife Slain
By Young Student
CRIME APPARENTLY
CAREFULLY PLANNED
Preparations M a de f o r
More Than Attempt to
End Life Of Ruler

Sarayevo, Bosnia, June 29.-Martial
| law was proclaimed today both in the
4 city and the district of Sarayevo in
consequence of the assassination yes.
terday of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
and the Duchess of Hohenberg.
Death masks of the archduke and
the duchess we're taken today and the
bodies placed on catafalque in the
chapel of the palace and surrounded by
magnificent display Of wreaths and
other floral emblems from all parts OF
the country. According to the semi
official report Of the tragedy when
Gaviro Prinzip, the young assassin fir
ed the fatal shots, Field Marshal Oskar
Potiorek, governor of Bosnia was seat
ed in the archduke's motor car. Count
Francis Won Harrach was standing on
the foot board of the car acting as a
shield to the occupants of whom he
constituted himself the special body
guard after the bomb had been thrown
short time before by Nedeljo Gabri-
movies.
The archduke was joking with the
count about his precautions when the
reports of several shots rang out.
The aim of the assassin was so true
that each of the bullets inflicted NOR
tai wound
For an instant after the attack Field
Mar shall Potlorek thought the arch
duke and the duchess seated opposite
him had again escaped. Neither the
archduke nor the duchess uttered a
sound but moment afterward it Wa
seen they had been hit. Lieut.. Co.
Erik Mari--i who had been wounded
by the bomb in the first attack was
TO-DAY pronounced out of danger while
the injury sustained by Count Won
Boos- Waldeck is said to be insignifi-
cant The Croatian students here to-
day made several attempts to punish
the Serbs but the troops were called
in and maintained order.
Gabrinovics, it was learned today
had been expelled from Sarayevo two
years ago but had been recently per-
mitted to return through the interven-
ton Of socialist member of the Bos-
MIA diet
Some Servian students here when
they heard the news Of the assasslna-
ton shouted "Thank God we need
not do it ourselves" They were arrest.
ed as accomplices of the assassins.
Carefully Planned.
London, June 29.-Every dispatch
today from Sarayevo and Vienna
brought additional evidence that the
assassination yesterday of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and the Duchess OF
Hohenberg was one Of the most care.
fully planned crimes ever carried out
against royal personages. The arch
duke was heir apparent to the Aus
trian throne.
Indications from the scene of the
tragedy show that it was engineered
by persons possessing more mature or
ganizing ability than that of the youth
ful assassins. 1t is generally thought
in Austria and Hungary that the plot
ters had their headquarters in Bel
grade, the Servian capital. Servian
hatred of Austrians, which always has
been violent, has been fomented by
the newspapers in Belgrade and by agi-
tators throughout Servia and Bosnia,
who have helped to in1ame the minds
of the students and to induce them to
sacrifice their lives in the belief that
they will go down in history as pa
triots.
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have contrary effect to that desired
by its authors. Even before the bodies
of the murdered couple have been in
tered, the Austrian authorities are
contemplating severe measures against
the Serbs among the inhabitants OF
Austria and Bosnia. These measures
are likely further to embitter the re-
lations between the two countries as
well as those between Austria and
Russia, the protector of the Serbs.
A.chduke Francis Ferdinand, it is
asserted today, was we'll aware of the
danger he was running during his tour
of Bosnia, which he undertook as in
spector general of the forces OF the
empire. This title was conferred upon
him last year by Emperor Francis Jo-
seph. His chief task was to inspect
the Austrian army which guarded the
Servian frontier during the recent
Balkan wars and prevented any en-
croachments by Servian troops.
The Servian minister at Vienna told
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of the
peril Of his visit to Sarayevo at the
present time and implored him even
II he insisted on going there himself
at least to leave the duchess at home.
When the Duchess of Hohenberg was
Informed, however of the dangerous
nature of the journey the archduke
was about to take, she said her place
was at her husbands side. When the
archduke and the duchess arrived at
Sarayevo on Saturday some signs Of
hostility we're shown by the Serb por-
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