The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
AUSTRO- HUNGARIAN
HEIR AND WIFE SLAIN
BY INSANE STUDENT
ARCHDUkE FRANCIS FERDINAND
AND MoRGANATrc SPOUSE
FOULLY ASSASSINATED.
SECOND ATTEMPT OF The DAY
Duke Struck In Face BY Missile Fired
From Revolver on Crowded Street,
Princess Shot Through Abdomen
and Throat.

From Revolver on Crowded Street,
Princess Shot Through Abdomen
and Throat
SARAJEVO, June 29.-Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Aus
tro-Hungarian throne, and his NOR
ganatic wife, the duchess Of Hohen-
berg, were assassinated today while
driving through the streets of Sara
jevo, the Bosnian capital A youth
full Servian student fred the shots,
which added another to tine long list
of tragedies that have darkened the
reign of Emperor Francis Joseph.
The archduke and his wife were
the victims of the second attempt in
the same day against their lives.
First bomb was thrown at the au-
tomobile in which they were driving
to the town hall. Forewarned, how
ever, of a possible attempt against
mis- life, the archduke was watchful
and struck the missile aside with his
arm. 1t fell under an automobile fol-
lowing, which carried members Of
the archduke suite, wounding Count
Won Boos- Waldeck and Colonel Me-
rizZo.
On their return from the town hall,
the archduke and the duchess were
driving to the hospital, when Gavrio
Prinzip darted at the car and fired a
yolley ct 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. Physi-
clans were in prompt attendance, but
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archduke and his wife were dead be-
fore they reached the palace.
Until the emperor's wishes are
known the bodies will lie in state at
the palace here. They viii doubtless
be inferred in the Hapsburg vaults in
Vienna.
In Sarajeva there is mourning ev.
erywhere, with black >draped flags
and streamers on every building1245
and streamers on all public buildings
Throughout the day weeping women
were to be seen IN groups while great
crowds surrounded the spots where
the h0nb exploded and where the ia
tai shots were fred. The bomb was
filled with nails and lead filings and
the explosion was violent.
| The iron shutters on many shops
we're pierced by flying fragments and
iron ratings were shattered. About
a score of persons we're injured, sew
eral of them women and children.
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 emperor. His reign began with
sinister omens, for he faced internal
discussions and external aggreSsionf
! from the moment he came to the
throne. In 1853 the list of the trag-
ic incidents began with an attempt
on his own life, when Hungarian
named Lebeyne wounded him with a
KNIT.
Fourteen years later his brother.
ArchdNke Macmillan, emperor OF
Mexico was executed. Then follow
ed the burning to death Of niece In
Vienna, a sister in Paris, and the
death by suicide in Sharenberg lake
iof a 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 ha dbeen estranged
for many years but the emperor had
never ceased to show deep affection
for her.
Less than ten years before the en-
peror's only SON, the Crown Prince
Rudolph, a man of ability and prom
Use, met death in a mystery which
until this day has not been cleared.
On Jan. 80, 1889, his body was found
in hunting lodge in Meyerling, not
far from Vienna. Beside his body
lay that of the Baroness Marie Vet
sera.