Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-03
SOLEMN SCENE
IN DEATH ROOM
OF ROYAL PAIR
Vienna Populace Indignant
That Funeral of Slain Arch
duke Is Without Pomp.

VIENNA Austria, July 3.-Even
death. the leveller, today proved
powerless to break the iron rank dis
tinction of the Austrian court. The
royal birth of Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand was emphasized over that of the
Countess Hohenberg, his morgantic
wife, as the bodies of the two victims
or assassin's bullets lay in state here
In the little chapel of the royal palace
of the Hofburg.
6lgh on black catafalques caskets
OF the dead lowered in the little
chapel But the arehduke's body lay
In a golden coffin, while that of his
Wlfe's was silver gray. And the re-
mains of royalty were raised one step
higher than those of the woman who
gave him her love and life, who bore
his children and whose hands
stanched the blood which poured
forth to the shot of the assassin while
her own life ebbed to another leaden
CALL
Every circumstance which rank
and power could supply added to the
solemnity of the scene in the death
chapel. Mobiles of the proudest en-
pire in Europe were on guard beside
the catafalque which iwere guarded
by the richest of fabrics Glittering
steel flashed in all the courts of the
ancient palace and representatives of
almost every noble Austrian house
which owed fealty to the line of Franz
Ferdinand trooped in and out of the
little chapel
Funeral Bells Toll.
In the whole district about the pal
ace funeral bells tolled and great
throngs of the populace, held in check
by serried lines of cuirassiers and
halberdiers, watched the procession
l. A..
of the man who was to have worn
the double crown of Austro- Hungary
In the chapel the sanctuary's re-
ligious gloom was barely lightened
by the fare of huge waxen candles
which burned on each side of the
caskets. Beside them stood guard
of honor of officers from the crack
regiments of the army. All was still
ness within and from the outside only
the dull murmur of the thousands
penetrated family as they sbuf1ied
on the payements to look on the NOR
tai remnants of the dead.
While his dead heir lay still in the
Hofburg palace, Francis Joseph, the
aged emperor, was being attended
by physicians in his beautiful palace
at Schoenbrunn. He was reported
In very weak condition and this
was said coupled with his insistence
should be observed by his personal
greeting to visiting royalties had led
TO q request to the other courts of
Europe that no reigning monarchs
take part in the funeral of the arch
duke.
Throughout the city today there
was considerable indignation against
the court officials that the funeral
of the archduke was comparatively
inconspicuous, admission to the cas-
kets being limited in great part to
the nobles the officers of the army
and to officials of the government
Few of the common people were per-
mitted within the line.
To the irritation of the public over
the funeral arrangements was added
detestation Of the archduke's assas-
Y sins and the conviction that Russian
( and Servian intrigues in Bosnia had
led to the crime. In several quarters
of the city at midnight students led
in great anti Russian and anti-Ser-
Wan demonstrations, and today the
legations of both. countries were un-
der strong military guard.
The bodies of the archduke and his
countess will be taken tonight for
burial at Arstetten, the archduke'S
estate In South Austria.
Tomorrow the state funeral SER
vices will be held here. 1t was be-
lieved unlikely that the aged en-
peror would personally appear. If
he does not the royal house will be
represented by the Archduke Charles,
now heir apparent to the Hapsburg
throne.
SARAJEVO, July ga complete
confession of the murder plot against
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and
the Duchess of Hohenberg was made
IN ha In Of nil
deljo Cabrinovics, who tried to kill
them by hurling a bomb at their car
rage last Sunday.
He declared that he was in league
{ with Prinzip. who fired the fatal
shots after Cabrinovic's bomb had
missed its mark. With Prinzip he
had come to Sarajevo from Belgrade,
with the sole purpose of ending the
lives of the royal couple.
They obtained the bombs found in
Gabrinovic's possession, he said, from
Major Milan Pribitchevitch, official
of a Pan-Seryian Union, and an ex-
Austrian army officer, who had trans
ferred his allegiance to the Servians.
The explosives, Cabrinovics asserts,
came from the Servian arsenal at
Kraguyevatz.
Agreed to Commit Suicide.
According to the plan, the bomb
hurlers were to have committed sui
eide Immediately after their purpose
was fulfilled. Cabrinovics says he
agreed to furnish three other assas-
sins. who, with him, were each to
hold bomb in one hand and vial
of poison in the other After dis
charging the bombs they were to
drink the poison.
Cabrinovic's carried out his part,
and prevailed upon three men to be
his accomplices With them and
Prinzip he came to Sarajevo.
The bombs were divided and final
plans agreed upon in a candy store
last Sunday morning. Prinzip as
sumed command over the others, him
self handing over the explosives and
poison to them.
Prinzip previously denied that he
had any accomplices. but tonight he
confessed because of what he termed
the betrayal of his companions,
who baked at the last moment.
II am now sorry for the crime, "
he said MY comrades deserted me.
They should have thrown the bombs
but the towards did not do so. I re-
venge myself upon them by telling
of them"