The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-06-30
HEIR Of THRONE
KILLED IN STREET
Arc duke Francis Ferdinand
and Wife Victims of Assassin.
WE'RE SHOT BY YOUTH.
Two Attempts Were Made on Life
of Royal Couple, the First
With q Bomb.

uuhS Il TdnClS reTulnanu, nelr TO
Austria-Hungarian throne and the
Duchess Of Hohenberg, his morgan
attic wife, were shot dead today by
a student in the main street Of the
Bosnian capital, a short time after
they had escaped death from q bomb
hurled at the royal automobile. The
two were slain as they were passing
through the city on their annual visit
to the annexed provinces Of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
The archduke was struck full in the
face and the P-'ucess was shot
through the 8 lomen and throat.
They died few minutes after reach
ing the palace to which they were
hurried.
Those responsible for the assassina
tion took care that it should prove
effective. There were two assailants,
the first armed with a bomb and the
Isecond with revolver. Tho bomD
was thrown at the royal automobile
as it sped to the town hall, where L
reception was to be held.
|
ling through the air and warded it of
with his arm. 1t fell outside the car
and exploded slightly wounding two
aids decamps in a second car and helf
q dozen spectators. 1t was on the
7Aturn of the procession that the
tragedy was added to the long list
Of those that have darkened the
pages of the recent history of tho
Hapsburgs. AS the royal artomobilc
reached a prominent point in the
route to the palace, an eighth grade
student, Gavrio Prinzip, sprang out
of the crowd and poured deadly
Ifusillade Of bullets from an auto
matte pistol at the archduke and
duchess.
Prinzip and fellow conspirator a
compositor from Trebinje named
Gabrinovich, barely escaped lynching
by the infuriated spectators. They
finally were seized by the police. Both
lare native OF the annexed province
of Herzegovina.
The first attempt against the arch
high school His car had started af-
ter brief pause for an inspection
of the building, when Gabrinovics
hurled the bomb. This was so sue
cessfully warded off by the archduke
that il fell directly beneath the car
following, the occupants of which,
Count Won Boss-Waldeck and Conoel
MerizZO were struck by slivers of iron.
Archduke Ferdinand stopped and in
CURED as to their injuries. At the
town hall the burgomaster began the
constomary address but the archduke
sharply interrupted and snapped out:
Herr Burgomaster, we have come
here to pay you visit and bombs
have been thrown at us. This is al
together an amazing indignity."
After a pause, the archduke said;
Now you may speak"
On leaving the town han the arcHI-
- duke and his wife announced their In
.cntion of visiting the wounded mem
T hcrs of their suite at the hospital on
u their way back TO the palace They
actually were bound on their mission
3: mercy, when at the corner OF Ru-
y do!f-Strasse and Franz, Josef Strasse
Prinzip opened fire. The duchess fell
unconcious across her husband.
- knee. At the same moment the arch
duke sank to the floor or the car.
The assassins were interrogated b.
the police and both seemed to glor,
their exploit Prinzip said he an,
:, DIudied for time at Belgrade. H,
declared he had intended TO kill SOM
Ieminent person from Nationalist mo
tives. He was awaiting the archduk
at a point where he knew the auto
= mobile would slacken speed turning
/ into Franz JOSEF Strasse. The pres
T. ence of the Duchess In the car cause
! him to hesitate, but only for mo
u ment. Then his nerve returned an,
L he emptied his pistol at the imperia
I pair. He denied he had accomplicea
III Prinzip is 1S years old. Nedelj
Gabrinovics is 81. He told the polio
Is he had obtained the bomb from
.p anarchists at Belgrade, whose name
q he did not know. He denied also tha
"a he had accomplices and treated tn
tragedy with cynical indifference.