Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

Vienna. Austria.--The Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and wife. heir APP
parent to the throne Of Austria-Hun-
gary. were assassinated while driving
in the streets Of Sarajevo, capital OF
Bosnia
A bomb was hurled by workman
at their carriage, injurlng six persons,
and then a young Servian student
emptied revolver at the archduke
and the duchess. each bullet hitting a
vital spot Among those wounded
were Count Boos Waldeck and Colonel
Merizzi.
The aged Emperor Francis Joseph
is practically Frustrated by the shock
Of the assassination OF his nephew
and grave fears are entertained for
him. The cabinet was Immediately
summoned TO Vienna and went into
session at once.
Police Save Assassins.
The police had 10 intervene TO save
the assassins. After they had been
put in Jail a police guard was estab-
1ished. The carriage in which the
royal couple was driving had just left
the railroad station when a journey
man printer named Cabrinovic hurled
a bomb.
The echo Of the explosion had not
died away when Servian student,
who had been banished from Bosnia.
ran toward the carriage. Each OF his
bullets took effect. The archduke was
shot in the head and the duchess in
the abdomen.
They were carried into the palace
where they died with in a few minutes.
The assassination occurred while the
entire city was en- tete to receive the
srchduke. who was generally consid-
cred. through the emperor's known
disabilities. to be practically the ruler
Of the empire.
Hurls Bomb at Carriage.
On the edge of the crowd at a point
mt which the royal carriage would
pass close to them we're the Servian
student and the printer standing in
the first rank of spectators.
Neither OF the assassins moved I'M
ill the carriage horses were abreast OF
them. Cabrinovic, the printer, was the
first. He leaped out into the open
road, hurting his bomb straight at the
royal couple. He missed his mark,
hut the bomb. exploding sent a ball
of broken steel and lead among the
archduke's attendants. Six OF them
fell AS the throng shrieked in hor.
ror, and fought to fee, the lifting
smoke from the bomb showed the
archduke and duchess sitting upright
in their carriage, apparently unharm
ed. At that moment the Servian youth
sprang forward
The archduke apparently saw thu
CLINT OF the heavy revolver and faced
the youth, partly shielding the duch
ess. Before he could do more tht
student fred. the first bullet hittinl
the archduke in the face Francis
Ferdinand managed to remain uprigh
a moment longer and then as the sec
ond shot hit him. he fell back agains
the cushions Of the carriage So clos,
now that he could almost touch tn,
duchess. the youth continued shoot
ing. the bullets taking effect in tn,
abdomen. Each bullet he fired hat
hit a vital shopt
Taken to Palace, Die.
The archduke and the duches
were taken to the palace, but it wa
seen that they were MORALLY wounded
They had scarcely been laid on bed
when they died.
The peasants threw themselves upo
the assassins, whom, but for the intel
vention of the police and militia, the
would undoubtedly have killed on In
spot.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand wa
born in 1868. He married morganatic
ally in 1900 the Countess Sophie Che
tex, who had the title of Duchess G
Hohenberg conferred upon her OctC
Der, 1909, and renowned the claim o
his issue by her to the throne.
Many details of the assassination
are related by witnesses. Accordin
20 some accounts, Prinzip fired severa
shots, but only two were effective.